‘Victorian Age(s): BAVS 2015 Conference
Draft Programme
(as of 14 May)
Thursday 27th August
Breakfast (Thursday 27th, 7.30-9.30am)
Registration from 9am (Thursday 27th)
PGR/ECR Workshop (Thurs 27th 9.30-12.30am)
Refreshments available for arriving delegates (Thursday 27th, 12 noon to
1.15pm)
Light lunch available for PGR/ECR workshop participants only (Thursday,
12.30-1.15pm)
Opening of Conference/Roundtable on Old Age (1.15-2.30)
Chair:
Helen Small
Pat Thane
Christiana Payne
Panel Session A (Thurs 27th 2:30-4pm)
A.1: Golden Ages and Stages (Temporality I)
Chair:
L. Barnes
The Stages of Nicholas Nickleby: Adapting Dickens’ Novel for the
Theatre
Kate Newey
Golden Ages: The Victorian Theatre, Nostalgia and Modernity
Peter Yeandle
Simultaneous Stages: Authenticity and Artifice at Belle Vue
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A.2: Brontës’ Early Writings (Life-Cycle I)
Chair:
Valerie Sanders
‘Unmarked Auditors’: The strange Presence of Children in the
Brontë Juvenilia.
Emma Butcher
(Re)Writing Military History in the Early Narratives of Charlotte
and Branwell Brontë
Erin Nyborg
Heroic Masculinity in Charlotte and Emily’s Belgian Essays: An
Apprenticeship in Victorian Authorship
A.3: (W)rites of Passage: Funerals, Wills, and Memorial Cards (Life-Cycle II)
Chair:
Helen Frisby
Revelry and Rivalry in the 19th-century English Funeral
Judith Frisby
The Story of John Battye’s Will
Claire Wood
Ordering Meaning in the Victorian Memorial Card
A.4: The Age of Professionalization: Briefless Barristers, Lady Doctors, and Army
Officers (Periodization I)
Chair:
Ann M. Hale
From Questionable Ethics to Marriage Prospects: Briefless
Barristers and the Changing Legal Profession
Alison Moulds
An (Un)suitable Job for a Woman: Constructions of the ‘Lady
Doctor’ in 19th-Century Medical Writing
Beth Gaskell
Periodical Professionalization: The Periodical Press and the Fight
for the Professional Development of the British Army
A.5: Appropriating the Romantic and the Revolutionary (Historical
Appropriations I)
Chair:
P Cook
Charles Dickens and the Romantic Legacy: The Struggle for Time
Georgina Hunter The Revolutionary Age in the Mid-19th Century Periodical Press
Courtney Salvey The Age of Invention: Early Victorian Histories of Invention and
Industry
A.6: The Age of Martyrs (Historical Appropriations II)
Chair: Elizabeth Ludlow
Brian H. Murray ‘The Son of God goes forth to War’: The Imperial Martyr’s
Hymnbook
Victoria Mills
Hypatia, The New Woman and Martyrdom in the 1890s
Kate Nichols
Diana or Christ? Conflicting Ages in Victorian Visualisations of
Early Christian Martyrdom
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A.7: Subtle Thieves of Age(s): Poetic Appropriations (Historical Appropriations
III)
Chair:
Orla Polten
‘Neither English nor Greek’? The Tragic Metres of Browning’s
Agamemnon
Laura Kilbride
Pure Greek? The Problem of Style in Swinburne’s Greek
Tragedies
Jerome Wynter
Revivifying a Seventeenth-Century Trope for a NineteenthCentury Purpose in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘The African: A
Poem in Two Cantos’
Refreshment Break (Thurs 27th 4-4.45pm)
Panel Session B (Thurs 27th 4:45-6:15)
B.1: Transported Through Time (Temporality II)
Chair:
Rose Roberto
Visualising Progress in Chambers’s Illustrated Encyclopedia
Paul Raphael
Railway Reading Time and Post-1870 Readers
Rooney
Dany van Dam
Stopping Time to Stop Forgetting: Sea Journeys and Temporal
Separation in Neo-Victorian Fiction
B.2: Imaginary Childhoods (Life-Cycle III)
Chair:
Clare Walker
Disability, Desire and Dickens’s Child-Women
Gore
Kirstie Blair
‘National Dialect in the Nursery’: Childishness and the Scottish
Working-Class Poet
J Holt
A View from the Bath: Recovering Childhood Innocence in 19thcentury Japan.
