Preliminary Program for:
“Politics
and Propaganda”
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
3-5 April 2008
Thursday, 3 April 2008
8:30-5:00 Registration,
Exhibitors, Refreshments: Atlantis Mezzanine
8:00-12:00 NCSA
Board Meeting, Sunset, 12th floor
Session I Thursday 12:15-1:30
Travels, Travel Writing,
and Empires in the Garden
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Joan Torres-Pou,
“‘An Occasional Trait of
Scotch Shrewdness’ Narrating Nationalism in Frances Calderón de la Barca’s Life
in Mexico” Jennifer Hayward, College of Wooster, and Soledad Caballero,
Allegheny College
“Propaganda through Travel
Writing: Frederick Burnaby’s Contribution to the Russophobic‑Turcophilic
Tone in British Politics during the Great Game” Sinan Akilli, Independent
Scholar
“The Empire in your Backyard:
Plant Collecting and Architecture as a Reflection of Imperialism at
Victorian Novelists:
Brontë, Braddon, Dickens
Room:
Moderator: Elizabeth Winston,
“Jane Eyre and the
Creation of the Female Gothic Artist” Kathleen A. Miller,
“A Masculinizing
Investigation: The Detective and the Problem of Women’s Reticence in Lady
Audley’s Secret” Brittany L. Roberts,
“Charles I: The Historical
and Political Incursion of the Personal in Dickens’ Later Works” Lucy Morrison,
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,
“Seeing the Elephant/Riding
the Mule: Anti‑War Satire in the
“The Pagan Decadent Challenge
to Victorian Speciesism” Dennis Denisoff,
Women of the Empire
Room: Tiffany I, Ground
floor
Moderator: Maria Gindhart,
“Gendering the Empire:
Women’s Orientalist Paintings” Julia Kuehn, The University of Hong Kong
“Journal-istic Propaganda and
the Monarchy: Queen
“Imperial Faces: Britannia’s
‘Daughters’ in Victorian Visual Culture” Catherine E. Anderson,
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Session II Thursday 1:45-3:00
Politics, Authorship, and
Rhetoric in The History of Mary Prince
Room: Sunset, 12th
floor
Moderator: Heidi Kaufman,
“The Omission of Repetition
in The History of Mary Prince” Jessica
Allen, University, of
“Form, Function, and
Collaboration in The History of Mary Prince”
Kristina Huff,
“Related by Herself: The
Collaboration of Mary Prince and Susanna Strickland Moodie” Lauren Holm,
Poetry, Plays, and
Politics
Room:
Moderator: Carla E. Coleman,
University of South Carolina-Aiken
“‘Twilight is not good for
maidens’ Gender Politics in Milton’s ‘Comus’ and Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin
Market’” Trisha Kannan, University of Florida
“Joanna Baillie and
Parliamentary Reform”
“Shelley: Bringing the Ballad
‘Back to the Streets’” Lenora Hanson,
American Art
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator:
Michael Duffy,
“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,
“An Improper Spectacle: Anne
Whitney’s
“American Masterpiece or
Veblen Good” Kyle Aaron Roberts,
Crowds and Mobs, 1757‑1912
Room: Tiffany I, Ground
floor
Moderator: J. Andrew Hubbell,
“Crowding Around Caricature:
Polysemous Propaganda in British Political Prints” Amanda Lahikainen,
“‘Three Cheers for the
Canadian Peasants’: The Response of British Radicals and Chartists to the
Canadian Rebellions of 1837‑38" Michael Michie,
“‘Taking up Space’: ‘Crazed
Italians,’ Syrians, and Jews: The Racial Politics of the Titanic Disaster”
Marlene Tromp,
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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,
“Strange Bedfellows:
Vallotton, Marriage and the Dreyfus Affair” Aruna D’Souza,
“Not Only Perfect Patriot but
Perfect Woman: Suffrage and the Visual and Textual Evocation of Joan of Arc in
“Smoking Pipes and Taunting
Lovers while Armed to the Teeth: Satirizing the French ‘Chasseresse’” Helen
Burnham, NYU
Religion and Politics
Room:
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,
“Transcendentalists and the
Second Great Awakening: Parallel Expressions of Otherworldliness” Matt McCook,
“Chilean Conservatives and
the Catholic Church, 1857‑1901" Lisa M. Edwards,
Changing Colors
Room: Sunset, 12th
floor
Moderator: TBA
“The ‘Voluptuous’ Language of
Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya” Claudia Stumpf,
