Tuesday 8th July 2014
1.00pm Registration
1.45pm Opening and Welcome: Kirsty Bunting, Janine Hatter and Helena Ifill
2.00pm Keynote: Jonathon Shears: ‘“[…] battered […] soiled […] broken […] empty […] half-smoked […] stale”: The Hangover in Victorian Popular Fiction’
3.30pm Tea
4.00pm – 5.30pm – Parallel Panel 1 and Postgraduate Training Session
Name: Supernatural Treasures
Panel host: Nickianne Moody
Helena Ifill: ‘Rethinking the Trivial and the Valuable: Occult Fiction in the Popular Press’
Ruth Heholt and Rebecca Lloyd: ‘Treasure into Trash: Ghostly Objects and the Horrors of Ghastly Ancestors in the Ghost Stories of Louisa Baldwin’
Anne Chapman: ‘“With Goodwill and Earnest Purpose”: Treasuring Time at Mugby Junction’
Name: Domestic Value
Panel host: Jo Knowles
Kim Clayton-Greene: ‘A Hierarchy in the Home: Displaying Prints in the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Interior’
Sophia (Pei-Ching) Huang: ‘“Where’s the Pearl”: Women’s Place in the Home and Beyond in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South’
Kara Tennant: ‘A Question of Value: Virtue, Danger and Victorian Dressmaking’
Postgraduate Training Session
Panel host: Janine Hatter
Kirsty Bunting – Publishing Your First Article
Katie Garner – Grant Writing
Janine Hatter – Social Media and Public Engagement
Barbara Leckie – Alt-Ac
5.30pm VPFA Meeting and MEBA Launch
6.30pm Drinks Reception
Wednesday 9th July 2014
9.00am – 10.30am – Parallel Panel 2
Name: Inheritance
Panel host: Janine Hatter
Hyunsoo Jang: ‘Morality and Property: Trollope’s Questioning of the Reform of the Inheritance Laws in Eustace Diamonds’
Angharad Eyre: ‘“My Mothers Pearls”: Women’s Treasures, Capital and Value in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester’
Anna-Louise Russell: ‘Strangers and Pilgrims: Contagious Diseases and the Fatal Marriage’
Name: Dangerous Objects
Panel host: Sara Clayson
Thomas Graf: ‘Weaponized Trash: London’s Refuse as London’s Saviour in Invasion Fiction’
Susan Shelangoskie: ‘Technology’s Treasure and Human Trash: E. W. Hornung’s The Camera Fiend’
Christopher Gage: ‘Dirty Jobs: Sherlock Holmes’s Disgust Threshold and Filth Expertise’
Name: Treasure Seeking
Panel host: Helena Ifill
Laura Wood: ‘“Let’s Read All the Books Again. We Shall Get Lots of Ideas Out of Them”: Reading and the Search for Treasure in Edith Nesbit’s The Treasure Seekers’
Stacey Kikendall: ‘Visual Threat in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone’
Erin Louttit: ‘Treasuring the Soul in Trash Fiction: A. M. Diehl’s Dr. Paull’s Theory (1893)’
10.30am Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm Parallel Panel 3
Name: Corrupting Clubs
Panel host: Kirsty Bunting
Laurel Brake: ‘W. H. Pater’s Notion of “Choice”’
James Machin: ‘Eric, Count Stenbock: “Scholar, Connoisseur, Drunkard, Poet, Pervert, Most Charming of Men”’
Emma Butcher: ‘Drunken Degeneration: Corrupting Clubs and Masculine Monsters in Bessie Gordon’s Story’
Name: Witnessing the Extreme
Panel host: Emily Bowles
Rosalyn Buckland: ‘“The Black Diamond”: Creating Value in the Dickensian Coalmine’
Terry Scarborough: ‘Dirty Dogs and Dumb Dirt: Animal Agency and Human Sentiment in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations’
Ellie Byrne: ‘Alcohol, Tobacco, Fleas and Mosquitos: Trashing Hawaii, Colonial Devastation in the Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson’
Name: Creating Treasures
Panel host: Catherine Pope
Sara Clayson: ‘“What Genius Wild/Yet Mighty, was Enclosed Within One Simple Child!”: P. B. Shelley’s Cythna and Dinah Craik’s Olive as Revolutionary Sisters’
Nickianne Moody: ‘Felicia Hemans, Landscape and an Englishwoman’s Garden’
Jane Jordan: ‘Victorian Popular Women Novelists and the Dictionary of National Biography’
12.30pm Lunch
1.15pm Reading Pack Discussion [ Download the reading pack]
2.00pm Guest Talk: Karen Attar: ‘Trash, Treasure or Trashy Treasure at the Institutional Library’
2.45pm – 4.15pm – Parallel Panel 4
Name: Literary Cross-Dressing
Panel host: Erin Louttit
Catherine Addison: ‘Owen Meredith’s Lucile: A Trove of Neglected Treasures’
Tara MacDonald: ‘Sensational Trash, Spasmodic Poetry, and Rhoda Broughton’s Cometh Up as a Flower’
Kristan Tetens: ‘“That Deciduous Trash which Our Publishers Call Fiction”: Hall Caine’s The Manxman in the Late-Victorian Literary Marketplace’