B.3: Saints and Martyrs (Historical Appropriations IV)
Chair:
Elizabeth
The Body’s Grace: Mid-Victorian Narratives of Female
Ludlow
Martyrdom and Monasticism
Nancy Cho
Women and the End of Time: Gendered Imaginings of Christ’s
Second Coming in Victorian Advent Poems
Rachel Webster
Josephine Butler’s Catharine of Siena (1878), exemplary
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femininity, and the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act
B.4: Rewriting Dickens in a Post-Dickensian Age (Historical Appropriations V)
Chair:
Pete Orford
Imitating the Inimitable: Writing a Dickensian Ending for Edwin
Drood
Emily Bowles
From Charles Dickens’s Character to the Characteristically
Dickensian
Maureen
Dolly Varden: Character and Cultural Memory in Dickens’
England
B.5: Travelling Through Time (Periodization II)
Chair:
Catherine
‘Great safe spaces down deep’: The Imagined Age of the
Hertford
Subterranean
Jacob Jewusiak
The Technology Age: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the
Political Economy of Ageing
Simon James
H.G. Wells: Textual Revision Travelling in Time
B.6: Age(s) of the Press (Periodization III)
Chair:
Jock Macleod
Constructing ‘The Age of the Press’: A Historiography of
Victorian Newspaper Histories
Clare Horrocks
Success Through the Ages: Punch and the Modernist Challenge
1874-1906
Melissa Score
An Age of Campaigns: Serial Publication and Advocacy in the
Victorian Press
B.7: Mid-Life Crises (Life-Cycle IV)
Chair:
Michael
Against the Carnivalesque: The Middle-Aged Man in Victorian
Meeuwis
Drama, 1860-1914
Ryan Sweet
Humour, Midlife, and Cosmetic Prosthesis Use in H. Rider
Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
Shelagh Ward
Borrowed Time: The Progress and Persistence of Female Suicide
Survivors in late Victorian Bradford
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British Association of Victorian Studies AGM (Thursday 27th, 6.15-7.15pm)
21st Anniversary of LCVS Wine Reception (Thursday 27th, 7.15-8pm)
Dinner (Friday 27th 8-9pm)
Bar Open (from 9pm)
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Friday 28th August
Breakfast (Friday 28th 7.30-9am)
Registration (Friday 28th, from 8.30am)
Plenary Lecture (Friday 28th 9-10am)
Chair:
Professor Martin Hewitt, University of Huddersfield:
Refreshment Break (Friday 28th 10-10.30am)
Panel Session C (Friday 28th 10:30-12:00)
C.1: Hardy and Time (Temporality III)
Chair:
Jonathan
‘Human Associations’: The Past in Hardy’s Schoolrooms
Godshaw Memel
Trish Ferguson
Death After Darwin: Thomas Hardy and the Desire for Human
Immortality.
