REYNIER Christine

Christine Reynier is a specialist of modernist literature. She has published on major modernist writers as well as neglected ones, with a focus on fiction, short fiction and non-fiction. She is also interested in the connections between nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature.

 Her latest publications include :

• Revisiting the Periodical Essay (1860-1940), sous la direction de Bénédicte Coste et Christine Reynier, E-rea, 20.2 (2023) https://journals.openedition.org/erea/15855
• ‘Rethinking Modernism with Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)’, Etudes anglaises, Klincksieck, 75/3 (juillet-septembre 2022): 312-329.
• ‘Modernist Non-fictional Narratives and Beyond’, E-rea 21.1 (2023) http://journals.openedition.org/erea/16813
• “Virginia Woolf’s Radical Vision of Recycling”, Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature, edited by Monica Latham, Caroline Marie and Anne-Laure Rigeade, Preface by Mark Hussey, New York: Routledge, Series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory, 2022, pp.23-35.

DOI: 10.4324/9781003144649-1

• “Rebecca West’s and David Low’s Intermedial Dialogue with William Hogarth in The Modern ‘Rake’s Progress’ (1934)”, Enduring Presence. William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives, Book 2: Image into Word, edited by Caroline Patey, Cynthia E. Roman and Georges Letissier, Series Cutural Interactions. Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, Oxford : Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 155-169. DOI: 10.3726/b17869
• Short Fiction as Humble Fiction, edited by Christine Reynier, Theory and Practice in Short Fiction 10.2 (February 2021).

http://www.intellectbooks.com/short-fiction-in-theory-practice; https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00022_2

• The first critical edition in France of A Room of One’s Own :

Virginia Woolf. Un lieu à soi [A Room of One’s Own]. Traduit et préfacé par Marie Darieussecq. Edition de Christine Reynier. Gallimard, collection Folio classique, 2020.

http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Folio/Folio-classique/Un-lieu-a-soi

Latest monograph

• Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays. New York: Routledge, series Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace,2019. Paperback edition, 2020. https://www.routledge.com/Virginia-Woolfs-Good-Housekeeping-Essays/Reynier/p/book/9780367666125

Latest talks

‘Knowledge and Experience in Leslie Stephen’s The Playground of Europe (1871)’, France-Berkeley seminar (12-14 avril 2024), Berkeley, University of California, 13 April 2024.

‘From Far from the Madding Crowd to Anderby Wold: Assessing Thomas Hardy’s Influence on Winifred Holtby’s Fiction’, colloque international Hardy and Heritage, organisé par FATHOM, the French Association for Thomas Hardy Studies, Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, 27-28 octobre 2023.