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

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

Preliminary Conference Schedule: Session V
  Friday, April 15, 2005: 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
     
  Panel One—Slavery and Imperialism: Negotiating Conflicting Ideologies
Ashland Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Karen Dieleman, McMaster University
  • Celeste Pottier"Possible Connections with Joseph Shore's 1911 In Old St. James and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point'"
  • Kate Delany, Rutgers University"Women Rewriting Empire: Slavery and Imperialism in Women's British Romantic Poetry"
  • David Shane Wallace, Louisiana State University" The White Female as Effigy in Janet Schaw's Journal of a Lady of Quality"
  • Precious McKenzie-Stearns, University of South Florida"Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Negotiating Spaces from the Viennese Court to the Turkish Hamman"
  Panel Two—I Do? Vexed Marriages and Gothic Tropes
Oak Alley Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Moderator: Anita DeRouen, University of Georgia
  • Sarah R. Wakefield, Prairie View A&M University"A Pleasing Sacrifice: Marital Reciprocation in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"
  • Bonnie Jett Adams, State University of West Georgia"'Bastilled for Life': Marriage in the Female Gothic"
  • Angela Hall-Godsey, Georgia State University"Feminine De-Centering by Gothic Queering: The Erasure of the Sexual Body in Villette"
  Panel Three—Narrative Agency and Agents of Narrative in Eliza Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
Elmwood Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Aryn Bartley, Michigan State University
  • Parama Sarkar, Michigan State University"Missing Mothers/ Precocious Daughters--Absence of the Guardian and Female Self-Realization in The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless"
  • Brian Olszewski, Michigan State University"Meeting Mediation: The Amanuensis of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless"
  • Aryn Bartley, Michigan State University"Thwarted Seduction: Mystery and the Body in The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless"
  • Ana Holguin, Michigan State University"Who Can be a Winner in the Game of Life?"
  Panel Four—Intellectual Representations of Speech and Stage
Ashland B Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Melissa Edmundson, University of South Carolina
  • Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University"Teaching British Romantic Women Playwrights: Texts and Contexts"
  • Li-Ching Chen, National University of Kaohsiung"Broken Dialogues between the 'Beautiful Idiots' and the Outside World in Frances Burney's Camilla"
  • Sharon Setzer, North Carolina State University"Mary Robinson and the Performance of Chastity"
  Panel Five—Biological Sociology: Growing into the "New Woman"
Rosedown Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Caroline Breashears, St. Lawrence University
  • Anna Maria Jones, University of Central Florida"A Track to the Water's Edge: Reading Activism in the New Woman Novel"
  • Jill Doise, Texas Christian University"The Twin-ness of Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins: The Novel within the Context of the Scientific-Cultural Debate Over Gender"
  • Lindsay Wright, University of Virginia"The New Woman and L.T. Meade's Girls School Story"

 

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