Catherine
‘Travel, memory-possessed’: Mental Time Travel in Hardy’s
Charlwood
Verse
C.2: Representing Children (Life-Cycle V)
Chair:
Galia Benziman
The Self-Made Child: Dickens and the Delusion of Inferior
Origins
Anna West
‘Baby’ Creatures: Thomas Hardy’s Poems for Children
J Sage
Charles Dodgson’s Mid-Victorian Child: Innocence and
Instability
C.3: The Ages of Woman (Life-Cycle VI)
Chair:
Laura Monrós‘Forgive a poor lone woman’s schemings’: Strong-minded
Gaspar
women and Victorian appropriations of the classical past
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Tara Puri
Claudia
Capancioni
The Coming of Age of the Indian New Woman
Janet Ross’s Intergenerational Conversations: Women’s Lives in
the Victorian Age
C.4: Folk and Folklore (Historical Appropriations VI)
Chair:
E Richardson
The Prophetic Imagination: Andrew Lang and Scottish Second
Sight
Jodie Matthews
‘This is an artificial age’: The Late Victorian Search for
Authenticity
Katie Heathman Folklore and the Past in the Social Work of Mary Neal and Grace
Kimmins
C.5: NNCN: Victorian Secrets (Periodization IV)
Chair: Merrick Burrow, University of Huddersfield
Jim Mussell
Time to Tell: Secrecy and Narrative in the 19th Century
Fern Pullan
Haunted Origins: Gothic Traces, the Law and the Domestication
of Crime in Victorian Sensation Fiction
Guy Woolnough Identity concealed or revealed? The use of photography in the
Victorian criminal justice system
(Keele):
C.6: Intergenerational Tension (Periodization V)
Chair:
Ann Heilmann
George Moore’s Literary Coming-of-Age: Influence-Anxiety and
Generational Conflict in Memoirs of my Dead Life
W. Manners
Inter-generational Relationships within Cycling Clubs in the
1890s
Margery
Men out of Time: Fire-eating in the Age of Equipoise
Masterson
C.7: Celebrity and Canonisation (Periodization VI)
Chair:
Helen Kingstone Living Memory and the Dictionary of National Biography
Michael J.
Tennyson and the 19th-Century Lyric Anthology: Constructing a
Sullivan
Victorian Canon
Sandra Mayer
A Romantic Legacy: Benjamin Disraeli and Early-Victorian
Celebrity Culture
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C.8: Curating the Victorians
Chairs: Lauren Padgett & Jack Gann
Gail Marshall
Kitty Ross
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Panel Session D (Friday 28th 12-1pm)
D.1: Victorian Studies Journals: Coming of Age
Discussion Roundtable
Chair: Helen Rogers
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D.2: Once Upon A Time: Fairytale Times (Temporality IV)
Chair:
Marilyn
‘This IS long ago’: The Manipulation of Time in Mopsa the Fairy
Pemberton
Rebecca Styler
Eros and Cosmos in George Macdonald’s Fairytales
D.3: Screen Time (Temporality V)
Chair:
Tristan Burke
The Cinematographic Temporality of Charles Dickens’s Great
Expectations
Madeleine Wood Thomas de Quincey, Childhood Trauma and Screen Memory
D.4: Digging Up The Past (Historical Appropriations VII)
Chair:
Patricia Pulham
The Medieval and Classical Past in George MacDonald’s
Phantastes
Jessica Cox
Victorian Excavations: Archaeology and History in the NeoSensation Novel
D.5: Sherlock on the Clock (Periodization VII)
Chair:
K Brombley
Sherlock Holmes: A Victorian Man?
S. Tomaiuolo
Zombie Hauntings: The Return of the Present in Victorian Undead
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Lunch Break (Friday 28th 1-2pm)
Departure at 2pm for optional fieldtrip in central Leeds: the Heaton Project
and the Leeds Library
Panel Session E (Friday 28th 2-3:30)
E.1: Life Writing (Temporality VI)
Chair:
Claire Stainthrop The Adolescent Writings of Constance Naden (1858-1889): A
Manuscript Discovery
Catherine
Time and Textuality in 19th-century Life Writing
Delafield
David Sorensen
Time and Temporality in Carlyle’s Reminiscences
E.2: Times of George Eliot (Temporality VII)
Chair:
Derek Ball
George Eliot’s Use of Time and Speed
M Hoffman
Romola’s Distant Past and Eliot’s Age of Uncertainty
Gareth HadykLost Worlds, Lost Times: Nostalgic Appropriations in the
DeLodder
Paratexts of George Eliot and Charles Kingsley
E.3: Ideologies of Change (Temporality VIII)
Chair:
Michael Davis
Evolution, Identity and Agency in The Egoist`
Stephane Guy
Graham Wallas’ Socialism and the Issue of Historic Necessity
J Waugh
Robert FitzRoy’s ‘Remarks with Reference to the Deluge’,
Geological Ages and the ‘Young Reader’.
