RSVP 2012 Draft Program
Friday, September 14, 2012
8-5:30 Registration (Break Area)
8-9 Continental Breakfast (Break Area)
9-10:30 Welcome and Robert L. and Vineta Colby Lecture, Room 107
Introduction: Joanne Shattock, University of Leicester
Lecture by Joel Wiener, CUNY, author of The Americanization of the British Press, 1830s-1914.
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break (Break Area)
10:45-12:15 Concurrent Panels
Panel 1, Room 104: Children’s Periodicals
Moderator: Annemarie McAllister, University of Central Lancashire
Richard Fulton, Windward Community College, "Sensationalizing the Military in Mid-Victorian Boys’ Magazines"
Michelle Elleray, University of Guelph, "British Boys and Blackbirding: Rescuing Pacific Islanders in the Boy’s Own Paper"
Meghan Rosing, Lehigh University, "‘Our Cot’: Sympathetic Sensations between Child Readers and Child Patients in Aunt Judy’s Magazine"
Panel 2, Room 107: New Approaches to Research
Moderator: Jennifer Phegley, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Dallas Liddle, Augsburg College, "Portable Document Formats: The Development of the Nineteenth-Century Newspaper as Information Delivery System"
Natalie Houston, University of Houston, "Making Numbers Meaningful: Visualizing Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Presence in Victorian Periodicals"
Laurel Brake, Birkbeck, University of London, "Sensation! in Reviews in the ‘Sixties and ‘Seventies"
Panel 3, Room 108: Authors I: Braddon
Moderator: Marie Martinez, Texas Christian University
Melissa Couchon, Texas Christian University, "Stifling Sensation: Lady Audley’s Secret as an Un-Sensational Novel in Robin Goodfellow and Sixpenny Magazine"
Anne-Marie Beller, Loughborough University, "Penny Serial to Triple-Decker: M. E. Braddon’s Revision of The Outcasts for ‘Polite’ Consumption"
Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, University of Exeter, "The Rhetoric of Sentiment: G. E., M. E. Braddon and the Romantic Sensation of the Gentlemanly Reviewer"
12:15-2 Lunch on your own
2-3:30 Concurrent Panels
Panel 4, Room 104: Annuals and Pocket-Books
Moderator: Kathryn Ledbetter, Texas State University
Sandro Jung, Ghent University, "G. W. Fulcher’s Ladies Memorandum Book, and Poetical Miscellany (1825-89) and the Politics of Sentiment"
Brian Maidment, University of Salford, "Suppressing the Sensational–the Struggle for a ‘Rational’ Almanac in Early Victorian Britain"
Barbara Onslow, Independent Scholar, "Sentiments of the Season: Hope, Charity, and Fun in Victorian Christmas Annuals"
Panel 5, Room 107: Sensation Journalism I: Stead
Moderator: Jeffery Patterson, The University of Texas at Austin
Marysa Demoor, Ghent University, "Steadiment and Steadation in the Review of Reviews"
Jim Mussell, University of Birmingham, "When Sensation is Justifiable: W.T. Stead, Sensation and the Form of the Newspaper"
Karen Steele, Texas Christian University, "‘Featherbrained’: Femininity, Fame, and the New Journalism"
Panel 6, Room 108: The New Woman
Moderator: Melissa Smith, The University of Texas at Austin
Katherine Malone, Temple University, "Reviewing for the English Woman: Marion Hepworth Dixon and the Changing Character of a Magazine"
Marianne Van Remoortel, Ghent University, "Emily Faithful’s Compositors: Female Employment at the Victoria Press"
Efrat Pashut, Tel Aviv University, "The Sensational Bicycle: Sensationalism in the Victorian Periodical Cycling"
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break (Break Area)
3:45-5:15 Concurrent Panels
Panel 7, Room 104: Sensation Journalism II: Sensational Consumption
Moderator: Jerome Bump, University of Texas at Austin
Liam Young, University of Alberta, "Sensational Eating: The Popularization of Trichinosis and other Horrors in the Vegetarian Press"
Julie Kraft, Indiana University, "Crimes of the Stomach: Food Adulteration and Delinquency in the Victorian Press"
Annemarie McAllister, University of Central Lancashire, "Drunkenness and Misery or the Happy Home?: Illustrated Periodicals of the Band of Hope"
Panel 8, Room 107: Illustrations of Sentiment and Sensation
Moderator: Rachel Johnston, Texas Christian University
Mary Elizabeth Leighton & Lisa Surridge, University of Victoria, "Ocular Sensations: Illustration and Sensation Fiction in the Periodical Press"
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Louisiana State University, "Sweeney Todds: The Satirical Afterlife of Sweeney Todd in Victorian Periodicals"
Carol MacKay, The University of Texas at Austin, "Beyond the Cornhill Magazine: The Life and Afterlife of Anne Thackeray Ritchie’’s Miss Angel"
