PROGRAMME
DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
17-20 JULY, 2008

THURSDAY 17 JULY

1300-1800 Register at Kingston University Kingston Hill Campus
(it will also be possible to register on Friday morning).

1930-2130 Drop in dinner (paid for by diners) at a central Kingston restaurant.

FRIDAY 18 JULY

0900 Assemble.

0915 Welcome.

0945 Panel 1: Social Contexts: Chair Edgar Rosenberg (Cornell University).

Katharina Boehm (King’s College London). ‘London Geographies of Child Health – Charles Dickens and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.’
Adelene Buckland (University of Cambridge). ‘Pictures in the Fire: Coal, History and Fictional Form in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.’
Trey Philpotts (Arkansas Tech University). ‘Mad Bulls and Dead Meat: Smithfield Market as Victorian Symbol.’

1100 Coffee Break.

1115 Panel 2: Biography. Chair Natalie Cole (Oakland University).

Robert Garnett (Gettysburg College). ‘Re-visiting Warren’s Blacking and Lombard Street.’
Lillian Nayder (Bates College). “Catherine Georgina,” or, What’s in a Name? Understanding the Hogarth Sisterhood.’
Margaret Flanders Darby (Colgate University). ‘The Conservatory at Gad’s Hill Place.’

1230 Lunch break.

1400 Panel 3: Characters. Chair to be decided

Meoghan Byrne Cronin (Saint Anselm College). “’My Lady Fair the Conjurer Plays”: Miss Havisham and the Victorian Dangerous Bride.’
Gareth Cordery (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). ‘Making the Acquaintance of Miss Mowcher.’
Joel J. Brattin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). ‘Dick Swiveller’s Bed.’
Jane K. Asher (Wayne State University). ‘David’s Blank Spaces and Ignominious Faces: Unmasking the Affect of Shame in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield.’

1535 Tea break.

1550 Panel 4: Illustrations. Chair to be decided.

Leon Litvack (Queen’s University, Belfast). ‘Marcus Stone: A Reassessment.’
Chris Louttit (University of Leicester). ‘Re-illustrating Dickens: The Household Edition of His Novels.’
Philip V. Allingham (Lakehead University). ‘Frederick Barnard’s Martin Chuzzlewit Illustrations (1870).’

1710 Free time. Optional activity to be announced.

SATURDAY 19 JULY

0900 Panel 5: Technique. Chair Tony Williams (Dickens Fellowship/University of Buckingham).

Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge). ‘Man and Woman Made He Them: Mr Dickens Speaks in Two Voices.’
David Paroissien (University of Buckingham). ‘The “Strange Power of Speech” Telling and Technique in Great Expectations.’
Robert Tracy (University of California, Berkeley). “’There’s no business like show business!”: Theatrical Conventions in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.’
David Parker (Kingston University). ‘The Artistry of Pickwick Papers: A Palindromic Chapter.’

1035 Coffee Break.

1050 Panel 6: Social and Literary Contexts. Chair Leon Litvack (Queen’s University, Belfast).

John Bowen (University of York). “The Genres of Pickwick.’
Kelley Mandeville (Oakland University). ‘Betraying Dinner: Improper Dining in Little Dorrit.’
Nancy Aycock Metz (Virginia Tech University). ‘Dickens and the American “Logocracy.”’
Mark Cronin (Saint Anselm College). ‘”A Gravestone on His Fame”: Charles Dickens, Charles Lever and the Knight of Gwynne.’

1230 Lunch break.

1400 Panel 7: Characters. Chair to be decided.

Anita Fernandez Young and Robert Young (University of Nottingham). ‘The Character Structure of Great Expectations: A Graph Theory Approach to Analysis.’
Bert Hornback (University of Michigan, retired). “Judging Eugene Wrayburn.’
Robert Heaman (Wilkes University). ‘Esther Summerson as Artist.’

1515 Tea Break.

Panel 8 Biography. Chair Avril Horner (Kingston University).

Jenny Hartley (Roehampton University). ‘Dickens and the House of Fallen Women.’
Jane Jordan (Kingston University). ‘Dickens’ Autobiographical Fragment and the Gendering of Nineteenth Century Confessional Life-Writing.’

1630 Dickens Society Annual General Meeting.

1700 Free time. Optional activity to be announced.

2000 Banquet.

SUNDAY 20 JULY

0900 Panel 9: Themes and Plots. Chair to be decided.

David J. Smith (Pennsylvania State University). ‘Visions of the Shadowy World: From A Christmas Carol to Bleak House.’
Leslie Simon (Boston University). ‘Collecting Dust: Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend and the Disintegrating Modern Self.’
Jennifer Gribble (University of Sydney). ‘The Bible in Great Expectations.’
Tamara Silvia Wagner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). ‘Circumlocuting Exotic Legacies: The Aborted Detective Plot of Little Dorrit.’

1015 Coffee break.

1030 Panel 10: Adaptations. Chair to be decided.

Pamela Atzori (University of Aberystwyth). ‘Citoyen Charles Dickens: French Television Adaptations of the Works of Charles Dickens.’
Elizabeth Bridgham (Providence College). ‘The Portable Dickens: Great Expectations and the Dickensian Pilgrimage of Mister Pip.’

1200 Lunch.

Optional activity to be announced.