BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:'Detestation or Sympathy: Dickens and Flaubert on Encountering &q uot\;Savages"\;' - Fanny Robles (St John's College) DTSTART:20130502T160000Z DTEND:20130502T180000Z UID:TALK44877@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA DESCRIPTION:'Charles Dickens saw the "Zulu Kafirs" in London in June 1853\ , which inspired him to write the angry pamphlet "The Noble Savage"\, publ ished in his periodical _Household Words_. Later that year\, Gustave Flaub ert saw a group of "Cafres" - who were more probably “Bushmen” (San) - in Rouen and mentioned them at length in a letter to his friend Louis Bou ilhet. This talk will look at these two very different reactions and the w ay they shed light on the political and aesthetic views of their respectiv e authors.' \n\nFanny’s paper will be followed by questions and discussi on. The meeting will conclude at 6:45pm with drinks. All are welcome!\n\n* Fanny Robles* is College Lector in French at St John’s College Cambridge . She is currently completing her PhD thesis on the relationship between e thnological exhibitions and Victorian literature at the University of Toul ouse. She has contributed the chapter entitled 'Of Cavemen\, "Struggleforl ifeurs"\, and Deep Ecology: J.-H. Rosny Aîné’s Literary Response to Da rwin and Human Evolution' to the forthcoming book on _The Literary and Cul tural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe_\, edited by Thomas F. Glick a nd Elinor Shaffer\, volume 3 of _The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe _ (Bloomsbury Academic). She is also the author of 'Journey to the Centre of Humanity: Jules Verne’s Popularization of Anthropology in Le Village aérien'\, in _Science in the Nursery: The Popularization of Science in Br itain and France\, 1761-1901_\, edited by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (Camb ridge Scholars 2011). LOCATION:Meeting Room\, Clare Hall (main building)\, Herschel Road\, CB3 9 AL END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR