NINETEENTH-CENTURY WORLDS: LOCAL / GLOBAL

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LONDON CENTRE

10-12 JULY 2003

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THURSDAY, 10 JULY

10:00 AM Registration Desk Opens

1:30 PM Welcoming Remarks

1:45 – 3:15 PM PLENARY PANEL

Europe's Southern Question: The Other Within

(Position Papers; Not Downloadable)

Panel Organizer and Moderator: Joseph Buttigieg (University of Notre Dame; Buttigieg.1@nd.edu)

Nelson Moe (Columbia University; njm11@columbia.edu)
"North, South, and the Identity of Italy and Europe"

Jane Stabler (University of Dundee; S.J.Stabler@dundee.ac.uk)
“Subduing the Senses? British Romantic Period Travellers and Italian Art”

Roberto Dainotto (Duke University; dainotto@duke.edu)
“The ‘Other’ Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the South”

Session 1: 3:30 – 5:00 PM Panels

1A. Representing India I

Moderator: John Kucich (University of Michigan; jkucich@umich.edu)

Julia Ballerini (Independent Scholar; Jcb212nyc@aol.com)
“Travel as ‘Homework’: Alexis Delagrange’s Photographic Album of India, 1851”

Julie F. Codell (Arizona State University; julie.codell@asu.edu) “Writing the World’s Culture: Global Britain and Local India in Victorian Histories of Art”

David Wayne Thomas (University of Michigan; dwthomas@umich.edu) “Imperial Liberalism: J. F. Stephen and the Codification of Indian Law, 1869-72”

Paul Young (University of Manchester; paul.young@man.ac.uk) “’Carbon, mere carbon’: The Crystal Palace and the Kohinoor”

1B. Globalization/Cosmopolitanism

Moderator: Mark Lussier (Arizona State University; MARK.LUSSIER@asu.edu)

Jeffrey N. Cox (University of Colorado, Boulder; coxj@spot.colorado.edu) “Cockney Cosmopolitanism”

Albena Bakratcheva (New Bulgarian University; alba@bnc.bg) “Revelations of the Place: Transatlantic Romantic Globalizations”

Tanya Agathocleous (Rutgers University; tanya66@covad.net) “A Worldly Readership: Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Literature”

Rita Raley (University of California, Santa Barbara; raley@english.ucsb.edu) “Orientalism, Linguistic Historiography, and the ‘Beginnings’ of Global English”

Ruth E. Iskin (Ben Gurion University; iskin@bgumail.bgu.ac.il) “Imagined Globalization: Depicting World Spectatorship in Fin-de-Siècle Posters”

1C. London and the World

Moderator: Mary Jean Corbett (Miami University: mjqcorbett@aol.com)

Jessica Damián (University of Miami Coral Gables; j.damian@umiami.edu) “Under the T(r)opic of Cancer: Lady Delacour and the Diseased Romantic Body"

Clare Simmons (The Ohio State University; simmons.9@osu.edu) “Worlds Beneath: Blake’s Palimpsestic Archaeology of London” | supplementary images

Thomas Prasch (Washburn University; zzprasch@washburn.edu) “The World in the City: London in 1851”

1D. Musical Spheres

Moderator: Christine Doran (University of Notre Dame; Christine.M.Doran.7@nd.edu)

Lia Laor (Levinsky Teacher’s College; laorl@mandelschool.org.il) “Invitation to Music: Children in the Snares of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy”

Phyllis Weliver (Wilkes University; weliver@wilkes.edu) “The Musical City in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon and Hector Berlioz’s Euphonia”

Anastasia Siopsi (Ionian University; siopsi@ionio.gr) “Opera Made by Imaginary Worlds of Greek Nation: Greek Opera at Nineteenth-Century’s Fin-de-Siècle (1880s-1910s)”

Bennett Zon (University of Durham; bennett.zon@durham.ac.uk) “Studies in Individual Difference: Synaesthesia and Primitive Music in the Early Work of C. S. Myers”

RECEPTION 5:15 – 7:00 PM

FRIDAY, 11 JULY

Session 2: 9:00 – 10:30 AM Panels

2A. Travel: Writing Worlds

Moderator: Alison Booth (University of Virginia; ab6j@virginia.edu)

