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

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

Preliminary Conference Schedule: Session II
  Thursday, April 14, 2005: 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
   
  Panel One: Lifting the Fallen—Boldness and Scandal in 18th-and 19th-Century Texts
Rosedown Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Barbara Cicardo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Anne Carson, Temple University"Montagu and Medea: Just a Couple of 'Learned Ladies'"
  • Kate Montweiler, University of North Carolina at Wilmington"Scandal Mongering: The Return of Eliza Haywood"
  • Caroline Breashears, St. Lawrence University"A Convention's Progress: Narratives of the Fall in Three Women's Memoirs"
  Panel Two—Speaking the Truth: Finding a Place for Voice
Oaklawn Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Jay Karr, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Julianne Smith, Pepperdine University"Caught Between Two Narratives: Marie Corelli and The Sorrows of Satan"
  • Adam Reinherz, Loyola University, Chicago"Whispering Truths: The Singular Nature of Anne Brönte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"
  • Steven Gilbert, University of South Carolina"Tabitha Bramble: Mary Robinson's Satiric Voice"
  Panel Three—Performance and Performers
Oak Alley Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Laura Vorachek, University of Alabama
  • Cyndi White"Cultivating a Collective Busie Body: Susanna Centlivre's 'Intertheatricality' and the Original Cast of The Busie Body (1709)"
  • Juliette Wells, Manhattanville College"'That Kind of Facility which Springs from the Absence of Any High Standard': Gender and Amateurism in George Eliot"
  • Molly Engelhardt, Texas A& M University"Sylphs, Fairies, and Ballet Divas: Moving Eros into the Middle-Class Parlor"
  Panel Four: Domestic Identity—Examining the Power of Location
Ashland Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Jenny Geer, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Amanda E. Himes, Texas A& M University"Cultures in Conflict: Austen and Burney Defend Hartfordshire from the French"
  • Caralyn Bolte, University of Florida"'Domestic' Travel: Women and the Role of the Tourist in Jane Austen"
  • Janice Schroeder, Carleton University"The 'Girl of the Period' Controversy: Popular Culture and Feminist Ambivalence"
  Panel Five—Interpreting Texts, Interpreting Lives: Women Writers as Critics
Elmwood Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Wynn Yarborough, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Mary Waters, Wichita State University"Domesticity, Class, and the British Common Reader in Anna Letitia Barbauld's Literary Criticism"
  • Melanie Ulrich, University of Texas at Austin"Victoria's Legacy: Victorian Biographers and Their Conflicting Agendas"
  • Ellen Bayuk Rosenman, University of Kentucky"Eliza Lynn Linton and the Everyday: Reading the Non-Feminist Woman Writer"

 

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