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2002 Conference & Annual Meeting
"Victoriana: Social, Cultural, and Scientific Developments at Home and Abroad"
16-7 August 2002
At The Michigan League Conference Center
The University of Michigan
911 North University
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
(734) 764-0446
PROGRAM
Special Periodicals Exhibition: The Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, The University of Michigan, 7th Floor, throughout the conference.
Thursday, 15 August 2002
7:00 p.m.: Board Meeting, Zanzibar Restaurant, 216 State Street, (734) 994-7777.
Friday, 16 August 2002
8:00am: Registration - 2nd floor concourse
8:00am - 8:30am: Continental Breakfast
8:30am - 8:45am: Welcome - Russ Larson, Head, English Department, Eastern Michigan University: Vandenberg Room, 2nd Floor
9:00am - 10:45 am: Session 1: Art - Vandenberg Room, 2nd floor, The Michigan League
Chair: Nancy M. West, University of Missouri-Columbia
- ‘For the English Public’: Art, Philanthropy and the Periodical Press 1880-1900 (Meghan Clarke, University of Sussex)
- Communicating Change: A Study of Architectural Reporting in the Illustrated London News (Carol A. Flores, College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University)
- The Periodical as Cultural Bellwether in Fin-de-Siecle England and Japan (Thomas J. Tobin, The William Morris Society)
10:45am - 11:00am - Coffee and Tea Break, Concourse
11:00am - 12:15pm: Session 2: Women - Vandenberg Room, 2nd Floor
Chair: Sally Mitchell, Temple University
- Unimagined Allegiances and Commonalties: Interpreting Eliza Lynn Linton’s and Sarah Grand’s Essays through the Lens of Journalism (Andrea Broomfield, Johnson County Community College)
- The Perils of Periodical Publication: Literary Darwinism and the Woman Reader in the Sensational Sixties (Laurie Garrison, Birkbeck College, University of London)
- Beautiful For Ever! Madame Rachel, Madame Sara, and the Sorceress of the Strand (Elizabeth Miller, University of Wisconsin)
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12:30pm - 1:15pm: lunch on your own
3:00pm - 4:30pm: Session 4: Periodicals and Pedagogy: A Roundtable Discussion - Vandenberg Room, 2nd Floor
- The Serial Reading Process (Andrea Kaston Tange, Eastern Michigan University)
- Using Victorian Periodicals in a Modern Drama Course (Julianne Smith, Pepperdine University)
- Using Dickens’s Hard Times in its Periodical Context (Jennifer Phegley, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
- Teaching the Victorian Public Sphere Using Periodicals (Dallas Liddle, Augsburg College)
- Victorian Periodicals and their Readers (Susan D. Bernstein, University of Wisconsin- Madison)
5:00pm - 6:00pm: Michael Wolff Lecture - Vandenberg Room: Joanne Shattock, University of Leicester
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Wine Reception - The Concourse, 2nd Floor
Saturday, 17 August 2002
8:00am - 8:30am: Continental Breakfast
8:45am - 10:15am: Session 5: Harriet Martineau in the Periodical Press: From the 1820s to the Civil War
Chair: Anka Ryall, University of Tromso
- The Author as Post-Romantic: Periodical Journalism and the Origins of Martineau’s Career (Linda Peterson, Yale University)
- Harriet Martineau, Health, and Journalism (Maria Frawley, University of Delaware)
- Harriet Martineau’s Periodical Writing on Slavery (Deborah Logan, Western Kentucky University)
10:15am - 10:30am: coffee/tea break - Concourse
10:30am - 11:45am: Session 6a: The Working Class - Kalamazoo Room
Chair: Dale Trela, University of Michigan-Flint
- Lloyd’s Most Popular Serialized Novels: A Study in Oppression (Juliette Berning Schaefer, Ohio Dominican College)
- Reading Servants: Mass Literacy and the Servant Problem in Punch Magazine (Jean Fernandez, University of Iowa)
- Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper: Mid-Nineteenth Century Radicalism and the Queen (Anne Humpherys, City University of New York)
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10:30am - 11:45am: Session 6b: Science - Michigan Room, 2nd floor
Chair: Richard Fulton, Whatcom Community College
- A Savage Debate: Victorian Anthropology in the Periodical Press (Roger A. Pauley, University of Central Arkansas)
- Vivisection: Crucial or Cruel? Literature and the Creation of Anxiety (Lynne Crockett, New York University)
12:00 noon - 1:45pm: Business Luncheon - Vandenberg Room: deli lunch
Winner of the VanArsdel Prize: Troy Gregory, University of Western Ontario (award to be presented at the luncheon)
2:00pm - 3:15pm: Session 7a: Gender and Periodicals - Vandenberg Room
Chair: Christopher Kent, University of Saskatchewan
- ‘The Way We Dress Now’: Image, Reason and Economics in the Fashion Debates of the Fin-de-Siecle (Barbara Onslow, University of Reading)
- Mr. Jorrocks’s Lost Sporting Magazine (Troy Gregory, University of Western Ontario)
2:00pm - 3:15pm: Session 7b: The Victorian Literary/Aesthetic Landscape
Chair: Christopher C. Dahl, SUNY Geneseo
- Fraser’s ‘Calumniated Women’ and Scandal as Commodity (Kathryn Ledbetter, Southwest Texas State University)
- Across the Cultural Divide: newspaper Texts in the Sherlock Holmes Stories (Edward H. Cohen, Rollins College)
- From Bos to Boz: How Sondheim’s Sweeney is More Dickens than Prest (Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Louisiana State University)
3:15pm - 3:30pm: Coffee and Tea Break - Concourse
3:30pm - 4:45pm: Session 8: Roundtable on Empire - Michigan Room
- Richard Fulton, Whatcom Community College
- Alex Nalbach, Saginaw Valley State University
- Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa
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