Saturday 15 October 2022 (morning)
Université Saint-Louis, Rue du Marais 119, Brussels
Talk by Edwin Marr: ‘The New Lazarus: Shirley and Villette as two very different tales of grief’
‘If a magic mirror were now held before you, and if therein were shown you your two daughters as they will be twenty years from this night, what would you think?’
Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley is a novel of revelations. A novel in which grief and death are exposed for all to see. In contrast, Charlotte’s last novel Villette is entirely different in its handling of grief with letters buried under trees and death denied and obfuscated. In this talk, Edwin will explore the key differences between Charlotte Brontë’s late novels in their handling of death, grief, and mourning to understand how and why these two books, written just four years apart, demonstrate such fundamental differences in their approach to loss.
Edwin is a self-confessed Brontëphile, having been taken on regular pilgrimages to Haworth as a child. Much of his research has focused on the Brontë siblings, including the subjects of Universal Salvation in the works of Anne Brontë and grief and death in the works of Branwell Brontë. His thesis was on the production of railway space in nineteenth-century literature from 1860-1880. He is associate tutor at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Talk by Leen Huet: ‘A Belgian writer reads foreign writers on Belgium’
Leen Huet, art historian and novelist, talks about foreign writers writing on Belgium and how their efforts strike her. Can Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Baudelaire and Joseph Addison give her new insights into the workings and status of her beloved country?
Leen Huet was born in the Campine, near the Dutch border. She studied Art History and Philosophy at the K.U. Leuven and in Florence. She writes short stories and novels (Almanak, Eenoog). She translated Rubens’ letters into Dutch and has written biographies of Nicolaas Rockox and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She is currently working on the biography of the Brussels athlete Martial Van Schelle (1899-1943), born in the Campine like herself.
Guided walk
Sunday 16 October 2022
10.00. Guided walk around Brontë places in Brussels in the Place Royale area. The walk takes about 2 hours.
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