Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, 93 Printemps | 2021
The material culture of European Empires is at the heart of this volume of the French Victorian and Edwardian Journal (Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens) which develops the idea according to which the propagation of the imperial project was performed through an omnipresent materiality within 19th and 20th-century European societies. These ‘Victorian and Edwardian things’, to pick up Asa Briggs’s famous expression, are tekmeria, that is to say traces, which have left their imprint on British and French imperial societies in particular. They enable to shed a light on the way the imperial question had an impact on the daily life of those populations and to witness how much material and visual cultures were present then. The notion of imperial propaganda is part and parcel of this volume, the objective of which is to show how, under the guise of proximity and familiarity with ordinary ‘innocent’ objects, the ideology of the domination of other people has permeated the mind of a whole population. Yet, it should be noted that the answer to the question of Empires was complex, certainly not a uniform one, and probably sometimes contradictory. According to each individual situation, the understanding of and reaction to the Empire was multifaceted. One can infer from this a multi-vision approach to the European representations of Empire in European societies at the turn of the century and beyond, full of tensions and sometimes unpredictable. The articles in this volume wish to examine these aspects of an omnipresent material culture within imperial cultures, so as to grasp the mental universe of Victorians and their French neighbours, more thoroughly than any text or discourse on Empire would.
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Introduction [Full text]‘Showcasing Empire, Then and Now: Material Culture, Propaganda and the Imperial Project’
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Cultures of Display: The Mirror of Imperialism [Full text]Cultures de l’exposition : le miroir de l’impérialisme
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Le musée égyptologique dans la fiction : les yeux de la momie, « sombre miroir » de l’Empire
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The Ambivalent Representation of the Orient in T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1935) [Full text]La représentation ambivalente de l’Orient dans les Sept piliers de la sagesse : un triomphe (1935) de T. E. Lawrence
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Showcasing Emptiness? Voicing Redemption Through ‘Saharomania’ in the French Literary Imaginary [Full text]Exposer le vide ? Exprimer la rédemption au travers de la « Saharomanie » dans l’imaginaire littéraire français
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies [Full text]L’empire des animaux à l’époque victorienne : caricatures politiques et apport des études animales
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Rituel Maçonnique et mise en scène de l’Empire dans l’Inde coloniale du xixe siècle et au-delà
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L’empire vu de l’intérieur. Coup de projecteur sur les objets, espaces et édifices cinématographiques dans l’Inde et le Ceylan de l’époque coloniale (1899-1950)
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‘Showcasing Empire’ Past & Present Or A Brief History of Popular Imperialism, from Britannia to Brexit [Full text]Promouvoir l’empire hier et aujourd’hui : la culture coloniale du Royaume-Uni, de Britannia au Brexit
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Comptes rendus
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Éd. Florence Naugrette et Yvan Leclerc. Paris : éditions de Fallois, 2020. 392 p.
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Emily Bell (ed). Dickens After Dickens [Full text]York: White Rose University Press, 2020. p. 260
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New Directions in Book History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xiii + 245 p
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