Books by Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume respond... more Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume responds with a transdisciplinary approach to growing urbanisation and globalisation – climate change, energy change, secure jobs, affordable living, sustainable mobility, migration or demographic change. It brings together recent research in the areas of Urban and Media Studies, 19th- and 20th-century urban fiction and Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies. The contributors endeavor to compare various discourses of urban transformation – expansion, corruption, renewal, dereliction, adaptation – that have emerged in situations of rapid, uncontrolled change.
Fields covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flânerie in New York, neo-Victorian streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber, the global impact of urban transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong, ‘slumming’ in the TV series ‘Maison Close’, ‘Ripper Street’ and ‘Penny Dreadful’ as well as Amsterdam’s Red Light District and urban geographies of entertainment in London, from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome
Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture
This extensively researched literary and cultural s... more Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture
This extensively researched literary and cultural study inspects the polymorphous facets of syphilis in the multi-media context of fin-de-siècle Britain. Most importantly, it addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This novel approach permits to see syphilis not only as an ambiguous object of Victorian concern but also as a medium in the construction of broader domains of (in)visibility. Through the attention to the spectrality of syphilis and to the media cartography of its hauntings, this project transcends the limitations of existing works and reconsiders their blind spots. I argue that a rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status and the ways of seeing that it necessitated will help to reconsider and go beyond the relations of sexuality, race and class which were negotiated through syphilis, thereby also raising broader questions about its function in the (de)construction of national and imperial identities. All in all, through the combination of an original transmedia corpus and a unique approach to syphilis, this project helps to rethink the Victorian era.
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Introduction: What is Global Neo-Victorianism?
Antonija Primorac and Monika Pietrzak-Franger
1... more Introduction: What is Global Neo-Victorianism?
Antonija Primorac and Monika Pietrzak-Franger
1-16 PDF
“Palimpsestuous” Attachments:
Framing a Manga Theory of the Global Neo-Victorian
Anna Maria Jones
17-47 PDF
Other Neo-Victorians:
Neo-Victorianism, Translation and Global Literature
Antonija Primorac
48-76 PDF
“Yet we believe his triumph might surely be ours”:
The Dickensian Liberalism of Slumdog Millionaire
Tanushree Ghosh
77-106 PDF
“Ship-Siblings”: Globalisation, Neoliberal Aesthetics,
and Neo-Victorian Form in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
Eddy Kent
107-130 PDF
“To eat one’s words”: Language and Disjunction
in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea
Aidan O’Malley
131-159 PDF
The Suicide Quartet
Mima Simić
(trans. from Croatian by Filip Krenus)
160-164 PDF
Reviews/Review Essays
Epistles to the (Neo-)Victorian Past:
Review of Kym Brindle, Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Diaries and Letters
Sneha Kar Chaudhuri
165-172 PDF
The Queer and The Quick:
Review of Lauren Owen, The Quick
Lois Burke
173-178 PDF
Announcements Page
179-202
PDF
Notes on Contributors
203-206
PDF
As the recent Ebola outbreak demonstrates, visibility is central to the shaping of political, med... more As the recent Ebola outbreak demonstrates, visibility is central to the shaping of political, medical, and socioeconomic decisions. The symposium in this issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry explores the uneasy relationship between the necessity of making diseases visible, the mechanisms of legal and visual censorship, and the overall ethics of viewing and spectatorship, including the effects of media visibility on the perception of particular “marked” bodies. Scholarship across the disciplines of communication, anthropology, gender studies, and visual studies, as well as a photographer’s visual essay and memorial reflection, throw light on various strategies of visualization and (de)legitimation and link these to broader socioeconomic concerns. Questions of the ethics of spectatorship, such as how to evoke empathy in the representation of individuals’ suffering without perpetuating social and economic inequalities, are explored in individual, (trans-)national, and global contexts, demonstrating how disease (in)visibility intersects with a complex nexus of health, sexuality, and global/national politics. A sensible management of visibility—an “ecology of the visible”—can be productive of more viable ways of individual and collective engagement with those who suffer.
Keywords
Disease Visibility Representation Spectatorship Empathy Censorship
Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, the History of Feminism series makes key archival ... more Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, the History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s and gender studies, women’s history, and women’s writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields. Selected and introduced by expert editors, the gathered materials are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. This new title in the series brings together in six volumes a unique range of Victorian and Edwardian texts on Women, Beauty, and Fashion.
The learned editor has organized the set around three principal thematic categories (‘Personal Beauty and Care’, ‘Beauty, Fashion, and Health’, and ‘Beauty Education and Self-Management’) which move chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1910s. The materials gathered here are representative of the body of texts written on beauty and fashion with reference to women’s (self-) perception and (self-) definition. Combining the issues of fashion with those of economy, education, and physical culture, the collection offers a range of diverging views. The diversity of the gathered materials is mirrored in their generic range and in the varied professional background of their authors. The collection includes, but is not limited to, religious treatises and dress reformers’ pamphlets, personal-care manuals by society ladies, advice books by (alleged) specialists, and manufacturers’ attempts at self-advertising.
Making readily available materials which are currently very difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use, Women, Beauty, and Fashion is a veritable treasure-trove. The gathered works are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. Each volume is also supplemented by substantial introductions, newly written by the editor, which contextualize the material. And with a detailed appendix providing data on the provenance of the gathered works, the collection is destined to be welcomed as a vital reference and research resource.
Volume 1. Personal Beauty and Care
The Book of Health and Beauty, or the Toilette of Rank and Fashion, London: Joseph Thomas, 1837, pp. 1–150, Hints on Dress and on the Arrangement of the Hair: A Practical Essay, Suited to Either Sex, London: Ross and Company, 1861, pp. 1–16, The Black Wizard: A Wonderful Toilet Tale. London, 1874, pp. 1–13, How to Cultivate Beauty, Chicago, IL.: Early & Halla Print. Co., 1893, pp. 1–34, The True Standard of Beauty, The Value of Beauty, Scientific Cultivation of Beauty, The Chief Element of Facial Beauty, Cause and Cure of Skin Blemishes, Blackheads; How to be Rid of Them, Wrinkles; Their Cause and Cure, Liver-Marks, Moth And Freckles, Honored By Mme. Adelina Patti, Brilliant Success of A Vassar Girl, Testimonials, Imperial Japanese Preparations, The Art of “Making Up”, Seventh Edition, by the Hess Company, Rochester, N.Y.: The Company, 1921, pp. 1–53, The Art of Beauty, or Lady’s Companion to the Boudoir, London: Weldon & Co., 1876, pp. 1–56.
