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

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

Preliminary Conference Schedule: Session III
  Friday, April 15, 2005: 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
   
  Panel One—Just Words?: Struggling to Control the Power of Language
Ashland Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Jessica Damian, University of Miami at Coral Gables
  • Lori A. Davis Perry, United States Air Force Academy"Famously Anonymous: Elizabeth Rowe's Literary Ambitions"
  • Tania Smith, University of Calgary"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Rhetoric of Conversation"
  • Elizabeth Johnston, Monroe Community College"Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Textual Bodies and the Rhetoric of Gender in 19th-Century Discourse"
  Panel Two—Textual Bodies
Oak Alley Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Kathleen Beres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Anony H. Harrison, North Carolina State University"Christina Rossetti and Illness"
  • Kathleen Beres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"'This Tender Heart of Mine': Disciplinarity and the Medical Context of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets"
  • Sarah Bleakney, University of Florida"'Ill in mind and ominously ill in body': Class Performance and its Effect on the Body in East Lynne"
  Panel Three—No Boundaries? Rethinking the Borders of Separate Spheres
Elmwood Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Leanne Maunu, Palomar College
  • Gina Dorré, Tulane University"An Indecent Proposal: Reconsidering Reciprocity in Austen's Pride and Prejudice"
  • Jill Ehnenn, Appalachian State University"'Thou Asian Bacchant': Race, Place and Michael Field's Queer Erotics of Mourning"
  • Lauren Wood, Vanderbilt University"Rewriting the System: Crossing Gender Boundaries in Jane Austen's Persuasion"
  Panel Four—Her Mother's Daughter: From Child to Woman
Ashland B Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Jill Doise, Texas Christian University
  • Jenny White, Augustanta CollegeFemale Adolescence and the Subversion of Social Ideology in Pride and Prejudice(1813) and Marriage (1818)"
  • JoAnna S. Mink, Minnesota State University"Daughters and the Home in Victorian Novels: A Middle-Class Fantasy?"
  • Heather Lobban-Viravong, Grinnell College"Performing Autobiography: The Novel, Truth and Theatricality in Charlotte Clark's Narrative"
  Panel Five—Writing About Religion
Rosedown Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Leslee Thorne-Murphy, Brigham Young
  • Anna Faktorovich, University of South Carolina"Anticipating Post-Modern Mysticism: Marie Corelli's The Soul of Lilith"
  • Karen Dieleman, McMaster University"Reconstituting the Worshipping Community: Christina Rossetti's Experience in Christ Church and the Lyrical 'we' of Verses"
  • Susannah Clements, University of Sioux Falls"Beyond Theological Borders: Catholicism and Calvinism in Charlotte Brönte's Villette"
  • Bettina Tate Pedersen, Point Loma Nazarene University"A Radical Redemptive Vision: Universal Salvation in Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre"

 

Webpage last updated: April 5, 2005
© Copyright 2003 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 44691 Lafayette LA 70504-44691
Phone: 337/482-6913 · E-Mail: devine@louisiana.edu
 
BWWC 2005 Home
Proposals
Schedule
Registration
Highlights
Lafayette
Contact Us