Thomas Constantinesco
Biographic Data
| ID | 1130252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Constantinesco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Constantinesco |
| SIGNATURE | CONSTANTINESCO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sorbonne Université |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4546-3474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eco-Bio-Formalism
This second section examines the notion of periodization from various perspectives, as a scientific, institutional, and political construct. Nicolas Martin-Breteau revisits fifty years of African American history in light of the “1619 Project.” Thomas Constantinesco and Cécile Roudeau suggest approaching the nineteenth century as a “vast archive” of “fruitful anachronisms” through the lens of environmental and medical humanities. Caroline Hildebr…
Disability, Race, and Performance in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Au début du chapitre 24 d’ Aventures de Huckleberry Finn (1884), le roi et le duc obligent Jim à se déguiser en « Arabe malade » pour échapper aux soupçons, dans une scène qui entremêle performance, race et handicap. Afin d’en élucider les enjeux, cet article s’intéresse plus largement à ce que les études sur le handicap ( disability studies ) peuvent apporter à l’analyse du roman de Mark Twain. Pour ce faire, l’article envisage le plaidoyer du r…
Pain after 2020, An Introduction
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“Feeling and Knowing”
Erica Fretwell is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her research interests and teaching areas include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature, affect theory, feminist science studies, and critical phenomenology. She is the author of Sensory Experiments: Race, Psychophysics, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke, 2020). She is currently developing a project on anaesthetics and the art of “slight living,”…
Introduction
Reading is a bodymind experience, one that confirms “the enmeshment of the mind and body” that recent disability scholarship has put to the fore (Schalk 4), yet one that also continues to testify to some of the politicized uses of the entrenched dualism between body and mind that idealist philosophy from Plato to Descartes and beyond has sought to establish. The etymology of the word “reading,” and the long history of its practice, seemingly hing…
Columbia / New York
This essay explores the political aesthetics of visual and textual representations of ruins following episodes of urban destruction during the Civil War. Although ruins were long held to be lacking in the nineteenth-century US landscape—and their absence deemed a sign of America’s newness—ruins were ubiquitous throughout the nation, in particular in its growing urban centres. These antebellum ruins spoke to America’s uncanny historicity, spelling…
Antipodean American Literary Studies
Paul Giles is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of many books discussing English, American, and Australian literature from transnational perspectives, including American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2002), The Global Remapping of Americ…
Afterword
Afterword
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I must calculate over again
This essay investigates the fraught question of the measure of pain in a selection of Melville's writings and examines how the articulation of pain is underwritten by a contest between the claims of arithmetic and the claims of literature. Closely reading scenes of thwarted measurements of pain in ‘The Encantadas’ (1854), Moby-Dick (1851), and ‘Bartleby’ (1853), it argues that, while the problem of pain for Melville may begin on the terrain of ep…
Henry James across Borders
This essay explores the opposition between the figures of the cosmopolitan and the patriot in a selection of James’s letters and travel writings. It focuses on the crossing of borders as revelatory of the mutual haunting of the “native” and the “alien.” But crossing the frontier also entails encountering the representatives of State violence. Through James’s mise en scène of his ambivalent fascination for the martial figure of the soldier, the fr…
Delphine Rumeau, Fortunes de Walt Whitman
Signe de l’immense stature de Whitman dans l’histoire de la poésie occidentale, Fortunes de Walt Whitman est un ouvrage imposant. Par sa taille, d’abord : plus de 700 pages. Par son ambition, ensuite, car Delphine Rumeau y retrace le détail de la réception de Whitman et de ses Feuilles d’herbe depuis la fin du xixe en Europe et au Royaume-Uni, mais aussi en Amérique Latine et au Canada autant qu’en Russie, devenue par la suite URSS. Tout à la foi…