E.4: Ageing (Life Cycle VII)
Chair:
A.G. Tait
Old Age, Ageing, and the Second Life of Thomas Hardy
C Ichikawa
The Aged Body and Sexuality in Arabella Kenealy’s Works
S. Parker
‘O Time-worn Woman’: Female Aesthete’s Portraits of Ageing
E.5: Growing up Well (Life-Cycle VIII)
Chair:
Rebecca Barnes
Growing up Computer in the 19th Century: Computational
Models of Child Development in Charles Babbage’s Passages from
the Life of a Philosopher
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Erin Johnson-Hill Mobilities of Ageing: Victorian Music Education and Youthful
Physicality
Alice Crossley
Male Adolescence and Conduct Literature in George Meredith’s
Fiction
E.6: Victorian Medievalism (Historical Appropriations VIII)
Chair:
Kristina
Cultivating a National Narrative: Queen Victoria, Undine, and
McClendon
Britain’s Anglo-Saxon Past
K Lister
Age of Empire: The Medievalism of Louisa Stuart Costello
Odile Boucher
‘Today’: Past and Present in the Definition of the Victorian Age
Rivalain
in the Architectural Debates of the Early and Mid-Victorian
Period
E.7: Documenting Place and Time (Periodization VIII)
Chair:
Joanna Robinson Fictionalising the Archive: Expressing Time through ReaderResponse
Mhairi Morrison Thomas Hardy’s Approach to History in The Trumpet-Major
J Franklin
The Lover and the Teacher: Normative Development in Love and
Mr Lewisham
Refreshment Break (Friday 28th 3.30-4pm)
Panel Session F (Friday 28th 4-5pm)
F.1: Time and Experience (Temporality IX)
Chair:
Philip Erchinger Experimental Passages: Experience, Time and Eliot’s The Spanish
Gypsy
Richard Salmon
Illustrations of Time: Thackeray, Cruikshank and The Comic
Almanack
F.2: Crossing the Bar (Temporality X)
Chair:
Bethan Carney
Time’s Inheritance in Charles Dickens’s Christmas Books and
F.D. Maurice’s ‘On Eternal Life and Eternal Death’
Ben Moore
Unlimited Liability Across the Generations in Little Dorrit
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F.3: Representing Childhood (Life-Cycle IX)
Chair:
B Moniez
Heroes of the Past in Victorian Times
A Selleri
Swinburne and Boyhood
F.4: Appropriating Ancient Egypt (Historical Appropriations IX)
Chair:
Eleanor Dobson
Deciphering the City: Modern London and Ancient Egypt
David Gange
Books of the Dead: Placing Death in Time in the 1890s
F.5: Periodizing the Pre-Raphaelites (Periodization IX)
Chair:
Amelia Yeates
Pre-Raphaelitism and Periodization
Jordan Kistler
What’s in a name? The Pre-Raphaelitism of the 1870s
F.6: Oscar Wilde is out of Time (Periodization X)
Chair:
Haythem
Oscar Wilde: A Victorian Sage in a Modern Age
Bastawy
Nazia Parveen
Oscar Wilde and Plato
F.7: Imperial Ages (Periodization XI)
Chair:
Cole Wehrle
Empire’s Narrative Clockwork: Imagining the Global in
Thackeray’s The Newcomes
Rachel Dickinson ‘In a Time that is full of deadly realities’: Empires Past and
Present, 1850-51
Transport to Leeds for Reception/Musical Event (Friday 29th, 5pm)
Reception: 15th Birthday of BAVS (School of Music, Leeds; Friday 29th, 5.306.30pm)
Musical Event (School of Music, Leeds; Friday 29th, 6.30-7.30pm)
Transport back to LTU for all delegates (Friday 29th, 7.30pm)
Conference Dinner (Friday 29th, 8pm)
Bar open (Friday 29th, from 9pm)
