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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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ABSTRACTS
LISTED BY PANEL AND TIME
Session
I Thursday 12:15-1:30
Travels, Travel Writing,
and Empires in the Garden
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Joan Torres-Pou, Florida International University
Jennifer
Hayward, "An occasional trait of Scotch shrewdness":
Narrating nationalism in Frances Calderón de la Barca's
Life in Mexico
Sinan
Akilli, Propaganda through Travel Writing: Frederick Burnaby's
Contribution to the Russophobic-Turcophilic Tone in British Politics
during the Great Game
"The Empire in your Backyard:
Plant Collecting and Architecture as a Reflection of Imperialism
at Biddulph Grange Garden" Robert M. Craig, Georgia Tech
Victorian Novelists: Brontë, Braddon, Dickens
Room: Sunrise, 12th floor
Moderator: Elizabeth Winston, University of Tampa
Kathleen
Miller, Jane Eyre and the Creation of the Female Gothic Artist
Brittany
Roberts, A Masculinizing Investigation: The Detective and
the Problem of Women's Reticence in Lady Audley's Secret
Lucy
Morrison, Charles I: The Historical and Political Incursion
of the Personal in Dickens' Later Works
Political Animals
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: TBA
"'Another Self-Inflicted
Plague': Breeding Frustration in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a
West India Proprietor" Elizabeth Pellerito, Michigan State
University
Aaron
Winter, Seeing the Elephant / Riding the Mule: Satire and
the Mexican- American War
Dennis
Denisoff, The Pagan Decadent Challenge to Victorian Speciesism
Women of the Empire
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: Maria Gindhart, Georgia State University
Julia
Kuehn, Gendering the Empire: Women's Orientalist Paintings
Carla
Coleman, Journal-istic Propaganda and the Monarchy:Queen Victoria's
Leaves from a Highland Journal
Catherine
Anderson, Imperial Faces: Britannia's "Daughters"
in Victorian Visual Culture
Session II Thursday
1:45-3:00
Politics, Authorship, and
Rhetoric in The History of Mary Prince
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: Heidi Kaufman, University of Delaware
Jessica
Allen, The Omission of Repetition in The History of Mary
Prince
"Form, Function, and
Collaboration in The History of Mary Prince" Kristina Huff,
University of Delaware
"Related by Herself:
The Collaboration of Mary Prince and Susanna Strickland Moodie"
Lauren Holm, Brandeis University.
Poetry, Plays, and Politics
Room: Sunrise, 12th floor
Moderator: Carla E. Coleman, University of South Carolina-Aiken
Trisha
Kannan, "Twilight is not good for maidens": Gender
Politics in Milton's "Comus" and Christina Rossetti's
"Goblin Market"
Regina
Hewitt, Joanna Baillie and Parliamentary Reform
Lenora
Hanson, Bringing the Ballad "Back to the Streets"
American Art
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Michael Duffy, East Carolina University
"The 'Long and Short
of It': William Sidney Mount's The Tough Story and Dregs in the
Cup as Pictures of Fortunes Gone Awry" Janice Simon, University
of Georgia
"An Improper Spectacle:
Anne Whitney's Sumner Monument" Christine Severson, Monmouth
University
Kyle
Aaron Roberts, "American Masterpiece or Veblen Good"
Crowds and Mobs, 1757-1912
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: J. Andrew Hubbell, Susquehanna University
Amanda
Lahikainen, "Crowding Around Caricature: Polysemous Propaganda
in British Political Prints"
Michael
Michie, "Three cheers for the Canadian peasants":
the response of British radicals and Chartists to the Canadian
rebellions of 1837-38
Marlene
Tromp, "Taking up Space": "Crazed" Italians,
Syrians, and Jews (The Racial Politics of the Titanic Disaster)
Session III Thursday
3:15-4:30
Ciphers and Cinders: Images
of Women and Domesticity in the Visual Arts
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Elizabeth Mansfield, University of the South
"Cézanne's The
Eternal Feminine and War-Time Popular Imagery" André
Dombrowski, Smith College
"Strange Bedfellows:
Vallotton, Marriage and the Dreyfus Affair" Aruna D'Souza,
Binghamton University
"Not Only Perfect Patriot
but Perfect Woman: Suffrage and the Visual and Textual Evocation
of Joan of Arc in England" Colleen Denney, University of
Wyoming
"Smoking Pipes and Taunting
Lovers while Armed to the Teeth: Satirizing the French 'Chasseresse'"
Helen Burnham, NYU
Religion and Politics
Room: Sunrise, 12th floor
Moderator: Ramiro Jimenez, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia
