The Annual Victorian Conference in Literature and Culture hosted by the Department of English & Drama
University College Worcester, Worcester, UK
Saturday, 28th April 2001
9.30 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Programme [PROVISIONAL]
9.00 – 9.30 Registration Foyer
9.30 – 10.30 Key-note Lecture: G16
Dr Kate Flint (University of Oxford)
The Native American Indian in English culture of the nineteenth century
10.30 – 10.50 Coffee
10.50 – 12.10 Seminar Session 1
Panel A – Religious States F16
Marie Riley (University of Central Lancashire)Piety and Impropriety: British Critics and the American Evangelical Heroine
Deborah Wynne (Keele University)Radical Spirits and Hysterical Practices: Literary Responses to American Religions in Victorian Britain
Panel B – English States F20
Eric Homburger (University of East Anglia)The Anglophilia of the New York upperclasses in the new American democracy
Anthony Mann (University of Brighton)Victorian Americans: class, culture, and identity in nineteenth-century Boston, Massachusetts
Panel C – American Readers 117
Sohui Lee (Boston University)Hawthorne’s “Lady Eleanore’s Mantle” and America’s Anglomania in 1838
Andrew Maunder (University of Hertfordshire) “Overpaid and over here”: English novelists, Harper’s Magazine and the serialization of English fiction, 1850-1870
12.10 – 1.10 Lunch
1.10 – 2.10 Key-note Lecture: G16
Dr Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University)
Beast people: cultural and physical transformations in literature of the 1880s and 1890s
2.10-3.30 Seminar Session 2
Panel D – Writing States F20
Kate Campbell (University of East Anglia)French lubricity in Chickering Hall, Emerson in Boston: Arnold in America, on America
Sara Lenaghan (University of Teesside)The “absent centre” of America in the writing of Henry James
Panel E – Travelling States 117
Robert Grant (University of Kent)Edward Gibbon Wakefield, England and “ignorant, dirty, unsocial…restless, more than half-savage” America
Alan Shelston (University of Manchester)"Alligators infesting the stream": Elizabeth Gaskell and the USA
3.30 – 3.50 Coffee
3.50 – 5.20 Seminar Session 3
Panel F – British Readers F16
Andrew King (London)Piracy or Payment? American Fiction in the British Mass-Market, 1855-1883
Jane Thomas (University of Hull)“This Wicked Traffic”: Victorian Women Industrial Novelists and the Discourse of Slavery
Panel G – Challenging States F20
Colette Colligan (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario)Anti-Abolition writes back: An English pornographic parody of Harriet Jacobs’s Slave Narrative
Ivan Crozier (Wellcome Instuitute, London)Havelock Ellis, homosexuality, and nineteenth-century America sexology
Edna Nahshon (JTSA, New York)The Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill’s Vision of America
5.20 Farewells
Conference fee: £25.00 (£10.00 students), including lunch, tea/coffee: please make cheques payable to 'University College Worcester', and send to Dr. Richard Pearson or Dr. Martin Willis (conference organisers), Department of English and Drama, University College Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ, UK. tel. (01905) 855291 email: R.Pearson@worc.ac.uk or M.Willis@worc.ac.uk
Further details, maps, where to stay and other information available from the conference organisers
Conference website at www.angelfire.com/ri/rpearson/america.html
