Our updated conference programme (as of 13 August) is now on this site under ‘conference programme’ and available for download!
Transport Advice and Information
Dear conference delegates,
Some transport details for getting to Leeds Trinity University for the BAVS 2015 Conference!
Train travel
To get from the central Leeds railway station to Leeds Trinity, there are options for either train or bus.
Train travel will be quickest: trains from Leeds to Horsforth stations leave about every half-hour and take 10-15 minutes (though then with a 15-minute walk up the hill to LTU). The schedule can be accessed here: http://www.wymetro.com/uploadedFiles/WYMetro/Content/TrainTravel/traintimetables/HarrogateMay2015.pdf
You can book a ticket through to Horsforth when making your transport arrangements, or buy a separate ticket at the central railway station. A ticket between Leeds and Horsforth should cost you less than £5.
Bus Travel
The relevant bus, no. 97, winds its way through Headingley and takes about 45 minutes plus. Bus travel will, however, bring you closer to the university: the 97 bus stops just outside the campus, saving you the 15-minute walk. To reach the nearest bus stop from the central railway station, walk up Park Row, turn left into Headrow and then left into Albion Street. The bus goes about two to three times an hour in the daytime, and once an hour in the evenings. The schedule is available at http://www.wymetro.com/BusTravel/bustimetables/Bustimetable/97/leeds-guiseley/
Taxi travel
Delegates can book online or by app with the University’s approved taxi company, Arrow. Their web site is http://www.arrowprivatehire.co.uk: go to BOOK LEEDS or download their app by searching ARROW CARS LEEDS at iTunes or Google Play. This allows you to book any journey from anywhere in Leeds to Leeds Trinity: Horsforth train station, Leeds central railway station, or the airport. If you book both ways at the same time, you will receive a discount. Typical prices are below:
Horsforth Train station to Leeds Trinity University – £3.80 one way, £7.14 return (saves 46p)
Leeds City Train station to Leeds Trinity University – £11.50 one way £21.62 return (saves £1.38)
If you are arriving at the airport, Arrow operates a booking office there: this would be our recommended mode of transfer to LTU. The cost should be less than £5.
Arrow do own some WAVs, but please book in advance.
Parking
If you’re driving, it’s worth knowing that there are two entrances to the campus, both on Brownberrie Lane. The ‘south entrance’ (or ‘main entrance’) will bring you to the main car park, and closest to the conference venue; there is, however, more parking available from the ‘north entrance’! Parking will be free.
For general directions to Leeds Trinity, see http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/aboutus/findus/Pages/default.aspx .
Afternoon of Saturday 29th August: Bronte Parsonage Museum at Haworth Fieldtrip
After the close of the BAVS Conference, there will be an optional field trip to the Haworth Parsonage Museum. This will depart from Leeds Trinity at 2 p.m. on Saturday 29th August, returning to campus by 6 p.m. The visit will include a talk and a tour of the museum. The cost is £15 per person, including entry to the museum. Please book your place via the online shop (places are limited to 52 people) at http://store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=42
If you have any questions, please contact Jane de Gay (j.degay@leedstrinity.ac.uk).
Reminder about Registration and Clarification about the PGR Workshop (Thursday AM)
The latest (hopefully final) conference programme is now available here on our website!
Thursday’s timings: postgraduate / ECR workshop
When you’re registering and arranging travel, it is worth noting that the conference itself begins fully at lunchtime on Thursday 27th August. Prior to that will be a free workshop for postgraduates and early career researchers.
No additional booking is required for this – but if you are you planning to attend, please confirm by emailing bavs2015@gmail.com, so we can choose a room and refreshment numbers effectively! And if you’re travelling a long distance, you might like to book the additional Wednesday night’s B&B.
An inclusive light lunch will be provided for attendees for the workshop. Other arriving delegates will be able to buy their own lunch from the university canteen or deli bar.
Registration reminder
And talking of booking – one more reminder to register as soon as possible! Registration is via the online form: http://store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=42 (if this doesn’t work, go to store.leedstrinity.ac.uk , and navigate through from there). The final deadline for registration is Thursday 13th August.
Friday Fieldtrip – Expressions of Interest
BAVS 2015 delegates are invited to indicate their interest in attending the Friday afternoon fieldtrip, led by Dr Simon Morgan of Leeds Beckett University. This is an alternative to attending the Friday afternoon panels, 2-5pm, which can be viewed on our programme here on our wordpress site, Victorian Age(s).
This does not mean making an absolute commitment at this stage – it is for the purpose of allowing us to plan transport and logistics. Please indicate if you would be interested by emailing us at bavs2015@gmail.com by 29 July 2015. A description of the fieldtrip appears below:
Leeds Field Trip
On this field trip we will be exploring Victorian Leeds through the eyes of Dr John Deakin Heaton. Almost forgotten today, Heaton had a hand in many of the institutions of the Victorian city, including the Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, and what became Leeds University. Heaton’s wife, Fanny, was a promoter of female higher education, one of the founders of the Leeds Girls’ School and a friend of Emily Davies. His sister, Ellen, was an art collector and feminist, being a correspondent of John Ruskin and an early patron of Rossetti. Starting at the University, the trip will follow the online walking tour from the Heaton Map Project, inspired by Heaton’s journals. Depending on numbers, the tour will be part or wholly led by Dr Simon Morgan of Leeds Beckett University, author of the Heaton Map, and will include a tour of the Leeds Library, the city’s famous 18th Century subscription library, where both J. D. and Ellen Heaton were members.
Further Information/Clarification on Conference Bursaries
Just to confirm: you can apply for the conference bursaries if you are currently working on your doctoral thesis AND if you have recently completed, but do not yet have an academic post. In other words, both PGR students AND unemployed ECRs are eligible.
Secondly: all applications will be considered for both categories, unless you wish your application only to be considered for one of the two categories. You need only apply once. You can be awarded only one bursary, though!