Volume II. Personal Beauty and Care
The Art of Beauty, Physical Beauty: Physical Beauty, The Art of Dress, Exercise, Toilet Hygienics: The Cure of Stoutness, The Cure of Leanness, Baths, The Figure, Bad Complexions, and How to Cure Them, The Complexion, The Hair in Health, The Hair in Ill-Health, Hair Dyes and Bleaching Fluids, The Art of “Making Up”, The Arms, Hands, and Nails, The Teeth and Feet, Moles, Warts, and Superfluous Hair, The Eyes, Eyebrows, Eyelashes, and Nose, Underclothing and Health, About Perfumes, The Beauty and Health of Children, Beauty Adorned, A Few Introductory Remarks, The Crowning Glory, How Shall I Do My Hair?, The Complexion, Defeating Nature's Kindness, Care of the Complexion, Beauty—Blonde and Brune, Simplicity a Charm, What are Her Eyes Like?, ‘What Lovely Eyes!’, Eyebrows and Eyelashes, About Noses, The Teeth, The Chin, the Lips, and What They Say, The Middle-Aged Woman, The Figure, Beauty in Middle Age, The Poet's Ideal Beauty, Footgear, Dress in Hot Weather, Beauty by the Sea—the Summer Girl, What Care Can Do, Perfumes and Other Things, In Praise of Freshness, On Looking-Glasses—Their Use and Abuse.
Volume III. Personal Beauty and Care
The Art of Being Beautiful, The Secret of Beauty, On Proportion, Self-Criticism, Individuality, The Picturesque, Artificiality, Of Cosmetics, On Colour, Expression, Manly Beauty, Muscle and Vitality, Dignity and Grace, The Mode, Ageing Gracefully, Every Woman's Toilet Book, The Perfect Woman, Are Artificial Aids to Beauty Justifiable?, How to Cultivate a Good Figure, Facial Beauty and the Care of the Complexion, Manicure, or the Cult of the Hand Beautiful, The Care of the Feet, The Care of the Eyes, The Nose and How to Improve it, The Care of the Teeth, The Care of the Hair, Toilet Hints for Summer and Winter
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Volume IV. Beauty, Fashion and Health
Beauty vs. Fashion: The Christian Lady's Toilette; or, the Principles which Should Regulate Her Dress, Suggested, The Lamp of Beauty, Hints on Dress and Beauty, The Queen of Beauty for The Throne of Fashion, Dress, Pride and Beauty, Corsetry: The Influence of Stays, The Corset Defended, The Use and Action of Stays and Corsets, on Disease & Development of the Female Figure, The Dress of the Period in its Relations to Health, Figure Training
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Volume V. Beauty, Fashion and Health
Dress Reform: Dress, Health & Beauty, Necessity for Reform, Structure of the Body, The Tyranny of Dress, The Structure of the Body, Health versus Custom, Solution of the Problem, Why We are Not Strong, Rational Dress; or. the Dress of Women and Savages, The Clothes Question Considered, Of the Importance of This Question—Especially as to the Clothing of Women, Of the Hair—Hair Washes, Restorers, Dyes, and Hair and Brain Poisons, Of the Warmth, and Weight, and Encumbrance of Clothing, The Difficulty of Dress Reform, How Fashion Cramps Activity and Industry, The Heroism, Sufferings, Rights and Wrongs of Women, The Relations of Dress and Education, On the Relations of Dress to Modesty and Health, with Illustrative Cases, The Dress of the Feet and Hands, Baby Clothes, Bed Clothes, Ligatures, Etc, Æsthetics of Dress, Dress, and How to Improve It, Conviction and Conversion, A Woman's Club for Physical Culture and Correct Dress, Advantages of Reform Undergarments, Development of Body, Dress Reform Garments, Patterns
Volume VI. Beauty, Education and Self-Management
Beauty and (Physical) Education: Excerpts from Women in the Reign of Queen Victoria, London: Dean & Son, 1876, pp. 48–98, Causes of Female Debility, Bodily Culture, Excerpts from The Girl’s Own Book of Health and Beauty, (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1892, pp. 58–96, 108–115, 168–182, Preface, Exercise—Clothing—Hobbies, Athletics for Girls, Healthful Recreations, Cycling as a Cure for Chronic Ailments, What Cycling Can Cure, Gloxinia Schizandria Aramantha C, The Health Value of Certain Pastimes, How Fanny Ffisher Lost
Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they hav... more Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, Reflecting on Darwin poses the following questions: 'How are the apparatuses in the mid-nineteenth century and at the turn of the twenty-first century interconnected with bio-scientific paradigms in art, literature, culture and science?' 'How are naturalism, determinism and Darwinism - the eugenics of the nineteenth century and the genetic coding of the twentieth century - positioned, embodied and staged in various media configurations and media genres?' and 'How have particular media apparatuses formed, displaced or stabilized the various concepts of humankind in the framework of evolutionary theory?' Ranging from the early circulation of Darwin’s ideas to the present, this interdisciplinary collection pays particular attention to Darwin’s postmillennial reception. Beginning with an overview of the historical development of contemporary ecological and ethical fears, Reflecting on Darwin then turns to Darwin’s influence on contemporary media, neo-Victorian literature and culture, science fiction literature and film, and contemporary theory. In examining the plurality of ways in which Darwin has been rewritten and reappropriated, this unique volume both mirrors and inspects the complexity of recent debates in Victorian and neo-Victorian studies.
Contents: Introduction: cultural reflections on Darwin and their historical evolution, Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts; Part 1 The Cultural Evolution of Darwin’s Thought: ‘I differ widely from you’: Darwin, Galton and the culture of eugenics, Angelique Richardson; Evolution, heredity and visuality: reading faces with Thomas Hardy, Susanne Scholz; ‘How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!’: Darwin’s ‘ape theory’ and its traces in Victorian children’s magazines, Jochen Petzold; Gender trouble as monkey business: changing roles of simian characters in literature and film between 1870 and 1930, Julika Griem. Part 2 Darwin’s Cultural Resonance Today: Neo-Victorian Darwin: representations of the 19th-century scientist, naturalist and explorer in 21st-century women’s writing, Ann Heilmann; (Mis-)representations of Darwin’s Origin and evolutionary master narratives in The Sea (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), Felix C.H. Sprang; Evolution for better or for worse? Science fiction literature and film and the public debate on the future of humanity, Angela Schwarz. Part 3 Darwin as ‘Pop Star’ of Contemporary Theory: Displacing humans, reconfiguring Darwin in contemporary culture and theory, Virginia Richter; Ordering Darwin: evolution and normativity, Nils Wilkinson; The limits of sociobiology: is there a sociobiological explanation of culture?, Matthias Gutmann; ‘Survival of the fittest’ in Darwin metaphysics: tautology or testable theory?, Momme von Sydow; Index.
About the Editor: Monika Pietrzak-Franger is Assistant Professor at TU Braunschweig, Germany, Barbara Schaff is Professor for English Language and Culture at Göttingen University, Germany, and Eckart Voigts is Professor for English Literature and Culture at TU Braunschweig, Germany.
