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The re-emergence in recent years of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam as a key figure in fin de siècle literature can be attributed in large part to the intense interest his prescient l'Eve future (1886) has generated among scholars. In effect, the novel confronts with breathtaking focus central taboos and ambivalences about the decadent period. It posits an inescapable, mechanistic linkage between desire and technology; it suggests the constructed nature of gender; it casts woman down so as to exalt her, even as it intimates the arbitrariness and fragility of the empowerment prerogatives implicit in such an operation. It is this mine for the study of fin de siècle mentalities that the present volume explores. Begun at the 1992 NCFS colloquium at Binghamton University as a collective project of the Friends of Villiers, Jeering Dreamers brings together 13 essays by Villiers scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Their work promises, in the words of the eminent Villièrien Alan Raitt, to 'Éclairer l'Eve future d'un jour nouveau-ou, plus exactement, de plusieurs jours nouveaux.

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Author:   Alan Raitt ,  John Anzalone
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   111
ISBN:  

9789051839395

ISBN 10:   9051839391
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   01 January 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, French

Table of Contents

Alan RAITT: Preface. John ANZALONE: Introduction: On the Eve of Tomorrow. Marilyn GADDIS ROSE: Do Authors Control Translators? Second Thoughts by a Translator of L'Eve future. Asti HUSTVEDT: The Pathology of Eve. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Fin de Siècle Medical Discourse. Marie LATHERS: The Decadent Goddess: L'Eve future and the Vénus de Milo. Anne GREENFELD: The Shield of Perseus and the Absent Woman. Gwenhael PONNAU: Désaccords et dissonances: le corps et la voix dans L'Eve future. Pascal ROLLET: «Inflexions d'une féminéité surnaturelle»: la voix résistante de L'Eve future de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Alain NÉRY: Hadaly et Schéhérazade. John ANZALONE: Danse macabre: le pas de deux Villiers-Baudelaire. Carol de DOBAY RIFELJ: Minds, Computers and Hadaly. Felicia MILLER-FRANK: Edison's Recorded Angel. Warren JOHNSON: Edison's Comic Dualism. Bertrand VIBERT: L'Eve future ou l'ambiguïté. Contribution à une poétique du satanisme moderne. Catherine BORDEAU: The Gendering of the Creator.

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