Fictionalised Foreign

An alert from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia for today, April 11:

EMSAH Research Seminar - `The Fictionalised Foreign: Charlotte Bronte`s Belgian Novels`
presented by Lesa Scholl, PhD Candidate, University of London

Date: Friday, 11 April 2008
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room: 437
UQ Location: Michie Building (St Lucia)

Event Information
Description: Charlotte Brontë’s Belgian novels, `Villette` (1853) and `The Professor` (1857), work within the conventions and concerns of travel writing to comment on Continental culture for a British readership.

This paper addresses the way Brontë constructs these texts as narratives presented by travellers. Lucy Snowe and William Crimsworth are read as critical observers who, like travel writers, present mediated images of the foreign culture for the home readership. I use a postcolonial perspective of translation studies to examine Brontë’s fictional representations of Belgium.

About the Presenter:

Lesa Scholl is a PhD candidate from Birkbeck College, University of London. She has recently submitted her thesis `Mediation and Authority: Roles of Translation in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing`. Her publications include articles and book chapters on George Eliot, Harriet Martineau and Christina Rossetti.

For further information or to be added to the EMSAH Research Seminar email list contact: Vicky McNicol by phone on 3365 1412 or by email v.mcnicol@uq.edu.au

Categories: Brussels,Scholar, Talks, The Professor, Villette