Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide (PDF)

Anne Besnault-Levita is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rouen where she teaches English literature; she is also the Vice-president of the French Virginia Woolf. In 1997, she defended her Phd Dissertation on The Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, at the University of Paris III- Sorbonne Nouvelle and obtained first class honours. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: La voix du Moment (Paris: Messène, 1997), and co-editor of Construire le sujet. Textes réunis et édités par Anne Besnault-Levita, Natalie Depraz et Rolf Wintermeyer (Limoges: Lambert Lucas, 2014) and of The Journal of the Short Story in English 64 (Spring 2015), Part One: The Modernist Short Story. She is currently working on a book on Virginia Woolf's conception of literary history.

Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is Associate Professor at the University of Rouen. She defended a PhD on Hellenism and Greece in Walter Pater's works at Paris -7-Denis Diderot (received with highest honours) and has published articles on Pater, Wilde and Victorian "classical / Aesthetic" painting. She has co-edited Écrire l'art / Writing Art: Formes et enjeux du discours sur les arts visuels en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis (Paris: Mare et Martin, 2015) She is currently writing a monograph on the figurations of Greece and the body in British paintings of Antiquity (1860-1900) and their reception in art criticism and periodicals.