Thirteenth Annual 18th and 19th Century British Women  Writers Conference
 

Thursday, April 14    |    Friday, April 15    |    Saturday, April 16

Preliminary Conference Schedule: Session I
  Thursday, April 14, 2005: 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
   
  Panel One—Nation Builders: Gaskell and Seacole
Rosedown Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: John Greene, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Heather Werner, University of Nevada, Reno—"Denying Nation: Rejection by and of the Nation in Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers"
  • Sarina Gruver Moore, University of Virginia—"Working-class Residential Architecture and Class Identity in Gaskell's Early Fiction"
  • Jessica Damian, University of Miami at Coral Gables—"'A Novel Speculation': Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures in the New Granada Gold Mining Company"
  Panel Two—The Female Gothic: Negotiating the Need for Escape
Oaklawn Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Dayana Stetco, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Anne Close, Loyola University, Chicago—"Early Radcliffe and the Making of the Female Gothic"
  • Sabine Arnaud, City University of New York—"Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho: Hysteria and the Elusiveness of the Other"
  • Natalie Schroeder and Shari Hodges Holt, University of Mississippi—"Ouida's Female Gothic: Pestilence, Death, and Desire in In Maremma"
  Panel Three—Reading Manners, Writing Conduct
Oak Alley Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Kathryn Lane, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Claire Reynolds, University of Rhode Island—"Decorum and the Dance: Jane Austen Minds Her Manners"
  • Christine Bayles Kortsch, University of Delaware—"Dressing Up: Dress-Culture, Class and Women's Reading in New Woman Novels"
  • Janet Tanke, City University of New York—"Domestic Art(s): Culinary Discourse as Evolution in Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and Elizabeth Robins Pennell's The Feasts of Autolycus: Diary of a Greedy Woman"
  Panel Four—Women's Texts in Context
Ashland Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Anne Faktorovich, University of South Carolina
  • Calley Hornbuckle, University of South Carolina—"Framing Foiled: Love Attempts in Eliza Fenwick's Secresy and Emily Brönte's Wuthering Heights"
  • Amy Cummins, Fort Hays State University—"'Was She Not His Sister?': The Influence of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss on Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island"
  • Jonathan Sadow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst—"'Scenes All Unlike the Poet's Fabling Dreams': Nature's Revolt Against Burke in Charlotte Smith's Poetry"
  Panel Five—Redefining Her World: The New Woman and Victorian Culture
Elmwood Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Linda Hughes, Texas Christian University
  • Purna Banerjee, Texas Christian University"What Made Victoria/ns Cross? Femininity and Domesticity Redefined by Anna Lombard"
  • Lisa Hager, University of Florida"'The Shrieking Sisterhood': Sexual Inversion and Sisterhood in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina"
  • Cheryl A. Wilson, University of Delaware"Moving in the Right Circles: Dance, Sex, and the New Woman"

 

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