Panel 9, Room 108: Imperialist Sensations
Moderator: William Meier, Texas Christian University
Sigrid Cordell, University of Michigan, "The New Woman and the Wide World: Rewriting Imperial Adventure in the Periodical Press"
Anna Peak, Temple University, "Inventing Inscrutability: Sentiment, Sensation, Progress, and the Chinese Language in the Saturday Review"
Mary Ellis Gibson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "The Afterlife of Sati: The Surprising Longevity of Immolation Poems in Victorian Periodicals"
5:30-6:30 Wolff Lecture, Room 103
Introduction: Brian Maidment, University of Salford
Lecture: Margaret Beetham, Independent Scholar
"The Body in the Library: Taste and Disgust in Popular Reading"
Sponsored by Andrew Schoolmaster, Dean, AddRan College of Liberal Arts, Texas Christian University
6:45-9 Texas BBQ & Bluegrass Party, Courtyard, $25
Co-Sponsor: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Bluegrass music from "Ranch Road 12." Service bar available. In case of rain, event will be held in the Tejas Dining Room.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
8-noon Registration (Break Area)
8-9 Continental Breakfast (Break Area)
9-10:30 Concurrent Panels
Panel 10, Room 101: Reviewing
Moderator: Solveig Robinson, Pacific Lutheran University
Julie Codell, Arizona State University, "Inducing Sentiment, Socializing Feeling: Art Criticism in the Press"
Joanne Shattock, University of Leicester, "Oliphant, Braddon and the Demands of Popular Fiction"
Isabel Seidel, University of Aberdeen, "‘At every page there is some offence against good taste or good feeling’: Geraldine Jewsbury and Margaret Oliphant"
Panel 11, Room 102: Sensation Fiction I: Transatlanticism
Moderator: Carol MacKay, The University of Texas at Austin
Molly Leverenz, Texas Christian University, "The Moonstone in America: Harper’s Weekly and Transatlantic Introspection"
Jennifer Phegley, University of Missouri-Kansas City, "‘An Age of Sensation . . . Across the Atlantic’: Defining Sensationalism in the English and American Press"
Elizabeth Anderman, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Serialization, Illustration, and the Art of Sensation"
Panel 12, Room 203: Sensation Journalism III: Crime
Moderator: Karen Steele, Texas Christian University
William Meier, Texas Christian University, "Scene of the Explosion:the Fenian Dynamite Campaign in Illustrated Periodicals, 1881-85"
Alice Smalley, The Open University, "‘The material of the dirty little newsvendors in London and the country’:Illustrations in The Illustrated Police News"
Siobhan Craft Brownson, Winthrop University, "The Tichborne Case and the Illustrated London News"
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break (Break Area)
10:45-12:15 Concurrent Panels
Panel 13, Room 101: Reform
Moderator: Allen MacDuffie, University of Texas at Austin
Florence Boos, University of Iowa, "The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine: Romantic Sensations, Reformist Sentiments"
Janice Carlisle, Yale University, "Ballet Girls on Fire: Accidents and the Victorian Press"
Tanushree Ghosh, University of Nebraska at Omaha, "Liberal Publics and their Victims: Late-Victorian Journalism and the Reformist Melodramas of George Sims and Andrew Mearns"
Panel 14, Room 102: Sensation Fiction II
Moderator: Kathleen Zvarych, The University of Texas at Austin
Jacob Ptacek, The University of Texas at Austin, "Serial(ized) Murderers: Dickens and Ainsworth at Work in Bentley’s Miscellany"
Kellyanne Ure, Texas Tech University, "The Sensational Truth: Realism and the Magazine Serialization of The Woman in White, Lady Audley’s Secret, and Hard Cash"
Troy Bassett, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, "Truly a Newspaper Novel: The Use of Sir Travers Twiss’s Libel Case (1872) in Joseph Hatton’s Clytie (1873–74)"
Panel 15, Room 203: Sensation Journalism IV: Investigative and Undercover Journalism
Moderator: Cole Wehrle, University of Texas at Austin
Alexis Easley, University of St. Thomas, "The Man of Letters as Criminal: Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell and Henry Labouchere’s Truth"
Iain Crawford, University of Delaware, "Writing against Type: Household Words and the Unsentimental, Anti-Sensational Journalism of Harriet Martineau"
Jillian Richardson, University of Alberta, "Popular Sensations in the Press: The Undercover Reporter and the Music Hall Performer"
12:30-2 RSVP General Business Meeting Luncheon. Serve yourself at the buffet and come to the RSVP reserved dining area. All conference attendees encouraged to attend.
