British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) conference programme

University of Liverpool presents Working in the GLAM sector

Pathways to Readership and Professorship

Professor Claudia Capancioni (Lincoln Bishop University)
Professor Sarah Parker (Loughborough University)

Cove demonstration

University of Liverpool presents Working in the Third Space sector

Public Engagement and the Humanities

Chair: Dr Clare Horrocks in Conversation with:

• Dr Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University)
• Dr Mary L Shannon (University of Roehampton)

Rethinking Perceptions of the Victorian Through Archival Study

Examining a range of periodicals from The Family Doctor and The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, to collections of fashion plates from the LJMU and UoL Special Collections and Archives, the Team will be challenging common perceptions of visualising the Victorians.

• 1 to 1.30pm – Session one (maximum of 18)
• 1.30 to 2pm – Session two (maximum of 18)
• 2 to 2.30pm – Session three (maximum of 18)

Please email Dr Samuel Saunders to book onto these sessions.

Professor Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, British Columbia)

Panel one - Working women, female identity – Room G15

Chair: To be confirmed

Hannah Rigg
Critiquing Utopia in Margaret Harkness’s In Darkest London and Out of Work

Jay Kerslak (University of Leeds)
‘What we nowadays call good stories’: the re-uses of literature in the women’s socialist magazine the Woman Worker/ Women Folk (3 June 1908 – 27 June 1910).

Jane Ford (Teeside University)
Edith Nesbit and the Sexual Politics of Socialist Print

Panel two - War wounds and gendered medicine (caring and nursing the ill and the wounded) – Room G09

Chair: To be confirmed

Heather Wardlaw (University of Warwick)
Gendering the Nurse: Family Medical Care Providers and the Professionalization of Medicine

Fabia Buescher (University Of Cambridge)
Representations of the Wounded Soldier in Visual Culture during the Crimean War

Andrew Mangham (University of Reading)
‘Gouged out of real life’: Arthur Conan Doyle, Emergency Medicine, and the Healing of Wounds

Panel three - The female body – Room G04

Chair: To be confirmed

Anna Mochar
Ghostly Text: The Figure of the Woman in White in Victorian Culture of the 1860s

Giuseppe Capalbo (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Reading Pregnancy and Motherhood in William Sharp and Fiona Macleod: From Motherhood (1882) to Pharais (1894)

Amelia Yeates (Liverpool Hope)
Spaces of Reading: Site, Place and Space in Victorian Paintings of Women Readers

Panel four - Travellers and guests – Room G03

Chair: To be confirmed

Mohammed Alqawari (University of Edinburgh)
Travels in Arabia Deserter

Emma Liggins (Manchester Metropolitian University)
‘Amelia Edwards and Egyptian Dark Tourism: Reimagining the Death Space’

Yousef Alshammari (Saudi Arabia)
Guests of the Desert: Bedouin Hospitality in Saudi Arabia through the Eyes of British Female Travelers

Panel five - Novel history – Room G07

Chair: To be confirmed

Francesca Kubler (University of Exeter)
'Classical Education and Feminist Reclamation: Victorian Women’s Engagement with the Classics and the Rise of the New Woman'

Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman (University of Glasgow)
Seeing Standards: Richard Bentley’s ‘Companion to the Waverly Novels’

Agnieszka Serdynska (King’s College London)
Chatter about Dickens? The novel as an object of study in late-Victorian British academia

Panel six - Humour – Room G23

Chair: To be confirmed

Kirara Akashi (University of Roehampton)
‘Into Edward Gorey’s archives: Dark humour in neo-Victorian picturebooks, puppet entertainments, and printed ephemera’

Aparna Uma (University of Leeds)
‘From Amusement to Authority: The Functions of Humour in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet’

David Ibitson (University of Leeds)
‘‘He had not implicit belief in the efficacy of the English flag’. Poking fun at heroism’

