Victorian Underworlds

 

The Northeast Victorian

Studies Association

 

University of Toronto,

 11-13 April 2008

 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 11

 

12:30-4pm Registration: University College, Foyer, 15 King’s College Circle

 

1-2pm & 2-3pm Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Tour (Space limited; prior registration required; see below)

 

3:15pm Welcome: University College, Room 179

 

3:30-5pm Uncovering the Underclass: University College, Room 179

 

Sarah Gates, Moderator

  • Aaron Worth (Boston University), “Mindreading in the Underworld”

  • Barry Faulk (Florida State), “Walter Sickert’s Music Hall Scenes and the Late Victorian Social Explorer”

  • LaMont Egle (Michigan-Ann Arbor), “The Fashionable Prig: Newgate Novels and their New Hero”

 

5:15-6:15pm Special presentation: University College, Room 179

 

Ludwig Maria Vogl-Bienek, “Casting Light into Poverty’s Shadow: The Magic Lantern and the Poor in Victorian Britain”

 

6:30-8pm Reception: University Art Centre, University College

 

8pm Dinner on your own (see http://www.nvsa.org for some options—including a group reservation)

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 12

 

8-9am Registration & Continental Breakfast: University College, Foyer & Croft Chapter House

 

9-10:45am Keynote Panel: University College, Room 179

 

Seth Koven (Rutgers), Moderator

 

Ø       Deborah Nord (Princeton)

Ø       David Pike (American)

Ø       Jenny Bourne Taylor (Sussex)

 

11am-12:30pm Below the Fold: University College, Room 179

 

Jason Rudy, Moderator

 

Ø       Matthew Rubery (Leeds), “Broken Vows and Lost Bow-Wows: Reading the Victorian Agony Column”

Ø       Jill McMillan (Guelph), “Patient Writing and The New Moon, 1844-1916”

Ø       Natalie Neill (York), “Underground Perils: Victorian Tunnel Stories”

 

12:30-2pm Lunch: University College, Croft Chapter House

 

2:15-3:30pm Session A: Underworld Mental States: University College, Room 179

 

Gage McWeeny, Moderator

 

Ø       Benjamin Morgan (Berkeley), “The Pleasures of Sinking: Decadent Self-Loss as Sublime Immersion”

Ø       Michael Tondre (Michigan-Ann Arbor), “George Eliot’s ‘Fine Excess’: Middlemarch, Energy, and the Afterlife of Feeling”

Ø       Jennifer Judge (York), “The ‘Seamy Side’ of Human Perfectibility: Satire on Habit in Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race”

 

 

2:15-3:30pm Session B: Underworlds of Empire: University College, Room 140

 

Anna Henchman, Moderator

 

Mary Ellis Gibson (North Carolina-Greensboro), “The Colonial Poet in the London Demi-Monde”

Charn Jagpal (Alberta), “We of the Bazaar Kiss No Cowards…: Nautch Girls as Leaders of the Colonial Underworld”

Dan Shea (Houston), “King Charles’s Mines: England’s Buried Treasures and the Turn from Empire in H. Rider Haggard’s Colonel Quaritch, V.C.”

 

4-5:30pm Underworlds of Gender: University College, Room 179

 

Jonathan Loesberg, Moderator

 

Ø       Mia Chen (CUNY), “‘Strangely Fascinated’: Shame-Interest and the Woman Question in The Coming Race”

Ø       Ashly Bennett (Cornell), “‘Clothed and in Her Right Mind’: The Shameful Domestic and Aesthetic Woman in George du Maurier’s Trilby”

Ø       Rachel Teukolsky (Penn State), “Queens of the Underworld: Walter Pater’s Mythic Feminism”

                       

6pm-7pm Reception: Debates Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle

 

7pm-9pm Dinner Banquet: Debates Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 13

 

8-9am Breakfast: University College, Croft Chapter House

 

9-10:30am In the Grave: University College, Room 179

 

Barbara Black, Moderator

 

Ø       Anne C. McCarthy (CUNY), “‘Ever so little deeper’: Maud’s Buried Lives”

Ø       Renee Fox (Princeton), “Robert Browning’s Necropoetics”

Ø       Tyson Stolte (British Columbia), “Peering into the Grave: Bleak House, Victorian Psychology, and the Status of the Buried Body”

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 13 (Cont.)

     

10:45am-12:15pm Conspiracies and Secret Societies: University College, Room 179

                                               

Deb Gettelman, Moderator

 

Ø       Alison Butler (St. Francis Xavier), “Counterculture or ‘Muddling Middle-Class Mediocrities’: Magical Societies in Late Victorian Britain”

Ø       Angela Schwer (Fairmont State), “Sherlock Holmes vs. Anarchy: The Underworld of Victorian Secret Societies in Popular Adventure Fiction”

Ø       Danielle Kinsey (Illinois-Urbana, Champaign), “Legitimizing a Conspiracy: The Celebration of Diamond Mining Compounds in Late Victorian Society”

 

12:30-1:30pm Conference Wrap-up

 

Ø       Elaine Freedgood

Ø       Chip Tucker

 

 

 

Conference accommodation:

 

A block of rooms is available for conference attendees at the Holiday Inn (280 Bloor Street West). Rates are as follows:

·         Single/double: $124 (plus taxes)

·         Triple/Quad: $133 (plus taxes)

To reserve a room, please contact the hotel directly at 416-968-0100, 1-800-HOLIDAY, or cn312res@whg.com. Rooms will be held until March 10. Please reserve early and be sure to provide the following information:

·         Group Code DEC

·         Property Code YYZBS

 

Another option is the Intercontinental Hotel Yorkville (220 Bloor Street West), which offers a special University of Toronto rate ($200-240). Please call 416-960-5200 for reservations.

 

For other options and travel information, please check http://www.nvsa.org.

 

Graduate students:

 

Interested in being hosted by local graduate students? Please contact: Fiona Coll at fiona.coll@utoronto.ca.

 

The Saturday lunch:

 

The Saturday lunch, a convivial event at which topics are proposed and voted on for the following year, is a long-standing tradition; everyone is warmly encouraged to attend and participate. Please visit the NVSA website for directions and to learn of other conference details: http://www.nvsa.org.

 

 

Registration

 

Please return completed form by March 5. Make checks payable (US or CDN funds) to the University of Toronto. Please write in memo area “NVSA Registration.”

 

Send registration form and checks to: Jill Matus, University College, University of Toronto, 15 King’s College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H7.

 

All registration questions should be directed to Pamela Gravestock: p.gravestock@utoronto.ca.

 

 

 

Registration

Meals

Library Tour*

___ $75 (US/CDN) Members

___ $15 (US/CDN) Saturday Luncheon – Faculty

___1-2pm Friday

___ $95 (US/CDN) Non-Members

___ $10 (US/CDN) Saturday Luncheon – Students

___ 2-3pm Friday

___ $30 (US/CDN) Students

___ $50 (US/CDN) Saturday Banquet – Faculty

*special tour of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library highlighting selections from their 19th c. collection

 

___ $10 (US/CDN) NVSA Student dues

___ $30 (US/CDN) Saturday Banquet – Students

                                                                                                 

Banquet Meal Choice (select one):       ___ Chicken   ___ Vegetarian

 

                                                                                   

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