8.0146 Victorians Institute Conf Program (1/168)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 11 Aug 1994 21:35:32 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0146. Thursday, 11 Aug 1994.
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 9:40:53 EDT
From: dlatane@hibbs.vcu.edu (David E. Latane)
Subject: Victorians Institute Conference Program
The Victorians Institute will hold its annual conference Sept. 30 -
October 1 at the University of Richmond, Virginia. The topic is the
lively one of "Crime" in all its manifestations. Information and
addresses will be found at the end of the program draft. For
information about the Victorians Institute itself, contact
David Latane'
President Victorians Institute
dlatane@hibbs.vcu.edu
>
> DRAFT
>
> VICTORIANS INSTITUTE CONFERENCE
> Sept. 30 - October 1, 1994
>
>
> Schedule of Events
>
> Friday, September 30
>
> 12-1 Registration
>
> 1:00-2:45 Session A. POLICE AND CRIMINOLOGY
> 1.Christine Marlin, Oxford University. "Types of Criminality: The Case of
> Major Arthur Griffiths."
>
> 2.Mary Lenard, University of Texas at Austin. "Inspecting the Inspectors:
> Dickens and the Metropolitan Police."
>
> 3.John R. Reed, Wayne State University. "Carceral Curiosity."
>
> 4.Phillip Thurmond Smith, Saint Joseph's University. "Victorian Detectives."
>
> 3:00-4:45 Session B. CRIME AND THE CLASS SYSTEM
>
> 1.Christine Alfano, Stanford University. "Great Escapes: Ainsworth's Jack
> Sheppard and Early Nineteenth-century Popular Culture."
>
> 2.Laura Sagolla Croley, University of Pennsylvania. "'Wanderers and
Settlers':
> Vagrancy and Middle-Class Culture in Mid-Victorian England."
>
> 3.Rosemary Gould, University of Virginia. "Items of Mortality: Superfluous
> Boys in Victorian Fiction."
>
> 4.Kenneth C. Thompson, George Mason University. "Didactic Sensationalism and
> the Newgate Controversy: Oliver Twist, Jack Sheppard, and Courvoisier.
>
> 6:00-7:30 SOCIAL HOUR -- MAYMONT
>
> 7:30-8:00 Gilbert and Sullivan on Crime
> University of Richmond Music Department, directed by Homer
> Rudolph
>
> 8:00-9:00 "The Tell-Tale Heart" -- dramatic reading and lecture by
> Clifton Raphael
>
> Saturday, October 1
>
> 8:00-10:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
>
> 8:45-10:15 Session C-1. CRIME AND GENDER
> 1.Karen Alkalay-Gut, Tel Aviv University. "The Thing He Loves: Murder as
> Aesthetic Experience in the Ballad of Reading Gaol."
>
> 2.Nanette Thrush, Indiana University. "Painted Faces: Constructing the
> Victorian Murderess in Lady Audley's Secret."
>
> 3.Martin J. Wiener, Rice University. "The Victorian Criminalization of Men."
>
> 4.Christine L. Krueger, Marquette University. "Forging Identities."
>
> 8:45-10:15 Session C-2. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
> 1.Lisa Jadwin, St. John Fisher College. "'Beaten by a Woman's Wit': Arthur
> Conan Doyle Rereads Poe's 'The Purloined Letter.'"
>
> 2.Michael Cohen, Murray State University. "Drawing Inferences: Sidney
> Paget's Illustrations and their Role in Constructing Sherlock Holmes."
>
> 3.Susan M. Bernardo, "Sherlock Holmes and Middle Class Values: Moral
> Ambivalence in Late Victorian Fiction."
>
> 4.Robin Sheets, University of Cincinnati. "Crimes Against Women in Victorian
> Fairy Tales and Detective Fiction."
>
> 10:30-12:00 Session D-1. INVESTIGATING GENDER
>
> 1.Marie Fitzwilliam, College of Charleston. "The Guilty Gaze in Elizabeth
> Gaskell's 'A Dark Night's Work.'"
>
> 2.Pamela L. Moore, SUNY-Stony Brook. "The Investigation of Sensational
> Heroines."
>
> 3.Susan Hillabold, University of Alberta. "Patriarchy and Subversion in Lady
> Audley's Secret."
>
> 4.James W. Maertens, "Empire, Infection and Bedroom Drama in Conan Doyle."
>
> 10:30-12:00 Session D-2. WOMEN AS DETECTIVES AND DETECTIVE FICTION WRITERS
>
> 1.Heidi Johnson, University of Iowa. :Disciplinary Measures: Grant Allen's New
> Woman and the New Woman Detective."
>
> 2.Marie T. Farr, East Carolina University. "Anna Katharine Green, Godmother
> of Detective Fiction."
>
> 3.George Watt, Australian National University. "Mary Fortune."
>
> 12:00-2:00 Lunch
>
> 2:00-3:30 Session E-1. CRIME AND EMPIRE
>
>
> 1.Lillian Nayder, Bates College. "Crimes Against the Empire: Emancipation
and
> Abortion in Collins's Armadale."
>
> 2.Sheila Sullivan, St. Mary's College of Maryland. "Hands Across the Water,
> Crime Across the Sea: Gender, Empire, and Arthur Conan Doyle's America."
>
> 3.Barri Gold, University of Chicago. "Criminal Collaboration and Feminist
> Strategy in Bram Stoker's Dracula."
>
> 4.Leslie Haynsworth, University of Virginia. "The Watson Factor: Detection,
> Affect, and Empire in the Sherlock Holmes Stories."
>
> 2:00-3:30 Session E-2. CRIME AND POPULAR CULTURE
>
> 1.Judith Knelman, University of Western Ontario. "The Murderess and Her
> Public: Nineteenth-Century Murder and Execution Broadsides."
>
> 2.Frederick L. De Naples, University of Pennsylvania. "Writing Stories About
> Murder: Criminality, Newspapers, and Storytelling."
>
> 3.Susan S. Tennery, Purdue University. "'The Burglary, Cut-Throat, and
> Gallows Class of Literature'--Production and Meaning."
>
> 4.Mark Cronin, Saint Anselm College. "Murder and Execution in the Newgate
> Novel: Thackeray's Catherine and the Morality of Literary Murder."
>
> 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break.
>
> 4:00-5:00 Keynote Address
> Hilary M. Schor
> University of Southern California
>
>
> Conference Registration Information is available on request from:
> Kathy Zacher, English Department, University of Richmond, Richmond VA 23173
> 804/289-8776
> fax: 804/289-8313
>
> For additional information contact:
> Dr. Charlotte Oberg or Dr. Elisabeth Gruner
> English Department, University of Richmond
> 804/289-8312 or 8298
> GRUNER@URVAX.URICH.EDU
>
> Elisabeth Gruner
> Asst. Prof. of English &
> Coordinator of Women's Studies
> University of Richmond
> Richmond VA 23173
> gruner@urvax.urich.edu
>