The papers collected in this volume address the complex issue of stage adaptation. The essays
en... more The papers collected in this volume address the complex issue of stage adaptation. The essays
enquire into the processes involved in theatrical adaptation, highlighting the multi-layering, hybridity
and palimpsestuous character of onstage adaptations. They attend to a wide spectrum of problems which include issues of classification, the question of media and generic transpositions as well as
the intra- and intertextuality of onstage adaptations. Various papers also address the processes and problems of transculturation and indigenization.
This collection, therefore, offers a platform for a positive reconsideration of stage plays and live theatre
in adaptation studies. In reverse, the study of adaptation also proves vital to the field of contemporary theatre and drama studies as it helps to deconstruct problematic notions of fidelity and originality,
emphasizing instead the complexity of adaptive processes on the stage and beyond.
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As male subjectivity and gender identity in general have customarily been regarded as created on ... more As male subjectivity and gender identity in general have customarily been regarded as created on the basis of exclusion, any kind of discontinuity, permeability and even weakening of body boundaries has been perceived as a destabilisation of the traditional notion of masculinity. Although such a tendency can be regarded as generally subversive to the perception and construction of masculinities, its subversive character is only potential. Not every trespassing, penetration or erasure of boundaries indicates a radical change in the perception of the body which is thus created. In turn, the re-inscription of boundaries does not necessarily signify a fundamental adjustment in the theorisation of corporeal gender identity. This study determines to what end British male artists used bodily boundaries and the binaries which were associated with them in the 1990s. It considers three significant tendencies in the depiction of the male body: the maintenance of bodily boundaries, the erasure of traditional binaries often directly related to the erasure of bodily boundaries and, finally, the penetration of the bodily structure. It enquires whether these tendencies have resulted in an altered model of male subjectivity or whether, despite the innovative treatment of bodily outlines, the artists have sustained the traditional perception of male identity as based on opposition. Due to the multimedial context of the 1990s, male identity is discussed in relation to films, e.g. Kenneth Branagh?s Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein, Peter Greenaway?s The Pillow Book, John Maybury?s Love is the Devil; dance and theatre, e.g. DV8?s Enter Achilles, Mark Ravenhill?s Faust is Dead; performance and art, e.g. the works of Douglas Gordon, Marc Queen, Franko B and Isaac Julien.
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Papers by Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts. Hrsg. von... more Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts. Hrsg. von Anna Maria Jones und Rebecca N. Mitchell. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 2016. 67-89.
Rivista di Studi Vittoriani (RSV). Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Deviance. Hrsg. von Mariaconcet... more Rivista di Studi Vittoriani (RSV). Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Deviance. Hrsg. von Mariaconcetta Costantini und Saverio Tomaiuolo 40 (2016): 69-86.
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity. Hrsg. von Barton... more Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity. Hrsg. von Barton Palmer und William H. Epstein. Albany: SUNY Press, 2016. 201-220.
Übersetzung und Rahmen: Praktiken medialer Transformationen. Hrsg. von Claudia Benthien und Gabri... more Übersetzung und Rahmen: Praktiken medialer Transformationen. Hrsg. von Claudia Benthien und Gabriele Klein. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2017. 89-102.
Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Laughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions. Hrsg.... more Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Laughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions. Hrsg. von Marie-Luise Kohlke und Christian Gutleben. Boston: Rodopi, 2017. 192-212.
Streitfall Evolution: Eine Kulturgeschichte. Hrsg. Von Angela Schwarz. Wien: Böhlau, 2017. 76-87.
Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and Afterlives. Hrsg. von Amber Regis und Deborah Wynne. Manchester: M... more Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and Afterlives. Hrsg. von Amber Regis und Deborah Wynne. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2017. 241-257.
Anglistentag 2016 Hamburg: Proceedings. Hrsg. von Ute Berns und Jolene Mathieson. Tier: WVT, 2017... more Anglistentag 2016 Hamburg: Proceedings. Hrsg. von Ute Berns und Jolene Mathieson. Tier: WVT, 2017. 13-86.
The ongoing fascination with Jack the Ripper stems from the mystery that surrounds him – from the... more The ongoing fascination with Jack the Ripper stems from the mystery that surrounds him – from the only fact that is unquestionable about him – his invisibility. Taking Alan Moore
and Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel From Hell (1989-1998) as an example, this article will reread Jack the Ripper in the context of the paradoxical intertwining of his physical absence and medial overrepresentation as formative of the Ripper myth and the significance of vision to his subsequent adaptations and appropriations. It argues that, on a metalevel, From Hell uses the myth of the 19th century serial killer as a space where broader issues of adaptation and post-Victorian engagement can be revealed, theorised, and commented upon. Reread in terms of metadaptation, the graphic novel foregrounds our own position vis-à-vis the Victorians, and points to the utility of the adaptive framework to neo-Victorian
preoccupations.
Süß and Hartwig, Media Economies, forthcoming 2013
According to media critics, we live in a post-millennial neo-Baroque, aggregate culture that has ... more According to media critics, we live in a post-millennial neo-Baroque, aggregate culture that has inspired "flexi-" (Nelson 112), "puzzle" (Elsaesser 30) and "complex" narratives (Mittel 2006); a culture that is characterized by a "new affective order" (Nelson 111) brought about by media convergence, which favours "bricolage", "polysemy", "non-linearity" (Nelson 112), "discontinuity, fragmentation and eclecticism" (Casey et al. 212) as well as "narrowcasting" and "cross-pollination of the format" (Spigel 2-3). The processes of serialization have taken the pride of place in the context of this new aesthetic and affective order. In fact, serialization, and its intrinsic mechanisms of mimicry, adaptation and appropriation, has gained unprecedented economic and political power. Taking into consideration Vince Gilligan's successful series Braeking Bad and its transmedia presence in the appropriative practices of the Occupy movement, this paper inquies about the political and economic potential of serialization in contemporary neo-Baroque, multichannel culture.
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Fields covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flânerie in New York, neo-Victorian streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber, the global impact of urban transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong, ‘slumming’ in the TV series ‘Maison Close’, ‘Ripper Street’ and ‘Penny Dreadful’ as well as Amsterdam’s Red Light District and urban geographies of entertainment in London, from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome
This extensively researched literary and cultural study inspects the polymorphous facets of syphilis in the multi-media context of fin-de-siècle Britain. Most importantly, it addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This novel approach permits to see syphilis not only as an ambiguous object of Victorian concern but also as a medium in the construction of broader domains of (in)visibility. Through the attention to the spectrality of syphilis and to the media cartography of its hauntings, this project transcends the limitations of existing works and reconsiders their blind spots. I argue that a rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status and the ways of seeing that it necessitated will help to reconsider and go beyond the relations of sexuality, race and class which were negotiated through syphilis, thereby also raising broader questions about its function in the (de)construction of national and imperial identities. All in all, through the combination of an original transmedia corpus and a unique approach to syphilis, this project helps to rethink the Victorian era.
