Re-Orienting Victorian Studies

These days the Annual Conference of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA) is celebrated in Singapore. There are several Brontë talks:

Re-Orienting Victorian Studies
25-27 June 2010

Centre of the Liberal Arts & Social Sciences (CLASS) and the Division of English at Nanyang Technological University.
Orchard Hotel Singapore

Panel: Narrative Strategies and Social Order
Ailee Cho, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology:
“Antagonism Displaced in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley”

Ethics, Home, and Hospitality
Divya Athmanathan, Nanyang Technological University:
“Re‐Orienting the Houses in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights"

Panel: Victorian Satellites – Reorienting the Disoriented
Melissa Mae Saradetch, Meridian Junior College:
“‘Which England?’ The Problem of National Identity in Reproductions of the Localized Foreigner and the Alienated Indigene in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights”

Panel: Narrating Control
Stephen Hancock, Brigham Young University―Hawaii: “
‘Moderat[ing] her expressions of pleasure in receiving him’: Hospitality, Femininity, and Control in Wuthering Heights”

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