Discussing PROGRESS
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In 2018 – 2019, our seminar programme questioned the notions of ‘Progress and Language’
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Monday 26 November 2018
Economic Progress and Language
Michel Van Der Yeught (AMU), ‘Accounting for the Evolution of Specialised Languages in Times of Intellectual Progress: Theoretical Issues and Suggestions’. Read the abstract here.
Nathalie Vanfasse (AMU), ‘Adam Smith, Economic Growth, Aesthetic Theory, and Darwinian Evolution?’Read the abstract here.
Discussant: Gérard Hugues
Monday 4 March 2019
Scientific Progress and Literary Language
Mireille Ozoux (AMU), «Progrès et l’évolution de la langue et de la littérature, impact de la langue scientifique dans la littérature. » Read the full text here.
Clare Preston (Queen Mary university of London) ‘Thomas Browne’s Rhetorical Reclamations’. Read the abstract here.
Discussant: Anne Page
Monday 25 March 2019
Progress and Literary Genres: Redefinition and Evolution of the Novel
Baudouin Millet (Université de Lyon 2), ‘Progress and Stasis: The Poetics of Digression in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719-1720)’. Read the abstract here.
Anne Widmayer (University of Wisconsin), ‘Self-Conscious Literary Change: Engaging the Audience in the Emerging Novel.’ Read the abstract here.
Discussant: Jean Viviès
In 2019-2020, the seminar programme explored
‘Models of progress’
23 September 2019
John Mullan (University College London), ‘Revolutionary Jane Austen: The Transformation of the Eighteenth-Century Novel?’
Discussant : Jean Viviès
14 October 2019
Resistance to progress
Laurent Curelly (Université de Haute-Alsace), « ‘Free-born Englishmen’: John Lilburne et Edward Sexby défenseurs de la liberté contre le “tyran” Cromwell (1653-1658). »
Sara Watson (AMU), « La nostalgie du progrès dans l’œuvre en prose de John Milton »
Discussant : Laurence Lux-Sterritt
02 December 2019
Disciplinarity and the progress of knowledge
Mickaël Popelard (Université de Caen-Normandie), ‘Francis Bacon’s vision of a progressive Republic of Letters?’
Richard Somerset (Université de Lorraine), ‘Specialism versus universalism: 18th-century tensions’
Discussant: Anne Page
16 March 2020 (postponed to October 2020 due to COVID-19)
Progress and education
Sandrine Parageau (Université Paris-Nanterre, membre junior de l’IUF), « Education et ignorance dans les projets d’avancement du savoir au XVIIe siècle »
Pierre Lurbe (Sorbonne Université), « ‘Education […] is exceedingly incompetent to the great business of reforming mankind’: le pessimisme éducatif de William Godwin ».
Discussant : Jean Viviès
