Description du projet
Un nouveau cadre pour analyser et diffuser les pièces de Burney
Le travail de l’auteure anglaise Frances Burney (1757-1840) est vaste. Cependant, une partie de ses œuvres dramatiques liées à la période qu’elle a passé à la Cour de George III reste vierge, empêchant son appréciation et sa critique littéraire. Ce quatuor de tragédies peu étudié suscite notre pensée critique en termes de pratiques et de politiques actuelles telles que les relations de genre, la nation et les actes corporels extrêmes. Les corps parlants de Burney, les femmes en particulier, révèlent et démystifient la relation tendue de l’individu avec les appareils de pouvoir et les techniques disciplinaires. Le projet OpeRaNew, financé par l’UE, restaurera la profondeur culturelle du corpus dramatique de Burney. Il utilisera des méthodes numériques et une analyse littéraire pour établir un cadre multimédia en expansion pour analyser et diffuser les pièces de Burney.
Objectif
The substantial bibliography devoted to the work of Frances Burney (1757-1840) has confirmed her stature as an author, but it has left the dramatic works that she wrote during her years at the Court of George III almost untouched. The long-delayed publication of these plays has prevented critics from addressing them. For the few scholars who have dealt with them, these texts remain devoid of dramatic qualities. I posit that this quartet of tragedies prompts our critical thinking in terms of such present-day practices and policies as gender relations, body politics, agency: the plays raise many provocative questions, and our current complex juncture seems an especially apt moment to grant them a long-overdue audience as well as a stage. Burney’s speaking bodies—particularly the female ones—unmask and debunk the fraught relationship of the individual with social and state apparatuses, social forces and techniques of disciplining, whose coercions become dangerously naturalised. OpeRaNew aims to restore to Burney’s small dramatic corpus the cultural depth that has been lost over time. By using digital methods alongside literary analysis, the project constructs an expanding multimedia ecology for Burney’s plays—a capacious mediascape that aspires to reproduce, through contemporary tools and channels of communication, the Romantic theatre experience. The action’s core agenda—whose dynamic conversations are evoked by the verb ‘to open’ in the project title—advocates the engagement with an interested public beyond scholarly communities. The project not only sheds light on the overlooked dramatic works of a highly versatile Romantic woman author, but it shows the perspicacity and research potential of positioning—precisely at a time of enormous paradigmatic shifts in research communication and dissemination—some long-neglected playtexts, relegated to critical obscurity for over two centuries, within an expansive mediascape capable of placing them, finally, in the limelight.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
Royaume-Uni