"Politics and the Pulpit:
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Development of Protestant Clerical
Political Activism" Molly Oshatz, Florida State University
Matt
McCook, Transcendentalists and the Second Great Awakening:
Parallel Expressions of Otherworldliness
Lisa
Edwards, Chilean Conservatives and the Catholic Church, 1857-1901
Changing Colors
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: TBA
Claudia
Stumpf, The "Voluptuous" Language of Charlotte Dacre's
Zofloya
Kerstin
Rudolph, Uprooting Normative Whiteness: Gender and Race Politics
in Louisa May Alcott's Work
Kathryn
Freeman, “She had eyes and chose me”: Ambivalence
and Mscegenation in Phebe Gibbes’s Hartly House, Calcutta
(1789)
Journalism and Propaganda
in 19th-Century Europe
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: George Pearson, Florida International University
"'A State of Utter Barbarism':
British Colonial Propaganda and the Case of Cyprus' Alexis Clark-Stewart,
Independent Scholar
Ronald
Briggs, Muses and the Gazette: Andrés Bello's Poetics
of Revolutionary News
"Public Engagements:
William Howard Russell's Reports from the Crimean Front"
Claudia Klaver, Syracuse University
Session IV Friday
8:45-10:15
War
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: TBA
"Emily Dickinson's War-Time
Protest" Mónica Pelaéz, Ramapo College of New
Jersey
"Public Engagements:
William Howard Russell's Reports from the Crimean Front"
[ital?]Claudia Klaver, Syracuse University
"Carlyle's French Revolution
Left and Right" Kit Andrews, Western Oregon University
"Hanlin Academy: Loss
of a Recorded Heritage in the Peking Siege of 1900" Lauren
Christos Florida International University
Individual Efforts and
Self-Promotion
Room: Sunrise, 12th floor
Moderator: TBA
Susan
Weiss, Hamilton Disston: Florida's savior
"Dan Rice and the Rise
of the Celebrity Politician" David Haven Blake, The College
of New Jersey
Shawn
Malley, Layard Enterprise: British Archaeology and Imperial
Propaganda in Mesopotamia, 1845-1849
Women and Children
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: TBA
Deborah
J. Wilk, "Of Milk and Homeland: Breastfeeding, Immigrant
Mothers, and Eugenics at Castle Garden"
Sarah
Iepson, A Peep at Propaganda: Children as World's Fair Cosmopolitans
"Gender and the Politics
of Spouse Killing in Victorian England" Tammy Whitlock, University
of Kentucky
Visual Representations
of National and Cultural Identity
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Elizabeth Mansfield, University of the South
"Foreign Influence in
the Balkan Peninsula: Images of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1856-1878"
Jennifer Katanic, CUNY Graduate Center
Maria
Gindhart, Art as Colonial Propaganda:The Palace of the Ministry
of the Colonies at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition
"Émile Gallé's
Le Rhin: The Franco-Prussian War and Theories of Nationhood in
Fin-de-Siècle France"Jessica Dandona, University of
California Berkeley
Alyce
A. Jordan, Nineteenth-Century Restoration Politics: Recrafting
Monarchy in the Stained Glass Windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in
Paris
Cartoons and Caricatures
Tiffany II, Ground floor
Moderator: TBA
"The Propaganda of Empires
in a Decade of Change: Political Cartoons in Punch and The New
York Journal in the 1890s" Diana Colbert, City University
of New York
Douglas
Klahr, Political Satire in the Cartoons and Caricatures of
Kladderadatsch during Wartime
"Message, Media, and
Muckracking: The Propaganda of Thomas Nast" Laurie Selleck,
Cazenovia College
Session V Friday
10:30-11:45
Poetry and Politics
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: Ann Ross, California State University Dominguez Hills
"Wollstonecraft and Barbauld:
Gender Politics at Play" Sara Dustin, University of Florida
Meagan
Timney, 'The altar ran with human gore': Investigating the
Poetical Politics of Mary Hutton
Deborah
Maltby, Poetic Protest: William Barnes' Dorset Dialect Eclogues
Activism: Charles Reade,
Elizabeth Fry, and the Garrett Sisters
Room: Sunrise, 12th floor
Moderator: TBA
"The Garrett Sisters
and Their Circle: The Politics of Reform" Lise Shapiro Sanders,
Hampshire College
"Charles Reade's A Woman-Hater
(1877) and the Struggle of Female Medical Students to Enter the
University of Edinburgh" Richard Fantina, Vermont State Colleges
"From Lady Bountiful
to Prison Reform Activist: The 'Making' of Elizabeth Fry"
Deanna Matheuszik, Vanderbilt University
Visualizing American Political
Culture
