Emotions in Non-Fictional Representations of the Individual, 1600-1850

Part 1 : Encounters and Crossings.- 1. Frédéric Charbonneau (McGill) : Nou Nou: a Chinese inheritance quarrel at the Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. 1713-1743.- 2. Shirley F. Tung: East Meets West in Elysium: Liminal Landscapes and Loss in Montagu's Letters from Turkey and Italy.- 3. Daniel Williford, UCLA: "Buddhism and Emotions: Asian Enlightenment and the Anxieties of European Identity" Daniel Williford.- 4. Angelina Del Balzo, UCLA: Shakespeare's Art of the Dervish: Elizabeth Montagu, Voltaire, and National Sentiment.- Part 2: Emotions: high and low, private and public, male and female.- 5. Yinghui Wu, UCLA: How to Manipulate Emotions in The Classic of Whoring.- 6. Tina Lu,  Yale University: Competing versions of 17th-century Interiority.- Part 3: From noble to popular sentiments.- 7.  Marie-Paule De Weerdt-Pilorge, Universitéde Tours, Emotions in the face of silencein the Memoir of 1805, by Lady Hyegy ng. The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea.- 8.  Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil, UCLA, "Hemlock and Hair Shirts: Valentin Jamerey-Duval's Affective Habitus.- 9.  Jean-Jacques Tatier-Gourin, Université de Tours : Staging Revolutionary Choices and Expressing Personal Sentiments in the Memoirs by Louvet (1795).

Malina Stefanovska is Professor of French Literature in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA, USA, specializing in 16-18th-century French literature and culture, in particular memoirs, autobiographies and other "ego texts."  





Yinghui Wu is assistant professor of Chinese literature at UCLA, USA, specializing in 16-18th-century Chinese literature and culture, in particular drama, print culture, and the interaction of text, sound, and visual media. 

 

Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge is Professor of French Literature at the Université de Tours, France, specializing in 18th century literature, in particular the genre of memoirs and autobiographies.