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George Moore George Moore Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds Edited by Mary Pierse CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PRESS George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds, edited by Mary Pierse This book first published 2006 by Cambridge Scholars Press 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle, NE5 2JA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2006 by Mary Pierse and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN 1-84718-029-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments.............................................................................................ix Introduction.......................................................................................................xi Part I Portraits of the Artists.......................................................................................1 Chapter One “I No Longer Underrate Him”: The Question of Moore’s Value Adrian Frazier......................................................................................................2 Chapter Two More Than Dramas of Sterility: Portraits of the Artist in Moore’s Fiction Fabienne Gaspari...............................................................................................12 Chapter Three Hysteria, Melancholia, and the Artist Manqué in Vain Fortune Ann Heilmann....................................................................................................24 Part II Wider Horizons................................................................................................39 Chapter Four George Moore’s The Untilled Field: The Irish Short Story at a Crossroads Fabienne Garcier................................................................................................40 Chapter Five Georges Moore in the Shadow of Voltaire: Two Briseurs De Fers Síofra Pierse.......................................................................................................49 Chapter Six The Reception of George Moore in Spain: Silence, Censorship and Distortion Alberto Lázaro...................................................................................................64 vi Table of Contents Chapter Seven “The Labyrinth of Selection” in Confessions of a Young Man Munira H. Mutran..............................................................................................75 Part III Smooth Passages...............................................................................................85 Chapter Eight Lost in translation? George Moore’s The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe and rewriting Longus Konstantin Doulamis..........................................................................................86 Chapter Nine His Father’s Son: The Political Inheritance Mary Pierse......................................................................................................102 Chapter Ten The Brook Kerith and the Search for the Historical Jesus Peter Christensen.............................................................................................115 Part IV Close Encounters............................................................................................129 Chapter Eleven An t-Úr-Ghort and The Untilled Field Pádraigín Riggs................................................................................................130 Chapter Twelve “Mildred Lawson”: A Reinterpretation Based on the Forgotten Serial Version of 1888 Brendan Fleming..............................................................................................142 Chapter Thirteen Charting an Aesthetic Journey: The Case of Esther Waters Christine Huguet..............................................................................................160 Chapter Fourteen Face to Face, One on One: George Moore in the Contact Zone Lucy McDiarmid..............................................................................................173 George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds vii Part V The Gender Question Marks.........................................................................183 Chapter Fifteen George Moore: The Committed Feminist Mª Elena Jaime De Pablos...............................................................................184 Chapter Sixteen “A Nice Little Covey of Love-Birds”: Animal Imagery and Female Representation in A Drama in Muslin Catherine Smith...............................................................................................197 Chapter Seventeen Singular Celibates: Narrative Seduction in Moore and Joyce Michael O’Sullivan..........................................................................................206 Chapter Eighteen Celibacy and its Artistic Discontents Mark Llewellyn................................................................................................220 Editor & Contributors...................................................................................232 Index................................................................................................................235 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Sparked and encouraged by the recent important contributions of Adrian Frazier and Elizabeth Grubgeld to Moore scholarship, a quartet of George Moore scholars from three countries set out in 2004 to facilitate the exchange of new research findings, views, opinions and theories on the large and varied Moore œuvre. The development from drawing-board stage to a trilingual international conference in 2005, and then to publication of a volume of essays, is entirely due to the dedication of many colleagues and to the very generous assistance received along the way. The conference, “George Moore: Literature and the Arts”, was strongly supported by the Department of English, the Faculty of Arts and Ionad na Gaeilge Labhartha in UCC, by Foras na Gaeilge and Fáilte Ireland. It also received invaluable aid from commercial sponsors (both in Cork and nationally), and from private citizens who valued the academic aim and endeavour. Their patronage of the literary arts was, and is, deeply appreciated. The involvement of many academics, departments and offices in UCC added immeasurably to the occasion. I offer particular and most sincere thanks to Professor Éamonn Ó Carragáin (Head of Department) and to the staff and graduate students of the Department of English, UCC, who gave unstintingly of their time and expertise for the three-day event, and their support has continued for this publication. With the kind cooperation of Dr Eamonn Cantwell, and of all in the Boole Library, the Moore deliberations were expanded to include the Annual Yeats Lecture by Bernard O’Donoghue; the occasion also embraced the Irish launch of Seán Ó Faoláin’s Letters to Brazil; in a Celtic twilight, a tour of the Honan Chapel focused on the art of the Irish Revival. Those linkages enriched the programme for speakers and audiences and, further inspired by the wide-ranging exchanges and debates, it was decided to publish a selection of essays that would contribute to development of the ever-growing volume of Moore studies in three continents. My fellow committee members, Dr Fabienne Garcier (Université de Lille III), Dr Mª Elena Jaime de Pablos (Universita de Almería) and Dr Clíona Ó Gallchóir (UCC), have been hard-working and wise colleagues whose input has been indispensable and highly valued.
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