Campus des Grands Moulins, Université Paris Cité
This conference explores Gaskell’s unorthodoxies, including her keen observation of a society grappling with social upheavals, her advocacy of the marginalised, and her challenge to conventions. There are 16 papers, the majority from well-known UK experts and five from French scholars, all delivered in English.
There will also be optional visits on Saturday 5 April, which can be booked separately for those who don’t want to attend the conference.
A bespoke Gaskell? French and German serialisations of Mary Barton
Philip Morey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Gaskell’s Travel in China: Translation and Reception
Lisu Wang (University of Leicester)
In-Between: The Quiet Revolution of Gender and National Identity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
Jeanne Barangé (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
Speed, Serialisation, and Social Commentary: The influence of the railway on Elizabeth Gaskell’s periodical works
Emilie Caugant (Université Bretagne sud, Lorient)
Invisible spaces in Elizabeth Gaskell’s industrial novels Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1854-55)
Marie-Gaëlle Drouet (Université Aix-Marseille)
“I’d rather say nought about that…”; Chartist Silences in Mary Barton
Michael Sanders (University of Manchester)
North and South: Gaskell and the Preston strike
Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire)
The Value of a Woman’s Voice: Elizabeth Gaskell and Gossip
Elizabeth Williams (Gaskell Society)
(R)evolutionary mothers: Mrs. Hamley and Mrs. Kirkpatrick/Gibson in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters.
Aude Petit Marquis (Université de Nantes)
Gaskell, Maternity and Time
Josie Billington (University of Liverpool)
Modelling God the Father: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Failed Fathers
Carolyn Lambert (Independent Scholar)
Elizabeth Gaskell: Authority and Rebellion
Shirley Foster (University of Sheffield, Gaskell Society President)
The Community as an Instrument of Abuse in Elizabeth
Gaskell’s Fiction
Kathleen Gentle (Anglia Ruskin University)
Cranford and Elizabeth Gaskell’s abiding Amazonians.
Sara Zadrozny (University of Oxford Department of Education)
The Voices of Elizabeth Gaskell
Joanne Shattock (University of Leicester)
‘The Working of her Curse’: the Power of the Spoken Word in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Tales (Round the Sofa)
Nathalie Saudo-Welby (Université de Picardie, Amiens)
Everybody is welcome to attend: no reservation is needed, and attendance is free of charge. There are many hotels near the venue.
Salle 0011, bâtiment Sophie Germain, Campus des Grands Moulins (13e), Université Paris Cité, Place Aurélie Nemours 75013 Paris
Métro and RER Line C: Bibliothèque François Mitterrand.
In the morning, we’ll go to the house and grounds on the Left Bank (now Les Missions Etrangères) where Elizabeth Gaskell stayed several times on her visits to Paris. The site is not normally open to the public. Then to the house of the novelist Emile Zola (1840-1903), which is half an hour to the west of Paris by train. Zola was a socially concerned novelist and Maison Zola is a superbly restored example of a 19th-century writer’s house, full of ideas for how Elizabeth Gaskell’s House might be developed.
Easyjet offers a choice of flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport every day from almost all UK airports, while flights from the rest of the world are also regular and plentiful. The Eurostar is more comfortable and environmentally friendly, though more expensive, with costs depending on your point of origin.
Paris time is an hour ahead of UK time.
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