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Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à un séminaire hors thème de Modernités 16-18 le MARDI 22 mars, de 17 h 30 à 19 h 30, où nous entendrons les deux interventions suivantes. Le séminaire se déroulera à la maison de la recherche, en salle S. 002, ainsi que par zoom :
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22/03/2022, S. 002, 17 h 30:
Lesley Carvello (University of Sussex), « Multiple Perspectives: Declamation in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. »
Examining the employment of classical rhetoric in early modern drama, this exploration of Shakespeare’s use of rhetorical techniques to develop, maintain and question multiple perspectives in Julius Caesar considers Elizabethan understanding of declamation.
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Robert Stearn (Birkbeck College), “Pricking and Droning: Early Modern Servants and the Production of Atmosphere”
This paper begins by investigating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century handbooks for servants and employers, in order to explore how emotions were understood as objects of skill in non-elite contexts. It traces a trajectory in the rhetoric of servant handbooks, c. 1550–1700: while repeating the same set of scripturally derived servant virtues, these texts increasingly emphasised the tactical aspects of servants’ work and localised the evaluation and motivation of that work in employers’ socially validated expectations. Rather than understanding servant fidelity as mere performance, however, late seventeenth-century handbooks turned the dispositions and emotions of servants into objects of skill. These prescriptive works thus attest to a twofold vernacular account of servant skill, encompassing both servants’ practical household competencies and also a prior skill which included elements of what might now be called emotional labour. The paper then uses this body of prescriptive literature to interpret seventeenth-century uses of the word ‘drone’. A derogatory term of social description, ‘drone’ had three meanings in the seventeenth century: a monotonous noise or indistinct, irrational speech; a stingless bee superfluous to the hive’s division of labour; an idle person who contributed nothing to the community but lived off others’ work. Using the twofold account of skill outlined in part one to focus on the psychological dimension that the term ‘drone’ developed over the seventeenth century, the paper suggests that the insult picked out those who failed to develop an aptitude for skilled self-government. Finally, combining this investigation of the sonic, social, and entomological meanings of ‘drone’ with evidence drawn from autobiographical writing, the paper argues that, for some employers, what seventeenth-century domestic servants produced was an atmosphere.
Short biographies
Lesley Carvello: Having previously studied at Bristol University, RADA, Cambridge University and King’s College London, Lesley Carvello is currently a doctoral researcher at Sussex University working on a PhD in Rhetoric and Shakespeare under the supervision of Professor Andrew Hadfield.
Robert Stearn recently completed his PhD in English at Birkbeck, University of London. His thesis, ‘Managing Skill, 1680–1730: Domestic Service and the Forms of Practical Knowledge’, argued that the institution of domestic service offered diversely situated writers ways to think about skill as a component of antagonistic everyday social relations. He is currently revising his thesis for publication and writing an article about the diaries of Sarah Cowper (1644–1720), which explores metaphors of abrasion as a way of describing what it was that early modern servants produced.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Line Cottegnies (11 mars 2022). SEM hors thème, 22/03/2022, L. Carvello, “Declamation in ‘Julius Caesar'” and R. Stearn, “Early Modern Servants and the Production of Atmosphere”, MR, Sorbonne, S.002 et Zoom.. Modernités 16-18 (VALE UR 4085) - Sorbonne Université . Consulté le 5 décembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/nzdm