“Uprooting Normative
Whiteness: Gender and Race Politics in Louisa May Alcott’s Work” Kerstin
Rudolph,
“‘She had eyes and chose me’:
Ambivalence and Miscegenation in Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly House,
Journalism and Propaganda
in 19th-Century
Room: Tiffany I, Ground
floor
Moderator: George
Pearson,
“‘A State of Utter
Barbarism’: British Colonial Propaganda and the Case of
“Muses and the Gazette:
Andrés Bello’s Poetics of Revolutionary News” Ronald Briggs,
“Public Engagements: William
Howard Russell’s Reports from the Crimean Front” Claudia Klaver,
Ë
4:45-5:45 Art Deco Slide
Presentation, Robert M. Craig, Georgia Tech
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
6:00-8:00 Reception, Pool
Side
Welcome: Nicol Rae, Senior
Associate Dean, FIU,
Friday, 4 April 2008
8:30-5:00 Registration,
Exhibitors, Refreshments: Atlantis Mezzanine
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,
“Carlyle’s French
Revolution Left and Right” Kit Andrews,
“
Individual Efforts and
Self‑Promotion
Room:
Moderator: TBA
“
“Dan Rice and the Rise of the
Celebrity Politician” David Haven Blake, The
“Layard
Women and Children
Room: Sunset, 12th
floor
Moderator: TBA
“Of Milk and Homeland:
Breastfeeding, Immigrant Mothers, and Eugenics at
“A Peep at Propaganda:
Children as World’s Fair Cosmopolitans” Sarah M. Iepson,
“Gender and the Politics of
Spouse Killing in Victorian
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
“Art as Colonial Propaganda:
The Palace of the Ministry of the Colonies at the 1900
"Émile Gallé's Le
Rhin: The Franco‑Prussian War and Theories of Nationhood in Fin‑de‑Siècle
“19th ‑Century
Restoration Politics: Recrafting Monarchy in the Stained Glass Windows of the
Sainte‑Chapelle in
Cartoons and Caricatures
Tiffany II, Ground floor
Moderator: TBA
“The Propaganda of Empires in
a Decade of Change: Political Cartoons in Punch and The
“Political Satire in the
Cartoons and Caricatures of Kladderadatsch during Wartime” Douglas
Klahr,
“Message, Media, and
Muckracking: The Propaganda of Thomas Nast” Laurie Selleck,
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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,
“‘The altar ran with human
gore’ Investigating the Poetical Politics of Mary Hutton” Meagan Timney,
“Poetic
Protest: William Barnes’ Dorset Dialect Eclogues” Deborah Maltby,
Activism: Charles Reade,
Elizabeth Fry, and the Garrett Sisters
Room:
Moderator: TBA
“The Garrett Sisters and
Their Circle: The Politics of Reform” Lise Shapiro Sanders,
“Charles Reade’s A Woman‑Hater
(1877) and the Struggle of Female Medical Students to Enter the
“From Lady Bountiful to
Prison Reform Activist: The ‘Making’ of Elizabeth Fry” Deanna Matheuszik,
Visualizing American
Political Culture
Room: Tiffany I, Ground
floor
Moderator: Paul Erickson,
American Antiquarian Society
“Fanatical Protestants,
Treacherous Catholics, Faithful Muslims: Political Re‑Visions of the
“Miners, Mobs,
and Mollies Picturing Labor and Work’class [?] Activism in the Age of Incorporation” Ross Barrett,
“The Evolution of American
Political Cartoons and the Evolution of American Political Culture, 1790‑1850"
Kenneth Cohen,
The American Press:
Seduction, Slavery, and the Risorgimento
Tiffany II, Ground floor
Moderator: TBA
“Seduction and Sedition in
Judith Sargent Murray’s Story of Margaretta” Sari Edelstein,
“‘Spirit of Sectarianism’
within the Anti-Slavery Movement: Lydia Maria Child’s Editorship of the National
Anti-Slavery Standard” Terri Amlong,
“The Daily News and the Risorgimento” Peaches Henry,
France I
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator:
“Policing
“Women Authors, Political
Propaganda, and the Salon during the Napoleonic Wars” Sharon Worley,
“Political Poetesses: Mirza
and the ‘Myth of Corinne’” Tricia Lootens,
12:00-1:30 Luncheon
and Business Meeting, Atlantis Ballroom
1:45-2:45 Keynote
Speaker: Sally Mitchell, Emerita Professor of English and Women’s Studies,
“Political Women: The First Generation”
Room: Tiffany I and II, Ground floor
Session VI Friday 3:00-4:15
National Identities
Room:
Moderator: Alex Lichtenstein?
