Politics and Propaganda
29th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
April 3 - 5, 2008

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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ABSTRACTS

Kimberly VanEsveld Adams, Sexual Politics: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Byrons

Sinan Akilli, Propaganda through Travel Writing: Frederick Burnaby's Contribution to the Russophobic-Turcophilic Tone in British Politics during the Great Game

Lynn Alexander, "Shadows Uplifted": The Trope of the Maternal in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Iola Leroy

Jessica Allen, The Omission of Repetition in The History of Mary Prince

Terri Amlong, The "Spirit of Sectarianism" within the Anti-Slavery Movement: Lydia Maria Child's Editorship of the National Anti-Slavery Standard

Catherine Anderson, Imperial Faces: Britannia's "Daughters" in Victorian Visual Culture

Ross Barrett, Miners, Mobs, and Mollies: Picturing labor and working-class activism in the age of incorporation

Karen Bearor, Illustrators Burying the Truth at Wounded Knee

Alex Beringer, Charles Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition and the Conspiracy Genre

Zbigniew Bialas, National Costumes and Political Masquerades: Byron's "Mazeppa"

Sophie Boyer, The Political Power of Stone: Statues in Heinrich Heine's Oeuvre

Anthony Bradley, Imagining Ireland: W. B. Yeats and late 19th-century Irish nationalism

Ronald Briggs, Muses and the Gazette: Andrés Bello's Poetics of Revolutionary News

David Brown, Palmerston, politics and propaganda (1830-1865)

Jeffrey Butts, Sybil: Or, the Anti-Communist Manifesto

Elizabeth Carlson, Policing Paris Through Reflections

Ricia Chansky, A Mind to Shop: Advertising Trade Card Rhetoric and the Construction of a Public Space for Women, 1880-1900

Malcolm Chase, Resolved in defiance of fool and of knave': Children in Chartism

Daniel Cohen, Fanatical Protestants, Treacherous Catholics, Faithful Muslims: Political Re-Visions of the Charlestown Convent Riot, 1834-1855

Carla Coleman, Journal-istic Propaganda and the Monarchy:Queen Victoria's Leaves from a Highland Journal

Erin Corrales-Diaz, The Indian in His Solitude:N.C. Wyeth and the Eastern Woodland Indian

Maura Coughlin, Rural Women’s Religiosity, Modern art and Third Republic Politics

Dennis Denisoff, The Pagan Decadent Challenge to Victorian Speciesism

Dawn Dodds, Accusing the State of Violence, in Life and in Death: Louis Auguste Blanqui

Jenni Drozdek, Redefining National Art in Life

Sari Edelstein, Seduction and Sedition in Judith Sargent Murray's Story of Margaretta

Lisa Edwards, Chilean Conservatives and the Catholic Church, 1857-1901

Kathryn Freeman, “She had eyes and chose me”: Ambivalence and Mscegenation in Phebe Gibbes’s Hartly House, Calcutta (1789)

Clare Gill, "The Stimulating Power": Olive Schreiner and the "Shrieking Sisterhood"

Maria Gindhart, Art as Colonial Propaganda:The Palace of the Ministry of the Colonies at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition

Jennifer Greenhill, Carving out a Mark: George du Maurier, Charles Dana Gibson and the Site of Whiteness in Illustration

David Hanson, Tory Byronism: Mentorship and Influence in Early Ruskin

Lenora Hanson, Bringing the Ballad "Back to the Streets"

Jennifer Hayward, "An occasional trait of Scotch shrewdness": Narrating nationalism in Frances Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico

Regina Hewitt, Joanna Baillie and Parliamentary Reform

Lisa Higgins, “In a Sphere by Herself”: Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne as Nineteenth-Century Public Woman

Rachel Hollander, Politics of Hospitality in The Story of an African Farm

J. Andrew Hubbell, Byron and the Politics of Ecology

Sarah Iepson, A Peep at Propaganda: Children as World's Fair Cosmopolitans

Alyce A. Jordan, Nineteenth-Century Restoration Politics: Recrafting Monarchy in the Stained Glass Windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris