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Antonija Primorac and Monika Pietrzak-Franger
1-16 PDF
“Palimpsestuous” Attachments:
Framing a Manga Theory of the Global Neo-Victorian
Anna Maria Jones
17-47 PDF
Other Neo-Victorians:
Neo-Victorianism, Translation and Global Literature
Antonija Primorac
48-76 PDF
“Yet we believe his triumph might surely be ours”:
The Dickensian Liberalism of Slumdog Millionaire
Tanushree Ghosh
77-106 PDF
“Ship-Siblings”: Globalisation, Neoliberal Aesthetics,
and Neo-Victorian Form in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
Eddy Kent
107-130 PDF
“To eat one’s words”: Language and Disjunction
in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea
Aidan O’Malley
131-159 PDF
The Suicide Quartet
Mima Simić
(trans. from Croatian by Filip Krenus)
160-164 PDF
Reviews/Review Essays
Epistles to the (Neo-)Victorian Past:
Review of Kym Brindle, Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Diaries and Letters
Sneha Kar Chaudhuri
165-172 PDF
The Queer and The Quick:
Review of Lauren Owen, The Quick
Lois Burke
173-178 PDF
Announcements Page
179-202
PDF
Notes on Contributors
203-206
PDF
Keywords
Disease Visibility Representation Spectatorship Empathy Censorship
The learned editor has organized the set around three principal thematic categories (‘Personal Beauty and Care’, ‘Beauty, Fashion, and Health’, and ‘Beauty Education and Self-Management’) which move chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1910s. The materials gathered here are representative of the body of texts written on beauty and fashion with reference to women’s (self-) perception and (self-) definition. Combining the issues of fashion with those of economy, education, and physical culture, the collection offers a range of diverging views. The diversity of the gathered materials is mirrored in their generic range and in the varied professional background of their authors. The collection includes, but is not limited to, religious treatises and dress reformers’ pamphlets, personal-care manuals by society ladies, advice books by (alleged) specialists, and manufacturers’ attempts at self-advertising.
Making readily available materials which are currently very difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use, Women, Beauty, and Fashion is a veritable treasure-trove. The gathered works are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. Each volume is also supplemented by substantial introductions, newly written by the editor, which contextualize the material. And with a detailed appendix providing data on the provenance of the gathered works, the collection is destined to be welcomed as a vital reference and research resource.
Volume 1. Personal Beauty and Care
The Book of Health and Beauty, or the Toilette of Rank and Fashion, London: Joseph Thomas, 1837, pp. 1–150, Hints on Dress and on the Arrangement of the Hair: A Practical Essay, Suited to Either Sex, London: Ross and Company, 1861, pp. 1–16, The Black Wizard: A Wonderful Toilet Tale. London, 1874, pp. 1–13, How to Cultivate Beauty, Chicago, IL.: Early & Halla Print. Co., 1893, pp. 1–34, The True Standard of Beauty, The Value of Beauty, Scientific Cultivation of Beauty, The Chief Element of Facial Beauty, Cause and Cure of Skin Blemishes, Blackheads; How to be Rid of Them, Wrinkles; Their Cause and Cure, Liver-Marks, Moth And Freckles, Honored By Mme. Adelina Patti, Brilliant Success of A Vassar Girl, Testimonials, Imperial Japanese Preparations, The Art of “Making Up”, Seventh Edition, by the Hess Company, Rochester, N.Y.: The Company, 1921, pp. 1–53, The Art of Beauty, or Lady’s Companion to the Boudoir, London: Weldon & Co., 1876, pp. 1–56.
Volume II. Personal Beauty and Care
The Art of Beauty, Physical Beauty: Physical Beauty, The Art of Dress, Exercise, Toilet Hygienics: The Cure of Stoutness, The Cure of Leanness, Baths, The Figure, Bad Complexions, and How to Cure Them, The Complexion, The Hair in Health, The Hair in Ill-Health, Hair Dyes and Bleaching Fluids, The Art of “Making Up”, The Arms, Hands, and Nails, The Teeth and Feet, Moles, Warts, and Superfluous Hair, The Eyes, Eyebrows, Eyelashes, and Nose, Underclothing and Health, About Perfumes, The Beauty and Health of Children, Beauty Adorned, A Few Introductory Remarks, The Crowning Glory, How Shall I Do My Hair?, The Complexion, Defeating Nature's Kindness, Care of the Complexion, Beauty—Blonde and Brune, Simplicity a Charm, What are Her Eyes Like?, ‘What Lovely Eyes!’, Eyebrows and Eyelashes, About Noses, The Teeth, The Chin, the Lips, and What They Say, The Middle-Aged Woman, The Figure, Beauty in Middle Age, The Poet's Ideal Beauty, Footgear, Dress in Hot Weather, Beauty by the Sea—the Summer Girl, What Care Can Do, Perfumes and Other Things, In Praise of Freshness, On Looking-Glasses—Their Use and Abuse.
