Papers by Birgit Van Puymbroeck
Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings' by Jason Camlot; 'Modernist Soundscapes: Auditory Technology and the Novel' by Angela Frattarola
ARSC Journal, 2020
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2018
What we'd like to know is how you began studying periodicals and became a member of RSVP. Barbara... more What we'd like to know is how you began studying periodicals and became a member of RSVP. Barbara Onslow: I was up at Oxford in the second half of the 1950s. At that time, we did not go beyond the 1830s if we read English. We studied Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, and some people did Old Icelandic. But it was thought that everything published after 1830 we would have read for pleasure anyway. We did have informal lectures about the nineteenth century and studied some eighteenth-century periodical writing. But my interest in the periodical genre was partially sparked by my desire to write. The university had a couple of people to advise undergraduates on careers. They had a lady (I think she was called Miss Fone) who advised the women. So when I went to see her, I told her that I wanted to be a journalist. I thought I was shy and that this would help me engage with people; others later told me that I was never shy, but that's what I thought at the time. Miss Fone was quite helpful. I started to write for Kemsley's (later Thomson's) Manchester Evening Chronicle, the rival to the Manchester Evening News. I enjoyed that very much, but after three and a half years I became engaged to a journalist who wrote for a morning paper, Kemsley's Sporting Life. Having seen very few women journalists (there were only three other women working on my paper), I started to worry that it might not be a good basis for marriage for my husband and I to work totally different hours. So I wondered what else I could do. I thought part-time teaching might suit me and later, when teaching, thought I could do a bit of research as well, so I went to see Professor Arthur Pollard at Manchester University, telling him, "I want to work on Mrs. Gaskell." He was at that time preparing an edition of Gaskell's letters with John Chapple based on the manu
Afterlives of the Brontës: biography, fiction and literary criticism
Bronte Studies, 2014
Afterlives of the Brontes revisits the Bronte myth by uncovering new details about the Brontes’ r... more Afterlives of the Brontes revisits the Bronte myth by uncovering new details about the Brontes’ representations in biographies, art and criticism: how are the Brontes represented at different times, in different contexts and different media? It furthermore inquires into various perspectives on authorship: what do the Brontes’ afterlives tell us about the figure of the author, traditionally portrayed as a single entity or literary genius? Finally, it reflects on the theory and practice of afterlife study: how does one negotiate the tension between fact and fiction, author and text?
The Roots of RSVP and VPR: A Talk with Louis James
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2017
Image and narrative, 2016
Literature Now aims to take stock of literary studies today through a discussion of nineteen key ... more Literature Now aims to take stock of literary studies today through a discussion of nineteen key terms used in literary scholarship. It discusses their past and present meanings, their uses in a variety of domains including media history, narratology, genre studies, animal studies, and eco-criticism, and their potential future impact. For the editors, our current moment (the 'now' in the title) is full of history as literary scholars focus on a variety of contextual approaches, trace networks, and uncover layers of 'deep' time. "Today", they note, "we are all literary historians" (1). A critical review of key terms is essential and timely, according to Bru, De Bruyn & Delville, since these continue to be the building blocks of our critical practice, "a verbal laboratory" rather than a mere lexicon (3). The question that this volume addresses is not, as some may think, how presentday literature operates, a question that is addressed by Amy Hungerford in her forthcoming book Making Literature Now (Stanford University Press, 2016), but rather how we think of, and above all, practice literary studies. One answer to this question is through literary history. Rather than providing a clear-cut definition of what literary history entails, the editors allow the essays in this collection to speak for themselves. Some favour a chronological approach (e.g. David Ayers' discussion of 'politics'), while others use a more thematic approach (e.g. David Glover's treatment of 'popular'). In many
Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2017
This article is situated at the crossroads of First World War and periodical studies. It sheds li... more This article is situated at the crossroads of First World War and periodical studies. It sheds light on the phenomenon of 'war godmothers' ['marraines'], women who supported soldiers at the front by sending them parcels and letters. The so-called godmothers made use of the mainstream press to advertise their services, and founded periodicals of their own. In this article, we examine the representation of war godmothers in the periodical press and uncover La Revue des marraines, a handwritten journal created by the M lles Picard in Paris. The analysis addresses the little-known phenomenon of the war godmothers, the relation between godmother and godson, and changing gender roles. It further explores the importance of handwritten journals during the war, when paper and other means were scarce.
Periodical studies, intermediality, and cinema : film in The Listener
Mapping Movie Magazines, 2020
The chapter discusses film in The Listener. It argues for an intermedial approach to periodical s... more The chapter discusses film in The Listener. It argues for an intermedial approach to periodical studies and demonstrates the links between the BBC and the British Film Institute; The Listener and Sight and Sound.
