The next meeting of the Reading and Reception Studies Seminar will be on
Tuesday, 21 November, at 5 pm, in the Meeting Room, Clare Hall College,
Cambridge, when Tom Toremans will be speaking on
'The Double Genitive of Carlyle's Reception'.
A précis and profile of the speaker are appended below.
Dr Toremans' paper will be followed by a discussion. The seminar will
conclude at 7 pm with a glass of wine.
The Meeting Room is in the Main Building of the College on Herschel Road.
We would be very pleased if you were able to join us.
With best wishes,
(Dr) Elinor Shaffer
Convenor, Reading and Reception Studies Seminar
http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/index.php?id=333
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The study of Carlyle's reception confronts us with a double genitive.
Carlyle's works not only present themselves as capricious objects of
critical commentary and analysis, they are also works of and about
reception. From his early critical reviews to the fictional experiment of
Sartor Resartus and his lectures on hero-worship, Carlyle's works display a
persistent preoccupation with the processes of reading and canonization.
This paper aims to highlight Sartor's relevance for contemporary
reception studies as an experimental, late-Romantic/early Victorian account
of the cross-cultural transmission of a fictional transcendentalist
aesthetic. After a brief reconstruction of Carlyle's reception since the
1960s, a close analysis of Sartor's exploration of the process of reception
will be provided with specific reference to Carlyle's critical work of the
late 1820s. In this way, Carlyle's early works will be considered not only
as passively subjected to critical analysis, but also as actively commenting
on the theoretical and aesthetic premises on which this reception proceeds.
Tom Toremans is a post-doctoral researcher at the Catholic University of
Brussels. He recently obtained his doctoral degree at the Universities of
Leuven and Brussels with a dissertation on Aesthetics, Ideology and
Materiality in the Work of Thomas Carlyle, 1825-1832. He is one of the
coordinators of the Centre for the Study of English literature in Dutch
Translation <www.celv.be> and co-editor of its first publication, Textual
Mobility and Cultural Transmission (Leuven University Press, 2006). He has
also published articles on Scottish literature and contemporary literary
theory.
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