“Redefining National Art in Life”
Jenni Drozdek,
“Imagining
“‘To Worship His Country and
Die for the Green’: Charles Villers Stanford’s Shamus O’Brien and the
Fantasy of Nationalism” Aaron C. Keebaugh,
“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,
“Politics of Hospitality in The Story of an African Farm” Rachel
Hollander,
“‘The Stimulating Power’:
Olive Schreiner and the ‘Shrieking Sisterhood’” Clare Gill,
“‘A Striving and an Ending in
Nothing’ Olive Schreiner and the Reproductive Politics of Empire” Dan Shea,
At the Turn of the Century
Room: Tiffany II, Ground
floor
Linda Zatlin,
“Packaging the Educated
Female at the fin de siècle: The Problem with Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The
Story of a Modern Woman” Kristin C. Ross,
“An Exploration of the Gender
Politics in Ada Leverson’s Fiction: Bridging Victorian/Edwardian Ideologies
with Modern Ideologies” Rachel Slivon,
“A Mind to Shop: Advertising
Trade Card Rhetoric and the Construction of a Public Space for Women, 1880‑1900"
Ricia Anne Chansky,
Political Re-imaginings:
Political Memory in 19th -Century American Minority Literature
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Daniel McInerney,
“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,
“‘Celebrat[ing] old
Epluribus’es Birthday’[sic?]: The Politics of
Remembering in Marietta Holley’s Samantha at the Centennial Rachel
Simon, University of
“‘A Serviceable Guide’: A
Study of the Articles of Faith and Mormon Americanization” Matthew Towles,
American Illustration and
the Politics of Race and Ethnicity I: Visuality and the Native American
Room: Tiffany I, Ground
floor
Moderator: Bruce Harvey,
“Domesticating the Natives:
The
“Illustrators Burying the
Truth at Wounded Knee” Karen A. Bearor,
“The Indian in His Solitude:
N. C. Wyeth and the Eastern Woodland Indian” Erin Corrales‑Diaz,
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Session VII Friday 4:30-5:45
The Power of Mind and
Spirit: Altered States, Memory Skills
Room: Tiffany I, Ground
floor
Moderator: TBA
“The Impact of Visual
Propaganda: George Reynolds, George Cruikshank and the Case of the Temperance
Progress” Henry Miller, Queen Mary,
“The Power of Memory:
Mnemonics Training and Democratization in 19th ‑Century
“The ‘dreadful net of ghostly
Terrors’: Jamaican Insurrection, Obeah, and the Emergence of the Romantic
Zombie” J. Alexandra McGhee,
Novel Politics
Room:
Moderator: Sarah Allison,
“Sybil: Or, the Anti‑Communist
Manifesto” Jeffery L. Butts, Jr.,
“‘In a Sphere by Herself’:
“Literature as Propaganda in
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don: a Novel Descriptive
of Contemporaenous Occurences [ck spellings] in
“Conspiracy, Paranoia, and
Historiography in Charles Chesnutt’s Fiction” Alex Beringer,
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: Barbara Watts,
“Accusing the State of
“Rural Women’s Religiosity,
Modern Art and Third Republic Politics” Maura Coughlin,
“Domestic Dystopias:
Satirizing Socialism in 19th ‑Century
American Illustration and
the Politics of Race and Ethnicity II: Transatlantic Views
Room: Sunset, 12th
floor
Moderator: TBA
“The Ship, the Settler and
the Palm Tree: Picturing African Colonization as a Solution to Slavery in
Antebellum
“Carving out a Mark: George
Du Maurier, Charles Dana Gibson and the Site of Whiteness in Illustration”
Jennifer A. Greenhill,
“Joseph Pennell’s
Room: Tiffany II, Ground
floor
Moderator: Daniel Guernsey,
“Empire and Commodity