Thirdly: those on the programme to give a paper or chair a session, and those who merely wish to attend, are equally eligible to apply.
If there is any further information you need, please email me at r.mitchell@leedstrinity.ac.uk, and I will try to answer your question. However, if in doubt, better to apply than not!
BAVS 2015 lead co-ordinator, Rosemary Mitchell
Announcing Conference Bursaries for PGR Students/ECRs!
The following PGR student bursaries are advertised for the 2015 British Association of Victorian Studies Conference, Victorian Age(s). All bursaries are for £100, to be used by recipients to partially cover the costs of attending the conference.
The bursaries are as follows:
Four BAVS bursaries. Recipients are required to write within six months of the conference date (a) a report of the conference for the BAVS Newsletter of not more than 1,500 words, and (b) a blog for The Victorianist, on a theme or subject which has attracted their interest in the course of the conference and which has been agreed with the PGR BAVS representatives. Additionally, they are required to tweet on the BAVS 2015 Twitter account during the course of the conference.
Two LCVS bursaries. Recipients are required to tweet on the LCVS (Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies) 2015 account, and to write two blogs each for the LCVS blog (one a report on their experience of the conference, of not more than 1,500 words, and the other on a subject of Victorian interest to be agreed with the LCVS blog coordinators).
All bursaries are available to those who have recently submitted doctoral theses, but do not hold an academic post. You do not have to be giving a paper at the conference to apply for the bursaries.
Application is via a letter of not more than 1 page, and a brief CV of no more than 2 pages. Applicants should explain in the letter how conference attendance will contribute to their research and professional development, and outline skills and previous experience which will facilitate their performance of the required tasks.
The letter of application and the CV should be sent to the conference lead co-ordinator, Dr Rosemary Mitchell, at r.mitchell@leedstrinity.ac.uk by Friday 3 July, 5pm. Any enquiries should be similarly addressed.
Applications for the BAVS bursaries are assessed by a panel that includes member(s) of the BAVS Executive Committee and member(s) of the conference organising committee. Applications for the LCVS bursaries are assessed by a panel of staff members of the LCVS.
Bursary-holders will be expected to pay all registration and other fees for the conference in advance, and will receive their bursary cheques at the conference.
‘Victorian Age(s): BAVS 2015 Conference Draft Programme
| (as of 1st June) |
Thursday 27th August
7.30-9.30 Breakfast
9:00 onwards Registration
9:30-12:30 PGR/ECR Workshop
| Impact and Public Engagement | |
| 9.30-9.50 | Kate Compton (York Army Museum) |
| 9.50-10.10: | TBC |
| 10.10-10.30 | Dr Grace Farringdon (The Reader Organisation) |
| 10.30-10.45 | Questions |
| 10.45-11.00 | Break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Workshop |
12:00-1:15 Refreshments available for arriving delegates
12:30-1:15 Light lunch available for PGR/ECR workshop participants only
1:15-2:30 Opening of Conference/Roundtable on Old Age
| Chair: | |
| Helen Small | |
| Pat Thane | |
| Christiana Payne | |
Panel Session A (Thurs 27th 2:30-4pm)
| A.1: Golden Ages and Stages (Temporality I)
Chair: |
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| L. Barnes | The Stages of Nicholas Nickleby: Adapting Dickens’ Novel for the Theatre |
| Kate Newey | Golden Ages: The Victorian Theatre, Nostalgia and Modernity |
| Peter Yeandle | Simultaneous Stages: Authenticity and Artifice at Belle Vue |
| A.2: Brontës’ Early Writings (Life-Cycle I)
Chair: |
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| Valerie Sanders | ‘Unmarked Auditors’: The strange Presence of Children in the Brontë Juvenilia. |
| Emma Butcher | (Re)Writing Military History in the Early Narratives of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë |
| Erin Nyborg | Heroic Masculinity in Charlotte and Emily’s Belgian Essays: An Apprenticeship in Victorian Authorship |
| A.3: (W)rites of Passage: Funerals, Wills, and Memorial Cards (Life-Cycle II)
Chair: |
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| Helen Frisby | Revelry and Rivalry in the 19th-century English Funeral |
| Judith Frisby | The Story of John Battye’s Will |
| Claire Wood | Ordering Meaning in the Victorian Memorial Card |
| A.4: The Age of Professionalization: Briefless Barristers, Lady Doctors, and Army Officers (Periodization I)
Chair: Clare Horrocks |
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| Ann M. Hale | From Questionable Ethics to Marriage Prospects: Briefless Barristers and the Changing Legal Profession |
| Alison Moulds | An (Un)suitable Job for a Woman: Constructions of the ‘Lady Doctor’ in 19th-Century Medical Writing |
| Beth Gaskell | Periodical Professionalization: The Periodical Press and the Fight for the Professional Development of the British Army |
| A.5: Appropriating the Romantic and the Revolutionary (Historical Appropriations I)
Chair: |
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| P Cook | Charles Dickens and the Romantic Legacy: The Struggle for Time |
| Georgina Hunter | The Revolutionary Age in the Mid-19th Century Periodical Press |
| Courtney Salvey | The Age of Invention: Early Victorian Histories of Invention and Industry |
| A.6: The Age of Martyrs (Historical Appropriations II)
Chair: Elizabeth Ludlow |
