Still Loitering

Valentina Gosetti and Alistair Rolls (eds)

Still Loitering

Australian Essays in Honour of
Ross Chambers

Peter Lang

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Names: Chambers, Ross, honoree. | Gosetti, Valentina, editor. | Rolls, Alistair, 1971- editor.

Title: Still loitering : Australian essays in honour of Ross Chambers / Valentina Gosetti and Alistair Rolls.

Description: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019030039 (print) | LCCN 2019030040 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789972566 (paperback) | ISBN 9781789972573 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Chambers, Ross--Influence. | Literature--History and criticism.

Classification: LCC PN511 .S689 2020 (print) | LCC PN511 (ebook) |DDC 809--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019030039

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ISSN 1422-4896

ISBN 978-1-78997-256-6 (print) • ISBN 978-1-78997-257-3 (ePDF)

ISBN 978-1-78997-258-0 (ePub) • ISBN 978-1-78997-259-7 (mobi)

DOI 10.3726/b15246

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About the editors

Valentina Gosetti is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of New England, Australia, following her years as the Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellow in French and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford.

Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research has focused on Boris Vian and, in common with Ross Chambers, intertextuality and Charles Baudelaire.

About the book

In late October 2017, the profoundly sad news of Ross Chambers’s passing reached Australia. Friends and colleagues scattered around the globe mourned the loss of a person of great ‘humanity and humility’, one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. This book is a tribute to Chambers’s life and work and to his legacy among scholars in the global French studies, comparative literature and cultural studies communities. It is also rooted in the Australian context he left behind but never really left, a context he indelibly marked and where he still lives on.

Loiterature, perhaps Chambers’s most famous book, prescribes slow and careful reading practices but also quick-witted analysis. This collection draws together tributes, essays and critical responses to his wide-ranging work from Romanticism to the present, all demonstrating, through practice, the generative value of ‘loitering’. While melancholy and nostalgia are inescapable themes in this collection, loitering is also about imminent departures. And his work encourages us to explore that unexpected turn, possibly leading us in unforeseeable directions. This book suggests a few ways in which he will travel with us into the future.

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