Propaganda in
“The Politics of Emigration
and Immigration during the German Revolution of 1848" Johann Reusch,
“The Political Power of
Stone: Statues in Heinrich Heine’s Oeuvre” Sophie Boyer, Bishop’s University
6:16 Bus
leaves for Wolfsonian Reception & Tour
7:00-9:00 Wolfsonian
Reception
Welcome: Kenneth Furton, Dean, FIU,
9:15 Bus
stops in
Saturday, 5 April 2008
8:30-5:00 Registration,
Exhibitors, Refreshments: Mezzanine
Session VIII Saturday 9:00-10:15
Poverty and Poor Laws
Room:
Moderator: Deborah Maltby
“Wordsworth and the Poor Law:
Poetry versus Political Economy” Robert M. Ryan,
“Vagrancy and Vagabondia”
Toni Wein,
“Books of (Social) Murder:
Anti‑New Poor Law and the Marcus Pamphlet” Gregory Vargo,
Immigration and Literary
Form in Gilded Age
Room: Sunset, 12th
floor
Moderator: Hsuan Hsu,
"Peculiar Intimacy:
Immigrant Labor, the Servant Problem, and Anna Katherine Green’s The
Leavenworth Case" Brian Sweeney,
“The Impossibility of
Immigrating: Nostalgia and the Problem of Chicano/a Citizenship in Postbellum
“From Irish Dentists to
Flying Squirrels: The Nativist Gaze in Frank Norris’s McTeague: A Story of San Francisco” Marc Dziak,
"Labor, Immigration, and
White Manhood in Nineteenth‑Century Dime Novels" Caroline Miles,
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: TBA
“‘Shadows Uplifted’: The
Trope of the Maternal in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Iola Leroy” Lynn
Alexander,
"Sexual Politics: Stowe and the Byrons" Kimberly VanEsveld
Adams,
“Novel Chiaroscuro: Stowe
Offers Eva and Topsy to the Mid‑Victorians” Marc Muneal,
Women and the Law
Room: Tiffany I, Ground
floor
Moderator:
“Suffragist Saints: The
Rhetoric of Utah’s 19th ‑Century Polygamist Feminists in the Woman’s
Exponent” Adam Lloyd,
“The Politics of Marriage and
the Good Mother in Oliphant’s Madonna Mary” Elizabeth Winston, The
University of Tampa
“The Covert Case of Higher
Law in E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand” Melissa J. Lingle‑Martin,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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Session IX Saturday 10:30-11:45
Creative
Room:
Les Standiford and other
authors from the FIU Creative Writing Program
Utopias
Room: Apollo, Mezzanine
Moderator: TBA
“Utopia and Gender Politics
in Chernyshevsky’s ‘What Is to Be Done?’” Marta
Wilkinson,
“When Literary Realism Isn’t
Quite ‘Real’ Enough: Utopic Responses in Benito Pérez Galdós” Alrick C. Knight,
Jr.,
“Utopian Project of Identity:
Immigration and Creativity. The Case of Helena Modrzejewska” Katarzyna Nowak,
Propagandists and Their
Publics in the Mid‑19th Century
Room: Sunset, 12th
floor
Moderator: TBA
“Palmerston, Politics, and
Propaganda (1830‑1865)” David Brown,
“Propaganda and the Politics
of Personality: The Case of the Anti‑Corn Law League, 1839‑1846"
Simon Morgan,
“‘Resolved in Defiance of
Fool and of Knave’ Children in Chartism” Malcolm Chase,
The Political Byron
Room: Tiffany I, Ground
floor
Moderator: TBA
“Tory Byronism: Mentorship
and Influence in Early Ruskin” David C. Hanson, Southeastern
“Byron and the Politics of
Ecology” J. Andrew Hubbell,
“National Costumes and
Political Masquerades: Byron’s ‘Mazeppa’” Zbigniew Bialas,
11:45-1:15 Lunch
on your own
1:30 Bus
leaves for
Guest Speaker: Shannon Estenoz
Member,
Governing Board of the South Florida Watern Management District
Former Member, Board of
Directors,
Former National Co-Chair,
3:00-5:00
5:00 Bus
leaves for