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| Brian H. Murray | ‘The Son of God goes forth to War’: The Imperial Martyr’s Hymnbook |
| Victoria Mills | Hypatia, The New Woman and Martyrdom in the 1890s |
| Kate Nichols | Diana or Christ? Conflicting Ages in Victorian Visualisations of Early Christian Martyrdom |
| A.7: Subtle Thieves of Age(s): Poetic Appropriations (Historical Appropriations III)
Chair: |
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| Orla Polten | ‘Neither English nor Greek’? The Tragic Metres of Browning’s Agamemnon |
| Laura Kilbride | Pure Greek? The Problem of Style in Swinburne’s Greek Tragedies |
| Jerome Wynter | Revivifying a Seventeenth-Century Trope for a Nineteenth-Century Purpose in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘The African: A Poem in Two Cantos’ |
4:00-4:45 Refreshment Break
Panel Session B (Thurs 27th 4:45-6:15)
| B.1: Transported Through Time (Temporality II)
Chair: |
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| Rose Roberto | Visualising Progress in Chambers’s Illustrated Encyclopedia |
| Paul Raphael Rooney | Railway Reading Time and Post-1870 Readers |
| Dany van Dam | Stopping Time to Stop Forgetting: Sea Journeys and Temporal Separation in Neo-Victorian Fiction |
| B.2: Imaginary Childhoods (Life-Cycle III)
Chair: |
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| Clare Walker Gore | Disability, Desire and Dickens’s Child-Women |
| Kirstie Blair | ‘National Dialect in the Nursery’: Childishness and the Scottish Working-Class Poet |
| J Holt | A View from the Bath: Recovering Childhood Innocence in 19th-century Japan. |
| B.3: Saints and Martyrs (Historical Appropriations IV)
Chair: |
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| Elizabeth Ludlow | The Body’s Grace: Mid-Victorian Narratives of Female Martyrdom and Monasticism |
| Rachel Webster | Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena (1878), exemplary femininity, and the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act |
| B.4: Antiques and Conservation (Historical Appropriations V)
Chair: |
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| Heidi Egginton | The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart and the ‘Pastime’ of Antique Collecting after 1868 |
| Allison Adler Kroll | William Morris and Thomas Hardy at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings: The Ethos of Cultural Conservation in the Later 19th Century |
| Anne Anderson | Old Things and Degenerate Bodies: The ‘fearful consequences’ of ‘living up’ to one’s antiques. |
| B.5: Travelling Through Time (Periodization II)
Chair: |
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| Catherine Redford | ‘Great safe spaces down deep’: The Imagined Age of the Subterranean |
| Jacob Jewusiak | The Technology Age: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the Political Economy of Ageing |
| Simon James | H.G. Wells: Textual Revision Travelling in Time |
| B.6: Age(s) of the Press (Periodization III)
Chair: |
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| Jock Macleod | Constructing ‘The Age of the Press’: A Historiography of Victorian Newspaper Histories |
| Clare Horrocks | Success Through the Ages: Punch and the Modernist Challenge 1874-1906 |
| Melissa Score | An Age of Campaigns: Serial Publication and Advocacy in the Victorian Press |
| B.7: Mid-Life Crises (Life-Cycle IV)
Chair: |
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| Michael Meeuwis | Against the Carnivalesque: The Middle-Aged Man in Victorian Drama, 1860-1914 |
| Ryan Sweet | Humour, Midlife, and Cosmetic Prosthesis Use in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) |
| Shelagh Ward | Borrowed Time: The Progress and Persistence of Female Suicide Survivors in late Victorian Bradford |
6.15-7.15 British Association of Victorian Studies AGM
7:15-8:00 21st Anniversary of LCVS Wine Reception
8:00 –9:00 dinner
9:00 onwards Bar Open
Friday 28th August
7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
8:30 onwards Registration
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture
| Chair: |
| Professor Nicholas Daly, University College, Dublin: ‘Modern Swashbucklers and Matinee Idols: The Age of Ruritania’ |
10:00 – 10:30 Refreshment Break
Panel Session C (Friday 28th 10:30-12:00)
| C.1: Hardy and Time (Temporality III)
Chair: Roger Ebbatson |
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| Jonathan Godshaw Memel | ‘Human Associations’: The Past in Hardy’s Schoolrooms |
| Trish Ferguson | Death After Darwin: Thomas Hardy and the Desire for Human Immortality. |
| Catherine Charlwood | ‘Travel, memory-possessed’: Mental Time Travel in Hardy’s Verse |
| C.2: Representing Children (Life-Cycle V)
Chair: |
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| Galia Benziman | The Self-Made Child: Dickens and the Delusion of Inferior Origins |
| Anna West | ‘Baby’ Creatures: Thomas Hardy’s Poems for Children |
| J Sage | Charles Dodgson’s Mid-Victorian Child: Innocence and Instability |
| C.3: The Ages of Woman (Life-Cycle VI)
Chair: |
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| Laura Monrós-Gaspar | ‘Forgive a poor lone woman’s schemings’: Strong-minded women and Victorian appropriations of the classical past |
| Tara Puri | The Coming of Age of the Indian New Woman |
| Claudia Capancioni | Janet Ross’s Intergenerational Conversations: Women’s Lives in the Victorian Age |
| C.4: Folk and Folklore (Historical Appropriations VI)
Chair: |
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| E Richardson | The Prophetic Imagination: Andrew Lang and Scottish Second Sight |
| Jodie Matthews | ‘This is an artificial age’: The Late Victorian Search for Authenticity |
