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-	'''Women Writers in History: '''<br>	+	'''Male Melancholics and Female Fighters: Camilla Collett on George Sand''' <br><br>
-	'''Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture''' <br><br>	+	The title of my talk refers to the Norwegian writer Camilla Collett's view on male versus female writers, and on French literature in particular. While male writers such as Chateaubriand and Benjamin Constant are criticized for their representations of women, George Sand is seen as the first major female writer who fought against perceived notions of femininity and masculinity. Hence Sand, in Collett's opinion “the greatest female writer of the century”, served as an intellectual inspiration for Collett's own writing and thinking. In my talk I will introduce some of [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/receptions/show/15862 Collett's comments on Sand], and discuss them in view of Collett's demand for an alternative assessment of literary history.
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-	On Monday, September 19, from 10.15 till 18.00 there will be a guest lecture and a seminar within the framework of COST action IS0901 “Women Writers in History. Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture”. The guest lecture is open to everyone; the seminar, including lunch, requires registration. <br><br>	+
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-	The aim of this COST action is to lay the groundwork for a new history of European women’s participation in the literary field of the centuries before 1900. What was these women’s influence? Which active roles did they play as authors and readers in the broadest sense of the word, i.e. including their roles as transcribers, translators, mediators and educators? What happened to them when they fell into the hands of 19th-century canonizers? How is their disappearance from literary history to be explained? <br><br>	+
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-	The action will further develop the database ''WomenWriters'' (http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/) into a broad research infrastructure, allowing researchers to stock and manipulate data concerning the contemporary reception of women’s writing, and to apply different research models to these data. <br><br>	+
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-	Particular attention will be paid to women’s participation in transnational cultural dynamics and to the overlooked role of “smaller”, less internationally known literatures within the larger European context. This interdisciplinary research will lead to a new way of looking at Europe’s literary past – male and female –, which also implies a different perspective on Europe’s present. <br><br>	+
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-	''The guest lecture''<br><br>	+
-	10.15 – 1.200, Aud. 4, Eilert Sundts hus, Blindern <br><br>	+
-	Suzan van Dijk, Huygens ING, Netherlands, Chair of the COST Action: <br>	+
-	*’Women Writers In History’: the relevance of studying literature.<br><br>	+
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-	''The seminar''<br><br>	+
-	'''Scandinavia within the European context: '''<br>	+
-	'''Women's contributions to European literary culture before World War I'''.<br><br>	+
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-	12.15 – 18.00 Rådssalen, Lucy Smiths hus, Blindern <br><br>	+
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-	Lunch will be served at 14.00. <br><br>	+
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-	''Papers:'' <br><br>	+
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-	Torill Steinfeld, University of Oslo:<br>	+
-	*Personal voices and unaffected writing: Camilla Collett, Rahel Varnhagen,Therese von Bacheracht<br><br>	+
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-	Petra Broomans, University of Groningen: <br>	+
-	*Awards and networks. A secret formula for the canonization of a cultural transmitter? On Swedish women´s literature in Dutch translation<br><br>	+
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-	Tone Selboe, University of Oslo: <br>	+
-	*Male Melancholics and Female Fighters: Camilla Collett on George Sand<br><br>	+
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-	Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, University College of Volda: <br>	+
-	*Genius and housewife: The Norwegian nineteenth-century reception of George Eliot<br><br>	+
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-	Janet Garton, Norwich: <br>	+
-	*Amalie Skram and her German translators<br><br>	+
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-	Viola Capkova, University of Turku: <br>	+
-	*Finnish Women Writers as Translators and Mediators of Writing by European Women at the Turn of the 18th and the 19th Century<br><br>	+
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-	Ragnhild J. Zorgati, University of Oslo: <br>	+
-	*From Denmark to the hammam: the international female networks of the Danish – Polish painter Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann<br><br>	+
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-	Registration by 12.09.2011 at: h.e.lovbak@stk.uio.no <br>	+
-	Responsible: Tone Brekke, STK, Anne Birgitte Rønning, ILOS, Torill Steinfeld, ILN<br>	+
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-	*Conferences and activities > COST meetings > Oslo Research Seminar > Selboe<br><br>	+	*Conferences and activities > COST meetings > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Research_seminar Oslo Research Seminar] > Selboe<br><br>

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Tone Selboe

Male Melancholics and Female Fighters: Camilla Collett on George Sand

The title of my talk refers to the Norwegian writer Camilla Collett's view on male versus female writers, and on French literature in particular. While male writers such as Chateaubriand and Benjamin Constant are criticized for their representations of women, George Sand is seen as the first major female writer who fought against perceived notions of femininity and masculinity. Hence Sand, in Collett's opinion “the greatest female writer of the century”, served as an intellectual inspiration for Collett's own writing and thinking. In my talk I will introduce some of Collett's comments on Sand, and discuss them in view of Collett's demand for an alternative assessment of literary history.

SvD, September 2011

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