Alison Byerly (Middlebury College; byerly@middlebury.edu) “’A Prodigious Map Beneath His Feet’: Air Travel, Virtual Travel, and the Panoramic Perspective”

May Caroline Chan (University of Wisconsin-Madison; mchan@students.wisc.edu) “China the Unassimilable: British Victorian Travel Writing on Chinese Food as Imperialistic Metaphor”

Elena Cueto Asín (Bowdoin College; ecueto@bowdoin.edu) and

David R. George (Bates College; dgeorge@bates.edu) “Reading France from Barcelona: Travel Writing and Foreign Correspondence in La Vanguardia”

Annette Van (University of North Carolina; mingyung@earthlink.net) “’The love of ‘smart’ dealing’: Victorian Travel Narratives and the Marketing of America”

2B. Intertextual Pictorial Worlds

Moderator: Julie F. Codell (Arizona State University; julie.codell@asu.edu)

Michaela Giebelhausen (University of Essex, giebelhausen@btopenworld.com) "Posing the Self, Opposing the Other: William Holman Hunt in Text and Image" | supplementary images

Alicia Faxon (Independent Scholar; FAXONA@aol.com) “The Transformation of the Mythic Image in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Late Paintings and Poetry”

Sophia Andres (University of Texas, Permian Basin; Andres_s@utpb.edu) “Reconfigurations of Pre-Raphaelite Gender Constructs in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White”

2C. Making the Middle East

Moderator: Dan White (University of Toronto; dwhite@utm.utoronto.ca)

Nanora Sweet (University of Missouri-St. Louis; sweet@umsl.edu) “Sceptic and Heroic: Gibbon’s Heirs in the East, Byron, Disraeli, Lawrence”

Andrew M. Stauffer (Boston University; astauff@bu.edu) “Byron, Rossetti, and the Worlds of Paper”

Hanita Brand (Academic College of Tel-Aviv; hanitab@mta.ac.il) “Abraham Mapu: Anti-Escapist Escapism; The Construction of an Escapist, Never-Never World, as the Start of a National Movement”

Basem Ra’ad (Al-Quds University; basem48@yahoo.com) “Sacred Geographical Constructions” | supplemental image

2D. The World of Fashion

Moderator: Laura Haigwood (St. Mary’s College; Haigwood@saintmarys.edu)

Laura George (Eastern Michigan; laura.george@emich.edu) “Muslin: Global Fabric, Local Craze”

Terry Robinson (University of Colorado, Boulder; Terry.Robinson@colorado.edu) “The Nation Incarnate: Costume, Conduct, and Containment of the Body Politic in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”

Jill Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado, Boulder; jill.heydt@colorado.edu) ‘The Spring fashions are partly down; and the hats the most frightful you can imagine’: The Subjectivity of Things in the World of the Romantic Novel”

Tom Mole (University of Glasgow; T.Mole@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk) “Byron in the Great World of Celebrity”

Olga Vainshtein (Russian State University for the Humanities; olga_vainshtein@awax.ru) “The World of Dandies: Fashion, Hospitality, and Scandals”

10: 45 AM – 12:15 PM PLENARY ADDRESS

David Arnold (Director, Centre for the History and Culture of Medicine; School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS]; University of London) “Deathscapes: India in an Age of Romanticism and Empire, c. 1790-1856”

Chair. Alan Bewell (University of Toronto; abewell@rogers.com)

LUNCH 12:30 – 2:00 PM

Session 3: 2:00 – 3:45 PM Panels

3A. Domesticity and Consumption

Moderator: Kristin Mahoney (University of Notre Dame; kmahoney@nd.edu)

Gordon Bigelow (Rhodes College; bigelow@rhodes.edu) “Cold Lion’: History and Rationality in Cranford”

Dan Bivona (Arizona State University; DBivona@asu.edu) “The House in the Child and the Dead Mother in the House: Sensational Problems of Household Management”

Kelly Mays (University of Nevada, Las Vegas; kelly.mays@ccmail.nevada.edu) “Domestic Spaces, Readerly Acts: Reading Gender and Class in Working-Class Autobiography”

