: For 2024-2025, HLAC29A and HLAC29B will consist in one course divided into two complementary parts. It will introduce students to different methodological approaches to the circulation of texts and books, focusing primarily on the transatlantic passage from the United States to France, sometimes via Britain. What do these circulations tell us about the construction of an Atlantic literary/intellectual space? Who were the mediators in the transatlantic communications circuit(s)? What were the cultural, economic, political or ideological obstacles to these circulations? Did copyright facilitate or hinder these circulations? How can we trace the story of these moving texts in the very materiality of books? To address these questions and more, students will build on scholarship combining cultural history, translation studies, and cultural sociology.
NOTE: Students are required to actively participate in discussions of theoretical essays and case studies.
In HLACU29A we will concentrate on theoretical and methodological discussions.