| Katie Heathman | Folklore and the Past in the Social Work of Mary Neal and Grace Kimmins |
| C.5: NNCN: Victorian Secrets (Periodization IV)
Chair: Merrick Burrow, University of Huddersfield |
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| Jim Mussell | Time to Tell: Secrecy and Narrative in the 19th Century |
| Fern Pullan | Haunted Origins: Gothic Traces, the Law and the Domestication of Crime in Victorian Sensation Fiction |
| Guy Woolnough (Keele): | Identity concealed or revealed? The use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system |
| C.6: Intergenerational Tension (Periodization V)
Chair: |
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| Ann Heilmann | George Moore’s Literary Coming-of-Age: Influence-Anxiety and Generational Conflict in Memoirs of my Dead Life |
| W. Manners | Inter-generational Relationships within Cycling Clubs in the 1890s |
| Margery Masterson | Men out of Time: Fire-eating in the Age of Equipoise |
| C.7: Celebrity and Canonisation (Periodization VI)
Chair: |
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| Helen Kingstone | Living Memory and the Dictionary of National Biography |
| Michael J. Sullivan | Tennyson and the 19th-Century Lyric Anthology: Constructing a Victorian Canon |
| Sandra Mayer | A Romantic Legacy: Benjamin Disraeli and Early-Victorian Celebrity Culture |
| C.8: Curating the Victorians
Chairs: Lauren Padgett & Jack Gann |
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| Gail Marshall | |
| Kitty Ross | |
| TBC | |
Panel Session D (Friday 28th 12-1pm)
| D.1: Victorian Studies Journals: Coming of Age
Discussion Roundtable Chair: Helen Rogers |
| TBC |
| TBC |
| TBC |
| D.2: Once Upon A Time: Fairytale Times (Temporality IV)
Chair: |
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| Marilyn Pemberton | ‘This IS long ago’: The Manipulation of Time in Mopsa the Fairy |
| Rebecca Styler | Eros and Cosmos in George Macdonald’s Fairytales |
| D.3: Screen Time (Temporality V)
Chair: |
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| Tristan Burke | The Cinematographic Temporality of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations |
| Madeleine Wood | Thomas de Quincey, Childhood Trauma and Screen Memory |
| D.4: Digging Up The Past (Historical Appropriations VII)
Chair: |
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| Patricia Pulham | The Medieval and Classical Past in George MacDonald’s Phantastes |
| Jessica Cox | Victorian Excavations: Archaeology and History in the Neo-Sensation Novel |
| D.5: Sherlock on the Clock (Periodization VII)
Chair: |
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| K Brombley | Sherlock Holmes: A Victorian Man? |
| S. Tomaiuolo | Zombie Hauntings: The Return of the Present in Victorian Undead |
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
Departure at 2pm for optional fieldtrip in central Leeds: the Heaton Project and the Leeds Library
Panel Session E (Friday 28th 2-3:30)
| E.1: Life Writing (Temporality VI)
Chair: |
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| Clare Stainthorp | The Adolescent Writings of Constance Naden (1875-1879): A Manuscript Discovery |
| Catherine Delafield | Time and Textuality in 19th-century Life Writing |
| David Sorensen | Time and Temporality in Carlyle’s Reminiscences |
| E.2: Times of George Eliot (Temporality VII)
Chair: |
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| Derek Ball | George Eliot’s Use of Time and Speed |
| M Hoffman | Romola’s Distant Past and Eliot’s Age of Uncertainty |
| Gareth Hadyk-DeLodder | Lost Worlds, Lost Times: Nostalgic Appropriations in the Paratexts of George Eliot and Charles Kingsley |
| E.3: Ideologies of Change (Temporality VIII)
Chair: |
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| Michael Davis | Evolution, Identity and Agency in The Egoist` |
| Stephane Guy | Graham Wallas’ Socialism and the Issue of Historic Necessity |
| J Waugh | Robert FitzRoy’s ‘Remarks with Reference to the Deluge’, Geological Ages and the ‘Young Reader’. |
| E.4: Ageing (Life Cycle VII)
Chair: |
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| A.G. Tait | Old Age, Ageing, and the Second Life of Thomas Hardy |
| C Ichikawa | The Aged Body and Sexuality in Arabella Kenealy’s Works |
| S. Parker | ‘O Time-worn Woman’: Female Aesthete’s Portraits of Ageing |
| E.5: Growing up Well (Life-Cycle VIII)
Chair: |
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| Rebecca Barnes | Growing up Computer in the 19th Century: Computational Models of Child Development in Charles Babbage’s Passages from the Life of a Philosopher |
| Erin Johnson-Hill | Mobilities of Ageing: Victorian Music Education and Youthful Physicality |
| Alice Crossley | Male Adolescence and Conduct Literature in George Meredith’s Fiction |
| E.6: Victorian Medievalism (Historical Appropriations VIII)
Chair: |
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| Kristina McClendon | Cultivating a National Narrative: Queen Victoria, Undine, and Britain’s Anglo-Saxon Past |
| K Lister | Age of Empire: The Medievalism of Louisa Stuart Costello |
| Odile Boucher Rivalain | ‘Today’: Past and Present in the Definition of the Victorian Age in the Architectural Debates of the Early and Mid-Victorian Period |
| E.7: The Making of the Modern Woman (Periodization VIII)
Chair: |
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| Susie Steinbach | Surviving Heartbreak: Young Women and Resilience in Some Late 19th-Century Breach of Promise Cases |
| Emma Liggins | On the Border: Lesbianism and Hysteria in fin-de-siècle fiction |
