Believing in Victorian Times

Ce numéro des Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens traite de la croyance en Angleterre dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Croyance des individus, croyances mises en jeu par la littérature, croyances soutenues par des systèmes philosophiques, ou conflictuelles au sein d’un groupe, ces formes de croyance sont l’œuvre dans le façonnement du paysage littéraire et intellectuel victorien. Ce paysage a longtemps été perçu à travers le prisme du conflit entre science et religion ou celui de la perte de la foi à partir de 1850. C’est là réduire le foisonnement des questions et des angles d’approche, ramener la diversité des positions à une série d’antagonismes. Les articles qui suivent s’intéressent aux formes, aux trajets, aux enjeux et aux catégories de la croyance à l’époque victorienne et proposent des pistes d’exploration fructueuses dans le champ littéraire, social et intellectuel. The following issue of the Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens discusses various forms of belief in the Victorian times. It addresses the question of individual, literary, philosophical, or community beliefs, including their conflict, that shaped the intellectual and literary Victorian landscape. For a long time belief in the Victorian times has been characterised by the conflict between science and religion, or by the question of the mid-Victorian “loss of faith”. Such an approach may lead to reducing the diversity of individual or group positions to mere series of conflicts. Included here are essays on the forms, trajectories, stakes and categories of belief. All suggest fruitful approaches within the literary, social and intellectual field

Festschrift Honouring René Gallet

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with René Gallet whom I met for the first time in May 2001 when I was appointed to the English Studies Department at Caen University. Our research specialities are different and I was not aware of René’s remarkable career before my arrival in Caen. I was soon to discover someone particularly special – special because of his immense knowledge and erudition, special because of his illuminating presence amongst his students and colleagues and special because of his modesty, generosity and rare kindness. René Gallet is exceptional, not only because of his most inspiring courses but also because of his human qualities..

Functional Sub-states by High-pressure Macromolecular Crystallography.

International audienceAt the molecular level, high-pressure perturbation is of particular interest for biological studies as it allows trapping conformational substates. Moreover, within the context of high-pressure adaptation of deep-sea organisms, it allows to decipher the molecular determinants of piezophily. To provide an accurate description of structural changes produced by pressure in a macromolecular system, developments have been made to adapt macromolecular crystallography to high-pressure studies. The present chapter is an overview of results obtained so far using high-pressure macromolecular techniques, from nucleic acids to virus capsid through monomeric as well as multimeric proteins