Volume III. Personal Beauty and Care
The Art of Being Beautiful, The Secret of Beauty, On Proportion, Self-Criticism, Individuality, The Picturesque, Artificiality, Of Cosmetics, On Colour, Expression, Manly Beauty, Muscle and Vitality, Dignity and Grace, The Mode, Ageing Gracefully, Every Woman's Toilet Book, The Perfect Woman, Are Artificial Aids to Beauty Justifiable?, How to Cultivate a Good Figure, Facial Beauty and the Care of the Complexion, Manicure, or the Cult of the Hand Beautiful, The Care of the Feet, The Care of the Eyes, The Nose and How to Improve it, The Care of the Teeth, The Care of the Hair, Toilet Hints for Summer and Winter
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Volume IV. Beauty, Fashion and Health
Beauty vs. Fashion: The Christian Lady's Toilette; or, the Principles which Should Regulate Her Dress, Suggested, The Lamp of Beauty, Hints on Dress and Beauty, The Queen of Beauty for The Throne of Fashion, Dress, Pride and Beauty, Corsetry: The Influence of Stays, The Corset Defended, The Use and Action of Stays and Corsets, on Disease & Development of the Female Figure, The Dress of the Period in its Relations to Health, Figure Training
View Volume IV Contents
Volume V. Beauty, Fashion and Health
Dress Reform: Dress, Health & Beauty, Necessity for Reform, Structure of the Body, The Tyranny of Dress, The Structure of the Body, Health versus Custom, Solution of the Problem, Why We are Not Strong, Rational Dress; or. the Dress of Women and Savages, The Clothes Question Considered, Of the Importance of This Question—Especially as to the Clothing of Women, Of the Hair—Hair Washes, Restorers, Dyes, and Hair and Brain Poisons, Of the Warmth, and Weight, and Encumbrance of Clothing, The Difficulty of Dress Reform, How Fashion Cramps Activity and Industry, The Heroism, Sufferings, Rights and Wrongs of Women, The Relations of Dress and Education, On the Relations of Dress to Modesty and Health, with Illustrative Cases, The Dress of the Feet and Hands, Baby Clothes, Bed Clothes, Ligatures, Etc, Æsthetics of Dress, Dress, and How to Improve It, Conviction and Conversion, A Woman's Club for Physical Culture and Correct Dress, Advantages of Reform Undergarments, Development of Body, Dress Reform Garments, Patterns
Volume VI. Beauty, Education and Self-Management
Beauty and (Physical) Education: Excerpts from Women in the Reign of Queen Victoria, London: Dean & Son, 1876, pp. 48–98, Causes of Female Debility, Bodily Culture, Excerpts from The Girl’s Own Book of Health and Beauty, (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1892, pp. 58–96, 108–115, 168–182, Preface, Exercise—Clothing—Hobbies, Athletics for Girls, Healthful Recreations, Cycling as a Cure for Chronic Ailments, What Cycling Can Cure, Gloxinia Schizandria Aramantha C, The Health Value of Certain Pastimes, How Fanny Ffisher Lost
Contents: Introduction: cultural reflections on Darwin and their historical evolution, Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts; Part 1 The Cultural Evolution of Darwin’s Thought: ‘I differ widely from you’: Darwin, Galton and the culture of eugenics, Angelique Richardson; Evolution, heredity and visuality: reading faces with Thomas Hardy, Susanne Scholz; ‘How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!’: Darwin’s ‘ape theory’ and its traces in Victorian children’s magazines, Jochen Petzold; Gender trouble as monkey business: changing roles of simian characters in literature and film between 1870 and 1930, Julika Griem. Part 2 Darwin’s Cultural Resonance Today: Neo-Victorian Darwin: representations of the 19th-century scientist, naturalist and explorer in 21st-century women’s writing, Ann Heilmann; (Mis-)representations of Darwin’s Origin and evolutionary master narratives in The Sea (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), Felix C.H. Sprang; Evolution for better or for worse? Science fiction literature and film and the public debate on the future of humanity, Angela Schwarz. Part 3 Darwin as ‘Pop Star’ of Contemporary Theory: Displacing humans, reconfiguring Darwin in contemporary culture and theory, Virginia Richter; Ordering Darwin: evolution and normativity, Nils Wilkinson; The limits of sociobiology: is there a sociobiological explanation of culture?, Matthias Gutmann; ‘Survival of the fittest’ in Darwin metaphysics: tautology or testable theory?, Momme von Sydow; Index.
About the Editor: Monika Pietrzak-Franger is Assistant Professor at TU Braunschweig, Germany, Barbara Schaff is Professor for English Language and Culture at Göttingen University, Germany, and Eckart Voigts is Professor for English Literature and Culture at TU Braunschweig, Germany.
enquire into the processes involved in theatrical adaptation, highlighting the multi-layering, hybridity
and palimpsestuous character of onstage adaptations. They attend to a wide spectrum of problems which include issues of classification, the question of media and generic transpositions as well as
the intra- and intertextuality of onstage adaptations. Various papers also address the processes and problems of transculturation and indigenization.
This collection, therefore, offers a platform for a positive reconsideration of stage plays and live theatre
in adaptation studies. In reverse, the study of adaptation also proves vital to the field of contemporary theatre and drama studies as it helps to deconstruct problematic notions of fidelity and originality,
emphasizing instead the complexity of adaptive processes on the stage and beyond.
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Papers by Monika Pietrzak-Franger
and Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel From Hell (1989-1998) as an example, this article will reread Jack the Ripper in the context of the paradoxical intertwining of his physical absence and medial overrepresentation as formative of the Ripper myth and the significance of vision to his subsequent adaptations and appropriations. It argues that, on a metalevel, From Hell uses the myth of the 19th century serial killer as a space where broader issues of adaptation and post-Victorian engagement can be revealed, theorised, and commented upon. Reread in terms of metadaptation, the graphic novel foregrounds our own position vis-à-vis the Victorians, and points to the utility of the adaptive framework to neo-Victorian
preoccupations.
Fields covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flânerie in New York, neo-Victorian streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber, the global impact of urban transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong, ‘slumming’ in the TV series ‘Maison Close’, ‘Ripper Street’ and ‘Penny Dreadful’ as well as Amsterdam’s Red Light District and urban geographies of entertainment in London, from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome
This extensively researched literary and cultural study inspects the polymorphous facets of syphilis in the multi-media context of fin-de-siècle Britain. Most importantly, it addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. This novel approach permits to see syphilis not only as an ambiguous object of Victorian concern but also as a medium in the construction of broader domains of (in)visibility. Through the attention to the spectrality of syphilis and to the media cartography of its hauntings, this project transcends the limitations of existing works and reconsiders their blind spots. I argue that a rethinking of the disease with reference to its ambiguous status and the ways of seeing that it necessitated will help to reconsider and go beyond the relations of sexuality, race and class which were negotiated through syphilis, thereby also raising broader questions about its function in the (de)construction of national and imperial identities. All in all, through the combination of an original transmedia corpus and a unique approach to syphilis, this project helps to rethink the Victorian era.
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Antonija Primorac and Monika Pietrzak-Franger
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“Palimpsestuous” Attachments:
Framing a Manga Theory of the Global Neo-Victorian
Anna Maria Jones
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Other Neo-Victorians:
Neo-Victorianism, Translation and Global Literature
Antonija Primorac
48-76 PDF
“Yet we believe his triumph might surely be ours”:
The Dickensian Liberalism of Slumdog Millionaire
Tanushree Ghosh
77-106 PDF
“Ship-Siblings”: Globalisation, Neoliberal Aesthetics,
and Neo-Victorian Form in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
Eddy Kent
107-130 PDF
“To eat one’s words”: Language and Disjunction
in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea
Aidan O’Malley
131-159 PDF
The Suicide Quartet
Mima Simić
(trans. from Croatian by Filip Krenus)
160-164 PDF
Reviews/Review Essays
Epistles to the (Neo-)Victorian Past:
Review of Kym Brindle, Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Diaries and Letters
Sneha Kar Chaudhuri
165-172 PDF
The Queer and The Quick:
Review of Lauren Owen, The Quick
Lois Burke
173-178 PDF
Announcements Page
179-202
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Notes on Contributors
203-206
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Keywords
Disease Visibility Representation Spectatorship Empathy Censorship
The learned editor has organized the set around three principal thematic categories (‘Personal Beauty and Care’, ‘Beauty, Fashion, and Health’, and ‘Beauty Education and Self-Management’) which move chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1910s. The materials gathered here are representative of the body of texts written on beauty and fashion with reference to women’s (self-) perception and (self-) definition. Combining the issues of fashion with those of economy, education, and physical culture, the collection offers a range of diverging views. The diversity of the gathered materials is mirrored in their generic range and in the varied professional background of their authors. The collection includes, but is not limited to, religious treatises and dress reformers’ pamphlets, personal-care manuals by society ladies, advice books by (alleged) specialists, and manufacturers’ attempts at self-advertising.