Helen Davies (University of Wolverhampton)
‘Making Fun of the Foolish? ‘Idiocy’ and humour in Wilkie Collins’ No Name and The Law and the Lady’

Professors Joe Kember and John Plunkett (University of Exeter)

Roundtable one – Performative creativity – Room G03

Chair: Clare Horrocks

Louise Creechan (Durham University)
Dunce’s Turn – A Stand-Up Comedy Paper

John Maguire (Artgroupie, Liverpool)
Staging the Washhouse: Reclaiming Working Class Identity

Roundtable two – How to reimagine the Victorian global bookshelf by using AVaTAR as a tool for teaching and research – Room G09

Alexander Bubb (Roehampton)

Roundtable three – Exploring ‘signature pedagogies’ in multi-disciplinary Victorian studies – Room G04

Samuel Saunders (University of Liverpool)
Helena Goodwyn (Northumbria University)

Roundtable four – Gendered narratives of the Easts: research methods and pedagogical applications – Room G07

Julia Kuehn
Mariaconcetta Constantini
Claudia Capancioni
Eadaoin Agnew (Kingston University, London)
Helena Esser

Roundtable five – Locating imperial subjects: text, voice, identity, authenticity – Room G15

Yasmin Akhter (Institute of English Studies)
Chandrica Barua (University of Michigan)
Justin Livingstone (Queen’s University, Belfast)
Adrian S. Wisnicki (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Panel 1 – Working class and radical print culture in the Victorian period – Room G07

Chair: To be confirmed

Rob Breton (Nipissing)
Culture Wars in the Age of Chartism

Mary L. Shannon (Roehampton)
The Ship’s Boy in Victorian Periodical Culture

Ian Haywood (Roehampton)
Victorian Radical Print Culture and the Idea of a Free Europe

Panel two – Neo-Victorian – Room G23

Chair: To be confirmed

Akira Suwa (Doshisha University, Japan)
Constructing ‘Elsewhere’: Imaginative Reworkings of the Nineteenth Century in Japanese Mystery Fiction

Anna Ulrika Stark (University of Portsmouth)
‘Reimagining Victorian Ideals: Continuity and Transformation in Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series

Dany van Dam (Leiden University)
Writing Queer Sexuality back into Vampire Fiction: Neo-Victorian Carmillas

Panel three – Gender, masculinity and the gothic – Room G15

Chair: To be confirmed

Hawwah Yiwen Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Male Hysteria, Nerve Force and Masculinity in Dracula

Mei-Fang Chang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Affective Victorian Contagion: Disease, Discourse and Public Reception in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Ghosts

Oisin McManus (University of Oxford)
“All was Darkness and Terror: Gothicising the Arctic in Nineteenth-Century British Expeditionary Narrative

Panel four – Economics, circulation and social progress – Room G04

Chair: To be confirmed

Amy Waterson
The River Floss and Evolutionary Progress in The Mill on the Floss

Lynn Qingyang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Transnational Circulation and Plural Reception: Classical Chinese Poetry in Late Victorian Print Cultures

Asher Gibbons (University of Edinburgh)
Naturalist Downturns: Ambient Depression and Economic Abstraction in Gissing’s The Whirlpool (1897)

Panel five – Artistic modernity – G09

Chair: To be confirmed

Emily Halliwell-Macdonald
Art, Automation and Early Computing in the Work of Charles Babbage

Serena Trowbridge (Birmingham City University)
Time, Place and Gothic Constructions: Culture Clashes in William Morris’s News from Nowhere

Eva Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
The ‘Literary Piano’: Automation, Agency and the New Woman Typist

Panel six – Life on the ocean wave – Room G03

Chair: To be confirmed

Asha Hornsby (University of St Andrews)
Garlands, Grog, and a Fishy Royal Visitor: The Celebration of May Day aboard British Northern Whaling Ships

Janette Leaf (independent scholar)
Sea Shanties, Seafarers and Sailing Ships of Nineteenth-Century Liverpool