Matthew Beaumont (Pembroke College, Oxford; matthew.beaumont@pembroke.oxford.ac.uk) “’The World a Department Store’: The Utopian Space of Consumption in the Late Nineteenth Century”

Michael D. Garval (North Carolina State University; garval@social.chass.ncsu.edu) “Gastronomy à la carte” | supplemental images

Dianne F. Sadoff (Miami University; sadoffdf@muohio.edu) “The English Country House, Sex, and Heritage Film”

3B. National Worlds

Moderator: Jennifer Hayward (College of Wooster; jhayward@wooster.edu)

Paul Barlow (University of Northumbria; paul.barlow@unn.ac.uk) “Aryan Worlds”

James Buzard (MIT; jmbuzard@attbi.com) “Outlandish Nationalism: Villette, British Culture, and the Invisible Export”

Mary Jean Corbett (Miami University: mjqcorbett@aol.com) “Making National Feeling in Shirley”

Irene Di Maio (Louisiana State University; idimaio@lsu.edu) “Jewish-German Nation Building: Berthold Auerbach and Fanny Lewald”

Beryl Nicholson (Independent Scholar; beryl1@research32.freeserve.co.uk) “Data Versus Theory: Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Migration and Urbanization”

3C. Networking Women I

Moderator: Christine L. Krueger (Marquette University; christine.krueger@marquette.edu)

Adriana Craciun (University of Nottingham; Adriana.Craciun@nottingham.ac.uk) “The Emigrants: Women's Responses to the French Revolutionary Wars”

Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt University; jay.clayton@vanderbilt.edu) “Women and the World of Science: Mary Somerville in the 1830s”

Isobel Hurst (Corpus Christi College, Oxford; isobel.hurst@english.ox.ac.uk) “Victorian Women Writers and the Ancient World”

Johanna Smith (University of Texas, Arlington; JOHANNASMITH@uta.edu) “Gendered Knowledge and the Public Sphere: Women and/in the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science”

Gerlinde Röder-Bolton (University of Surrey; g.roder-bolton@surrey.ac.uk) “Rahel Levin: Her Salon and Its Afterlife”

3D. Contesting the Americas

Moderator: Keith Hanley (University of Lancaster; K.Hanley@lancaster.ac.uk)

Yael Ben-zvi (Stanford University; yaelb@stanford.edu) “Mapping the Space of U.S. Evolution: Lewis Henry Morgan’s Territorialized Theory of Progress”

Javier Rodriguez (University of Notre Dame; jrodrigu@nd.edu) “De-Nationalizing the American Enemy: James Fenimore Cooper and his Mexican War Tale”

Oz Frankel (New School University; frankelo@newschool.edu) “A League of their Own: Anthropology Coming of Age in 1840s Western New York”

Donald Grinde (University of Vermont; dgrinde@zoo.uvm.edu) “Ely S. Parker, First Native American United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1869-1871”

3E. Homeland Insecurity

Moderator: Carolyn Dever (Vanderbilt University; Carolyn.Dever@vanderbilt.edu)

Alison Booth (University of Virginia; ab6j@virginia.edu) “National Gothic, Or Literary Homes and Haunts” | supplemental images

John Bowen (Keele University; John.Bowen@pipex.dial.com) “Dickens's Estrangements”

Carolyn Dever (Vanderbilt University; Carolyn.Dever@vanderbilt.edu) “Outing the Inside: Paranoia, Psychoanalysis, and Narrative Form”

Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University; eg48@columbia.edu) “Discipline and Pickling: Instituting Englishness in the Indian Household”

Adrienne Munich (SUNY Stony Brook; adrienne.munich@sunysb.edu) “Diamonds and Domesticity”

Patrick O’Malley (Georgetown University; pro@georgetown.edu) “Lady Audley’s Domestic Gothic”

Session 4: 4:00 – 5:45 PM Panels

4A. Cultural Collisions

Moderator: Laura George (Eastern Michigan University; laura.george@emich.edu)

Yuri Yoshino (Goldsmiths College, University of London; yuriyoshin@aol.com)

