Creativity and the Arts in Victorian Culture

Recent conferences with several Brontë-related talks:

2009 Conference
Creativity and the Arts in Victorian Culture
Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
October 16 & 17, 2009

Panel: Appropriations
“Victorian Master-pieces: Art as Ideological State Apparatus in Bronte and Eliot,” Eric Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington

Panel: Making Art
“Art as a Catalyst for Literary Growth in Charlotte Bronte’s Juvenilia,” Elaine Arvan Andrews, Penn State Shenango

Panel: Coming of Age
“Nursing Voices: Jane Eyre’s Lessons in Narration and Flirtation,” Catherine England, USC Columbia

Panel: Reading the Victorians, reading ourselves
“Un-Becoming Jane: Jane Eyre as Alter-Ego and Negative Role Model,” Leslie Haynsworth, USC Columbia

Panel: Monstrous Knitting and Sartorial Discipline
“Look at Lucy Looking: Art and Observation, Fashion and Femininity in Villette” Stephanie Womick, UNC Greensboro

And,

Lesbian Lives XVII:
'Lesbian Lives, Studies and Activisms: In-laws, Outlaws and Other Relations'.
Feb. 19th-20th 2010 –University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland

Temma Berg, Gettysburg College, USA
An Im/Modest Proposal: Anne Lister, Emily Brontë and the Writing of Shirley

According to My Place:

A joyous traipse through the potential lesbian identities of women connected with the Brontë sisters. Just when one thought it was the end of a thought… the speaker went forward into another tract pulling from the text more codes, more information and more possibilities than imagined! This is another book for the ‘Will Read’ list. (Emma)

Categories: Scholar, Talks