George Moore

Spheres of Influence

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933). With an eye to Moore’s innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, and in the spirit of his feisty resistance to ‘orthodoxy’, it investigates his influences and inventive strategies in novel, short story and memoir. Amongst the names emerging from the disparate spheres of impressionism, literary coteries, the paratextual and the music world are those of Manet, Mallarmé, Wilde, Héloïse, Elgar and Bourdieu, all with Moorian links. Contested depictions of religion and nationalism simmer; France and French influences encompass fin-de-siècle stories and medieval texts; epistolary details evidence vital parental support; contemporary authors write back to Moore. These voyages of discovery enter the fields of feminist scholarship and the New Woman, life writing and letters, fin-de-siècle aesthetics, intersections between art, music and literature, and literary transitions from Victorian to Modern. Valuably, the authors suggest numerous opportunities for additional research in these areas, as well as within Moore studies. This collection, with contributions from an international set of established and new scholars, delivers fresh and original findings as it builds on the substantial and ever-growing corpus of Moore studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-01
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781837644438

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IntroductionI. Artistic Influences and ApproachesThe French Artist as Father, Muse and Rival in Memoirs of My Dead LifeAnn Heilmann“Superfluous” Irish Gentry: Moore and TurgenevMárta PellérdiLiterature, Music, Art and the Salon: George Moore’s Perennial Courting of CreativityMary PierseThe Prefaces of George Moore: Enigma VariationsKathi R. GriffinII. Cherchez la Femme?Sphinxes without Secrets: Oscar Wilde, George Moore and the Woman QuestionNathalie Saudo WelbyGeorge Moore, London ‘Literary Ladies’, Networks, and New Artistic ImpulsesKathryn LaingThe “Puzzle” of Gladys Parrish’s Carfrae’s Comedy and George Moore’s Evelyn Innes: Some Intertextual ConnectionsBrendan FlemingIII. France: Fiction and LettersBetween France and Ireland: How George Moore and Helen Waddell used Héloïse and AbélardGeorge HughesA French Train of Thought in ‘Two Men, a Railway Story’: From Impressionism to ExpressionismMichel BrunetEpistolary Truths: ‘How one runs to ones mother when in trouble’Maggie BreslinIV. Politics, Religion and NationalityGeorge Moore and Decadent Catholicism: a Case Study of Evelyn InnesClaire Masurel MurrayGeorge Moore’s Irish Catholic Characters With ‘English’ NamesDavid ClareAppropriating George Moore: J.O. Hannay’s The Seething PotConor Montague

‘This collection conveys the spirit of an active scholarly community. Moore’s relationship with women excites a frenzy of attention – a complex case, and interesting to clarify. Often, a contributor spots George Moore in a contemporary’s writing, or notices how a motif from Moore is countered in a work by a contemporary. Overall, a fascinating fusion of scholarship, truly international.’ Adrian Frazier, Professor Emeritus at the University of Galway and author of George Moore: 1852–1933