Radcliffe at 250: Gothic and Romantic Imaginations
An International Conference at the University of Sheffield,
27-29 June 2014
Provisional Schedule
Friday 27th June, 2014
Conference registration, 9am-10am, with morning coffee available during registration
10am, Humanities Research Institute:
Welcome
10.15am, Jane Stabler, St Andrews
‘Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Poetry’
11.30am, Panels (3 papers per session)
Panel I: Ann Radcliffe
and Poetry
Samuel Baker: ‘Is Ann
Radcliffe’s Poetry
“Gothic”? A Problem in
the Theory of Genre’
Janet Chu, ‘Aesthetics of
Terror: A Stylistic
Analysis of Radcliffe’s
Gothic Poetry’
Carly Stevenson, ‘Keats,
Anxiety and ‘Mother
Radcliffe’ ‘
1-2pm: Lunch
Panel II: Visualising Ann
Radcliffe
Olivia Moy, ‘Radcliffe
and the Visual Arts: the
Realist Supernatural and
Framed Women’s Faces’
Alice Labourg, ‘“The
sister of Salvator Rosa:
Intermedial
Relationships between
Ann Radcliffe’s Pictorial
Gothic Writing and
Salvator Rosa’s
‘Romantic’ Imagination
Deborah Russell,
‘Caledonian Feuds and
Scottish Spectacles: The
Castles of Athlin and
Dunbayne on Stage’
Panel III: Radcliffe and her
Contemporaries
Lauren Nixon, ‘Reading writers and
writing readers: Ann Radcliffe, Jane
Austen and Catherine Morland’
Yih Dau Wu, ‘The Crisis of Intimacy:
Lewis’s Infatuation and Radcliffe’s
Attachment’
Yael Shapira, ‘Isabella Kelly and the
Limits of Radcliffean Propriety’
2-3.30pm, Panels
Panel I: Ann Radcliffe’s
Fictional Strategies
Clayton Tarr, ‘Radcliffe and
Realism: Gothic Form and
Narrative Effect’
Bill Hughes, ‘“The labyrinth of
conjecture”: dialogue, validity
claims, and the light of reason
in Radcliffe’s novels’
James Kelly,’ “What has a pipe
to do with the story?”:
Circumlocution and comedy in
Radcliffe’
Panel II: Overlooked Radcliffe
Cheryl Nixon, ‘Ann Radcliffe’s
Commonplace Book: Bodily
Signs and Manuscript
Mysteries’
Greg Buzwell, ‘“The
Reasonableness of things in
Yorkshire is well known”: the
neglected manuscript letter of
Ann Radcliffe’
James Watt, ‘Late Radcliffe’
Panel III: Ann Radcliffe and the
Publishing World
Anthony Mandal, ‘Publish and
Be Damned!: The Literary
Marketplace in the Age of
Radcliffe’
JoEllen DeLucia, ‘Radcliffe and
her Publisher: George
Robinson, the Book trade, and
the Radcliffean Gothic’
Will Bowers,, ‘Epigraphs,
Miscellany Culture, and Ann
Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of
Udolpho’
3.30-3.45pm Afternoon coffee
3.45-4.45: Panels
Panel I: Reading Ann
Radcliffe’s Landscapes
Panel II: Ann Radcliffe
and the Natural World
Jonathan Dent,
‘Fragmentation and
Femininity: Ann
Radcliffe’s The
Romance of the Forest
(1791) and Edmund
Burke’s Gendered
Aesthetics’
Garland D. Beasley,
‘Picturesque
Ascendance and
Sublime Failure:
Feminism, Gender and
Aesthetics in Ann
Radcliffe’s The
Mysteries of Udolpho’
Calley Hornbuckle,
‘Empowering Nature in
Ann Radcliffe’s
Fictions’
Rebecca Addicks
Salerno,
‘Ann Radcliffe and the
Landscape of Science
in 18thCentury England’
Panel III: Ann
Radcliffe, Education
and Enlightenment
Robert Crouse, ‘Ann
Radcliffe in the
Undergraduate
Classroom’
Nicola Lloyd, ‘Ann
Radcliffe:
Enlightenment
Philosophy, Gothic
Sensation and
Romantic Selfhood’
5.30-7.30 Public lecture, St George’s Lecture Theatre, plus wine reception sponsored by School of
Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling
Professor Emma Clery, University of Southampton
‘Ann Radcliffe meets Jane Austen: A Fine Romance’
8pm: An optional table will be booked at a local Noodle bar, which will be cheap and cheerful. Please
advise us if you wish to join us for this by 6th June at the latest, by emailing the Radcliffe conference
address.
