Penryn Campus, Falmouth University, Cornwall, UK, April 18th 2015
Registration 8.30 – 9am (Exchange Seminar Room Green)
9 – 10.30am
Generic Strategies (Exchange Seminar Room Yellow) – Chair Meredith Miller
Catherine Delafield (Independent Scholar) ‘ “Woman in White” to Brothers in Blue – Sensational Men in the Mid-Victorian Magazine’
Carolyn Lambert (University of Brighton) ‘Expect the Unexpected: Masculinity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Shorter Fiction’
Kym Martindale (Falmouth University) ‘Forms of Fear and Dread and Doom: “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” – Sensations of Crime and Rhyme’
Melodrama (Exchange Seminar Room Red) – Chair Rebecca Lloyd
HollyGale Millette (University of Southampton) ‘ “Tis’ Himself”: A Sensation Melodrama Featuring Dion Boucicault’
Jeremy Newton (Independent Scholar) ‘Fallen Men in the Plays of Henry Arthur Jones’
Kate Newey (University of Exeter) ‘Melodramatic Masculinity’
Geographies (Exchange Seminar Room Blue) – Chair Ben Carver
Matthew Ingleby (Queen Mary, University of London) ‘Sensational Bloomsbury: Fiction, Bachelordom and the Production of Metropolitan Locality’
Federico Boni (Università degli Studi di Milano) ‘The Monstrous Flâneur: Sensational Male Psychogeographies in Alan Moore’s From Hell’
Chiaki Ohashi (University of Warwick) ‘ “Sensational Alliance”: The Risorgimento, Feudalism, and the Aristocratic Identity of Count Fosco in The Woman in White’
10.30-11.30am Coffee and Keynote 1 – (Exchange Lecture Theatre)
Andrew Smith, University of Sheffield, ‘Minds, Bodies, and Crowds: Dickens and the Death Penalty’
11.30am – 1pm
Queer(ing) Masculinity (Exchange Seminar Room Red) – Chair Shamira Meghani
Tracy Hayes (The Open University) ‘ “The Obtrusive Memento of a Shadowy Period”: How Androgyny Subverts Patriarchy in Thomas Hardy’s A Laodicean’
Charlotte Charteris (Churchill College, University of Cambridge) ‘ “Fit for Purpose”: Sherlock Holmes, Bachelorhood and the Rise of the Queer Hero’
Helen Thomas (Falmouth University) ‘Nineteenth Century Medics: Disease and “Passing”’
Performances (Exchange Seminar Room Yellow) – Chair Anne-Marie Beller
Matthew Crofts (University of Hull) ‘ “A King is but a Man”: Masculinity and French Revolution Melodramas’
Nigel Kingcome (Falmouth University) ‘Eugen Sandow – The Perfect Man’
Rebecca Lloyd (Falmouth University) ‘A Man of Black and White: George H. Chirgwin’
Disordered Consciousness (Exchange Seminar Room Blue) – Chair Kym Martindale
Erin Johnson (Mansfield College) University of Oxford, ‘ “Dead and Buried”: Beauty, Madness, and the Disabled Male Body in Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady and The Guilty River ’
Marlena Maciniak (Opole University, Poland) ‘Hybrid Masculinity: Between Gentlemanliness and Psychopathy in Caroline Clive’s Sensation Novel Paul Ferroll’
Joanne Ella Parsons (Bath Spa University) ‘Brain Fevers and Picnics: Anxious and Ignorant Appetites in Wilkie Collins’ Armadale
1 – 2pm Lunch (Provided. Exchange Seminar Room Green)
2 – 3.30pm
Unstable Ideals (Exchange Seminar Room Yellow) – Chair Nigel Kingcome
Janine Hatter (University of Hull) ‘Unheroic Heroes: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Sensational Men of the 1860s’
Barbara Vrachnas (University of Edinburgh) ‘Gambling, Cards and Shooting: Masculine “Games” in Ouida’s Sensational Novels’
Graziella Stringos (University of Malta) ‘When Love Shows the Way: Reformed (?) Rakes in Rhoda Broughton’s Not Wisely But Too Well (1867), The Devil and the Deep Sea (1910) and A Fool In Her Folly (1920)’
Early Deviant Masculinities (Exchange Seminar Room Blue) – Chair HollyGale Millette
Tara MacDonald (University of Amsterdam) ‘ “At the Same Time Fascinating and Repellent”: Amelia B. Edwards and Sensational Masculinity’
Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University) ‘Sin, Sensation and Selfishness: Catherine Crowe, Masculinity and Pre-Sensation’
Anne-Marie Beller (Loughborough University) ‘Sensationalizing Respectable Masculinity: The Dichotomy of the Publish and Private in Paul Ferroll (1855)’
Nature and Society (Exchange Seminar Room Red) – Chair Annabel Banks
Flore Janssen (Birkbeck, University of London) ‘ “A Face that May be Seen in Every Collection of Englishmen”: The Problem of Agency and the Symbolic Male Protagonists of Out of Work and An Agitator ’
Helena Ifill (University of Sheffield) ‘Wilkie Collins, Armadale and Degeneration’
Tara Fernandes (Independent Scholar) ‘Emily Bronte and her Masculine Moors’
3.30 – 4.30pm Coffee and Keynote 2. Exchange Lecture Theatre
William Hughes, Bath Spa University, ‘Low Obscenity and Lascivious Attitudes: Spectacle, Seduction and Male Power in Victorian Hypnotic Séance’
4.30 – 6pm
Strategizing Masculinity (Exchange Seminar Room Yellow) – Chair Joanne Parsons
Royce Mahawatte (Central Saint Martin’s, University of the Arts) ‘ “We Shall Never Be Done Justice to, If We Do Not Live For Effect…” (Bulwer Lytton, Pelham): When the Fashionable Man Becomes Supernatural’
Niyati Sharma (University of Oxford) ‘Professional Men and Insensibility in Collins’ Armadale’
Rachael Taylor (University of Newcastle) ‘Made-Up Masculinity: Cosmetics as Compensation for Deficient Manliness in Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady’ (1875)
Orientalism (Exchange Seminar Room Red) – Chair Helen Thomas
Janelle Kitlinski (University of Texas at San Antonio) ‘Frankenstein: Reconfiguring the Masculinized “Veiled Maiden” in Romantic Poetry’
Juan José Martín González (Unversidad de Málaga) ‘ “I Was Never So Unmanned Before”: (Emasculating) Imperialism and the Late Victorian Crisis of Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle Fiction’
Shamira Meghani (University of Leeds) ‘Decadence, Orientalism and Queer British Masculinities’
Excessive Masculinities (Exchange Seminar Room Blue) – Chair Janine Hatter
Mike Tresidder (Cornish Language Partnership/ Keskowethyans an Taves Kernewek) ‘Two Contrasting Images of Henry Jenner: The Science of Linguistics Meets a Post-Modern Sensibility Towards Cultural Revival’
Carys Crossen (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘ “The Were-Wolves and The Wolf-Men and the Men-Wolves”: Lycanthropy and its Relation to Masculinity in Victorian Short Fiction’
Abra Gibson (University of Florida, Gainesville) ‘ “A Quaint Turn of Mind”: Misserimus Dexter’s Sensational Imagination’
6 – 7.30pm Wine Reception (Drinks provided. Exchange Seminar Room Green)
8pm Conference Dinner (Booking needed. Merchant’s Manor Hotel, Falmouth)