Isabelle Brasme
- Etudes montpelliéraines du monde anglophone (EMMA)
- Centre Interlangues : texte, image, langage [Dijon] (TIL)
Présentation
Isabelle Brasme is Professor of British Literature at the University of Burgundy, member of the TIL Research Centre at the University of Burgundy, and associate member of the EMMA research team at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. From Sept. 2009 to Sept. 2024, she was Senior Lecturer in British Literature at the University of Nîmes, and a member of the EMMA research team at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. She defended her Accreditation to supervise research (HDR) in September 2023 at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3. The topic was: 'Reconsidering mimesis as a literary mode of being to the world: questioning the modernist canon, addressing representations of the war and sketching an ethics of literature’. She is Review Editor for the Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens and a member of the scientific committee for Études britanniques contemporaines. Her research focuses on literary testimonies of the First World War and on 'marginal' modernisms, with the aim of challenging modernist periodisation and canonisation. She has been particularly interested in the works of Ford Madox Ford and May Sinclair, and more recently of Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden. She has published various essays on these topics and figures, as well as a number of volumes, among which the monograph Parade’s End de Ford Madox Ford: vers une esthétique de la crise (PULM, 2016), a collaborative volume entitled: Homo Duplex: Ford Madox Ford’s Experience and Aesthetics of Alterity (PULM, 2020), and a collaborative volume in French of translations and essays on writers and war, entitled Les Artistes et la Guerre (Houdiard, 2017). She has co-edited with Jean-Michel Ganteau and Christine Reynier the collaborative volume The Humble in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature and Arts (PULM, 2017). Her most recent monograph, Writers at War (Routledge, 2023), addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics. She has recently coedited a volume of essays on May Sinclair (PULM, 2024) with Leslie de Bont and Florence Marie, and a volume on the ecopoetics of war (Routledge, 2025) with Sylvain Belluc and Guillaume Tanguy.
Domaines de recherche
Publications
Publications
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IntroductionMay Sinclair in Her Time. Reappraising May Sinclair’s Role in Early-Twentieth-Century Literature and Philosophy, Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, pp.9-27, 2024, Collection Present Perfect, 978-2-36781-509-1. ⟨10.4000/12qdw⟩ |
IntroductionThe Ecopoetics of War, Routledge, pp.1-21, 2024, ⟨10.4324/9781003451952⟩ |
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Introduction to Homo Duplex: Ford Madox Ford's Experience and Aesthetics of AlterityPresent Perfect. Homo Duplex: Ford Madox Ford's Experience and Aesthetics of Alterity, Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2020, Present Perfect - Horizons anglophones, 978-2-36781-343-1 |
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Ford, Modernism and PostmodernismLaura Colombino; Sara Haslam; Seamus O'Malley. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford, Routledge, pp.161-178, 2019, 9781472427380. ⟨10.4324/9781315612980-10⟩ |
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Musicality in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s EndKatherine O'Callaghan. Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature, Routledge, pp.62-78, 2018, 9781138285651. ⟨10.4324/9781315231716-5⟩ |
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Introduction : Les Artistes et la guerreIsabelle Brasme. Les Artistes et la guerre, Michel Houdiard, pp.7-10, 2017, 9782356921604 |
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Ford Madox Ford et le traumatisme de la Grande Guerre : vers une réappropriation de l'écritureIsabelle Brasme. Les Artistes et la guerre, Michel Houdiard, pp.60-70, 2017, 9782356921604 |
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From Disfigured to Transfigured Past: Memory and History in The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, BRILL, pp.79-90, 2015, International Ford Madox Ford Studies, 978-90-04-29916-0. ⟨10.1163/9789004299177_006⟩ |
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Parade’s EndAshley Chantler; Rob Hawkes. An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford, Routledge, pp.135-148, 2015, 9781472469083. ⟨10.4324/9781315566856-11⟩ |
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Towards an Ethics of Alterity: The Shattered Mirror of Identity in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s EndJean-Michel Ganteau; Christine Reynier. Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-century British Literature, Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, pp.97-106, 2013, 978-2-36781-020-1 |
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A caricature of his own voice': Ford and self-editing in Parade's EndJason Harding. Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing, International Ford Madox Ford Studies (9), BRILL, pp.243-252, 2010, 978-90-420-3055-8. ⟨10.1163/9789042030565_019⟩ |
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Between Impressionism and Modernism: Some Do Not . . ., a Poetics of the Entre-DeuxAndrzej Gasiorek; Daniel Moore. Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations, BRILL, pp.189-199, 2008, 978-90-420-2437-3. ⟨10.1163/9789401206136_012⟩ |
La phénoménologie synesthésique de la guerre dans quelques textes en prose écrits depuis le FrontL’expérience synesthésique de la Première Guerre mondiale dans la littérature britannique, Université Bourgogne Europe, Jun 2025, Dijon, France |
