2006 Dickens Symposium
The Queen’s University of Belfast
Friday 11 August
9:00-10:30: Session 1
Dickens and the Creative Process
Chair: David Paroissien
Herbert Foltinek (University of Vienna): ‘The "story-weaver at his loom": Two Modes of Literary Production’
Leon Litvack (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘Dickens’s Dream and the Conception of Character’
11:00-12:30: Sessions 2 & 3 (parallel sessions)
Session 2
Dickens and Progress
Chair: David Parker
Karl Smith (University of Dundee): ‘Dickens, Progress and Providence’
Natalie Cole (Oakland University): ‘“The road that ran with us”: Great Expectations, the Road Movie’
Stephanie Cherolis (Quinnipiac University): ‘Dickens, Dust, and Desire: Garbage as a Trope in Our Mutual Friend’
Session 3
Dickens and Providence
Chair: Trey Philpotts
Meoghan Byrne Cronin (Saint Anselm College) ‘“He Weeps for What He Imagines”: Remembered Sympathy in David Copperfield’
Bert Hornback, ‘The Book of Jasper’
12:30-1:15: Business Meeting of Dickens Society
Saturday 12 August
9:00-10:30: Session 4
Dickens and Mortality
Chair: Natalie McKnight
Robert Garnett (Gettysburg College) ‘Dickens’s Funeral – and Ellen Ternan’
Paul Vita (St Louis University, Madrid Campus) ‘Dickens and Epitaphs: Contemplating the Silent Tomb’
Ewa Kujawska Lis (University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland) ‘Charles Dickens as the source of intertextuality in The Round Dozen by W.S. Maugham’
11:00-12:30: Session 5 & 6 (parallel sessions)
Session 5
Dickensian Afterlives
Chair: Patricia Heaman
Erin Louttit: ‘Harry Potter and the Marchioness’
Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt (Siena College): ‘William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey: A Dickensian Novel for the 20th Century’
Geoffrey B. Hill (University of New Hampshire): ‘“What Foul Dust”: The Materiality of Morality and Charles Dickens in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby’
Session 6
Dickens and Novelistic Theory
Chair: Joel Brattin
Carrie McGrory (Boston University) ‘The Gift of Text: Narrative Charity in The Pickwick Papers’
Anita Fernandez-Young (Nottingham University) ‘Authenticity in “Dickensian” Fiction’
Marie-Amélie Coste (University of Paris IV – Sorbonne) ‘Eugene Wrayburn or The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Dickens’
2:00-3:30: Sessions 7 & 8 (parallel sessions)
Session 7
Dickens’s Creative/Editorial Practices
Chair: Bob Heaman
Joel Brattin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) ‘Prolegomena for a Critical edition of Nicholas Nickleby: Notes on Chapter Nine’
Chris Louttit (University of Leicester) ‘”I always seem to myself to have rested far more than I have worked”: Refiguring Dickens’s restlessness’
Philip Allingham (Lakehead University) ‘Luke Fildes’ Missing Twelve for the Original Monthly Parts of The Mystery of Edwin Drood for October 1870 through March 1871: Some Reasonable Conjectures’
Session 8
Dickensian Identities
Chair: Bert Hornback
Elizabeth Bridgham (Providence College) ‘Prearranged and Rearranged: Social Pressure and Narrative Control in the Dickensian Marriage Plot’
Jane Asher (Oakland University) ‘“An’t My Place Dirty?”: Abjection in Bleak House’
Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky) ‘A Wife in Two Volumes: the “Something Wanting” in David Copperfield and The Woman in White’
4:00-5:30: Session 9
Dickens and Gender
Chair: Natalie Cole
Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge) ‘Mrs Gamp, Mrs Harris and Mr Dickens: Creativity and the Self Split in Two’
Natalie McKnight (Boston University) ‘The Erotics of Barnaby Rudge: A Little Something for Everyone’
Amberyl Malkovich (Illinois State University) ‘Walk With Me Awhile: Little Nell, Grandfather Trent and Gender Functionality on the Long Journey Through The Old Curiosity Shop’
7:00-11:00: Dickens Dinner in the Great Hall, with entertainment provided by Len Graham & Jack Lynch (famous traditional Irish singer & storyteller duo).
Sunday August 13
9:00-10:10: Session 10
Dickens and Altered States
Chair: Margaret Flanders Darby
Eleanor Salotto (Sweet Briar College) ‘Wandering and Plotting: Dickens’s Journalistic Writing’
Robert Tracy (University of California Berkeley) ‘“Opium is the true hero of the tale”: De Quincey, Dickens, and Edwin Drood’
10:30-11:50: Session 11
Dickens and Literary markets
Chair: Natalie Cole
Irina Gredina (Tomsk Polytechnic University) ‘Russian Reception of the Later Novels by Dickens (1860-1890)’
Mark W. Cronin (Saint Anselm College) ‘Charles Lever and the Endings of Dickens’s Great Expectations’
Trey Philpotts (Arkansas Tech University) ‘Dickens, Invention, and Literary Property in the 1850s’
Some changes were made to the schedule because of travel delays caused by the security alert in Britain in August.