Making readily available materials which are currently very difficult for scholars, researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use, Women, Beauty, and Fashion is a veritable treasure-trove. The gathered works are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. Each volume is also supplemented by substantial introductions, newly written by the editor, which contextualize the material. And with a detailed appendix providing data on the provenance of the gathered works, the collection is destined to be welcomed as a vital reference and research resource.
Volume 1. Personal Beauty and Care
The Book of Health and Beauty, or the Toilette of Rank and Fashion, London: Joseph Thomas, 1837, pp. 1–150, Hints on Dress and on the Arrangement of the Hair: A Practical Essay, Suited to Either Sex, London: Ross and Company, 1861, pp. 1–16, The Black Wizard: A Wonderful Toilet Tale. London, 1874, pp. 1–13, How to Cultivate Beauty, Chicago, IL.: Early & Halla Print. Co., 1893, pp. 1–34, The True Standard of Beauty, The Value of Beauty, Scientific Cultivation of Beauty, The Chief Element of Facial Beauty, Cause and Cure of Skin Blemishes, Blackheads; How to be Rid of Them, Wrinkles; Their Cause and Cure, Liver-Marks, Moth And Freckles, Honored By Mme. Adelina Patti, Brilliant Success of A Vassar Girl, Testimonials, Imperial Japanese Preparations, The Art of “Making Up”, Seventh Edition, by the Hess Company, Rochester, N.Y.: The Company, 1921, pp. 1–53, The Art of Beauty, or Lady’s Companion to the Boudoir, London: Weldon & Co., 1876, pp. 1–56.
Volume II. Personal Beauty and Care
The Art of Beauty, Physical Beauty: Physical Beauty, The Art of Dress, Exercise, Toilet Hygienics: The Cure of Stoutness, The Cure of Leanness, Baths, The Figure, Bad Complexions, and How to Cure Them, The Complexion, The Hair in Health, The Hair in Ill-Health, Hair Dyes and Bleaching Fluids, The Art of “Making Up”, The Arms, Hands, and Nails, The Teeth and Feet, Moles, Warts, and Superfluous Hair, The Eyes, Eyebrows, Eyelashes, and Nose, Underclothing and Health, About Perfumes, The Beauty and Health of Children, Beauty Adorned, A Few Introductory Remarks, The Crowning Glory, How Shall I Do My Hair?, The Complexion, Defeating Nature's Kindness, Care of the Complexion, Beauty—Blonde and Brune, Simplicity a Charm, What are Her Eyes Like?, ‘What Lovely Eyes!’, Eyebrows and Eyelashes, About Noses, The Teeth, The Chin, the Lips, and What They Say, The Middle-Aged Woman, The Figure, Beauty in Middle Age, The Poet's Ideal Beauty, Footgear, Dress in Hot Weather, Beauty by the Sea—the Summer Girl, What Care Can Do, Perfumes and Other Things, In Praise of Freshness, On Looking-Glasses—Their Use and Abuse.
Volume III. Personal Beauty and Care
The Art of Being Beautiful, The Secret of Beauty, On Proportion, Self-Criticism, Individuality, The Picturesque, Artificiality, Of Cosmetics, On Colour, Expression, Manly Beauty, Muscle and Vitality, Dignity and Grace, The Mode, Ageing Gracefully, Every Woman's Toilet Book, The Perfect Woman, Are Artificial Aids to Beauty Justifiable?, How to Cultivate a Good Figure, Facial Beauty and the Care of the Complexion, Manicure, or the Cult of the Hand Beautiful, The Care of the Feet, The Care of the Eyes, The Nose and How to Improve it, The Care of the Teeth, The Care of the Hair, Toilet Hints for Summer and Winter
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Volume IV. Beauty, Fashion and Health
Beauty vs. Fashion: The Christian Lady's Toilette; or, the Principles which Should Regulate Her Dress, Suggested, The Lamp of Beauty, Hints on Dress and Beauty, The Queen of Beauty for The Throne of Fashion, Dress, Pride and Beauty, Corsetry: The Influence of Stays, The Corset Defended, The Use and Action of Stays and Corsets, on Disease & Development of the Female Figure, The Dress of the Period in its Relations to Health, Figure Training
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Volume V. Beauty, Fashion and Health
Dress Reform: Dress, Health & Beauty, Necessity for Reform, Structure of the Body, The Tyranny of Dress, The Structure of the Body, Health versus Custom, Solution of the Problem, Why We are Not Strong, Rational Dress; or. the Dress of Women and Savages, The Clothes Question Considered, Of the Importance of This Question—Especially as to the Clothing of Women, Of the Hair—Hair Washes, Restorers, Dyes, and Hair and Brain Poisons, Of the Warmth, and Weight, and Encumbrance of Clothing, The Difficulty of Dress Reform, How Fashion Cramps Activity and Industry, The Heroism, Sufferings, Rights and Wrongs of Women, The Relations of Dress and Education, On the Relations of Dress to Modesty and Health, with Illustrative Cases, The Dress of the Feet and Hands, Baby Clothes, Bed Clothes, Ligatures, Etc, Æsthetics of Dress, Dress, and How to Improve It, Conviction and Conversion, A Woman's Club for Physical Culture and Correct Dress, Advantages of Reform Undergarments, Development of Body, Dress Reform Garments, Patterns
Volume VI. Beauty, Education and Self-Management
Beauty and (Physical) Education: Excerpts from Women in the Reign of Queen Victoria, London: Dean & Son, 1876, pp. 48–98, Causes of Female Debility, Bodily Culture, Excerpts from The Girl’s Own Book of Health and Beauty, (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1892, pp. 58–96, 108–115, 168–182, Preface, Exercise—Clothing—Hobbies, Athletics for Girls, Healthful Recreations, Cycling as a Cure for Chronic Ailments, What Cycling Can Cure, Gloxinia Schizandria Aramantha C, The Health Value of Certain Pastimes, How Fanny Ffisher Lost
Contents: Introduction: cultural reflections on Darwin and their historical evolution, Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Eckart Voigts; Part 1 The Cultural Evolution of Darwin’s Thought: ‘I differ widely from you’: Darwin, Galton and the culture of eugenics, Angelique Richardson; Evolution, heredity and visuality: reading faces with Thomas Hardy, Susanne Scholz; ‘How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!’: Darwin’s ‘ape theory’ and its traces in Victorian children’s magazines, Jochen Petzold; Gender trouble as monkey business: changing roles of simian characters in literature and film between 1870 and 1930, Julika Griem. Part 2 Darwin’s Cultural Resonance Today: Neo-Victorian Darwin: representations of the 19th-century scientist, naturalist and explorer in 21st-century women’s writing, Ann Heilmann; (Mis-)representations of Darwin’s Origin and evolutionary master narratives in The Sea (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), Felix C.H. Sprang; Evolution for better or for worse? Science fiction literature and film and the public debate on the future of humanity, Angela Schwarz. Part 3 Darwin as ‘Pop Star’ of Contemporary Theory: Displacing humans, reconfiguring Darwin in contemporary culture and theory, Virginia Richter; Ordering Darwin: evolution and normativity, Nils Wilkinson; The limits of sociobiology: is there a sociobiological explanation of culture?, Matthias Gutmann; ‘Survival of the fittest’ in Darwin metaphysics: tautology or testable theory?, Momme von Sydow; Index.