The house of thought
Romanticism and Philosophy
Introduction
International audience
Emerson et William James, ou les vertus de la croyance
International audience
Introduction
Limning New Regions of Thought
Edgar Allan Poe et les meubles de la philosophie
À suivre Stanley Cavell, l’Amérique ne se serait exprimée philosophiquement que dans sa littérature. Qu’en est-il dès lors de ce ménage entre littérature et philosophie qui s’établit en Amérique ? Que signifie pour la philosophie habiter en littérature et pour la littérature être l’hôte de la philosophie ? Qu’est-ce que s’installer dans la maison d’autrui ? Qu’est-ce qu’emménager ? Avec quels meubles ? Quels sont les meubles de la philosophie ? E…
Mimesis et politique dans Representative Men de R. W. Emerson
Emerson’s Representative Men (1850) weaves together aesthetics and politics as it addresses the civic role of the poet. This article shows how Emerson repeats Plato’s inaugural determination of mimesis as imitation the better to expose the failure of its logic and offer an alternative form of mimesis whose effects shape the community to come
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre
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Emerson, l'esclavage et l'Amérique fugitive
Consacrée au discours d’Emerson contre le Compromis de 1850 et la loi sur les esclaves fugitifs (« “Address to the Citizens of Concord” on the Fugitive Slave Law », 1851), cette étude s’intéresse à la question de l’esclavage en Amérique depuis le point de vue d’un citoyen de Nouvelle-Angleterre pour qui antiesclavagisme et idéal national, quoique indissociables, demeurent difficilement compatibles. Bien que la vie, la liberté et l’égalité constit…
Mascarades en terrain neutre
Under cover of glorifying the Revolution as a patriotic struggle for democracy, The Spy, Cooper’s first historical romance, orchestrates retrospectively the advent of a genteel republic. The fiction of history thus serves to legitimize the social hierarchy of Cooper’s America. Yet this study argues that, even as the narrative unfolds its conservative logic, the writing of the romance exposes the artificiality of its own project. Pointing to its s…
Discordant Correspondence in Ralph Waldo Emerson's “Friendship”
In “Friendship,” Ralph Waldo Emerson conceives of friendship as correspondence, thus reflecting his own practice of epistolary friendship. Within the essay, however, friendship by correspondence serves to keep all friends at bay and protects the writing subject from grieving their deaths and succumbing to his desire for them
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Portraits à la lettre
This study offers to read the correspondence between Emerson and Carlyle as a series of self-portraits where Emerson appears alternately, and sometimes simultaneously, under the guise of the friend, the literary agent, the vanishing self, and the author. Using the concept of “iconography,” it argues that Emerson reinvests the traditional characteristics of epistolary writing (such as fragmentation, incompletion, and dynamics), in order to compose…
Discordant Correspondence in Ralph Waldo Emerson's “Friendship”
In “Friendship,” Ralph Waldo Emerson conceives of friendship as correspondence, thus reflecting his own practice of epistolary friendship. Within the essay, however, friendship by correspondence serves to keep all friends at bay and protects the writing subject from grieving their deaths and succumbing to his desire for them
Mascarades en terrain neutre
Under cover of glorifying the Revolution as a patriotic struggle for democracy, The Spy, Cooper’s first historical romance, orchestrates retrospectively the advent of a genteel republic. The fiction of history thus serves to legitimize the social hierarchy of Cooper’s America. Yet this study argues that, even as the narrative unfolds its conservative logic, the writing of the romance exposes the artificiality of its own project. Pointing to its s…
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre
International audience
Emerson, l'esclavage et l'Amérique fugitive
Consacrée au discours d’Emerson contre le Compromis de 1850 et la loi sur les esclaves fugitifs (« “Address to the Citizens of Concord” on the Fugitive Slave Law », 1851), cette étude s’intéresse à la question de l’esclavage en Amérique depuis le point de vue d’un citoyen de Nouvelle-Angleterre pour qui antiesclavagisme et idéal national, quoique indissociables, demeurent difficilement compatibles. Bien que la vie, la liberté et l’égalité constit…
Edgar Allan Poe et les meubles de la philosophie
