Efacis Call for Papers – George Moore: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks on the Page and Canvas
NINTH INTERNATIONAL GEORGE MOORE CONFERENCE
June 14-16, 2018
- PLENARY SPEAKER-
Dr Brendan Fleming
Lecturer in English Literature; Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Brendan Fleming read for his BA and MA at University College, Dublin. He then completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford on the early work of the Irish writer, George Moore. He is currently co-editor with Dr Claudia Baldoli of the forthcoming A British Fascist in the Second World War: The Italian War Diary of James Strachey Barnes, 1943-45 to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Fleming’s paper explores the relationship between memory and cosmopolitanism in the writings of George Moore through a discussion of his Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters (1906) and Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906). It argues that Moore’s cosmopolitanism and modernity are inextricably linked to his formal experimentation in the rendering of memory. Reminiscences and memoirs are read as textual performances which in blurring private and public modes and spaces constitute an important dimension of Moore’s modernism. The public spaces of the lecture hall and art collection are juxtaposed to the apparently more private one of the Ebury Street sitting room. The extent to which the collection of art which triggers Moore’s lecture and reminiscences in Memoirs of My Dead Life will be explored.
George Moore: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks on the Page and Canvas
At Moore Institute, NUI Galway
