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Transatlantic Connections: Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, & Victorian Studies 2019 Conference of the Victorians Institute Francis Marion Hotel 387 King Street Charleston, SC 29403
Transatlantic Connections: Africa, the Caribbean,
the Americas, & Victorian Studies
2019 Conference of the Victorians Institute
Francis Marion Hotel387 King Street
Charleston, SC 29403
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
“Cycles of Fever and Fictional Form: Charting Malaria in Schreiner and Haggard.”
Dr. Jessica Howell
Dr. Jessica Howell is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and Associate Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, where she convenes the Health Humanities Laboratory. Her research focuses on 19th-century literatures of empire and ‘tropical’ medicine, as well as postcolonial health humanities. Howell’s monographs include Exploring Victorian Travel Literature: Disease, Race and Climate (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire (Cam-bridge UP, 2018). Her work has also appeared in the Cambridge Critical Concepts vol-ume on Climate and Literature, as well as in journals such as Studies in Travel Writing, Literature and Medicine, and Victorian Literature and Culture.
Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire“The impact of malaria on humankind has been pro-found. Focusing on depictions of this iconic ‘disease of empire’ in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and Rudyard Kipling did not simply adopt the discourses of malarial containment and cure offered by colonial medicine. Instead, these authors adapted and rewrote some common associations with malarial images such as swamps, ruins, mosquitoes, blood, and fever. They also made use of the unique potential of fiction by incorporating chronic, cyclical illness, bodily transformation and adaptation within the very structures of their novels. Howell’s study also examines the postcolonial literature of Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott, arguing that these authors use the multivalent and subversive potential of malaria in order to rewrite the legacies of colonial medicine.”
THURSDAY, OCT. 313-5pm Registration5-6:30pm Welcome Reception
FRIDAY, NOV. 18-9am Breakfast9-10:15am Session 110:30-11:45am Session 211:45am-1:30pm Lunch1:30-2:45pm Session 35-6pm Keynote6-7pm Reception
SATURDAY, NOV. 2 7-8am Breakfast8-9:15am Session 59:30-10:45am Session 611am-12:15pm Session 712:15-1:45pm Banquet Lunch/Business Meeting2-3:15pm Session 8
SCHEDULE SUMMARY
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T H U R S D AY, O C T O B E R 3 1
3:00-5:00pm Registration, Francis Marion Hotel, Mezzanine Registration Booth
5:00-7:00pm Welcome Reception, Francis Marion Hotel, Lobby Bar
F R I D AY, N O V E M B E R 1
8:00-9:00am Breakfast, Colonial Ballroom
SESSION 1 | 9:00-10:15am
Panel 1: Science, Technology, and the Apocalypse Moderator: Cameron Dodworth
Darby Walters, “Mapping Symptoms: Global and Anatomical Spaces in The Last Man”
Clayton Tarr, “Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Petroleum Politics: Democracy and Vril in ‘The Coming Race’”
Panel 2: Constructing the ‘Norm’: Transatlantic Disability Moderator: Sally Hitchmough
Mike Duvall, “Bellamy, Morris, and the Romances of Disabled Masculinity”
Kathy Beres Rogers, “‘Performing ‘Idiocy’ in England and Abroad: Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White”
Emily Stanback, “Self-Experimentation, Disability, and Monstrosity in Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde“
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Drayton Room
Laurens Room
Panel 3: Peripheral Space and Gender / National IdentityModerator: Lindsey Chappell
Patrick C. Fleming, “Pirate Masculinity”
Shannon Branfield, “‘If They Knew All’: Male Secrets in Victorian Literature”
Neval Avci, “Muslim Captors, American Captives, British Redeemers: Transatlantic Triangulations in the Nineteenth Century”
Panel 4: The Gothic Other: Science and the Supernatural ModeratorModerator: Katherine Anderson
Sharon Kelly, “Foreigners, Femmes Fatales, and the Fantastic: Liminality in Vernon Lee’s Ghost Stories”
Shannon Zellars-Strohl, “Slaves of Science: The Haitian Zombie, Free Will, and Masterful Science in Frank Aubrey’s The King of the Dead and Richard Marsh’s A Spoiler of Men”
10:00-11:00am Coffee / Tea, Mezzanine
SESSION 2 | 10:30-11:45am
Panel 5: Carbon Economies in the Black AtlanticModerator: Tim Carens
