讲座预告｜Prof. Sandro Jung：奥利弗·哥德史密斯《威克菲尔德牧师传》的视觉批评史

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奥利弗·哥德史密斯《威克菲尔德牧师传》的视觉批评史

讲座时间：2023年5月24日 15:00-16:30

讲座地点：英语学院111会议室

演讲人：Prof. Sandro Jung（复旦大学外国语言文学学院）

主持人：黄强 博士（北京外国语大学英语学院）

讲座人信息：

Sandro Jung is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, as well as the Director of the Centre for the Study of Textual Cultures, at Fudan University. He is also Distinguished Professor at Hangzhou Normal University. A Past President of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a former Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the recipient of two European Union Marie Curie long-term fellowships, Jung has been the Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, ANQ (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) for the past 11 years. He, furthermore, serves as General Editor of the Lehigh University Press book series, Studies in Text and Print Culture. His main areas of scholarly interest are the literature, culture, and media of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, book and reception history, translation studies, and visual culture (and especially illustration) studies. He is the author, among other monographs, of David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: Poetry, Politics, and Patronage in the Age of Union (2008), The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode (2009), James Thomson’s The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842 (2015), The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760-1825 (2017), Kleine artige Kupfer: Buchillustration im 18. Jahrhundert (2018), and Eighteenth-Century Illustration, and Literary Material Culture (2023).  

讲座介绍：

Fourteen years after the first publication of Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield (1766), the novel was issued in illustrated form by Joseph Wenman in his series of the illustrated English classics. This was no coincidence, the year 1780 marking the end of the fourteen-year copyright term that had enabled Francis Newbery to establish his monopoly over the publishing of Goldsmith’s work. Wenman’s was only the first of more than 70 illustrated editions that were published before the end of the nineteenth century. Each of the publishers undertaking an illustrated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield sought to demarcate their production from those of competitors. Initially only a feature of distinction, the illustrative apparatuses of editions of the novel increasingly visualized a diverse range of subjects and cast the story and its characters in distinctly different (interpretive) terms. Illustrations conveyed paratextual guidance, constituting gateways to meaning that, through emphasis on some scenes or storylines over others, represented visual criticism helping readers to make sense of the illustrated work as a whole. This presentation seeks to recover the (visual) reading history of The Vicar of Wakefield by contextualizing how editions featuring illustrations of the novel reshaped its meaning in line with changing mentalities. While sketching the early phase of the work’s visualization, including as part of an illustrated pocket book, it will focus on editions produced during the Romantic and early Victorian periods and how the illustrators for these volumes reimagined and reinvented Goldsmith’s narrative.

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