| Kali Israel | Remembering ‘Being Modern’ in Early 20th-Century Edinburgh |
3:30 – 4:00 Refreshment Break
Panel Session F (Friday 28th 4-5pm)
| F.1: Time and Experience (Temporality IX)
Chair: |
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| Philipp Erchinger | Experimental Passages: Experience, Time and Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy |
| Richard Salmon | Illustrations of Time: Thackeray, Cruikshank and The Comic Almanack |
| F.2: Crossing the Bar (Temporality X)
Chair: |
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| Bethan Carney | Time’s Inheritance in Charles Dickens’s Christmas Books and F.D. Maurice’s ‘On Eternal Life and Eternal Death’ |
| Ben Moore | Unlimited Liability Across the Generations in Little Dorrit |
| F.3: Dead on Time (Life-Cycle IX)
Chair: |
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| Vicky Holmes | Life and Death in the Victorian Bed |
| Helen Goodman | Mourning Masculinities: Death, Dickens and Pathological Melancholia |
| F.4: Appropriating Ancient Egypt (Historical Appropriations IX)
Chair: |
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| Eleanor Dobson | Deciphering the City: Modern London and Ancient Egypt |
| David Gange | Books of the Dead: Placing Death in Time in the 1890s |
| F.5: Periodizing the Pre-Raphaelites (Periodization IX)
Chair: |
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| Amelia Yeates | Pre-Raphaelitism and Periodization |
| Jordan Kistler | What’s in a name? The Pre-Raphaelitism of the 1870s |
| F.6: Oscar Wilde is out of Time (Periodization X)
Chair: |
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| Haythem Bastawy | Oscar Wilde: A Victorian Sage in a Modern Age |
| Nazia Parveen | Oscar Wilde and Plato |
| F.7: Imperial Ages (Periodization XI)
Chair: |
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| Cole Wehrle | Empire’s Narrative Clockwork: Imagining the Global in Thackeray’s The Newcomes |
| Rachel Dickinson | ‘In a Time that is full of deadly realities’: Empires Past and Present, 1850-51 |
5.00 Transport to Leeds for Reception/Musical Event
5.30-6.30 Reception: 15th Birthday of BAVS (School of Music, Leeds)
6.30-7.30 Musical Event (School of Music, Leeds)
7.30 Transport back to LTU for all delegates
8:00 Conference Dinner
9:00 onwards Bar open
Saturday 29th August
7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
From 8:30 Registration
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture
| Chair: |
| Professor Martin Hewitt, University of Huddersfield: ‘’Victorian Generations’ |
10:00 – 10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45-12:15 Panel Session G
| G.1: Time and Eternity (Temporality XI)
Chair: |
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| Susie Paskins | Time and Eternity in Kipling’s ‘The Bridge Builders’ |
| Sally-Anne Huxtable | House Beautiful: Time, Eternity and Evolution in the Work of Walter Pater and Phoebe Anna Traquair. |
| Howard Carlton | Time, space and span of control: how could a Victorian astronomer locate a personal God in an expanding universe? |
| G.2: Repetition and Disruption (Temporality XII)
Chair: |
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| Sabrina Gilchrist | Charting Time Through Narration in The Woman in White |
| Roger Ebbatson | Nietzschean Recurrence in Hardy’s Poetry |
| Jack Sullivan | Temporality, the moment and murder in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Daniel Deronda. |
| G.3: Ahead and Behind Time: Precocity and Backwardness (Life-Cycle X)
Chair: |
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| Rebecca N. Mitchell | Industry and Idleness: Precocious Genius in the Victorian Era |
| Roisín McCloskey | Children and Language in Victorian Child Psychology and Children’s Literature |
| Hannah Field | Illustrious Dunces |
| G.4: Modelling Childhood (Life-Cycle XI)
Chair: |
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| B Moniez | Heroes of the Past in Victorian Times |
| A Selleri | Swinburne and Boyhood |
| Chloé Holland | Ellen Wood’s Gendered Representations of Children |
| G.5: Rewriting Dickens in a Post-Dickensian Age (Historical Appropriations X)
Chair: |
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| Pete Orford | Imitating the Inimitable: Writing a Dickensian Ending for Edwin Drood |
| Emily Bowles | From Charles Dickens’s Character to the Characteristically Dickensian |
| Maureen England | Dolly Varden: Character and Cultural Memory in Dickens’ |
| G.6: Moving to Modernity (Periodization XII)
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| Duncan Marks | Through the Years: The Use of Rhythmical Calendar Ellipsis in Literary Depictions of Victorians and their Progeny in the Age of Anti-Victorianism, c.1910-39 |
| Carolyn Burdett | Victorian Sympathy versus Modernist Empathy? |
| Linda Dryden | The Inheritors: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and H.G. Wells’s Conflicting Responses to the Victorian Age |
| G.7: Documenting Place and Time (Periodization XIII)
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| Joanna Robinson | Fictionalising the Archive: Expressing Time through Reader-Response |
| Mhairi Morrison | Thomas Hardy’s Approach to History in The Trumpet-Major |
| J Franklin | The Lover and the Teacher: Normative Development in Love and Mr Lewisham |
12.15-12.30 Short Break
12.30-1.30 President’s Roundtable on Periodisation
| Chair: Professor Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University | |
| TBC | |
| TBC | |
| TBC | |
Packed Lunch (available from 1.30pm)
Departure for optional fieldtrip to Bronte Parsonage Museum from 2pm (not included in conference fee).