“Bridging Worlds: Maria Edgeworth’s Patriotism and Its Linguistic Dimension”

Adam Komisaruk (West Virginia University; akomisar@wvu.edu) “Don Juan’s Russian Affair and the Chaos of Selfhood”

Ayse Celikkol (Rice University; ayse@rice.edu) “Without ‘Barriers’: Smugglers and Nationhood in Mid-Century England”

Jean Gregorek (Antioch College; jgregorek@antioch-college.edu) “Samuel Smiles in Africa: The Limits of Victorian Self-Help”

Barbara Wright (Trinity College Dublin: bwright@mail.tcd.ie) “The Local World as the Domestic Exotic in the Work of the Painter-Writer Jules Breton (1827-1905)”

4B. Aesthetic Realms

Moderator: Lara Karpenko (University of Notre Dame; Lara.Karpenko.1@nd.edu)

Therese Dolan (Tyler School of Art; tdolan@temple.edu) “Aesthetic Worlds: French Painting and German Music”

Margaret MacNamidhe (University College Dublin; margaret_macnamidhe@yahoo.com) “And a Child Shall Lead Him: The World of the Paracosm and the Painting of Eugène Delacroix"

Kristin Mahoney (University of Notre Dame; kmahoney@nd.edu) “Haunted Collections: Ethical Aesthetic Consumption in the Late Nineteenth Century”

Veerle Thielemans (Musee d'art americain,Giverny; v.thielemans@maag.org)

“Spatial Proximity/Cultural Gap. Monet and the American Artist Colony in Giverny”

4C. The Worlds of Science

Moderator: Dianne F. Sadoff (Miami University; sadoffdf@muohio.edu)

Alan Bewell (University of Toronto; abewell@rogers.com) “Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne and the Colonial Construction of English National Localities”

Elana Gomel (Tel-Aviv University; egomel@post.tau.ac.il) “Lost and Found: The Lost World Novel and the Shape of the Past”

Andrew Kerrigan (University of Strathclyde; andrewkerrigan2002@yahoo.co.uk) “‘A Strange and Interesting Transformation’: How Samuel Butler Recreated the World”

Peter Logan (University of Alabama; peter.logan@ua.edu) “The Fetishistic World of Victorian Anthropology”

Sally Shuttleworth (University of Sheffield; s.shuttleworth@sheffield.ac.uk) “The Mind of the Child: Evolutionary Psychology and The Way of all Flesh”

4D . Pain, Healing, and Underworlds

Moderator: Gordon Bigelow (Rhodes College; bigelow@rhodes.edu)

Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent University; timothy.fulford@ntu.ac.uk) “A Nation of Masochists: Mesmerism in England and Romantic Poetry”

John Stevenson (University of Colorado; John.Stevenson@Colorado.EDU) “Radcliffe and the Ideal of the Amateur Detective”

Maria Cairney (University of Manchester; MFCXJMLC@fs1.art.man.ac.uk) “Medicine Meets Mass Publishing: Dr Yeoman’s Penny Weekly The People’s Medical Journal and Family Physician
(1850-51)”

Jill Matus (University of Toronto; jmatus@chass.utoronto.ca) “Historicizing Trauma: The Discourse of Terror and Psychic Pain in Daniel Deronda”

Stephanie Palmer (University of Leicester; sc.palmer@ntlworld.com) “Accident, Injury, Disaster, and the Intractability of the Social in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Prose."

Natalie Rose (University of Toronto; nrose@chass.utoronto.ca) “Whipped into Shape: Nineteenth-Century Schools, Boyhood, and Discourses of Flogging”

4E. Transatlantic Discourses of Slavery

Moderator: Kari J. Winter (University of Vermont; kwinter@zoo.uvm.edu)

Wilfred D. Samuels (University of Utah; Wilfred.Samuels@m.cc.utah.edu) “New Heaven and New Earth: Economic Shipwreck in Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”

Kari J. Winter (University of Vermont; kwinter@zoo.uvm.edu) “Jeffrey Brace in Barbados: Slavery, Interracial Relationships, and the Emergence of a Global Economy”

