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”
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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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 (