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: Paul Erickson, American Antiquarian Society
Daniel
Cohen, Fanatical Protestants, Treacherous Catholics, Faithful
Muslims: Political Re-Visions of the Charlestown Convent Riot,
1834-1855
Ross
Barrett, Miners, Mobs, and Mollies: Picturing labor and working-class
activism in the age of incorporation
"The Evolution of American
Political Cartoons and the Evolution of American Political Culture,
1790-1850" Kenneth Cohen, University of Delaware
The American Press: Seduction,
Slavery, and the Risorgimento
Tiffany II, Ground floor
Moderator: TBA
Sari
Edelstein, Seduction and Sedition in Judith Sargent Murray's
Story of Margaretta
Terri
Amlong, The "Spirit of Sectarianism" within the
Anti-Slavery Movement: Lydia Maria Child's Editorship of the National
Anti-Slavery Standard
"The Daily News and the
Risorgimento" Peaches Henry, Baylor University
France I
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Pascale Becel, Florida International University
Elizabeth
Carlson, Policing Paris Through Reflections
Sharon
Worley, Women Authors, Political Propaganda and the Salon:
Arbiters of Cultural Exchange and Liberty during the Napoleonic
Wars
"Political Poetesses:
Mirza and the 'Myth of Corinne'" Tricia Lootens, University
of Georgia
Session VI Friday
3:00-4:15
National Identities
Room: Sunrise, 12th floor
Moderator: Alex Lichtenstein
Jenni
Drozdek, Redefining National Art in Life
Anthony
Bradley, Imagining Ireland: W. B. Yeats and late 19th-century
Irish nationalism
Aaron
Keebaugh, "To worship his country and die for the Green":
Charles Villiers Stanford's Shamus O'Brien and the fantasy of
nationalism
"American Conservatism
and the Problem of Democracy: An Analysis of the Whigs' Victory
in the Presidential Election of 1840" Marcos F. Soler, New
School for Social Research
Olive Schreiner: Politics
on the Farm
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: Karen Waters, Marymount University
Rachel
Hollander, Politics of Hospitality in The Story of an African
Farm
Clare
Gill, "The Stimulating Power": Olive Schreiner and
the "Shrieking Sisterhood"
Daniel
Shea, “A Striving and an Ending in Nothing”: Olive
Schreiner and the Reproductive Politics of Empire
At the Turn of the Century
Room: Tiffany II, Ground floor
Linda Zatlin, Morehouse College
Kristin
Ross, Packaging the Educated Female at the fin de siècle:
The Problem with Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of a Modern Woman
Rachel
Slivon, An Exploration of the Gender Politics in Ada Leverson's
Fiction: Bridging Victorian/Edwardian Ideologies with Modern Ideologies
Ricia
Chansky, A Mind to Shop: Advertising Trade Card Rhetoric and
the Construction of a Public Space for Women, 1880-1900
Political Re-imaginings:
Political Memory in 19th -Century American Minority Literature
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Daniel McInerney, Utah State University
"The Birth of the Afristocracy:
The Realignment of Politics, Race, and Class in Frank J. Webb's
The Garies and the Friends and Lawrence Otis Graham's The Senator
and the Socialite" Terrence Tucker, University of Arkansas
"'Celebrat[ing] old Epluribus'es
Birthday'[sic?]: The Politics of Remembering in Marietta Holley's
Samantha at the Centennial," Rachel Simon, University of
Kentucky
"'A Serviceable Guide':
A Study of the Articles of Faith and Mormon Americanization"
Matthew Towles, Liberty University
American Illustration and
the Politics of Race and Ethnicity I: Visuality and the Native
American
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: Bruce Harvey, Florida International University
Cynthia
Patterson, Domesticating the Natives: The Philadelphia Pictorials
of the 1840s and Representations of Native Americans
Karen
Bearor, Illustrators Burying the Truth at Wounded Knee
Erin
Corrales-Diaz, "The Indian in His Solitude: N. C. Wyeth
and the Eastern Woodland Indian"
Session VII Friday
4:30-5:45
The Power of Mind and Spirit:
Altered States, Memory Skills
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: TBA
Daniel
McInerney, The Power of Memory: Mnemonics Training and Democratization
in Nineteenth-Century America
Henry
Miller, The impact of visual propaganda: George Reynolds,
George Cruikshank and the case of the temperance progres
"The 'dreadful net of
ghostly Terrors': Jamaican Insurrection, Obeah, and the Emergence
of the Romantic Zombie" J. Alexandra McGhee, University of
Rochester
Novel Politics
Room: Sunrise, 12th floor
Moderator: Sarah Allison, Stanford University
Jeffrey
Butts, Sybil: Or, the Anti-Communist Manifesto