2-3:30 Concurrent Panels
Panel 16, Room 101, Authors II: Collins Round the Year 1868: The Personal and the Political During the Serialization of The Moonstone
Moderator: Iain Crawford, University of Delaware
Carolyn Vellenga Berman, The New School, "Sensation after Emancipation: Slavery in All the Year Round"
Erin Van Laningham, Loras College, "The Story of Myself: The Moonstone and the Memoir"
Caroline Reitz, John Jay College, CUNY, "‘There is a medium in all things’: Charles Dickens Conducts The Moonstone"
Panel 17, Room 102, Sensation Journalism V: Sexualities
Moderator: Joanna Thaler, University of Texas at Austin
Sarah Bull, Simon Fraser University, "Reynolds’s Newspaper’s ‘Astounding Revelations’: George Bedborough’s Trial, ‘Semi-Scientific’ Pornography, and Free Speech"
Lauren Harmsen Kiehna, University of Kansas, "Honour and Fair Fame: Theresa Longworth Yelverton, Respectability, and the Times"
Charles Upchurch, Florida State University, "Everyday Affairs: Mainstream Reporting of Sex between Men in Mid-Victorian London"
Panel 18, Room 203: Hybrid Forms
Moderator: Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, University of Texas at Austin
Mary McCulley, Texas Christian University, "Travelling through Florence and between Genre Forms: Romola as Sensational Travel Narrative"
Anne DeWitt, Princeton University, "The Elsmere Sensation: Debating the Theological Romance"
Meegan Kennedy, Florida State University, "‘The things I have seen in tapioca pudding!’: George Henry Lewes, the Microscope, and the Visions of Natural History"
Panel 19, Room 103: Publishing Roundtable
Alexis Easley, Editor, Victorian Periodicals Review
David Latanéé, Former Editor, Victorian Institutes Journal
Sally Mitchell, Editor, Praeger Victorian Life and Times Series
Joanne Shattock, Editor, Ashgate Nineteenth-Century Series
Mary Elizabeth Leighton & Lisa Surridge, Co-Editors, Victorian Review
Ellen B. Rosenman, Editor, Victorians Institute Journal
3:30-3:45 Coffee Break (Break Area)
3:45-5:15 Concurrent Panels
Panel 20, Room 101: Poetry
Moderator: Sarah McNeely, Texas Christian University
Linda Peterson, Yale University, "Sentiment and Sensation in the Victorian Poetic Debut"
Rebecca Mitchell, University of Texas-Pan American, "George Meredith’s Poetry: Picturing Englishness in Once a Week and Modern Love"
Hazel MacKenzie, University of Buckingham, "Letting Sleeping Dead Children Lie: Death, Sentimental Poetry and Periodical Structures in Household Words"
Panel 21, Room 102: Sensation Journalism VI: Scandal
Moderator: Ellen B. Rosenman, University of Kentucky
David Latané, Virginia Commonwealth University, "The London Press and the Case of Maria Foote"
Heather Freeman, Vanderbilt University, "Piracy and Plagiarism, or ‘the uncertain trade of brain- selling’"
Amanda Nydegger, Milligan College, "Sensational Facts Make Sensational Stories: The Times and Birmingham Gaol in Charles Reade’s It Is Never Too Late to Mend"
Panel 22, Room 203: Authors III: Gaskell
Sentiment, Sensation, and Melodrama: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Art of Pathos in Victorian Periodical Literature
Moderator: Caroline Reitz, John Jay College, CUNY
Sarah McNeely, Texas Christian University, "‘No Jot of Hope or Heart Abated:’ Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sentimental Contributions to Howitt’s Journal"
Jessica Queener, West Virginia University, "Sentiment vs. Sensation: Dickens vs. Gaskell"
Lindsy Lawrence, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, "Reportage and Sentimental Heroines on Trial: Female Criminals in the Periodical Press and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton"
5:30-6 Final Words, Room 203
Patrick Leary, President of the RSVP