À suivre Stanley Cavell, l’Amérique ne se serait exprimée philosophiquement que dans sa littérature. Qu’en est-il dès lors de ce ménage entre littérature et philosophie qui s’établit en Amérique ? Que signifie pour la philosophie habiter en littérature et pour la littérature être l’hôte de la philosophie ? Qu’est-ce que s’installer dans la maison d’autrui ? Qu’est-ce qu’emménager ? Avec quels meubles ? Quels sont les meubles de la philosophie ? E…
Mimesis et politique dans Representative Men de R. W. Emerson
Emerson’s Representative Men (1850) weaves together aesthetics and politics as it addresses the civic role of the poet. This article shows how Emerson repeats Plato’s inaugural determination of mimesis as imitation the better to expose the failure of its logic and offer an alternative form of mimesis whose effects shape the community to come
Limning New Regions of Thought
Romanticism and Philosophy
Introduction
International audience
Emerson et William James, ou les vertus de la croyance
International audience
Introduction
The house of thought
Henry James across Borders
This essay explores the opposition between the figures of the cosmopolitan and the patriot in a selection of James’s letters and travel writings. It focuses on the crossing of borders as revelatory of the mutual haunting of the “native” and the “alien.” But crossing the frontier also entails encountering the representatives of State violence. Through James’s mise en scène of his ambivalent fascination for the martial figure of the soldier, the fr…
Delphine Rumeau, Fortunes de Walt Whitman
Signe de l’immense stature de Whitman dans l’histoire de la poésie occidentale, Fortunes de Walt Whitman est un ouvrage imposant. Par sa taille, d’abord : plus de 700 pages. Par son ambition, ensuite, car Delphine Rumeau y retrace le détail de la réception de Whitman et de ses Feuilles d’herbe depuis la fin du xixe en Europe et au Royaume-Uni, mais aussi en Amérique Latine et au Canada autant qu’en Russie, devenue par la suite URSS. Tout à la foi…
Antipodean American Literary Studies
Paul Giles is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of many books discussing English, American, and Australian literature from transnational perspectives, including American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2002), The Global Remapping of Americ…
Afterword
Afterword
International audience
I must calculate over again
This essay investigates the fraught question of the measure of pain in a selection of Melville's writings and examines how the articulation of pain is underwritten by a contest between the claims of arithmetic and the claims of literature. Closely reading scenes of thwarted measurements of pain in ‘The Encantadas’ (1854), Moby-Dick (1851), and ‘Bartleby’ (1853), it argues that, while the problem of pain for Melville may begin on the terrain of ep…
Columbia / New York
This essay explores the political aesthetics of visual and textual representations of ruins following episodes of urban destruction during the Civil War. Although ruins were long held to be lacking in the nineteenth-century US landscape—and their absence deemed a sign of America’s newness—ruins were ubiquitous throughout the nation, in particular in its growing urban centres. These antebellum ruins spoke to America’s uncanny historicity, spelling…
“Feeling and Knowing”
Erica Fretwell is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her research interests and teaching areas include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature, affect theory, feminist science studies, and critical phenomenology. She is the author of Sensory Experiments: Race, Psychophysics, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke, 2020). She is currently developing a project on anaesthetics and the art of “slight living,”…
Introduction
Reading is a bodymind experience, one that confirms “the enmeshment of the mind and body” that recent disability scholarship has put to the fore (Schalk 4), yet one that also continues to testify to some of the politicized uses of the entrenched dualism between body and mind that idealist philosophy from Plato to Descartes and beyond has sought to establish. The etymology of the word “reading,” and the long history of its practice, seemingly hing…
Pain after 2020, An Introduction
International audience
Eco-Bio-Formalism
This second section examines the notion of periodization from various perspectives, as a scientific, institutional, and political construct. Nicolas Martin-Breteau revisits fifty years of African American history in light of the “1619 Project.” Thomas Constantinesco and Cécile Roudeau suggest approaching the nineteenth century as a “vast archive” of “fruitful anachronisms” through the lens of environmental and medical humanities. Caroline Hildebr…
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