Trisha Kannan, "Twilight is not good for maidens": Gender Politics in Milton's "Comus" and Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"

Aaron Keebaugh, "To worship his country and die for the Green": Charles Villiers Stanford's Shamus O'Brien and the fantasy of nationalism

Douglas Klahr, Political Satire in the Cartoons and Caricatures of Kladderadatsch during Wartime

Alrick Knight, When Literary Realism Isn't Quite "Real" Enough: Utopic Responses inBenito Pérez Galdós

Julia Kuehn, Gendering the Empire: Women's Orientalist Paintings

Amanda Lahikainen, Crowding Around Caricature: Polysemous Propaganda in British Political Prints

Melissa J Lingle-Martin, The Covert Case of Higher Law in E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand

Shawn Malley, Layard Enterprise: British Archaeology and Imperial Propaganda in Mesopotamia, 1845-1849

Deborah Maltby, Poetic Protest: William Barnes' Dorset Dialect Eclogues

Matt McCook, Transcendentalists and the Second Great Awakening: Parallel Expressions of Otherworldliness

Daniel McInerney, The Power of Memory: Mnemonics Training and Democratization in Nineteenth-Century America

Michael Michie, "Three cheers for the Canadian peasants": the response of British radicals and Chartists to the Canadian rebellions of 1837-38

Henry Miller, The impact of visual propaganda: George Reynolds, George Cruikshank and the case of the temperance progress

Kathleen Miller, Jane Eyre and the Creation of the Female Gothic Artist

Simon Morgan, Propaganda and the politics of personality: the case of the Anti-Corn Law League, 1839-1846

Lucy Morrison, Charles I: The Historical and Political Incursion of the Personal in Dickens' Later Works

Cynthia Patterson, Domesticating the Natives: The Philadelphia Pictorials of the 1840s and Representations of Native Americans

Brittany Roberts, A Masculinizing Investigation: The Detective and the Problem of Women's Reticence in Lady Audley's Secret

Kyle Aaron Roberts, American Masterpiece or Veblen Good

Kristin Ross, Packaging the Educated Female at the fin de siècle: The Problem with Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman

Kerstin Rudolph, Uprooting Normative Whiteness: Gender and Race Politics in Louisa May Alcott's Work

Dalila Scruggs, The Ship, the Settler and the Palm Tree: Picturing African Colonization as a Solution to Slavery in Antebellum America.

Eric Segal, Joseph Pennell's America: The Wonder of Work without Labor

Daniel Shea, “A Striving and an Ending in Nothing”: Olive Schreiner and the Reproductive Politics of Empire

Rachel Slivon, An Exploration of the Gender Politics in Ada Leverson's Fiction: Bridging Victorian/Edwardian Ideologies with Modern Ideologies

Claudia Stumpf, The "Voluptuous" Language of Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya

Brian Sweeney, Peculiar Intimacy: Immigrant Labor, the Servant Problem, and Anna Katherine Green's The Leavenworth Case

Meagan Timney, 'The altar ran with human gore': Investigating the Poetical Politics of Mary Hutton

Marlene Tromp, "Taking up Space": "Crazed" Italians, Syrians, and Jews (The Racial Politics of the Titanic Disaster)

Toni Wein, Vaga/bondage

Susan Weiss, Hamilton Disston: Florida's savior

Deborah Wilk, Of Milk and Homeland: Breastfeeding, Immigrant Mothers, and Eugenics at Castle Garden

Marta Wilkinson, Utopia and Gender Politics in Chernyshevsky's "What Is to Be Done?"

Elizabeth Winston, The Politics of Marriage and the Good Mother in Oliphant's Madonna Mary

Aaron Winter, Seeing the Elephant / Riding the Mule: Satire and the Mexican- American War

Sharon Worley, Women Authors, Political Propaganda and the Salon: Arbiters of Cultural Exchange and Liberty during the Napoleonic Wars