Michael Tondre, “Poetics of the Victorian Oil Field: Charles Kingsley and the Colonial Caribbean”
Adrienne Munich, “Global Encounters on the South African Diamond Fields”
Timothy Johns, “The Stones Are Really Speaking: The Valorization of Diamonds and Work in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm”
Panel 6: Transatlantic GothicModerator: Cameron Dodworth
Starlina Rose, “The Romance of Gothic Nationalism: An Exploration of Class and Gender Through Dialect and Realism in Miss Byron’s 1808 Novel The Englishwoman”
Indu Ohri, “’The Fine Tools Refused to Obey the Master’s Hand’: Victorian Women’s Representa-tion of the Haunted Caribbean”
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Pinkney Room
Rutledge Room
Pinkney Room
Rutledge Room
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Panel 7: Literary Relationships Moderator: David Latané
David Bradshaw, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Cultural Interchanges with Britain and the Continent”
Patrick Scott, “Transatlantic Clough: 1820s Charleston, 1850s Cambridge”
11:45-1:30pm Lunch (on own)
SESSION 3 | 1:30-2:45pm
Panel 8: Transatlantic Representations of Race Moderator: Starlina Rose
Ash Faulkner, “Of a Daughter’s Dark Eyes: Transatlantic Inheritance, Conceits, and Conceptions in Alice Meynell”
Jacob Nielsen, “A ‘most notorious rascal’: Charles Dickens, Literary Borrowing, and the Dreaded ‘Sambo’”
Anne D. Wallace, “The American Difficulty: The Octoroon’s Atlantic Crossing and the Affair of RMS Trent“
Panel 9: Metropolitan SatireModerator: Bonnie Shishko
Albert Pionke, “Transatlantic Caricature: Master Jonathan, the Lopez Expedition, and Punch”
Sarah Margaret Pittman, “Punch-ing Lincoln: Civil War Cartoons in Britain”
Ethan Stephenson, “American Democracy and Fear of Women Machines in Lytton’s The Coming Race”
Panel 10: Colonial Products Moderator: Sally Hitchmough
Frank Emmett, “’But [we’n] suffered so long thro’ this ‘Merica war’: Responses to The Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861-1865) in Poetry, Production Practices, and Public Relief Policy”
Claudia Martin, “Out of Africa: Abstraction and Plunder in the Late Victorian Crime Fiction of Grant Allen and Arthur Conan Doyle”
Laurens Room
Pinkney Room
Rutledge Room
Drayton Room
Panel 11: Transatlantic Legal RelationshipsModerator: Keaghan Turner
Patrick W. O’Neil, “‘Violating all the order and decorum of a wedding’: Fear and Failure in James Fenimore Cooper’s Atlantic Weddings”
Cheryl Price, “‘England and America Saved Her’: International Activism and the Case of Florence Maybrick”
Heather Sowards, “‘Be Sure to Keep a Good Heart’: Sinful Bodies and the Feminine Experience in Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince”
SESSION 4 | 3:00-4:15pm A Workshop with VIJ Editors
Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox, “Submitting Your First (or Second) Article”
5:00-6:00pm Keynote Lecture, Colonial Ballroom
6:00-7:00pm Reception, Colonial Ballroom
Dinner (on own)
S AT U R D AY, N O V E M B E R 2
7:00-8:00am Breakfast, Colonial Ballroom
SESSION 5 | 8:00-9:15am
Panel 12: Forms of ProtestModerator: Keaghan Turner
Cherrie Kwok, “From Bronte to Condé: Caribbean Decadent Aesthetics in Windward Heights”
Bonnie Shishko, “Culinary Rage: Trans-Atlantic Affect and the Domestic Recipe”
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Laurens Room
Pinkney Room
Drayton Room
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Panel 13: Reenacting Slavery Moderator: Casey Cothran
Lindsey Chappell, “Fanny Kemble, The Weeping Time, and Geographic Morality”
Matt Suazo, “Becoming Legible: Scenes of Literacy in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative and Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografía”
Heidi Holder, “Ira Aldridge in England: New Readings of Roles and Audiences”
Panel 14: Mapping Gender Moderator: Gretchen Braun
Abigail Arnold, “Narrative Expansion in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Holly Fling, “Exile and Lost Identity in Braddon’s The Octoroon and Collins’s The Curse of Caste; or, The Slave Bride”
Christian Gallichio, “‘Theatrical Absorption’: Bram Stoker and Henry Irving in America”
Panel 15: Olive Schreiner Connections Moderator: Don Richard Cox
Emily Harbin, “Exposing the Abuses of Capitalism and Writing for Social Justice in Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonland by Olive Schreiner”
Mark Rollins, “‘Something that can touch us softly in the dark, and make us still forever’: Heideggerian Being-towards-death in Daniel Deronda and The Story of an African Farm”
