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

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

Preliminary Conference Schedule: Session VIII
  Saturday, April 16, 2005: 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
     
  Panel One—Song, Self, and Sexuality
Salon C Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Melissa Richard, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Gabriella Ekman, New York University"'She Sang Her Sisters Home' Christina Rossetti's 'Maiden Song' and the Voice of Women in the Public Sphere"
  • Donna Parsons, University of Iowa"'Penetrating the Recesses of Their Genius': Artistry and Artistic Temperament in Henry Handel Richardson's Maurice Guest"
  • Patricia Rigg, Acadia University"Aestheticsim, Feminism and the Athenaeum: Mathilde Blind, Augusta Webster, and Mary. F. Robinson tilt 'the mirror of Victorian culture' in the 1880s"
  Panel Two—The Fallen Women
Oak Alley Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Colleen J. Warwick, Purdue University
  • Colleen J. Warwick, Purdue University"Bodies That (Don't) Matter"
  • Gina Franco, Knox College"'to one common ruin': Rossetti's Faith and the Fall of Women"
  • Scott Rogers"'Beyond the tinsel sentiment': Navigating the Rhetoric of Falleness in Dora Greenwell's 'Christina'"
  Panel Three—Trading Spaces, Testing Boundaries: Reconfiguring Domestic Ideology
Elmwood Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Judy Hayden, University of Tampa
  • Judy Hayden, University of Tampa"Of Privileges and Masculine Parts: Aphra Behn and the Learned Lady"
  • Emily Hipchen, University of Tampa"Reforming Family in Sarah Scott's A Description of Millenium Hall"
  • Elizabeth Winston, University of Tampa"Artist, Domesticated Witch, Colonial Wife: Invisible Shades in Oliphant's 'The Library Window'"
  Panel Four—Pleasure, Marriage, and Re-Marriage
Rosewood Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Elizabeth Johnston, Monroe Community College
  • Jodi Wagner, Purdue University"Maggie's Quest for Pleasure in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss"
  • Joellen Masters, Boston University"A Sensational Control: The First Wife in Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne (1861)"
  • Donna Decker Reck, Franklin Pierce College"Vexatiously Ever-After: Marriage in the New Woman Novel"
  Panel Five—Identity on the Page: Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics
Oaklawn Conference Room.
 
  • Moderator: Anne Frey, Loyola University, New Orleans
  • Anne Frey, Loyola University, New Orleans"The National Tale and Pseudonymous Ethnicity: 'Rosalia St. Clair' in England, Scotland, and Ireland"
  • Sara Dustin, Florida Gulf Coast University"'Yes, injured woman! Rise, assert thy right!': Anna Letitia Barbauld and Feminine Identity."
  • Ariel Gunn, University of Florida"'Put[ting] herself into the text': Toward a Jewish Feminist Identity in Grace Aguilar's The Perez Family"
  • Kevin K. J. Durand, Henderson State University"Foremother or Feminist: Wollstonecraft and Women's Knowledge
  Panel Six—Fantasies of the Woman Writer: Production of Nineteenth-Century Female Authority and Subversion
Ashland Conference Room
 
  • Moderator: Claudia Nagel, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Teresa Winterhalter, Armstrong Atlantic State University"Re-producing Jane Austen: Fanny Price as Ethical Cipher and Authorial Fantasy in Mansfield Park"
  • Heather Glover, Armstrong Atlantic State University"'So Very Hideous An Idea': A Monster of a Woman Writer in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
  • Beth Howells, Armstrong Atlantic State University"Producing the Prince of Publishing: Charlotte Brönte and George Smith"

 

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