Disrupting Victorian Studies

Talks, papers and exhibitions, all of them related to The Victorians Institute:

The Victorians Institute, 2008
DISRUPTING VICTORIAN STUDIES:
Inconvenient Facts, Shocking Discoveries, Surprising Events, Forgotten Voices, Unknown Writings, Mangled Texts.

University of South Carolina, Columbia
October 3-4, 2008

The program included:

FRIDAY, October 3
11.00-12:15 am

Session 2B: Two Brontës
Kitty Elton (Univ. of New Brunswick): “Anne Brontë: The Buried Sister.”
Kristen Pond (UNC Greensboro): “Silently Disrupting Identity: Lucy Snowe and Unethical Constructions of the Other in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.”
Robin Barrow (Univ. of Tennessee): “The ‘Draught and Glow’ of Sexual Violence in Jane Eyre.”

SATURDAY October 4
10:45 am-12:00 noon

Session 8A: Short Fiction
Kathryn Crowther (Georgia Inst. of Technology): “Reclaiming Charlotte Brontë’s The Green Dwarf.”

Session 8B: Charlotte Brontë
Chair: Deborah Logan (Western Kentucky University).
Leila May (NC State Univ.): “Reductio ad Materialismus: Overplaying the Materialist Card in Villette”
Adam Pridemore (Univ. of South Florida): "Jane Eyre on the Stool: Exploring Ignored Questions of Narrative Authenticity in Brontë 's Jane Eyre."
Abby Mann (Indiana Univ.): “’Chain[ed] . . . to a putrefying carcase’: George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and Renunciation.”

FRIDAY 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Reception, Exhibition Opening (Graniteville Room)
Sponsored by the Thomas Cooper Society
Brief greetings: John Lee (President, Thomas Cooper Society).
Exhibition: “The Shapes of Victorian Writing” (Mezzanine Gallery)
--first editions of Victorian authors from Carlyle, Darwin and Dickens to the Brontes, Rhoda Broughton, Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Bridges, and featuring William North (1825-1854).

The USC Times & Headlines gives more information on the exhibition:

North's novel The City of the Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls (1850) is among the most original and surprising works of Victorian fiction. Yet, with only two copies recorded as surviving in any library in North America, it is now much rarer than the first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), which is also on display.

The latest issue of the Victorian Institute Journal (Number 35, 2007) also contains a Brontë article:

Grace Moore and Susan Pyke
Haunting Passions: Revising and Revisiting Wuthering Heights, p. 239

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