Lisa
Higgins, “In a Sphere by Herself”: Hawthorne’s
Hester Prynne as Nineteenth-Century Public Woman
Alex
Beringer, Charles Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition and the Conspiracy
Genre
"Literature as Propaganda
in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don: a Novel
Descriptive of Contemporaenous Occurences [ck spellings] in California"
Karen L. Morian, Florida Community College at Jacksonville
France II
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Barbara Watts, Florida International University
David
Brown, Palmerston, politics and propaganda (1830-1865)
Maura
Coughlin, Rural Women’s Religiosity, Modern art and Third
Republic Politics
Dawn
Dodds, Accusing the State of Violence, in Life and in Death:
Louis Auguste Blanqui
American Illustration and
the Politics of Race and Ethnicity II: Transatlantic Views
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: TBA
Dalila
Scruggs, The Ship, the Settler and the Palm Tree: Picturing
African Colonization as a Solution to Slavery in Antebellum America
Jennifer
Greenhill, Carving out a Mark: George du Maurier, Charles
Dana Gibson and the Site of Whiteness in Illustration
Eric
Segal, Joseph Pennell's America: The Wonder of Work without
Labor
Germany
Room: Tiffany II, Ground floor
Moderator: Daniel Guernsey, Florida International University
"Empire and Commodity
Propaganda in Germany, 1890-1914" J. P. Short, University
of Georgia
"The Politics of Emigration
and Immigration during the German Revolution of 1848" Johann
Reusch, University of Washington
Sophie
Boyer, The Political Power of Stone: Statues in Heinrich Heine's
Oeuvre
Session VIII Saturday
9:00-10:15
Poverty and Poor Laws
Room: Sunrise, 12th floor
Moderator: Deborah Maltby
"Wordsworth and the Poor
Law: Poetry versus Political Economy" Robert M. Ryan, Rutgers
University at Camden
Toni
Wein, Vaga/bondage
"Books of (Social) Murder:
Anti-New Poor Law and the Marcus Pamphlet" Gregory Vargo,
Columbia University
Immigration and Literary
Form in Gilded Age America
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: Hsuan Hsu, Yale University
Brian
Sweeney, Peculiar Intimacy: Immigrant Labor, the Servant Problem,
and Anna Katherine Green's The Leavenworth Case
"The Impossibility of
Immigrating: Nostalgia and the Problem of Chicano/a Citizenship
in Postbellum America" John Funchion, Brown University
"From Irish Dentists
to Flying Squirrels: The Nativist Gaze in Frank Norris's McTeague:
A Story of San Francisco" Marc Dziak, Boise State University
"Labor, Immigration,
and White Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Dime Novels" Caroline
Miles
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: TBA
Kimberly
VanEsveld Adams, Sexual Politics: Harriet Beecher Stowe and
the Byrons
Lynn
Alexander, "Shadows Uplifted": The Trope of the
Maternal in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Iola Leroy
"Novel Chiaroscuro: Stowe
Offers Eva and Topsy to the Mid-Victorians" Marc Muneal,
Emory University
Women and the Law
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: Vernon Dickson, Florida International University
"Suffragist Saints: The
Rhetoric of Utah's 19th -Century Polygamist Feminists in the Woman's
Exponent" Adam Lloyd, University of Maryland
Melissa
J Lingle-Martin, The Covert Case of Higher Law in E.D.E.N.
Southworth's The Hidden Hand
Elizabeth
Winston, The Politics of Marriage and the Good Mother in Oliphant's
Madonna Mary
Session IX Saturday
10:30-11:45
Utopias
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: TBA
Marta
Wilkinson, Utopia and Gender Politics in Chernyshevsky's "What
Is to Be Done?"
Alrick
Knight, When Literary Realism Isn't Quite "Real"
Enough: Utopic Responses inBenito Pérez Galdós
"Utopian Project of Identity:
Immigration and Creativity. The Case of Helena Modrzejewska"
Katarzyna Nowak, Wroclaw University
Propagandists and Their
Publics in the Mid-19th Century
Room: Sunset, 12th floor
Moderator: TBA
"Palmerston, Politics,
and Propaganda (1830-1865)" David Brown, University of Strathclyde
Simon
Morgan, Propaganda and the politics of personality: the case
of the Anti-Corn Law League, 1839-1846
Malcolm
Chase, Resolved in defiance of fool and of knave': Children
in Chartism
The Political Byron
Room: Tiffany I, Ground floor
Moderator: TBA
David
Hanson, Tory Byronism: Mentorship and Influence in Early Ruskin
J.
Andrew Hubbell, Byron and the Politics of Ecology
Zbigniew
Bialas, National Costumes and Political Masquerades: Byron's
"Mazeppa"
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