Saturday
9.30-11am: Panels
Panel I: Dialogues with the
Dead
Carol Margaret Davison,
‘Trafficking in Death and
(Un)dead Bodies: Necro-Politics
and Poetics in the Works of Ann
Radcliffe’
Panel II: Radcliffe, Others,
Alterity
Joan Passey, “The Shakespeare
of Prose”: Music and Silence in
Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian’
Panel III: Radical Radcliffe
Agnieszka Łowczanin,’ “That
body is now cold”: The
Apprehension of Death in Ann
Radcliffe’s The Italian’
Chrisy Dennis, ‘Seraphic Voices
vs Unsex’d Females: Radcliffe,
Robinson and Celebrity Culture’
Lucy Lindforth, ‘“The Great
Enchantress’ and “The
Enchanter of the North”:
Radcliffe, Scott, and Writing
Beyond the Grave
Andy McInnes, ‘Imaginists:
Radcliffe, Dacre, Austen’
Jakub Lipski, ‘The Masquerade
in Ann Radcliffe’s Novels’
Panel I: Radcliffean Spaces
Panel II: French Appropriations
Catherine Gadsby-Mace,
‘Representations of the British
Landscape in the early Fiction
of Ann Radcliffe and Charlotte
Smith’
Marie Comisso, ‘Female SelfEmpowerment, Intertextuality,
and Representations of
‘Nature’ in Radcliffe’s The
Mysteries of Udolpho’
Katherine Astbury, ‘Pixerécourt,
Radcliffe and the trauma of the
French Revolution’
Panel III: Reading Radcliffe’s
Politics
Rhonda Ray, ‘Church Politics
Unveiled in Ann Radcliffe’s The
Italian’
Marilyn Mallia, ‘The French
reconfiguration of Radcliffe’s
gothic heroine: from George
Sand’s Indiana (1832) to
Consuelo (1842)
Kathleen Hudson, ‘The Pauper
and the Provider: Exploring
masculinity, service, and class
in Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance
of the Forest’
Imke Heuer, “Prejudice and
principle crumbled at once to
dust’: Harriet Lee’s
Revolutionary Appropriation of
Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of
the Forest’
Franca Bellarsi, ‘Ann Radcliffe
as Ecocritical Enchantress?’
11-11.15: Morning coffee
11.15-12.30: Panels
12.30-1.30: Lunch
Coaches leave for Hardwick Hall at 3pm prompt. Itinerary for Hardwick Hall is overleaf:
3.00pm
4.00 pm
Coaches depart from the Humanities Research Institute to take us to Hardwick
Hall
Arrival by coach
4.15pm
Garden free flow. The formal gardens are beautiful; there is also a good gift shop!
5.00pm
Meet on the West colonnade for house tour until 7.00pm
7.00pm
Drinks reception in the East Court
7.45pm
Dinner
10.30pm
Depart Hardwick by coach
Sunday
9:30am-10.00: Plenary session: Robert Miles, University of Victoria, Canada
‘La Voisin and Dream Time in The Mysteries of Udolpho’
10.00am-10.15: morning coffee
10:15am – 11:30: Panels
Panel I: Radcliffean Afterlives
Panel II: Radcliffean Stylistics
John Hartley, ‘Ann Radcliffe,
Vampire Hunter: “The Great
Enchantress” in Paul Féval’s
Metafiction, Vampire City.’
Jane Hodson, ‘Speech in Radcliffe's
Novels’
Norbert Besch, ‘Ann Ward
Radcliffe: Gothic Heroine and
Vampire Hunter in Paul Féval’s La
Ville-Vampire’
Nadezhda Prozorova, ‘Terrors of
Uncertainty’: John Banville and
Gothic Narrative Tradition’
Panel III: Ann Radcliffe’s European
Travels
Margarita Georgieva, ‘Sublimely Ho
France and Italy in the works of Ann
Radcliffe’
Marianna D’Ezio, ‘Ann Radcliffe and
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi’
Serena Baiesi, ‘The power of the lute and
the genius of language: Ann Radcliffe and
the art of poetical improvisation’
Mark Bennett, ‘Radcliffe’s Silent
Landscapes and the Picturesque
Conversation’
11.30-12:30pm: Professor Fred Botting, Kingston University. ‘Fifty Shades of Ann Radcliffe’
12:30 pm: Lunch (which can be boxed up for train journeys if you so wish)
Departures