Name: Reading for Improvement
Panel host: Helena Ifill
Barbara Leckie: ‘Wasting time: Perseverance, Reading, Procrastination’
Lindy Moore: ‘A Trashy Victorian Popular Fiction Writer Comments in Victorian Literary Rubbish’
Christopher Pittard: ‘Silas K. Hocking and the Poetics of the Prolific’
Name: Dickens and Material Culture
Panel host: Emma Butcher
Emily Bowles: ‘Pornographers, Barristers, Journalists and the Carcass of Literary Celebrity: Charles Dickens’s Early Biographers’
Maureen England: ‘From Ebay to Bonhams: Curiosity Shopping for Dickens’
Mary Addyman: ‘“A Long, Long Rust in the Dark”: Tales of Hoarders and Misers’
4.15pm Tea
4.45pm – 6.35pm – Parallel Panel 5
Name: Special Author Panel 1: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Panel host: Anne-Marie Beller
Anna Brecke: ‘From Trash to Treasure: Confessions and Redemption in the Sensation Novel and Reform Literature’
Janine Hatter: ‘Reinterpreting Faust: Reading M. E. Braddon’s Gerard through its Intertextual Links with Goethe and Balzac’
Jo Knowles: ‘Home, and the gardens, and the dear old park: landscape in Braddon’s Early Belgravia Fiction’
Name: Special Author Panel 2: Wilkie Collins
Panel host: Mariaconcetta Costantini
Mia Frazen and Penian Rosenberg: ‘“Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond”: The True Price of Treasure in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone’
Alison Moulds: ‘Filling the “vacant space”: constructing learning disability in Wilkie Collins’s No Name and The Law and the Lady’
Kathleen Hudson: ‘“Old, ugly, bad and lost”: Women of Vice and Value in Louisa May Alcott’s Behind the Mask and Wilkie Collins’s Armadale’
Name: Special Author Panel 3: Ouida
Panel hosts: Jane Jordan and Andrew King
Barbara Vrachnas: ‘“With Chains of Gold about Her Ankles”: Ouida’s “Worthless’ Female Characters’
Richard Espley: ‘“Lumps of sodden flesh … who do but cumber the earth they pollute”: human and canine value in the works of Ouida’
Katie Garner: ‘Diamonds, Silks, and Other Treasures: The Value of the Arthurian Legend in Victorian Popular Fiction’
7.00pm Conference Dinner: Antalya. £30pp, includes mixed meze/main course/desserts/tea & coffee/half bottle of wine per person. Please inform organisers at vpfamembership@gmail.com if you would like to attend. Payment on the
day.
Thursday 10th July 2014
9.00am – 10.30am – Parallel Panel 6
Name: Imperial Treasures
Panel host: Nickianne Moody
Melissa Dickson: ‘Excavating the Treasures of the Arabian Nights in Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt and the Middle East’
Eleanor Dobson: ‘Marie Corelli and Egyptiana’
Maria Grazia Messore: ‘Imperialism at Home: The Case of the Porcelain in Jane Eyre’
Name: Literary Appropriation
Panel host: Kirsty Bunting
Ann M. Hale: ‘Irene Adler’s Antecedents in W. Stephens Hayward’s Revelations of a Lady Detective’
Lucy Brown: ‘Bleak House to Black Sheep: Literacy and the Street Boy’
Sarah Lill: ‘Dickens’s “Dishonest Dullard”: Edward Lloyd’s Plagiarisms, 1836-8’
Name: Marketing Victorian Fiction
Panel host: Janine Hatter
Anna Gasperini: ‘Relished, Trashed, Recovered: The Survival of the Victorian Penny Dreadful’
Jessica Cox: ‘From Trash to Treasure (To Trash?): Victorian Sensation Fiction, Neo-Victorianism, and the Rise of a New Literary Canon’
Chris Louttit: ‘Turning Trash into Treasure: Penguin’s Remarketing of Victorian Popular Fiction’
10.30am Tea
11.00am Keynote: Judith Flanders: ‘Painting Reality: Home vs Home-ness’
12.30pm Lunch
1.15pm – 3.00pm – Parallel Panel 7
Name: Unspeakable Bodies
Panel host: Sara Clayson
Louise Creechan: ‘The Unspeakable: Liminal Texts, Liminal Disabilities’
Jennifer Jones: ‘Medical Waste as Memorial’
Claire Furlong: ‘“A Structure so Exquisitely Perfect”: The Anatomist and his Subject in Popular Periodical Press’
Michael Bedo: ‘“Utterly Subversive of Female Delicacy”: Victorian Sensibilities and the Unspeakable Allegations in Countess Russell’s Divorce Suit’
Name: Consuming and Adulteration
Panel host: Andrew King
Annemarie McAllister: ‘Treasures from Trash: Tropes and Narrative Legacies in Temperance Novels’
Silvana Colella: ‘The Marriage of Chicory and Coffee: Adulteration and Adultery in Charlotte Riddel’s The Race for Wealth’
Emma Kareno: ‘Cocaine or Crime: Sherlock Holmes’s Drug of Choice’
3.00pm – 3.15pm Close