Victorian Secrets

A scholar alert from the University of Alabama:

The Victorians Institute Conference 2007:
Victorian Secrets

The 2007 annual meeting of the Victorians Institute will be held November 9-10 at the Ferguson Center on the campus of the University of Alabama. The theme of the 2007 conference is “Victorian Secrets,” and the keynote address will be delivered by John Kucich, Professor of English at Rutgers University. Professor Kucich’s publications include Fictions of Empire (Houghton-Mifflin, 2002), The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (Cornell University Press, 1994), and Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (University of California Press, 1987).
Painting: The Secret Letter (Reading Museum)

Session II 2:15-3:30pm (concurrent panels)
Panel Six: Secrecy and the Brontës

Panel Chair: Elizabeth Winston, University of Tampa

Alicia Carroll, Auburn University
The Secret Life of Trees: Inside Out in Wuthering Heights

Lauren Wood Hoffer, Vanderbilt University
“Anxious as ever to avoid discovery": Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë's Conflicting Desires toward Fame

Kathleen Conway, Molloy College
Secrets: A Means to Reflection and Growth in Victorian Novels

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