‘Victorian Age(s): BAVS 2015 Conference Draft Programme
(as of 1st June)
Thursday 27th August
7.30-9.30 Breakfast
9:00 onwards Registration
9:30-12:30 PGR/ECR Workshop
| Impact and Public Engagement | |
| 9.30-9.50 | Kate Compton (York Army Museum) |
| 9.50-10.10: | TBC |
| 10.10-10.30 | Dr Grace Farringdon (The Reader Organisation) |
| 10.30-10.45 | Questions |
| 10.45-11.00 | Break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Workshop |
12:00-1:15 Refreshments available for arriving delegates
12:30-1:15 Light lunch available for PGR/ECR workshop participants only
1:15-2:30 Opening of Conference/Roundtable on Old Age
| Chair: | |
| Helen Small | |
| Pat Thane | |
| Christiana Payne | |
Panel Session A (Thurs 27th 2:30-4pm)
| A.1: Golden Ages and Stages (Temporality I)
Chair: |
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| L. Barnes | The Stages of Nicholas Nickleby: Adapting Dickens’ Novel for the Theatre |
| Kate Newey | Golden Ages: The Victorian Theatre, Nostalgia and Modernity |
| Peter Yeandle | Simultaneous Stages: Authenticity and Artifice at Belle Vue |
| A.2: Brontës’ Early Writings (Life-Cycle I)
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| Valerie Sanders | ‘Unmarked Auditors’: The strange Presence of Children in the Brontë Juvenilia. |
| Emma Butcher | (Re)Writing Military History in the Early Narratives of Charlotte and Branwell Brontë |
| Erin Nyborg | Heroic Masculinity in Charlotte and Emily’s Belgian Essays: An Apprenticeship in Victorian Authorship |
| A.3: (W)rites of Passage: Funerals, Wills, and Memorial Cards (Life-Cycle II)
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| Helen Frisby | Revelry and Rivalry in the 19th-century English Funeral |
| Judith Frisby | The Story of John Battye’s Will |
| Claire Wood | Ordering Meaning in the Victorian Memorial Card |
| A.4: The Age of Professionalization: Briefless Barristers, Lady Doctors, and Army Officers (Periodization I)
Chair: Clare Horrocks |
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| Ann M. Hale | From Questionable Ethics to Marriage Prospects: Briefless Barristers and the Changing Legal Profession |
| Alison Moulds | An (Un)suitable Job for a Woman: Constructions of the ‘Lady Doctor’ in 19th-Century Medical Writing |
| Beth Gaskell | Periodical Professionalization: The Periodical Press and the Fight for the Professional Development of the British Army |
| A.5: Appropriating the Romantic and the Revolutionary (Historical Appropriations I)
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| P Cook | Charles Dickens and the Romantic Legacy: The Struggle for Time |
| Georgina Hunter | The Revolutionary Age in the Mid-19th Century Periodical Press |
| Courtney Salvey | The Age of Invention: Early Victorian Histories of Invention and Industry |
| A.6: The Age of Martyrs (Historical Appropriations II)
Chair: Elizabeth Ludlow |
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| Brian H. Murray | ‘The Son of God goes forth to War’: The Imperial Martyr’s Hymnbook |
| Victoria Mills | Hypatia, The New Woman and Martyrdom in the 1890s |
| Kate Nichols | Diana or Christ? Conflicting Ages in Victorian Visualisations of Early Christian Martyrdom |
| A.7: Subtle Thieves of Age(s): Poetic Appropriations (Historical Appropriations III)
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| Orla Polten | ‘Neither English nor Greek’? The Tragic Metres of Browning’s Agamemnon |
| Laura Kilbride | Pure Greek? The Problem of Style in Swinburne’s Greek Tragedies |
| Jerome Wynter | Revivifying a Seventeenth-Century Trope for a Nineteenth-Century Purpose in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘The African: A Poem in Two Cantos’ |
4:00-4:45 Refreshment Break
Panel Session B (Thurs 27th 4:45-6:15)
| B.1: Transported Through Time (Temporality II)
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| Rose Roberto | Visualising Progress in Chambers’s Illustrated Encyclopedia |
| Paul Raphael Rooney | Railway Reading Time and Post-1870 Readers |
| Dany van Dam | Stopping Time to Stop Forgetting: Sea Journeys and Temporal Separation in Neo-Victorian Fiction |
| B.2: Imaginary Childhoods (Life-Cycle III)
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| Clare Walker Gore | Disability, Desire and Dickens’s Child-Women |
| Kirstie Blair | ‘National Dialect in the Nursery’: Childishness and the Scottish Working-Class Poet |
| J Holt | A View from the Bath: Recovering Childhood Innocence in 19th-century Japan. |
| B.3: Saints and Martyrs (Historical Appropriations IV)
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| Elizabeth Ludlow | The Body’s Grace: Mid-Victorian Narratives of Female Martyrdom and Monasticism |
| Rachel Webster | Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena (1878), exemplary femininity, and the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act |
| B.4: Antiques and Conservation (Historical Appropriations V)
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| Heidi Egginton | The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart and the ‘Pastime’ of Antique Collecting after 1868 |
| Allison Adler Kroll | William Morris and Thomas Hardy at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings: The Ethos of Cultural Conservation in the Later 19th Century |
| Anne Anderson | Old Things and Degenerate Bodies: The ‘fearful consequences’ of ‘living up’ to one’s antiques. |
| B.5: Travelling Through Time (Periodization II)
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| Catherine Redford | ‘Great safe spaces down deep’: The Imagined Age of the Subterranean |
| Jacob Jewusiak | The Technology Age: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the Political Economy of Ageing |
| Simon James | H.G. Wells: Textual Revision Travelling in Time |
| B.6: Age(s) of the Press (Periodization III)
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| Jock Macleod | Constructing ‘The Age of the Press’: A Historiography of Victorian Newspaper Histories |
| Clare Horrocks | Success Through the Ages: Punch and the Modernist Challenge 1874-1906 |
| Melissa Score | An Age of Campaigns: Serial Publication and Advocacy in the Victorian Press |
| B.7: Mid-Life Crises (Life-Cycle IV)
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| Michael Meeuwis | Against the Carnivalesque: The Middle-Aged Man in Victorian Drama, 1860-1914 |
| Ryan Sweet | Humour, Midlife, and Cosmetic Prosthesis Use in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) |
| Shelagh Ward | Borrowed Time: The Progress and Persistence of Female Suicide Survivors in late Victorian Bradford |