Michael Tomko (University of Notre Dame; mtomko@nd.edu) “Abolition, Imagination, Fancy: Reading the Religious Politics and Poetics of Phillis Wheatley and S.T. Coleridge”

Stephanie LeMenager (University of California, Santa Barbara; slemen@english.ucsb.edu) “Improbable Worlds: The Political Landscapes of North American Abolitionism”

Terry Rowden (Wooster College; trowden@mail.wooster.edu) “Cast(e)gating Carlyle: Race, Rhetoric, and the ‘Nigger’ Question”

LIGHT REFRESHMENTS 5:45 – 7:00 PM

SATURDAY, 12 JULY

Session 5: 9:00 – 10:30 AM Panels

5A. Scottish Formations

Moderator: Chris Vanden Bossche (University of Notre Dame; VandenBossche.1@nd.edu)

Silvana Colella (University of Macerata; silvana.colella@tiscali.it) “’Scotch logic floats on one-pound notes’: Banking and Nationalism in Scotland”

Jennifer Davis Michael (University of the South; jmichael@sewanee.edu) “Ocean meets Ossian: Staffa as Romantic Symbol”

Karen Tongson (University of California Berkeley; ktongson@uclink4.berkeley.edu) “Thomas Carlyle’s Inter-national Accent”

Ewen A. Cameron (University of Edinburgh; scheacs@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk) “The Great Ill-Will of the Lowlander: Perceptions of the Scottish Highlands in the 1880s”

5B. Visual Culture and Performance: Staging the World

Moderator: Juan Sanchez (University of Notre Dame; jsanche1@nd.edu)

Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania; mgamer@english.upenn.edu) “Cream of Tartars: Timour, the Kembles, the Dibdins, and the World”

Jennifer Jones (Louisiana State University; jjjones@lsu.edu) “The Foreign Face of Villainy on the Nineteenth Century British Stage”

Jane Moody (University of York; jsm9@york.ac.uk) “Sites of Censorship in Nineteenth-Century Culture”

Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck College, University of London; h.fraser@bbk.ac.uk) and

Nick Burton (Canterbury Christ Church University; nb1@cant.ac.uk) “’Mirror visions’ and ‘dissolving views’: Vernon Lee and the Worlds of Patrick Geddes’s Outlook Tower”

5C. Heterotopian Spaces and Cultural Productions in fin-de-siècle London

Moderator: Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London; a.parejovadillo@eng.bbk.ac.uk)

Susan D. Bernstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison; sdbernst@facstaff.wisc.edu) “Salon, Club, and Library Spaces as Heterotopias of Levy’s London”

Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway, University of London; Ruth.Livesey@rhul.ac.uk) “Socialists ‘At Home’: The Politics and Poetics of Communal Space in the Works of Dollie Radford and William Morris”

Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London; a.parejovadillo@eng.bbk.ac.uk) “Intimate Publicity: The Aesthetic Salon of A. Mary F. Robinson”

5D. Pacific Crossings

Moderator: Clare Simmons (The Ohio State University; simmons.9@osu.edu)

William Cummings (University of South Florida; wcummin3@luna.cas.usf.edu) “Tattoos, Orientalism, andCultural Transformation”

Ross Forman (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; rf19@soas.ac.uk) “Coolie Cargoes: Emigrant Ships and the Burden of Representation in Turn-of-the-Century British Narratives about China”

Vina A. Lanzona (University of Hawaii-Manoa; vlanzona@hawaii.edu) “Contesting Ethnic Identities: Filipinos at the Spanish Expositions of the Late Nineteenth Century”

Miranda Morris (University of Tasmania; morrisme@postoffice.utas.edu.au) “Without Natural Protectors: The Reception of Female Bounty Immigrants in a Post-Penal Colony”

5E. Representing India II

Moderator: Jill Matus (University of Toronto; jmatus@chass.utoronto.ca)

Anne Mellor (UCLA; mellor@humnet.ucla.edu) “Global Feminism and Elizabeth Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo Rajah”

Nicola Thomas (University of Exeter; Nicola.J.Thomas@exeter.ac.uk) “Lady Curzon, Vicereine of India: At Home Negotiating Imperial Domestic Space Within the Viceregal Residencies of India 1898-1905”