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Saturday 29th August
Breakfast (Saturday 29th, 7.30-9am)
Registration (Saturday 29th, from 8.30am)
Plenary Lecture (Saturday 29th 9-10am)
Chair:
Professor Nicholas Daly, University College, Dublin: ‘Modern Swashbucklers and
Matinee Idols: The Age of Ruritania’
Refreshment Break (Saturday 29th 10-10.45am)
Panel Session G (Saturday 29th 10:45-12:15)
G.1: Time and Eternity (Temporality XI)
Chair:
Susie Paskins
Time and Eternity in Kipling’s ‘The Bridge Builders’
Sally-Ann
House Beautiful: Time, Eternity and Evolution in the Work of
Huxtable
Walter Pater and Phoebe Anna Traquair.
H Carlton
Time, space and span of control: how could a Victorian
astronomer locate a personal God in an expanding universe?
G.2: Repetition and Disruption (Temporality XII)
Chair:
Sabrina Gilchrist Charting Time Through Narration in The Woman in White
Roger Ebbatson
Nietzschean Recurrence in Hardy’s Poetry
Jack Sullivan
Temporality, the moment and murder in The Mystery of Edwin
Drood and Daniel Deronda.
G.3: Ahead and Behind Time: Precocity and Backwardness (Life-Cycle X)
Chair:
Rebecca N.
Industry and Idleness: Precocious Genius in the Victorian Era
Mitchell
Roisín
Children and Language in Victorian Child Psychology and
McCloskey
Children’s Literature
Hannah Field
Illustrious Dunces
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G.4: Dead on Time (Life-Cycle XI)
Chair:
Vicky Holmes
Helen Goodman
Life and Death in the Victorian Bed
Mourning Masculinities: Death Dickens and Pathological
Melancholia
G.5: Antiques and Conservation (Historical Appropriations X)
Chair:
Heidi Egginton
The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart and the ‘Pastime’ of Antique
Collecting after 1868
Allison Adler
William Morris and Thomas Hardy at the Society for the
Kroll
Protection of Ancient Buildings: The Ethos of Cultural
Conservation in the Later 19th Century
Anne Anderson
Old Things and Degenerate Bodies: The ‘fearful consequences’ of
‘living up’ to one’s antiques.
G.6: Moving to Modernity (Periodization XII)
Chair:
Duncan Marks
Through the Years: The Use of Rhythmical Calendar Ellipsis in
Literary Depictions of Victorians and their Progeny in the Age of
Anti-Victorianism, c.1910-39
Carolyn Burdett
Victorian Sympathy versus Modernist Empathy?
Linda Dryden
The Inheritors: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and H.G.
Wells’s Conflicting Responses to the Victorian Age
G.7: The Making of the Modern Woman (Periodization XIII)
Chair:
Susie Steinbach
Surviving Heartbreak: Young Women and Resilience in Some
Late 19th-Century Breach of Promise Cases
Emma Liggins
On the Border: Lesbianism and Hysteria in fin-de-siècle fiction
Kali Israel
Remembering ‘Being Modern’ in Early 20th-Century Edinburgh
Short Break (Saturday 29th 12.15-12.30)
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President’s Roundtable on Periodisation (Saturday 29th 12.30-1.30)
Chair: Professor Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University
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Packed Lunch (available from 1.30pm)
Departure for optional fieldtrip to Bronte Parsonage Museum from 2pm (not
included in conference fee).
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