6.15-7.15 British Association of Victorian Studies AGM
7:15-8:00 21st Anniversary of LCVS Wine Reception
8:00 –9:00 dinner
9:00 onwards Bar Open
Friday 28th August
7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
8:30 onwards Registration
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture
| Chair: |
| Professor Nicholas Daly, University College, Dublin: ‘Modern Swashbucklers and Matinee Idols: The Age of Ruritania’ |
10:00 – 10:30 Refreshment Break
Panel Session C (Friday 28th 10:30-12:00)
| C.1: Hardy and Time (Temporality III)
Chair: Roger Ebbatson |
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| Jonathan Godshaw Memel | ‘Human Associations’: The Past in Hardy’s Schoolrooms |
| Trish Ferguson | Death After Darwin: Thomas Hardy and the Desire for Human Immortality. |
| Catherine Charlwood | ‘Travel, memory-possessed’: Mental Time Travel in Hardy’s Verse |
| C.2: Representing Children (Life-Cycle V)
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| Galia Benziman | The Self-Made Child: Dickens and the Delusion of Inferior Origins |
| Anna West | ‘Baby’ Creatures: Thomas Hardy’s Poems for Children |
| J Sage | Charles Dodgson’s Mid-Victorian Child: Innocence and Instability |
| C.3: The Ages of Woman (Life-Cycle VI)
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| Laura Monrós-Gaspar | ‘Forgive a poor lone woman’s schemings’: Strong-minded women and Victorian appropriations of the classical past |
| Tara Puri | The Coming of Age of the Indian New Woman |
| Claudia Capancioni | Janet Ross’s Intergenerational Conversations: Women’s Lives in the Victorian Age |
| C.4: Folk and Folklore (Historical Appropriations VI)
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| E Richardson | The Prophetic Imagination: Andrew Lang and Scottish Second Sight |
| Jodie Matthews | ‘This is an artificial age’: The Late Victorian Search for Authenticity |
| Katie Heathman | Folklore and the Past in the Social Work of Mary Neal and Grace Kimmins |
| C.5: NNCN: Victorian Secrets (Periodization IV)
Chair: Merrick Burrow, University of Huddersfield |
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| Jim Mussell | Time to Tell: Secrecy and Narrative in the 19th Century |
| Fern Pullan | Haunted Origins: Gothic Traces, the Law and the Domestication of Crime in Victorian Sensation Fiction |
| Guy Woolnough (Keele): | Identity concealed or revealed? The use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system |
| C.6: Intergenerational Tension (Periodization V)
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| Ann Heilmann | George Moore’s Literary Coming-of-Age: Influence-Anxiety and Generational Conflict in Memoirs of my Dead Life |
| W. Manners | Inter-generational Relationships within Cycling Clubs in the 1890s |
| Margery Masterson | Men out of Time: Fire-eating in the Age of Equipoise |
| C.7: Celebrity and Canonisation (Periodization VI)
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| Helen Kingstone | Living Memory and the Dictionary of National Biography |
| Michael J. Sullivan | Tennyson and the 19th-Century Lyric Anthology: Constructing a Victorian Canon |
| Sandra Mayer | A Romantic Legacy: Benjamin Disraeli and Early-Victorian Celebrity Culture |
| C.8: Curating the Victorians
Chairs: Lauren Padgett & Jack Gann |
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| Gail Marshall | |
| Kitty Ross | |
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Panel Session D (Friday 28th 12-1pm)
| D.1: Victorian Studies Journals: Coming of Age
Discussion Roundtable Chair: Helen Rogers |
| TBC |
| TBC |
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| D.2: Once Upon A Time: Fairytale Times (Temporality IV)
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| Marilyn Pemberton | ‘This IS long ago’: The Manipulation of Time in Mopsa the Fairy |
| Rebecca Styler | Eros and Cosmos in George Macdonald’s Fairytales |
| D.3: Screen Time (Temporality V)
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| Tristan Burke | The Cinematographic Temporality of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations |
| Madeleine Wood | Thomas de Quincey, Childhood Trauma and Screen Memory |
| D.4: Digging Up The Past (Historical Appropriations VII)
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| Patricia Pulham | The Medieval and Classical Past in George MacDonald’s Phantastes |
| Jessica Cox | Victorian Excavations: Archaeology and History in the Neo-Sensation Novel |
| D.5: Sherlock on the Clock (Periodization VII)
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| K Brombley | Sherlock Holmes: A Victorian Man? |
| S. Tomaiuolo | Zombie Hauntings: The Return of the Present in Victorian Undead |
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
Departure at 2pm for optional fieldtrip in central Leeds: the Heaton Project and the Leeds Library
Panel Session E (Friday 28th 2-3:30)
| E.1: Life Writing (Temporality VI)
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| Clare Stainthorp | The Adolescent Writings of Constance Naden (1875-1879): A Manuscript Discovery |
| Catherine Delafield | Time and Textuality in 19th-century Life Writing |
| David Sorensen | Time and Temporality in Carlyle’s Reminiscences |
| E.2: Times of George Eliot (Temporality VII)
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| Derek Ball | George Eliot’s Use of Time and Speed |
| M Hoffman | Romola’s Distant Past and Eliot’s Age of Uncertainty |
| Gareth Hadyk-DeLodder | Lost Worlds, Lost Times: Nostalgic Appropriations in the Paratexts of George Eliot and Charles Kingsley |
| E.3: Ideologies of Change (Temporality VIII)
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| Michael Davis | Evolution, Identity and Agency in The Egoist` |
| Stephane Guy | Graham Wallas’ Socialism and the Issue of Historic Necessity |
| J Waugh | Robert FitzRoy’s ‘Remarks with Reference to the Deluge’, Geological Ages and the ‘Young Reader’. |
| E.4: Ageing (Life Cycle VII)
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| A.G. Tait | Old Age, Ageing, and the Second Life of Thomas Hardy |
| C Ichikawa | The Aged Body and Sexuality in Arabella Kenealy’s Works |
| S. Parker | ‘O Time-worn Woman’: Female Aesthete’s Portraits of Ageing |
| E.5: Growing up Well (Life-Cycle VIII)
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| Rebecca Barnes | Growing up Computer in the 19th Century: Computational Models of Child Development in Charles Babbage’s Passages from the Life of a Philosopher |
