Gender and Reform in Victorian Culture

With some delay we report the presence of a whole panel devoted to Charlotte Brontë in the recent "Gender and Reform in Victorian Culture" conference organized by the Victorians Institute. The meeting was held in the Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina (October 20-21, 2006).

Panel 11 - Charlotte Bronte and the Reforming Impulse
Chair: Beth Kramer, New York University

"Vinegar Discourse": The Spinster as "Neutral Man- Woman" in Bronte's Shirley and Gaskell's Cranford
Kay Heath, Virginia State University

Reforming National Identity: Shirley as a Palimpsest Novel
Heather Miner, University of Virginia

Resisting Reform: Charlotte Bronte and the Grounds of Natural History
Danielle Coriale, Brandeis University

But these were not the only Brontë-related contributions in the conference:

Panel 1 - Spaces for Reform: Implications for Narrative

Foreign Lands and Female Spaces: Mary Taylor and Shirley
Victoria Ford, Rice University

Panel 4 - For God and Country: Women's Choices As Illusion or Reality

Serving Two Masters: Signifying Choices in Jane Eyre
Joseph Donica, Bob Jones University

Panel 13 - Embodied Protest

Bystander at the Banquet: Female Consumption and Political Protest in Shirley
Meagan Timney, Dalhousie University

Reforming Beauty in Brontë’s Shirley
Margaret E. Mitchell, University of West Georgia

Panel 14 - Literacy, Lying and Literary Art

Revolutionary Reading: Gender and Reform in Charlotte Bronte
Eric Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington

We think is noticeable that Charlotte Brontë's Shirley has been the subject of a lot of scholar research.

Another contribution was presented on the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Travel Writing, Roughing It!, Denver, Colorado, September 28-30

Remedying the Self through Travel in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette
Anne Longmuir, Kansas State University

Categories: Scholar, Shirley, Talks