Celestial Landscapes: the Supranational Imagination in Luxembourg’s Pre-World War I Press

in National Identities (2014), 16(3), 197-208

This study examines the metaphorical means through which political independence was translated into national identity in Luxembourgish literature between 1900 and 1940. It shows how industrialisation ... [more ▼]

This study examines the metaphorical means through which political independence was translated into national identity in Luxembourgish literature between 1900 and 1940. It shows how industrialisation provided an aesthetic canvas for literary modernism and how the writer and journalist Batty Weber and his contemporaries sought to modernise a dominant ideological attachment to the soil by instituting the sky as the embodiment of ideational change. While, for them, the smoky industrial skies symbolised democratic interactions between societies, celestial landscapes also met other ideological purposes in the contemporary Luxembourgish literary imagination, serving as a useful metaphor for spatial and intellectual development. [less ▲]

Schooling the gaze: Industry and nation-building in Luxembourgish landscape-writing, 1900 1940

in Journal of European Studies (2014), 44(2), 151-169

This paper investigates the role of industry in the invention of a national landscape in Luxembourg between 1900 and 1940. Luxembourg is a significant case study when it comes to the construction of ... [more ▼]

This paper investigates the role of industry in the invention of a national landscape in Luxembourg between 1900 and 1940. Luxembourg is a significant case study when it comes to the construction of national identity, because it gained its independence (1890) not through revolution but was attributed the status of nationhood by the decision of the major European political powers. The period under investigation is also characterised by immense industrial expansion: in the course of a few decades, Luxembourg moved from a rural subordinate state to a major economic power. Focusing on landscape-writings addressed to a native audience, this paper examines the nexus of the economy, the arts and politics, arguing that writers integrated representations of industrial processes into the discourse of national identity in order to assert Luxembourg’s competence and ‘right to life’. [less ▲]

The Victorian Diary: Authorship and Emotional Labour

Book published by Ashgate (2013)

In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of ... [more ▼]

In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication of their diaries was a real possibility that they either coveted or feared. Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres to show that well-known writers and public figures of both sexes exploited the diary's self-reflexive, diurnal structure in order to enhance their creativity and establish themselves as authors. Their object was to manage, rather than to indulge or repress, their emotions for the purposes of perfecting their observational and critical skills. Reading these diaries as literary works in their own right, Millim analyses their crucial role in the construction of authorship. By relating these Victorian writers' diaries to their publications and to contemporary works of cultural criticism, Millim shows the multifarious ways in which diaristic practices, emotional management and professional output corresponded to experiences of the literary marketplace and to nineteenth-century codes of propriety. [less ▲]

Frantz Clément als Kulturvermittler

in Lesch, Paul (Ed.) Le siècle du Tageblatt (2013)

Rezension: Le diable aux champs : simple histoire / Nicolas Ries ; présenté et commenté par Jacques Steffen

in Hemecht : Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte = Revue d'Histoire Luxembourgeoise (2013), 65(4), 483-485

Book review of Georges Hausemer (Hrsg.): Was Sie schon immer alles über Luxemburg wissen wollten, aber bisher nie zu fragen wagten (und über Island schon gar nicht)

in Forum für Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur in Luxemburg (2012), 322

“The Light of Industry : Modernist Aesthetics in Luxembourgish Literature, 1900-1940”

in Art&fact (2011), 30

The Apothecary’s Chest: Magic Art and Medication

Book published by Cambridge Scholars Press (2009)