| Erin Johnson-Hill | Mobilities of Ageing: Victorian Music Education and Youthful Physicality |
| Alice Crossley | Male Adolescence and Conduct Literature in George Meredith’s Fiction |
| E.6: Victorian Medievalism (Historical Appropriations VIII)
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| Kristina McClendon | Cultivating a National Narrative: Queen Victoria, Undine, and Britain’s Anglo-Saxon Past |
| K Lister | Age of Empire: The Medievalism of Louisa Stuart Costello |
| Odile Boucher Rivalain | ‘Today’: Past and Present in the Definition of the Victorian Age in the Architectural Debates of the Early and Mid-Victorian Period |
| E.7: The Making of the Modern Woman (Periodization VIII)
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| Susie Steinbach | Surviving Heartbreak: Young Women and Resilience in Some Late 19th-Century Breach of Promise Cases |
| Emma Liggins | On the Border: Lesbianism and Hysteria in fin-de-siècle fiction |
| Kali Israel | Remembering ‘Being Modern’ in Early 20th-Century Edinburgh |
3:30 – 4:00 Refreshment Break
Panel Session F (Friday 28th 4-5pm)
| F.1: Time and Experience (Temporality IX)
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| Philipp Erchinger | Experimental Passages: Experience, Time and Eliot’s The Spanish Gypsy |
| Richard Salmon | Illustrations of Time: Thackeray, Cruikshank and The Comic Almanack |
| F.2: Crossing the Bar (Temporality X)
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| Bethan Carney | Time’s Inheritance in Charles Dickens’s Christmas Books and F.D. Maurice’s ‘On Eternal Life and Eternal Death’ |
| Ben Moore | Unlimited Liability Across the Generations in Little Dorrit |
| F.3: Dead on Time (Life-Cycle IX)
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| Vicky Holmes | Life and Death in the Victorian Bed |
| Helen Goodman | Mourning Masculinities: Death, Dickens and Pathological Melancholia |
| F.4: Appropriating Ancient Egypt (Historical Appropriations IX)
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| Eleanor Dobson | Deciphering the City: Modern London and Ancient Egypt |
| David Gange | Books of the Dead: Placing Death in Time in the 1890s |
| F.5: Periodizing the Pre-Raphaelites (Periodization IX)
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| Amelia Yeates | Pre-Raphaelitism and Periodization |
| Jordan Kistler | What’s in a name? The Pre-Raphaelitism of the 1870s |
| F.6: Oscar Wilde is out of Time (Periodization X)
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| Haythem Bastawy | Oscar Wilde: A Victorian Sage in a Modern Age |
| Nazia Parveen | Oscar Wilde and Plato |
| F.7: Imperial Ages (Periodization XI)
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| Cole Wehrle | Empire’s Narrative Clockwork: Imagining the Global in Thackeray’s The Newcomes |
| Rachel Dickinson | ‘In a Time that is full of deadly realities’: Empires Past and Present, 1850-51 |
5.00 Transport to Leeds for Reception/Musical Event
5.30-6.30 Reception: 15th Birthday of BAVS (School of Music, Leeds)
6.30-7.30 Musical Event (School of Music, Leeds)
7.30 Transport back to LTU for all delegates
8:00 Conference Dinner
9:00 onwards Bar open
Saturday 29th August
7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
From 8:30 Registration
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture
| Chair: |
| Professor Martin Hewitt, University of Huddersfield: ‘’Victorian Generations’ |
10:00 – 10:45 Refreshment Break
10:45-12:15 Panel Session G
| G.1: Time and Eternity (Temporality XI)
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| Susie Paskins | Time and Eternity in Kipling’s ‘The Bridge Builders’ |
| Sally-Anne Huxtable | House Beautiful: Time, Eternity and Evolution in the Work of Walter Pater and Phoebe Anna Traquair. |
| Howard Carlton | Time, space and span of control: how could a Victorian astronomer locate a personal God in an expanding universe? |
| G.2: Repetition and Disruption (Temporality XII)
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| Sabrina Gilchrist | Charting Time Through Narration in The Woman in White |
| Roger Ebbatson | Nietzschean Recurrence in Hardy’s Poetry |
| Jack Sullivan | Temporality, the moment and murder in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Daniel Deronda. |
| G.3: Ahead and Behind Time: Precocity and Backwardness (Life-Cycle X)
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| Rebecca N. Mitchell | Industry and Idleness: Precocious Genius in the Victorian Era |
| Roisín McCloskey | Children and Language in Victorian Child Psychology and Children’s Literature |
| Hannah Field | Illustrious Dunces |
| G.4: Modelling Childhood (Life-Cycle XI)
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| B Moniez | Heroes of the Past in Victorian Times |
| A Selleri | Swinburne and Boyhood |
| Chloé Holland | Ellen Wood’s Gendered Representations of Children |
| G.5: Rewriting Dickens in a Post-Dickensian Age (Historical Appropriations X)
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| Pete Orford | Imitating the Inimitable: Writing a Dickensian Ending for Edwin Drood |
| Emily Bowles | From Charles Dickens’s Character to the Characteristically Dickensian |
| Maureen England | Dolly Varden: Character and Cultural Memory in Dickens’ |
| G.6: Moving to Modernity (Periodization XII)
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| Duncan Marks | Through the Years: The Use of Rhythmical Calendar Ellipsis in Literary Depictions of Victorians and their Progeny in the Age of Anti-Victorianism, c.1910-39 |
| Carolyn Burdett | Victorian Sympathy versus Modernist Empathy? |
| Linda Dryden | The Inheritors: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and H.G. Wells’s Conflicting Responses to the Victorian Age |
| G.7: Documenting Place and Time (Periodization XIII)
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| Joanna Robinson | Fictionalising the Archive: Expressing Time through Reader-Response |
| Mhairi Morrison | Thomas Hardy’s Approach to History in The Trumpet-Major |
| J Franklin | The Lover and the Teacher: Normative Development in Love and Mr Lewisham |
12.15-12.30 Short Break
12.30-1.30 President’s Roundtable on Periodisation
| Chair: Professor Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University | |
| TBC | |
| TBC | |
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Packed Lunch (available from 1.30pm)
Departure for optional fieldtrip to Bronte Parsonage Museum from 2pm (not included in conference fee).
Registration now Open/Revised Draft Programme (27 May)!
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Victorian Age(s) 