About the Editor: Monika Pietrzak-Franger is Assistant Professor at TU Braunschweig, Germany, Barbara Schaff is Professor for English Language and Culture at Göttingen University, Germany, and Eckart Voigts is Professor for English Literature and Culture at TU Braunschweig, Germany.
enquire into the processes involved in theatrical adaptation, highlighting the multi-layering, hybridity
and palimpsestuous character of onstage adaptations. They attend to a wide spectrum of problems which include issues of classification, the question of media and generic transpositions as well as
the intra- and intertextuality of onstage adaptations. Various papers also address the processes and problems of transculturation and indigenization.
This collection, therefore, offers a platform for a positive reconsideration of stage plays and live theatre
in adaptation studies. In reverse, the study of adaptation also proves vital to the field of contemporary theatre and drama studies as it helps to deconstruct problematic notions of fidelity and originality,
emphasizing instead the complexity of adaptive processes on the stage and beyond.
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and Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel From Hell (1989-1998) as an example, this article will reread Jack the Ripper in the context of the paradoxical intertwining of his physical absence and medial overrepresentation as formative of the Ripper myth and the significance of vision to his subsequent adaptations and appropriations. It argues that, on a metalevel, From Hell uses the myth of the 19th century serial killer as a space where broader issues of adaptation and post-Victorian engagement can be revealed, theorised, and commented upon. Reread in terms of metadaptation, the graphic novel foregrounds our own position vis-à-vis the Victorians, and points to the utility of the adaptive framework to neo-Victorian
preoccupations.
This paper provides a detailed study of this intertwining of medical and cultural notions. It examines the rich iconotextual presentation of children and childcare in an extensive body of archival materials such as the highly popular midwifery manual "The byrth of mankynd, otherwyse named the womans boke / Newly set forth, corrected and augmented, whose co[n]tentes ye may reade in thee table of the boke, and moste playnely in the prologue" (Thomas Raynald Phisition, London 1552).
In sum, this paper enquires about the ways childbirth and child sickness were conceptualized and displayed in the midwifery manuals. It also links these observations to broader medical concepts of human development and popular textual and iconographic representations of children in Renaissance culture. It will therefore ask, if the mentioned representations deviate from common conceptions of the English Renaissance as a period of an increased interest in understanding English Christian beliefs."
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• Medical Humanities at the frontlines – the aims, functions and practices that are needed
• Medical Humanities in times of COVID-19 – the role of Medical Humanities in times of global pandemics – what can Humanities do?
• Borders in Medical Humanities – disciplinary, methodological, ideological
• Medical Humanities beyond the Anglo-American world
• Global pandemics and local interventions – (comparative) look at care provision and policies in different countries
• COVID-19 across media borders – (new, social) media, pandemics and discrimination
• Borders in healthcare – national, social, economic, material, ideological
Please email proposals (300 words) together with your bios (150 words) to Monika Pietrzak-Franger [email protected] and Anna Elsner [email protected], by 15 October 2020. Please send us the email with the subject: “Abstract Medical Humanities”
2. Mash-ups
Sektionsleiter/innen:
PD Dr. Lucia Krämer (Hannover)
PD Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Hamburg)
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Four thematic panels problematize the key aspects of the urban environment in the future. The “Green City” section places urban life in the light of contemporary challenges such as the need for sustainability in a time of climate change. This topic can largely be found in discourses about urban development, for example in the “European Green City Index” or in city planning schemes, such as the zero carbon footprint project “Masdar City” in Abu Dhabi. Likewise, it addresses the possible future challenges to urban environment that have been discussed in literature and film. Novels, such as Ian McEwan’s Solar (2010) or Bruce Sterling’s Heavy Weather (1933) as well as films as varied as Erin Brokovich (2000) and The Day after Tomorrow (2004) reference possible ecological problems that will be the centre of our discussions.
The second panel “Megacities and Migration” is devoted to the challenges of increasing urbanization and the problems faced by the megacities. By 2030 there will be 41 megacities around the world with a population greater than 10 million people each, according to reports of the UN. At the same time, the megacity is often envisioned as an in-between space – a site characterized both by order and chaos, fluctuation and stability as well as fragmentation and plurality. The challenges arising in this context – poverty, overpopulation, multilingualism and racial tensions – will be discussed from cultural, sociologist and linguistic perspectives.
The third panel looks at the role of the city in dystopian and (post-) apocalyptic texts across several media. Films like Blade Runner (1982, dir. Ridley Scott) and Brazil (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam), transform contemporary anxieties into dystopian visions and invite critical questions about the trajectory of technological progress and economic growth and especially the question of identity. Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” describes an urbanized, ostensibly utopian society of the future that has elected to engineer elements of human nature and identity to fit its needs. Likewise, in the popular video games series Fallout (Bethesda Softworks), players traverse the ruins of Washington D.C. and other cities, estranged from an unabashedly optimistic and consumerist alternate-reality America of the tranquil fifties that lead to Global Nuclear Armageddon. In these and other ways, dystopian and postapocalyptic texts approach the challenges outlined in the other panels from a wholly different narrative perspective and freedom.
The last section “The (Post-)Postmodern City” discusses the extent to which contemporary cultural representations of the metropolitan experience may be contextualized within a post-postmodern condition. While the postmodern city of authors like Paul Auster (City of Glass, 1985) and William Gibson (Neuromancer, 1984) depicted the fragmentized urban self, contemporary, potentially post-postmodern or neo-realist writers such as Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, 2001), Ian McEwan (Saturday, 2005) and Richard Powers (Generosity, 2009) ascribe a consolidating, identity establishing potential to the city. It is the purpose of this section, to look at the city of the future not only as a projection space where human anxieties and dreams collide, but also as a site where human post-postmodern condition is reflected.