Alan Johnson (Idaho State University; rsn602001@yahoo.com) “The Collection and the Sacred Wood: The British-Indian Aesthetics of Space”

John Kucich (University of Michigan; jkucich@umich.edu) “Social Class from the Center to the Periphery: Kipling's India and Bourgeois Expertise”

Sandhya Shetty (University of New Hampshire; sshetty@cisunix.unh.edu) “Imperial Melancholia and Malaria: The Affliction of Tropical Medicine”

Session 6: 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Panels

6A. Religion: Myth Making and World Shaping

Moderator: Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania; mgamer@english.upenn.edu)

Dan White (University of Toronto; dwhite@utm.utoronto.ca) “’Mysterious Sanctity’: Syncretic / Sectarian Historicisms from Volney to Hemans”

Mark Lussier (Arizona State University; MARK.LUSSIER@asu.edu) “European Romanticism and the Rise of Tibetan Buddhism”

Michael Wheeler (Independent Scholar, mwheeler70@hotmail.com) “Catholic and Protestant Worlds in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England”

Charlotte Whiting (Independent scholar; charlottewhiting@yahoo.co.uk) “South Levantine Worlds: The Nineteenth Century Conception of the ‘Holy Land’ and its Effect on Archaeological Scholarship”

Nancy Davenport (University of the Arts; a.i.davenport@att.net) “Edouard Schuré and Symbolist Art: Myth, Religion, Syncretism and Truth in Fin-de-Siècle Paris”

6B. Special Panel: The State of Ireland: Politics, Economies, and Irishness in the Nineteenth Century (Position Papers, Not Downloadable)

Panel Organizer and Moderator: Susan Harris (University of Notre Dame; susan.c.harris.90@nd.edu)

Seamus Deane (University of Notre Dame; Seamus.F.Deane.4@nd.edu) “Tocqueville and American Democracy--Why Americans Think of Themselves as Humans”

Luke Gibbons (University of Notre Dame; Luke.C.Gibbons.23@nd.edu) “Irishness, Whiteness, and the Cultural Contraband of Race”

David Lloyd (Scripps College; dlloyd@scrippscol.edu) “Political Economy of the Potato”

Amy Martin (Mount Holyoke College; amartin@mtholyoke.edu) ““Flog the Rank and File”: Irish Nationalism and Formation of the Modern State in the Nineteenth Century”

6C. The Construction of Imaginary Worlds

Moderator: Terry Dolan (Tyler School of Art; tdolan@temple.edu)

Theresa R. Coco (Tyler School of Art; tcoco@wtps.org) “Imagining a Modern Art: The Rendering of Woman in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Degas’s Nudes”

Suzanne Donahue (Mount Saint Mary College; suzdona@astro.temple.edu) “The Role of the Androdyne in Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa”

Martha Gyllenhaal (Bryn Athan College; mgyllen@aol.com) “Imagining the World of Spirits: John Flaxman and Emmanuel Swedenborg”

Suzanne Singletary (Philadelphia University; SingletarySuzann@aol.com) “’Voyage’: Baudelaire, Manet and Whistler”

Laura Watts Sommer (Daemen College; lwattssommer@hotmail.com) “Imagined Worlds: Visions of Egypt in Early-Nineteenth-Century Rome”

6D. Networking Women II

Moderator: Silvana Colella (University of Macerata; silvana.colella@tiscali.it)

Meaghan Clarke (University of Sussex; M.E.Clarke@sussex.ac.uk) "There is no sex in art’: the Nude, the Academy and the Press”

Renata Kobetts Miller (CUNY; remiller@ccny.cuny.edu) “Sensational Rhetoric: The Domestic Novel and the Political Sphere”

Sarah Willburn (Mount Holyoke; swillbur@mtholyoke.edu) “Women's Political Realms: Worlds Apart”

Michelle Elizabeth Tusan (Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas; michelle.tusan@ccmail.nevada.edu) “Women’s Interests Today are as Wide as the World’: Victorian Women Readers Confront the World Outside of Britain”

6E. Going Places

Moderator: Johanna Smith (University of Texas, Arlington; JOHANNASMITH@uta.edu)

