Thursday 12 September
9-9:30: Registration
9:30-11:00: Keynote Lecture: Michael Slater, 'Prize Novelists and Condensed Novels: Thackeray and Bret Harte'
COFFEE
11:30-12:45:
Christopher Pittard, ‘V for
Ventriloquism: Popular Culture and Authorship in Henry Cockton’s Valentine Vox’
Adam Abraham, ‘Contingency,
Counterfactuality, and the Construction of Authorship: Thomas Miller’s
Writer-Hero’
Ruth Doherty, ‘“Sickly, fetid,
pestiferous”: the graveyards in G. W. M. Reynold’s The Mysteries of London and Charles Dickens’s Bleak House’
LUNCH
2:00 – 3:15:
Marina Cano-Lopez, ‘Novelist
and Niece: Catherine Anne Hubback and Jane Austen’
Monika Mazurek, ‘George Borrow
– a bigot or multi-culturalist?’
Peter Stiles, ‘A Study of
Selected Works by Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Elizabeth Gaskell’
3:30-4:45:
Brian Murray, ‘Novelist,
Critic, Cardinal: Nicholas Wiseman and the Other Victorian Realism’
Diana Powell, ‘Lesser by
Choice: Elizabeth Sewell’s encumbered female teachers against Charlotte Yonge’s
spiritual leaders’
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Friday 13 September
9:30-11:00: Keynote Lecture: Ciaran Brady, 'The Forgotten Froude: Novelist of the 1840s'
COFFEE
11:30-12:45:
Richard Pearson, ‘Foul Play:
a collaboration between Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault’
Rebecca Langworthy, ‘“I do not
write for children but for the childlike”—The Fantasy of George MacDonald’
Anne Schwan, ‘Frederick William
Robinson and the Literary Tradition of “Low Life”’
LUNCH
2:00 – 3:15:
Elizabeth Andrews, ‘Sensation
Fiction as Social Activism’
Samantha McMillen, ‘The Weird, the Wonderful and Braddon: Psychology and Medicine in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Short Stories’
Matthew Ingleby, ‘Perfomative
Politics and Gendered Geography in The Prophet’s Mantle’
3:30-4:45:
Clare Clarke, ‘“The most
popular book of modern times”: Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886)’
Loriner Allan, ‘Baby Farming in
George Moore’s Esther Waters (1894) and the Pall Mall Gazette’
Paul Rooney, ‘Dat Cura Commodum
or A Portrait of a Deviant Mind: Arthur Griffiths’ The Rome Express, “Milne’s Express Series” and
Late Victorian Detective Fiction’
8pm: CONFERENCE DINNER: La Cave Restaurant