JP Maxwell (Liverpool John Moores University)
Lincoln and Liverpool: From the Bombing of Birkenhead to the Liverpool Money that Led to the President’s Assassination

Panel one - Novel times and spaces – Room G09

Chair: To be confirmed

Bonnie Liu (Royal Holloway)
Individual Development and Temporalities in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Narratives

Teja Varma Pusapati (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR)
Authorship, Extraction and Empire in George Meredith's Diana of the Crossways

Yohko Nagai (Keio University)
Displaced Centrality: Migratory Movements in George Eliot’s Work

Panel two - Queer Victorians – Room G15

Chair: To be confirmed

Rita Dashwood (Ghent University)
Queer Desire, Class and the Inheritance Plot in Amy Dillwyn’s Jill

Suzy Corrigan (Teesside University)
Silenced Voices, Sapphic Echoes: Music, Gender, Ambiguity and Queer Desire in Vernon Lee and A. Mary F. Robinson

Panel three - Homemaking Victorians – Room G23

Chair: To be confirmed

Yoko Kubo (Nihon University)
Outdoor Dining, Domestic Authority, and the Making of Victorian Femininity: Mrs Beeton and the Culture of the Picnic

Alison Newbold (University of Chester)
Angels in the House Digging in the Dirt: Domestic Expansion and the Influence of Gardening Literature

Himan Heidari (University of Roehampton)
Portable Domesticity: Rebuilding Home on the Move in M. E. Hume-Griffith’s Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia

Panel four – Into the archives – Room G04

Chair: To be confirmed

Chris Houghton (Gale Cengage)
The Legible Monarchy: Interrogating the Digitised State Papers of Queen Victoria and Kind Edward VII

Lois Burke (Tilburg University)
Manuscript Lives Across Britain: A Survey of Manuscript Magazine Cultures

Clare Horrocks (LJMU)
Into the Archive: Linley Sambourne and the Victorian Periodical Press

Panel five – The Victorian hand: emotions, embodiment and identity: past and present – Room G07

Chair: To be confirmed

Joanne Begiato
Michael Brown
Helen Victoria Murray (University of Lancaster)

Panel six – Nineteenth century literary languages roundtable – Room G03

Chair: To be confirmed

Lars Atkin (University of Kent)
Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, Canada)
Karin Koehler (Prifysgol Bangor, Cymru)
Simon Rennie (University of Exeter)
Gregory Tate (University of St Andrews)

Panel one - Scams, memes and fake news – Room G23

Chair: To be confirmed

Marie Leger St. Jean (independent scholar)
Worldwide fin-de-siecle Scam Ad Syndication: the case of the Morse Manufacturing Company

Frederick Hyde (University of Southampton)
Fisherman and the Butcher’s Boy: A Victorian Meme?

Matthew Stephens (Edge Hill University/British Library)
‘The worse of Times’ – Dirty Tricks in the Mid-Century Illustrated Press

Panel two – Sociopolitical affectiveness and industrial change – Room G07

Chair: To be confirmed

Simon Rennie (University of Exeter)
Reading Across Occasional Local Newspaper Poetry: From the Cotton Famine to the Crimean War

Julia Ditter (University of Bremen)
Exhausted Visions: Debates about Resource Scarcity in the Periodical Press

Edouard Guionnet (Universite Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Liverpool’s Cotton Interests v’s Lancashire’s Cotton Industrial Lobby: A Reassessment of the Influence of the Industrial

Panel three - The traveller’s gaze – Room G03

Chair: To be confirmed

Masao Morishige (King’s College London)
Whiteness and Chinese Exclusion in The Wrecker: Stevenson’s Self-Critique of Romance

Madoka Nagado (University of the Ryukyus)
Ordinary Time in Extraordinary London: The Everyday as Historiographical Practice

