Rethinking the Nineteenth Century - University of Sheffield

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Aug 24, 2013 ... Fantastic Writings'. Hsin-Ying Lin (National Chung Cheng University). 'Neo- Victorian Gothic: Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian'. Andrew Smith.
Rethinking the Nineteenth Century Conference schedule Saturday 24th August 2013 Humanities Research Institute School of English, University of Sheffield

9.00-9.30 – registration. 9.30 – 10.45 – keynote address. Professor Mark Llewellyn (University of Strathclyde and Director of Research at the AHRC). ‘On Reciprocity, Trust and the Gift’. 10.45 – 11.00 coffee break. 11.00 – 12.20 Panel A: Poetry, Culture and Criticism. ‘Tennyson the Deist’. Benjamin Perkins (University of Sheffield). ‘Ethics or Morality?: Reading the Arnold-Stephen Debates in the Twenty-First Century’. Liam Firth (University of Sheffield). ‘Arnold's 'Ineffectual Angel': Rethinking Arnold and Shelley’. Fern Merrills (University of Sheffield). 12.20 – 13.00 Lunch. 13.00 – 14.00 Panel B: Churches, Asylums and the Playhouse. ‘The walls have ears...and mouths. How the nineteenth century asylum still has stories to tell’. Stef Eastoe (Birkbeck College, University of London). ‘“Did you know this once was a Church?” Converting disused nineteenth century churches to residential use’. Adam M Klups (Institute of Archaeology, University College London).

14.00 -14.10 coffee break 14.10 – 15.30 Panel C: Different ways of seeing: Photography, and the Gothic. ‘Rethinking “photography” in nineteenth-century literature’. Owen Clayton (University of Lincoln). ‘Textual Cultures and the Symbolic of Pain in George MacDonald and James Hogg’s Fantastic Writings’. Hsin-Ying Lin (National Chung Cheng University). ‘Neo-Victorian Gothic: Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian’. Andrew Smith (University of Sheffield). 15.30- 15.40 coffee break 15.40 – 17.00 Panel D: the Brontës and travelling governesses. ‘Angria, Ashworth, and Mr Rochester: Charlotte Brontë’s Cross-Period Development of the Byronic Hero’. Erin Johnson (University of Oxford). ‘“Unnumbered threatening eyes”: Continental Crossings in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette’. Charlotte Mathieson (University of Warwick). ‘Retracing her Steps: Theorising the Journey of the Governess-Traveller’. Jenny Pearce (University of Hull). 17.00 – Thanks and close. Post conference drinks in The Bath Hotel from 17.30 onwards.