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Book Presentation: May Sinclair in Her TimeLiterature and Forms of Knowledge Across the Long 19th Century, Christine Reynier; Ian Duncan; Nathalie Vanfasse; EMMA, Université Montpellier 3, Nov 2024, Montpellier, France |
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Myth and Mimesis in Literary Testimonies of the First World War: Letting Go of the ‘Realist’ vs ‘Modernist’ DivideLiterature and Forms of Knowledge Across the Long Nineteenth Century, Ian Duncan; Christine Reynier, Apr 2024, Berkeley (University of California), United States |
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Gender Parity in our Syllabi: the Case of RomanticismLiterature and Forms of Knowledge Across the Long Nineteenth Century, Ian Duncan; Christine Reynier, Apr 2024, Berkeley CA, USA, United States |
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Invisible Lives, Silent Voices: The Case of Literary Testimonies of the First World WarInvisible Lives, Silent Voices - Modernist Studies in Invisibility, Alice Borrego; Héloïse Lecomte; Gero Guttzeit; Esther Peeren, Mar 2024, Online, France |
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‘Traumatic Realism’ and the Synaesthetic Phenomenology of War: Mary Borden’s The Forbidden ZoneMaterial Realisms in Contemporary British Literature, Université Monptellier 3; Catherine Bernard; Jean-Michel Ganteau, Nov 2024, Montpellier, France |
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Transmitting the War Experience: Pronouns as a Vector for Aesthetic Change in Ford Madox Ford’s War ProseCongrès de la SAES : Transmissions, Université Rennes 2, Jun 2023, Rennes, France |
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‘It Is All Just Matter’: Vital Materiality in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s EndFord Madox Ford: At the Dawn of an Era, School of Arts and Humanities - University of Lisbon, Nov 2023, Lisbonne université, Portugal |
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May Sinclair’s Carnivalesque Non-Narrative of WarForms of Knowledge and Experience in the Long 19th Century, Ian Duncan; Christine Reynier; Nathalie Vanfasse; Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Oct 2022, Montpellier, France |
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Introductory Address, War and Nature ConferenceWar and Nature: Traces, Interactions and Reconfigurations in 19th- to 21st-century Literature in English, Sylvain Belluc; Isabelle Brasme; Guillaume Tanguy; Université Montpellier 3 Paul Valéry, Oct 2021, Montpellier, France |
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Liminal Geographies of Care: Nurses in the First World WarPlaces of Care: Literature and the Medical Humanities, ESSE 2021, Élise Brault-Dreux and Eszter Ureczky, Aug 2021, Lyon, France |
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Narration and the Refiguration of Time in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good SoldierTelling the Time: Modernism and Time, Modernist Studies Ireland, Jun 2021, Galway (National University of Ireland - Galway), Ireland |
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May Sinclair, Modernist CriticNetworking May Sinclair, Leslie de Bont; Isabelle Brasme; Florence Marie, Jun 2021, Nantes (Nantes Université), France |
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A Nurse in the First World War: The Exceptional Voice of Mary BordenL'Exception, Nicolas Boileau; Charlotte Estrade, Feb 2020, Nanterre (Université Paris Nanterre - UPL), France |
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The Imprint of the War in Ford Madox Ford's Critical Writings14th European Society for the study english Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, 29 Août – 2 Septembre 2018, 2018, Brno, Czech Republic |
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Musicality in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade's End: Towards Modernity4th international conference of the international association for word and music studies, Berlin, 2003, 2018, Berlin, Germany. pp.62-78 |
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Looking Back to Look Ahead: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End as a Modernist Condition of England novelConférence de la SEAC (Société d'Études Anglaises Contemporaines), Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, 24-25 octobre 2014, 2014, Paris, France |
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Parade's End de Ford Madox Ford ou le patrimoine en dérouteTransmissions Textuelles, GRES, Université de Nîmes, 29-31 Mai 2013, 2013, Nîmes, France |
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Towards an Ethics of Singularity: The Shattered Mirror of Identity in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's EndEthics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature, Université de Montpellier 3, 26-28 mai 2011, 2013, Montpellier, France. pp.97-106 |
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From Disfigured to Transfigured Past: Memory and History in The Good SoldierThe Good Soldier Centenary Conference, Geraint Evans; Swansea University, Sep 2013, Swansea, United Kingdom |
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A caricature of his own voice"Ford Madox Ford and Editing", conference, University of Durham, 12-14 September 2008, 2010, Durham, United Kingdom. pp.243-252 |
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Between Impressionism and Modernism: Some Do Not. . ., A Poetics of the Entre-Deux"Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transitions", Andrzej Gasiorek; Daniel Moore, Sep 2006, Birmingham and Midland Institute, United Kingdom |
Seminar Presentation of the book: Writers at War, Routledge, 2023.2023 |
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Presentation of Santanu Das's Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature2018 |