Lucinda Matthews-Jones (LJMU)
Missionary Observing: Rent Boys in Victorian London

Panel four - Victorian childhood – Room G15

Chair: To be confirmed

Juliet Harrison (University of Roehampton)
“Roused to such reflection”: The Pedagogic Preface

Kristen Whittle (University of Toronto)
Staging the Parlour: Toy Theatres and the Sound World of Domestic Print Culture

Holly Furneaux (University of Cardiff)
'Under the Immediate Care and Protection of Queen Victoria’: Collected Children and the Imperial Politics of International Adoption

Panel five - Anger, rage and vandalism – Room G04

Chair: To be confirmed

Henriette Marsden (University of Cambridge)
Wielding Needles as Swords: Lady Mary Hamlyn Williams, the Rebecca Riots, and the Politics of Collaborative Embroidery in Wales, 1830-1850

Brian H. Murray (King’s College London)
Mindful Vandalism’: Contemporary Art and Victorian Monumental Space

Orianne Smith (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Vindicating Female Anger: Echoes of Wollstonecraft in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Panel six - Magnetism and transcendentalism in art and literature – Room G09

Chair: To be confirmed

Marijke Valk (University of Birmingham)
In the Laboratory of Souls: Transcendental Medicine and Alchemy’s Re-Enchantment of Science in Jekyll and Hyde

Kristof Smeyers (University of Leueven)
Performing Magnetisim: the theatrics of persuasion in Victorian Britain and the world

Tara Lee (University of Hong Kong)
'An experimental laboratory always about me’: Female Embodiment and 'Poetical Science' in the Writings of Ada Lovelace

Panel one - Crime fiction – Room G15

Chair:

Hendrikje Kaube (Freie University, Berlin)
Victorian Relics: New Women of Old in Victorian and Edwardian Crime Fiction

Irmtraud Huber (University Konstanz)
Shining in a New Light: Turn of the Century Detective Fiction and Artificial Illumination

Gregory Brennen (Oklahoma State University)
Sherlock Holmes and the Biopolitics of Imperial Circulation

Panel two - Tennyson and his contemporaries – Room G12

Chair: To be confirmed

Ayse Celikkol
Multifarious Particulars and Farms in Tennyson and Hopkins

Morgan Lee (Cardiff University)
In Memoriam: The Spectres within Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir

Ana Zivkovic (City St Georges)
Gladstone and Tennyson’s Representations of Montenegro: ‘A small people against a sea of Turks’

Panel three - Women writers – Room G07

Chair: To be confirmed

Timothy Anderson (UEA)
“Not Mӓdchen, and not Mütterchen”: Women’s Education and German Ideas in the Poetry of Emily Pfeiffer

Tarini Bhamburkar (University of Bristol)
‘Healthy’ Fashion in Ada Ballin’s Womanhood (1898 to 1906)

Pola Biblis (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
The World of the Lowly and the Dispossessed: The Reception of Elizabeth Gaskell in Nineteenth Century Poland

Johanna Harrison-Oram (Royal Holloway)
“I am all the heroic women of all the ages rolled into one”: speech acts, perlocutionary frustration, and feminist self-definition in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins

Panel four - Charlotte Bronte’s authorial identity – Room G09

Chair: To be confirmed

Amber Regis (University of Sheffield)
Poor Professor: Charlotte Brontë’s unsigned authorial prefaces

Anne Korfmacher (University of Graz)
Between Endurance and Elasticity: Gendered Resilience in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley

Thien Thao (East Asia University of Technology)
An Unspoken Bond: Sympathy Bounded by Patriarchal and Colonial Confinement in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

Panel five - Queering disabled bodies – Room G23

Chair: To be confirmed

Bethan Stevens (University of Sussex)
A neuroqueer reading of the face: how print techniques shaped identity in Victorian illustration

Justin Michael Sales (NTU)
Miserable Domesticities: Trans Negativity and the Transmission of Negative Affect in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda

