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

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

Preliminary Conference Schedule: Session IV
  Friday, April 15, 2005: 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
     
  Panel One—Subverting Conventions
Ashland Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: James Ortego, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Amy Carol Reeves, University of South Carolina"Finding a Voice: Lessons of Agency in Charlotte Smith's Conversations Introducing Poetry"
  • Candice Lucey"Musical Reference in the Novels of Frances Burney"
  • Marianne Van Remoortel, University of Ghent"'Unlike are we': The Dialectic of Literal and Metaphorical Meaning in the Amatory Sonnet Sequences of Three Victorian Women Poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Augusta Webster"
  Panel Two—Passions and Bodies: Examination of a Complex History
Oak Alley Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Anne Carson, Temple University
  • Katherine D. Osborne, University of Kentucky"'We all know that a lady has no passions': Female Anger and Shame in Victorian Society"
  • Kathryn Crowther, Emory"Brönte's Lost Bodies: Textuality and Subjectivity in Jane Eyre and Villette"
  • Leslie Nelson, Washington State University"'How the devil should I know Florinda?': Female Identity and The Rover"
  Panel Three—Fiscal Responsibilities: Matters of Money
Elmwood Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Eugenia Gonzalez, Louisiana State University
  • Margaret McCann, Marquette University"Money Matters in Sense and Sensibility"
  • Emily Haddad, University of South Dakota"Family and Economic Agency in Edgeworth's Popular Tales"
  • Daniel Siegel, University of Alabama at Birmingham"Charity by the Clock in Adam Bede"
  Panel Four—Shadows on the Hearth: Wandering Women and the Patriarchy in the Gothic Tales of Gaskell and Braddon
Ashland B Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Sarah LaDow, Purdue University
  • Sarah LaDow, Purdue University"In the Stable with Gaskell's The Grey Woman"
  • Erin Chamberlain, Purdue University"Shadowlands: Haunting a House Divided in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Old Nurse's Story'"
  • April Toadvine, Purdue University"Vampire on the Market: Sex and Money in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Good Lady Ducayne"
  Panel Five—Finding Freedom Between the Lines
Rosedown Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: James Barloon, University of St. Thomas
  • Erin Webster-Garrett, Radford University"'But White Paper to be Written Upon': America's Sexual Education in Mary Shelley's Lodore"
  • Oksun Kang, Donseo University"Divine Sensibility in Women's Poetry"
  • Julie Straight, Northwest Nazarene University"Islam, Insanity, and Women's Religious Freedom in Mary Lamb's 'The Young Mahometan'"

 

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