'Magie der verbeelding!' : Louis MacNeice' The Dark Tower en Edward Sackville-Wests The Rescue op de Vlaamse radio
Luisterrijk der letteren: hoorspel en literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen, 2019
Deze bijdrage onderzoekt hoe Britse hoorspelen op de Vlaamse radio kwamen. Het belicht de relatie... more Deze bijdrage onderzoekt hoe Britse hoorspelen op de Vlaamse radio kwamen. Het belicht de relatie tussen het Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift en het NIR en analyseert de Nederlandse vertaling en opvoering van twee Britse hoorspelen: Louis MacNeice' The Dark Tower en Edward Sackville-Wests The Rescue.
Compton Mackenzie’s and Hugh MacDiarmid’s early broadcasting critique : Vox, modernism and the BBC
Modernist Cultures, 2019
This article recovers Compton Mackenzie's little-known radio journal Vox, The Radio Critic and Br... more This article recovers Compton Mackenzie's little-known radio journal Vox, The Radio Critic and Broadcasting Review for critical consideration, and shows that, through Vox and through their own radio broadcasts, Mackenzie and Hugh MacDiarmid (who acted as managing editor of Vox) advocated regional variety and independence. It builds on recent approaches to regional modernism, demonstrating how Vox resisted a national framework, and reads Mackenzie's critical journal in dialogue with MacDiarmid's modernism.
Literatuur En Muziek = Literature and Music, 2018
Apollinaire's trench journalism and the affective public sphere
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 2018
This essay aims to establish a link between the recent material and affective turns in literary s... more This essay aims to establish a link between the recent material and affective turns in literary scholarship by asking how visceral experiences of the First World War are embodied in the content and material form of trench publications. It argues that Guillaume Apollinaire, who contributed to the general, avant-garde, and soldiers’ press, helped create an affective public sphere by documenting everyday ways of living at the front in both his poetry and trench journalism.
Becoming a Land Girl: Reprinting Alice Meynell's "The Shepherdess" in the Landswoman
Victorian Periodicals Review , 2017
This article uncovers an unexpected periodical context for Alice Meynell’s 1895 poem “The Shepher... more This article uncovers an unexpected periodical context for Alice Meynell’s 1895 poem “The Shepherdess”, which was reprinted in The Landswoman: The Journal of the Women’s Land Army and Women’s Institutes on November 1, 1918. It argues that The Landswoman capitalized not only on the poem’s rural theme but also on its author’s cultural identity as Angel in the House, thus shedding new light on the image of femininity in the Land Army during the First World War.
Oog versus oor: Lance Sievekings vroege hoorspelen
nY, 2016
Let us save China : Gertrude Stein and politics
PMLA, 2017
Triangular politics: Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and Elisabeth de Gramont
Gertrude Stein in Europe : Reconfigurations Across Media, Disciplines and Traditions., 2015
Cross-Channel Mediations: Henry-D. Davray and British popular fiction in the Mercure de France
Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880 - 1930, 2015
This chapter discusses the emergence, diversification and reception of British mass-market litera... more This chapter discusses the emergence, diversification and reception of British mass-market literature in the early decades of the twentieth century by examining Henry D.-Davray's lettres anglaises in the influential French monthly Mercure de France. Davray was an expert on British literature. He regularly contributed to the Mercure de France, translated the works of H.G. Wells, Frank Harris, Edmund Gosse, and Oscar Wilde into French and edited the short-lived bilingual periodical The Anglo-French Review. His reports on British fiction are a little-known set of evidence for the changes in early twentieth-century British literature.
Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies, 2014
This article is situated at the crossroads of First World War and periodical studies. It sheds li... more This article is situated at the crossroads of First World War and periodical studies. It sheds light on the phenomenon of the War-godmothers (marraines), women who supported soldiers at the front by sending them parcels and letters. The so-called godmothers made use of the mainstream press to advertise their services, and founded periodicals of their own. In this article, we examine the representation of war godmothers in the periodical press and uncover La revue des marraines, a handwritten journal created by the M lles Picard in Paris. The analysis sheds light on the little-known phenomenon of the war godmothers, on the relation between godmother and godson, and on changing gender roles. It further questions the importance of handwritten journals during the War, when paper and other means were scarce.
English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 2012
With its traditional layout and contents, the Anglo-French Review was far from an avant-garde per... more With its traditional layout and contents, the Anglo-French Review was far from an avant-garde periodical. However, its clear mission to consolidate the union between England and France immediately after the First World War put the review at the forefront of international cultural and political debate. This article argues that the bilingual monthly filled a gap in the periodical literature immediately after the First World War. Positioning itself between the broad-ranging informative character of the Mercure de France and the internationalism of 'little' magazines, the Anglo-French Review combined literature and politics, English- and French-language articles and poems to stimulate cross-national cooperation and debate.
Whose Brontë is it Anyway?
Brontë Studies, 2014
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