[csaa-forum] CCLCS RESEARACH SEMINAR Wednesday 16th September

[Andrew Milner]

CENTRE FOR COMPARATICE LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Monash University, Melbourne.

RESEARCH SEMINAR

Wednesday 16th September, 3.00 to 5.00 pm, Room W710, Menzies Building 
(Building 11), Clayton Campus.

FROM FLAUBERT TO THE FANTASTIQUE: SCIENCE FICTION & THE LITERARY FIELD

Andrew Milner

Andrew Milner is Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre. His 
publications include John Milton and the English Revolution (1981), 
Cultural Materialism (1993), Class (1999), Re-Imagining Cultural Studies 
(2002), Contemporary Cultural Theory (2002) and Literature, Culture and 
Society (2005). His Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Utopia, 
Dystopia and Science Fiction is in press with Peter Lang.

Abstract

Flaubert’s only historical novel, Salammbô, was published in 1862, a 
year before the first of Verne’s ‘Voyages Extraordinaire’, Cing semaines 
en ballon. For Jameson, this moment when the historical novel ceased to 
be ‘functional’ was the moment of the emergence of SF. For Bourdieu, by 
contrast, the moment of Flaubert was that of the emergence of the modern 
‘literary field’. This paper will analyse the place of SF in the genesis 
and structure of the modern literary field.

ALL WELCOME
Wine, cheese and nibbles will be provided.
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