The Queen’s University of Belfast
Friday 11 August
9:00-10:30: Session 1
Dickens and the Creative Process
Chair: David Paroissien
Herbert Foltinek (University of Vienna): ‘The "story-weaver at his loom": Two Modes of Literary Production’
Leon Litvack (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘Dickens’s Dream and the Conception of Character’
11:00-12:30: Sessions 2 & 3 (parallel sessions)
Session 2
Dickens and Progress
Chair: David Parker
Karl Smith (University of Dundee): ‘Dickens, Progress and Providence’
Natalie Cole (Oakland University): ‘“The road that ran with us”: Great Expectations, the Road Movie’
Stephanie Cherolis (Quinnipiac University): ‘Dickens, Dust, and Desire: Garbage as a Trope in Our Mutual Friend’
Session 3
Dickens and Providence
Chair: Trey Philpotts
Meoghan Byrne Cronin (Saint Anselm College) ‘“He Weeps for What He Imagines”: Remembered Sympathy in David Copperfield’
Bert Hornback, ‘The Book of Jasper’
12:30-1:15: Business Meeting of Dickens Society
Saturday 12 August
9:00-10:30: Session 4
Dickens and Mortality
Chair: Natalie McKnight
Robert Garnett (Gettysburg College) ‘Dickens’s Funeral – and Ellen Ternan’
Paul Vita (St Louis University, Madrid Campus) ‘Dickens and Epitaphs: Contemplating the Silent Tomb’
Ewa Kujawska Lis (University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland) ‘Charles Dickens as the source of intertextuality in The Round Dozen by W.S. Maugham’
11:00-12:30: Session 5 & 6 (parallel sessions)
Session 5
Dickensian Afterlives
Chair: Patricia Heaman
Erin Louttit: ‘Harry Potter and the Marchioness’
Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt (Siena College): ‘William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey: A Dickensian Novel for the 20th Century’
Geoffrey B. Hill (University of New Hampshire): ‘“What Foul Dust”: The Materiality of Morality and Charles Dickens in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby’
Session 6
Dickens and Novelistic Theory
Chair: Joel Brattin
Carrie McGrory (Boston University) ‘The Gift of Text: Narrative Charity in The Pickwick Papers’
Anita Fernandez-Young (Nottingham University) ‘Authenticity in “Dickensian” Fiction’
Marie-Amélie Coste (University of Paris IV – Sorbonne) ‘Eugene Wrayburn or The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Dickens’
2:00-3:30: Sessions 7 & 8 (parallel sessions)
Session 7
Dickens’s Creative/Editorial Practices
Chair: Bob Heaman
Joel Brattin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) ‘Prolegomena for a Critical edition of Nicholas Nickleby: Notes on Chapter Nine’
Chris Louttit (University of Leicester) ‘”I always seem to myself to have rested far more than I have worked”: Refiguring Dickens’s restlessness’
Philip Allingham (Lakehead University) ‘Luke Fildes’ Missing Twelve for the Original Monthly Parts of The Mystery of Edwin Drood for October 1870 through March 1871: Some Reasonable Conjectures’
Session 8
Dickensian Identities
Chair: Bert Hornback
Elizabeth Bridgham (Providence College) ‘Prearranged and Rearranged: Social Pressure and Narrative Control in the Dickensian Marriage Plot’
Jane Asher (Oakland University) ‘“An’t My Place Dirty?”: Abjection in Bleak House’
Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky) ‘A Wife in Two Volumes: the “Something Wanting” in David Copperfield and The Woman in White’
4:00-5:30: Session 9
Dickens and Gender
Chair: Natalie Cole
Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge) ‘Mrs Gamp, Mrs Harris and Mr Dickens: Creativity and the Self Split in Two’
Natalie McKnight (Boston University) ‘The Erotics of Barnaby Rudge: A Little Something for Everyone’
Amberyl Malkovich (Illinois State University) ‘Walk With Me Awhile: Little Nell, Grandfather Trent and Gender Functionality on the Long Journey Through The Old Curiosity Shop’
7:00-11:00: Dickens Dinner in the Great Hall, with entertainment provided by Len Graham & Jack Lynch (famous traditional Irish singer & storyteller duo).
Sunday August 13
9:00-10:10: Session 10
Dickens and Altered States
Chair: Margaret Flanders Darby
Eleanor Salotto (Sweet Briar College) ‘Wandering and Plotting: Dickens’s Journalistic Writing’
Robert Tracy (University of California Berkeley) ‘“Opium is the true hero of the tale”: De Quincey, Dickens, and Edwin Drood’
10:30-11:50: Session 11
Dickens and Literary markets
Chair: Natalie Cole
Irina Gredina (Tomsk Polytechnic University) ‘Russian Reception of the Later Novels by Dickens (1860-1890)’
Mark W. Cronin (Saint Anselm College) ‘Charles Lever and the Endings of Dickens’s Great Expectations’
Trey Philpotts (Arkansas Tech University) ‘Dickens, Invention, and Literary Property in the 1850s’
Some changes were made to the schedule because of travel delays caused by the security alert in Britain in August.