The formative influences of Paris and France on the Anglo-Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) cannot be underestimated. These essays examine Moore's «French connections» and explore how his eclectic writings reflect the complex evolution of literature from Naturalism to Modernism through Symbolism and Decadence.

Autorentext

Michel Brunet is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis. His main areas of research lie in Irish literature, with a particular focus on Anglo-Irish writing. He has published on George Moore and on contemporary Irish fiction. Fabienne Gaspari is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Pau, where she teaches nineteenth-century British literature. She is the author of «Morsels for the gods»: l'écriture du visage dans la littérature britannique (1839-1900) (2012). She has published widely on nineteenth-century authors, including George Moore. Mary Pierse is the editor of Irish Feminisms, 1810-1930, Vols I-V (2009) and has published widely on the writings of George Moore. She has taught courses on Victorian literature and feminism at University College Cork and is a board member of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, Dublin.

Zusammenfassung
«[...] students and scholars from a number of disciplines will find this collection of essays an engaging, stimulating and valuable addition to the body of criticism on Moore.»
(Robert Finnigan, Nordic Irish Studies 2/2016)

Inhalt

Contents: Isabelle Enaud-Lechien: Moore-Degas-Paris: Exchanges, Reminiscences and Intersecting Arts - Justine Picchereddu: «An Art-Tortured Soul»: Authority in Confessions of a Young Man - Brendan Fleming: The Leaving of Paris: Some Contrasts and Parallels between George Moore and James Joyce - Fabienne Gaspari: The Symphony of the Senses: Baudelaire, Huysmans and Moore - Melanie Grundmann: «The Great Purifying Influence»: Théophile Gautier and George Moore - Stoddard Martin: Wilde and Moore: Decadents - Kathryn Laing: George Moore and F. Mabel Robinson: Parisian Contexts and the Woman Artist - Akemi Yoshida: Is Evelyn Innes (1898) a Literary Daughter of George Sand's Consuelo (1843)? - María Elena Jaime De Pablos: Melancholia and the Feminine in «Priscilla and Emily Lofft» - Pierre Joannon: 'Picturesque Aspects of a Primitive Country and Barbarous People': Ireland 1886-1887, As Viewed by George Moore and Contemporary French Publicists - Adrian Frazier: George Moore, Maud Gonne and the Dreyfus Affair - Rachel Flynn: George Moore's Early Voice of «Liberal Catholic Dissent»: Parnell and His Island and Confessions of a Young Man - Elizabeth Grubgeld: «The Little Red-Haired Boy, George Moore»: Moore, Benmussa, Garcia and the Masculine Voices of Albert Nobbs - Interview with Elizabeth Bourgine, conducted by Michel Brunet.