Debbie Harrison (Birkbeck College, University of London; debbie.harrison@virgin.net) “The Map and the Man in the Frontier Romance Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Rider Haggard and William Henry Hudson”

Tina Kendall (University of California, Davis; tskendall@ucdavis.edu) “All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go But Down: Tourism in the Parisian Undergrounds”

John Lowerson (University of Sussex; jlowerson@hotmail.com) “’In The Northman’s Land’: Some Late Victorian Uses for Norway”

Andrea Zemgulys (University of Michigan; zemgulys@umich.edu) “More than Just Maps, and No Less: Literary Geography after the Long Nineteenth Century”

LUNCH 12:30 – 2:00 PM

Session 7: 2:00 – 3:30 PM Panels

7A. Harmonies of North and South (Performance/Lecture; Not Downloadable)

Julia Grella (City University of New York; risorgimento@earthlink.com)
“Italianness in English Song”

7B. Transatlantic Worlds

Moderator: Nanora Sweet (University of Missouri-St. Louis; sweet@umsl.edu)

Ivy Wilson (University of Notre Dame; iwilson@nd.edu) “The Iconography of Toussaint L'Overture: Race, Memory, and Modernity”

Paulo Motta Oliveira (Federal University of MinasGerais; paulofmotta@yahoo.com) “Scars and Sutures: the Portuguese World in the Nineteenth Century”

Robin Miskolcze (Loyola Marymount University; rmiskolc@lmu.edu) “Antebellum Women and the Middle Passage: Spectacle of Suffering and Site of Memory” | supplemental images

Jeannine Marie DeLombard (University of Toronto; jdelomba@utm.utoronto.ca);

“Truth’s Roots and Stowe’s Routes: Imagining Black Atlantic Worlds”

Kerry Larson (University of Michigan; klarson@umich.edu) “Emerson, Mill, and British Constructions of US Liberalism”

7C. Historiography: Making Worlds

Moderator: Michael Tomko (University of Notre Dame; mtomko@nd.edu)

Rebecca Jeffrey Easby (Trinity College, Washington, D.C; easbyr@trinitydc.edu)

“Historical Fiction: The ‘World’ of Anglo-Saxon Subjects in Victorian Painting”

William Gallois (American University of Sharjah; wgallois@aus.ac.ae) “Epistemological Choices and Consequences in the Formation of a Nineteenth-Century Historical World”

Kathrin Maurer (University of Arizona; kmaurer@email.arizona.edu) “Narrative Worlds: Conceptions of Nation in Nineteenth-Century German Academic Historiography”

Christine L. Krueger (Marquette University; (christine.krueger@marquette.edu) “M. A. E. Green’s Princesses and the Globalization of Domestic English History”

7D. The Work of Exhibitions

Moderator: Nancy Davenport (University of the Arts; a.i.davenport@att.net)

Luisa Cale (University College, Oxford University; luisa.cale@univ.ox.ac.uk) “Literature at Exhibitions”

John Paul M. Kanwit (Indiana University, Bloomington; jkanwit@indiana.edu) “Teaching the Public to Visit an Art Gallery: The Art Critic and the Victorian Exhibit Space”

Jacqueline Yallop (University of Sheffield; jy@stevenhastings.f9.co.uk) “A Panorama in a pill-box”: Some wide views from Ruskin’s Sheffield Museum”

Lara Karpenko (University of Notre Dame; karpenko.1@nd.edu) “’A Sort of Fascination in the Horrible’: The Spectacular World of the Victorian Freak Show”

Marni Kessler (University of Kansas; mrk@ku.edu) “Face to Face: Colonial Encounters at the French Universal Exhibition of 1889”

COFFEE / TEA BREAK 3:30 – 4:00 PM

4:00-5:30 PM PLENARY ADDRESS

Jane Rendall (University of York; Department of History)

“Bluestockings and Reviewers: Gender, Culture and Politics in Britain, c. 1800-1832”

Chair: Clare Midgley (London Metropolitan University; midgley@lgu.ac.uk)

5:30 – 7:00 PM CLOSING RECEPTION