(Re)Collecting British Women Writers

From today, March 23 until March 26, the University of Florida organizes the XIVth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference "(Re)Collecting British Women Writers".

Several presentations are Brontë-related. Today, March 23 a series of presentations are held around Charlotte Brontë's works:

Charlotte Brontë: Shifting Texts, Shifting Church, Shifting Canon
Moderator: Paula Guimarães, University of Minho

Sian Griffiths, “Dissolving Pearls: Charlotte Brontë’s Textual Hieroglyphs,” The University of Georgia

Jennifer Blair, “A Tale of Two Texts: Interpretation and Feeling in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley,” The University of Georgia

Helen West, “Privileging the Female View and Suggesting Christian Reform in Brontë’s Shirley,” The University of Georgia

Paige Ellisor, “Cassandra: The Evolutionary Product of Shirley,” The University of Georgia

But there are other talks in different sessions focused on the Brontës:

Ann Basso, “Drama as Romance: The Revenge Tragedy and its Influence on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights”, University of South Florida

Eric Lorentzen, “(Re)Envisioning the Patriarchal Canon: Charlotte Brontë’s Scopic Resistance,” University of Mary Washington

Paula Guimarães, “Dramatizing the Conflicts of Nation and the Body: Displacement in Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s Poetry,” University of Minho

Beth Torgerson, “The Brontës, Illness, and 19 th -Century Medicine,” Flagler College

Deborah Lutz, “The Tiny Sublime: The Miniature Books and Micrographia of the Brontë Family,”

Alice Marie White, “Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley: (Re)Envisioning G.H. Lewes’s Jane Austen,” University of Southern California

Roxanne Eberle, “Austen, the Brontës, and Woolf: Moving between the Undergraduate and Graduate Classroom,” The University of Georgia

One of the Conference Keynotes is also devoted to Wuthering Heights:

Saturday, March 25 6:45-9:30 Banquet Dinner and Carolyn Steedman Keynote

Carolyn Steedman's keynote address, entitled "Story-Tellers of the Western World: Nelly Dean as Historian of Wuthering Heights," will explore the relationship of the English novel to English social history by examining how Nelly Dean and Emily Brontë, as author of Wuthering Heights, function as historians.

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Landscape for a Good Woman (1986) and Dust (2002). She currently holds a UK Economic and Social Research Council Research Professorship for work on domestic service in the eighteenth century.

Categories: Talks, Scholar