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Flaubert's (Real) Utopias

11 October 2023, 3:00 pm鈥5:00 pm

Marine, Arcachon, temps d鈥檕rage by Manet via Wikimedia

The 香港六合彩中特网 Centre for French and Francophone Research is pleased to welcome Dr Robert St Clair, Dartmouth College.

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Institute of Advanced Studies

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IAS Common Ground
G11, ground floor, South Wing
香港六合彩中特网, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

While it might not strike us the most self-evident of propositions鈥攆or such is the author鈥檚 endurant reputation in critical circles as an impassively above-the-fray aesthete鈥攖his talk proposes to locate in one of Gustave Flaubert鈥檚 final publications the contours of an aesthetic politics at provocative odds with the author鈥檚 reactionary reputation. Following a figural constellation that links the opening moments of Un coeur simple to the equally infamous, narratively open-ended scene upon which this same tale closes, what emerges are the outlines of a profoundly egalitarian, indeed utopian, literary politics, if not a kind of ethical imagination constitutive of the literary for Flaubert鈥攐ne which forms the readerly heart of Un c艙ur simple.听

An event organised by the聽Centre for French and Francophone Research

Image credit:聽Marine, Arcachon, temps d鈥檕rage by聽脡douard Manet, Public domain, via

About the Speaker

Robert St.Clair

Associate Professor of French at French and Italian at Dartmouth College

He is the author of works on the politics and theories of 19th-century French literature聽which聽have appeared in venues such as Romanic Review,听French Forum,听Esprit cr茅ateur,聽Nineteenth-Century French studies, the聽Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature聽and a forthcoming volume titled聽Baudelaire and Philosophy. In addition to having co-edited a special of Nineteenth-Century French Studies marking the 150thanniversary of the Paris Commune, he is the co-editor of聽Parade sauvage聽(the international journal of Rimbaud Studies) as well as the author Lyrical Material: Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud. His next book, Constellations of Loss: Counter-modernities in C19 French Literature, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press next year, and constitutes an interrogation of the knots binding the complexities and opacities of textual form to a counter-historical view on the nineteenth century as seen from the 鈥渓oser鈥檚 point of view鈥 (or, le point de vue des vaincus). His聽talk聽today鈥攐n Flaubert, reading, and the utopias of realism鈥攆orms the coda to this forthcoming work and is titled:聽Real(ist) Utopias: Three Hypotheses about Dreaming, Dying, and Insignificance in聽Un coeur simple鈥澛