This conference is organised by the graduate students of the master’s program “British and American Cultures: Texts and Media”. The M.A. program deals with the cultural productions of Great Britain and the United States of America in all their forms and variations. In addition to the research-oriented examination of English and American literature from their beginnings to the present day, the program also focuses on contemporary theoretical and critical discourses such as postcolonial studies, cultural studies, gender studies, performance studies, and media studies. From the dramas of Shakespeare to the representation of gender in American and British television, from Hamlet to the narrative forms of new media, a broad spectrum of texts are discussed from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Hailed by many as a paradigm shift in the way stories are told and experienced, transmedia storytelling has in recent years become a firmly established practice and presence in mainstream media. The conference “Transmedia Storytelling and Its Reception: Economies and Politics of Participation” brings together a group of national and international experts who will engage with mainly two aspects of the phenomenon. The first is the theorisation and specification of transmedia storytelling as a storytelling mode and a cultural product, for example in relation to intermediality, franchising, games and the notion of storyworlds. The second concerns the reception of transmedia narratives. Transmedial story set-ups can be highly complex and, especially when they involve the so-called social media, can challenge the traditional unidirectional model of textual communication. At the same time they raise questions about the means of creating audience immersion, about offers of participation and interactivity – or a lack thereof – and about the implications of transmedial narratives for notions of production and reception. Addressing psychological and physiological aspects of transmedia reception as well as questions of transmedia literacy and reception aesthetics, the conference offers an array of perspectives on the reception of transmedial narratives.
Conference convenors:
PD Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Hamburg)
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PD Dr. Lucia Krämer (Leibniz University Hanover)
[email protected]
Schloss Herrenhausen, 25-27 Februar 2015
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Arrival of speakers
Preliminaries
18:00
Official opening of the conference: Volkswagen Foundation Representatives Introduction: Lucia Krämer and Monika Pietrzak-Franger
18:30 Keynote Lecture:
Prof. Dr. Irina Rajewsky (Department of Romance Languages, Freie Universität Berlin) “Transmedia Storytelling and Transmedial Narratology: Defining the Fields”
20:00 Conference warming
Thursday, 26 February 2015
9:00 - 13:00 Section I: Transmedia Storytelling and Its Economies
Prof. Dr. Derek Johnson (Associate Professor, Media & Cultural Studies Department of Communication Arts University of Wisconsin): “Franchising as Transmedia Storytelling”
Johannes Fehrle, M.A. (North American Studies, University of Mannheim): “Transmedia Adaptation: Between Storytelling and Brand Management”
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Section II: Building Transmedia Storyworlds
Jan-Noël Thon, M.A. (Department of Media Studies, Tübingen University): “Anything Goes? Theory of Fiction, and the Borders of Transmedial Storyworlds”
Maria Sulimma, M.A. (Department of Culture, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin): “Negotiating Serial Flow: The Walking Dead as Transmedia Phenomenon”
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 Section III: The Politics of Transmedia Storytelling
Prof. Dr. Mark J.P. Wolf (Communication Studies, Concordia University Wisconsin): “The Importance of Overflow and Chunking in World-Building and the Experiencing of Transmedial Worlds”
Prof. Dr. Martin Butler (English Studies, University of Oldenburg): “Audience Participation, Interactivity and Interpassivity”
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Walking Tour around the Gardens
17:30 - 18:00
Coffee Break
18:00 - 19:00 Open Lecture:
Prof. Dr. Eckart Voigts (Department of English, TU Braunschweig): “Austen, Shakespeare, Lebowski – Remix, Parody and the Everyday Culture”
20:00
Dinner
Friday, 27 February 2015
9:00 - 10:30 Section IV: Transmedia Literacy
Dr. phil. Regina Schober (North American Studies, University of Mannheim): “What Can we Learn from Pragmatism: Transmedia Storytelling and Processual Knowledge”
Dr. Elizabeth Evans (Department of Culture, Film and Media, The University of Nottingham, UK): “The Literacies of Pervasive Transmedia Drama”
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Section V: Exemplary Audiences
Guido Bülow (Projektleiter Tatort+, Social-Media-Manager of SWR, Frankfurt am Main): “Tatort+ and its Reception”
Manuel Köppl Dipl.-Germ./Journ. (Univ.) (Dep. of Communication Studies, University of Passau): “Transmedia 001: Towards a Definition of Multi-Platform Storytelling. A Qualitative Pretest of Conceptions, Narrations and Elements of Gamification in Transmedia Stories - with Reflections on Organizational Requirements and Reception Behaviors”
12:30 - 13:30 Keynote Lecture:
Dr. Pamela Rutledge (Director of Media Psychology Research Center, Fielding Graduate University, USA): “Keeping the Audience Engaged: Narrative Transportation across Media”
13:30 - 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:00 Round Table: Future Perspectives: Transmedia Storytelling and its Criticism
Dr. Sarah Atkinson (Principal Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts)
Prof. Dr. Jens Eder (Institut für Medien- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft, Universität Mannheim)
Dorothea Martin (Das wilde Dutzend Verlag, Transmedia Storytelling Group, Berlin)
PD Dr. Pascal Nicklas (Leader of Neuroaesthetics/Adaptation in Cultural and Neuronal Networks Group, Institute of Microscopic Anatomy and Neurobiology, Jonannes-Gutenberg Universität, Mainz)
End of Conference
1.30-2.00
Workshop Opening
Paul M. Lützeler, Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Director of Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature (WUSTL)
Tristram R. Kidder, Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Environmental Studies, Chair of the Department of Anthropology (WUSTL)
2.00-2.15
Monika Pietrzak-Franger (WUSTL/Siegen University): “Introduction”
2.15-3.45
Martha Stoddard Holmes (California State University San Marcos, CA): “Communicating Ovarian Cancer in Public Culture: Mediating Invisibility.”
Carolyn Sargent (WUSTL) “De-exoticizing the African Immigrant Body in France: Colonial and Post-colonial Perspectives on Disease, Risk, and Contagion.”
3.45-4.15 Coffee Break
4.15-5.45
Liv Hinegardner (WUSTL): “Scenes of Confrontation: The Ethics of Using Conflict to Make Structural Violence Visible in Film.”
Shanti Parikh (WUSTL): “The Politics of (In)Visibility and Representations of Uganda as an HIV Success Story.”
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
9.00-10.30
Monika Pietrzak-Franger (WUSTL/Siegen University): “Healthy Visibility: VDs and Knowledge Production.”
Elizabeth Lee (Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA): “The Collector’s (In)visible Body: Charles Lang Freer, Art, and Disease at the Turn of the Century.”
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.45
Paula Treichler (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, ILL): “’When Pirates Feast’: The Pirate Figure in Advertising for Trojan Brand Condoms, 1926-1939.”
11.45-12.15
Final Discussion and Conference-Round-Up