Angela Schwer, “An African Farm in Wessex? Connections between Schreiner and Hardy”
SESSION 6 | 9:30-10:45am
Panel 16: Colonial Sadism Moderator: Anne D. Wallace
Katherine Anderson, “Transatlantic Torturers: Liberal Sovereignty and South African Settlers in Colonial Fiction”
Luciana Lilley, “‘[F]rom one butcher to another’: Slavery as Cannibalism in The History of Mary Prince”
Mark Scroggins, “Swinburne, Africa, and the Lash”
Pinkney Room
Rutledge Room
Laurens Room
Pinkney Room
Panel 17: Gothic Monsters Moderator: Frank Emmett
Cameron Dodworth, “Gothic Terror: Neo-Victorian Adaptations as Transatlantic Connections/ Conceptions of Terrorism”
Eliza Wilcox, “‘I felt the immortal longings in me’: The Bondwoman’s Narrative, Frankenstein, and the Monster Question”
Ralph Lentz and Audrey Fessler, “Dracula and the Modernist Heresy”
Panel 18: Transatlantic Literary InfluencesModerator: Lindsey Chappell
Sukanya Bhadra, “Curious, But True: The ‘Unusual’ Friendship Between Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Eliot Norton”
Anthony Garcia, “‘A boon to English literature, in which we want infusion of new mind’: British Reviews of American Literature in the 1830s”
Kevin Morrison, “The Improbable Afterlives of Walter Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men”
Panel 19: Neo-Victorian Representations Moderator: Catherine England
Eric G. Lorentzen, “21st-Century ‘American Notes’: Charles Dickens and Popular American Culture”
Esther Godfrey, “Love and Theft: The Journal of Dora Damage and Sir Richard Burton’s Cannibal Club”
10:30-11:30am Coffee / Tea, Mezzanine
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Rutledge Room
Laurens Room
Drayton Room
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SESSION 7 | 11:00am-12:15pm
Panel 20: Destabilizing IdentitiesModerator: Tim Carens
Casey Cothran, “Wilkie Collins’s Black and White: Disorienting Transformations in the Crown Colony of Trinidad”
Scott Dransfield, “‘White Indians’? The Cultural Challenge of Mormonism and Englishness in Sir Richard Burton’s City of the Saints”
James Najarian, “‘Felicia Hemans and Emigration”
Panel 21: Mourning and TraumaModerator: Kathy Beres Rogers
Henna Messina, “‘Certain Accidents of the Weather’: Storms and Shipwrecks in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette”
Mary Emmerling, “Love and Loss: An Intra-Textual Exploration of Death, Grief, and Mourning among Christina Rossetti’s Women in ‘A Prince’s Progress’ and Other Poems”
Gretchen Braun, “Off the Rails: Train Wrecks, National Identity, and Transatlantic Trauma”
Panel 22: Locations of SlaveryModerator: Frank Emmett
Ramit Samaddar, “The Barnabys in America: Frances Trollope’s Anti-Slavery Novel”
Jamie Watson, “‘Death Grim and Grasping As Ever’: Exploring Liverpool through Anti-Slavery Critique in Melville’s Redburn”
Antony Harrison, “A Point of Reference: Liberty, Prosody, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Promethean Slave”
Rutledge Room
Laurens Room
Drayton Room
Panel 23: Spiritualism and Superstition Moderator: Albert Pionke
Amy Lehman, “Spiritualism and Slavery”
Emily Dotson, “Black Cats and Witches: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Transatlantic Superstitions”
Claudie Massicotte, “Victorian Spiritualism and Women’s Authorship: The Transatlantic Trance Lectures of Emma Hardinge Britten”
12:15-1:45pm Banquet Lunch/Business Meeting, Colonial Ballroom
SESSION 8 | 2:00-3:15pm
Panel 24: Children’s LiteratureModerator: Patrick Fleming
Emily Anderson, “Mapping the Child Mind: Transatlantic Conversations in Victorian Children’s Literature and Psychology”
Adam McCune, “‘Extraordinary… Performance’: Playing Many Roles as Resistance to the Adult Colonization of Childhood in Kipling’s Kim”
Panel 25: Victorian Ecologies Moderator: Cheryl Price
Rose O’Malley, “Wholesome Soil: Jane Eyre and Transatlantic Fitnesses”
Kay Walter, “Changing Weather, Changing World: John Ruskin’s Victorian Vision of Global Climate Change”
Panel 26: Victorian Pedagogical Resources Moderator: Casey Cothran
Mollie Barnes and Lauren Hoffer, “Connecting Local and Global Ways of Reading across Texts, Classrooms, and Communities”
Keith Clavin, “Other People’s Empires: Cuban Independence & the British Press, 1890-1900”
Catherine England, “Teaching Great Expectations”
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Pinkney Room
Rutledge Room
Laurens Room
Pinkney Room
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Notes pages image credit: The Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 10 No. 12 (Nov. 1893)
