Schedule
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9.45-10.30 Coffee and Registration Graduate Space
10.30-10.45 Welcome: Lizzie Ludlow and Madeleine Wood H545
10.45-11.45 Panel 1: The Poetics of Home H545 Chair: Dr Rhian Williams (The University of Warwick) Tom Marks (Oxford University), ‘Can any sit down idle in the house?’ The Place of Poetry in Casa Guidi Windows Alice Stainer (The University of Leeds), ‘I had a little chamber in the house: The Subversion of Domesticity in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh Lizzie Ludlow (The University of Warwick), 'A garden in a garden': The Enclosed Gardens of Christina Rossetti's Poetics
11.45-12.45 Panel 2: The Haunted House H545 Chair: Dr Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University) Madeleine Wood (The University of Warwick), Affective Displacement and Architectural Subsidence: The House of Clennam in Little Dorrit Tarro Heyes (Cardiff University), ‘The (Re)Turn of the Screw’: Why We Can Never Make a House a Home Ged Pope (London Metropolitan), Suburban Ghost Stories
12.45-13.45 Lunch Graduate Space
13:45-14.45 Keynote Lecture H545 Chair: Madeleine Wood (The University of Warwick) Dr Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University), Haunted Homes and Ghostly Geographies
14.45-15.45 Panel 3: Readerships H545 Chair: Dr Emma Mason (The University of Warwick) Tracey Crabb (The University of the West of England), George Gissing; Working and Middle Class Domestic Space Anne-Marie Millim (The University of Glasgow), The Idea of Home in George Gissing’s Diary (1888-1902) Aislinn Hunter (The University of Edinburgh), Explorations of Interior Space: The Victorian Library as a Little Theatre 15.45-16.15 Break Graduate Space
16.15-17.15 Panel 4: Domesticity and the Family H545 Chair: Beth Palmer (Trinity College, Oxford) Helena Ifill (The University of Sheffield), Homemakers and Homemeets: Domesticity in Mary Braddon’s Novels Mari Takumi (Birkbeck University), Ghosts, Mothers and Female Servants in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Short Fiction Ceri Hunter (Faculty of English, Oxford University), Cousinship and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Reading of Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell
17.15-18.15 Panel 5: Interior Decoration H545 Chair: Dr Gill Frith (The University of Warwick) Emma Cowan (Bristol University), Gendering Tyntesfield’s Nineteenth-Century Interiors Kara Tennant (Cardiff University), Inside Out: Outside In: Inversions of Fashionable Space and the Mid-Victorian Feminine Ideal
18.15-19.15 Drinks Reception Graduate Space
19.30 onwards Evening Meal Xananas All delegates invited (NB cost of this not included in the £7 conference fee)
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