Claudia Sterbini (University of Edinburgh)
Prosthetic Companionship, Sexological and Literary Types, and the Nonsexual Wardrobe: Asexuality in Henry James’s The Beast in the Jungle

Panel six - Dickens – Room G04

Chair: Clare Horrocks

James Howell (University of Sheffield)
The Romantic Side of Familiar Things: The Spectre of Post-Truth in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (1853) and Hard Times (1854)

Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter)
Dombey and Son and Jacobean revenge tragedy

Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton (CCUU)
Kindred spirits scattered through Kent: Making Friends With Dickens

Panel seven – Victorian art and artists – Room G03

Chair: To be confirmed

Jin Chenxiao (University of St Andrews)
Japan in Bond Street: Exhibiting Pictures of Meiji Japan in Late-Victorian Art Market

Peter Brydon (University of Exeter)
Luke Fildes. Portrait of an Artist

Jennifer Thatcher (Manchester Metropolitan)
The ‘Artist-Prophet of our Century’: Interviews with George Frederic Watts

Panel one – Infrastructure and masculinity – Room G09

Chair: To be confirmed

Eina Natalie Palkovich (University of Portsmouth)
Ideological Enui: The Bored Clerk in Victorian Literature

Alistair Robinson (Northeastern University, London)
Beacon, Prison, Madhouse, Home: The Lighthouses of R. M. Ballantyne

Joanna Hofer-Robinson (University of Warwick)
Hyperfunctional Spectacle

Panel two - Colonial men – Room G23

Chair: To be confirmed

Jiyoung Kang (Sogang University)
Adorned with Exhaustion: The Wilderness and the Anti-Sublime in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

James Inkster (NCL)
Conrad’s Old Men: Ageing, Memory and Care

Kathryn Simpson (University of Sheffield)
H. Rider Haggard’s Zikali trilogy and the appropriation of Zulu identity in British colonial self-fashioning

Panel three – Fine Art – Room G07

Chair: To be confirmed

Alex Bourke (University of St. Andrews)
Classicizing the Victorian Nude: Gendered Perspectives on the use of Classical Imagery in Fin-de-Siecle Nude Painting

Liam Billingsley (Cardiff University)
Nineteenth-Century Illustrations of Paradise Lost: Word, Image, Technique

Monika Mazurek (University of the National Education Commission, Poland)
Van Dyck’s Shadow: The Afterlife of Charles I’s Portraits in Victorian England

Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Ideal Instants’ and the Impressionist Lyric of Colour

Panel four - Legal historic: law and order – Room G12

Chair: To be confirmed

J. F. Collins (independent scholar)
The Newgate Legacy: How Victorian Moral Panic made Outlawry Obsolete

Julie Snykers (Cardiff University)
Novelising Intimate Violence

Victoria Nel (Exeter University)
Listening to Silenced Voices: Legal Reform During the Nineteenth Century and the Role of Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Panel five - Oscar Wilde – Room G15

Chair: To be confirmed

Haoyu Hu (University of Edinburgh)
Decadence and the Queer Child in Dorian Gray

Isaac Linton Clewes (UMA)
Sibyl Vane and Queer Theatre: The Female Artist in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Peter Molner (University of Oxford)
Eromenos as Christ: The Transfiguration of the Beloved in Michelangelo and Wilde

Panel six - Women’s Writing - Room G04

Chair: To be confirmed

Anna Barton (University of Sheffield)
Deafness and silence in archival remains of Lucy Violet Hodgkin

Fergus McGhee (Oxford)
Alice Meynell’s Loneliness

Paolo D'Indinosante (Sapienza University of Rome)
The Patriotic Poetess: Nation and Empire in Eliza Cook’s Poetry

Panel seven – Theatre and music hall – Room G03

Chair: To be confirmed

Alison Young (independent scholar)
Violet and the Deplorable Error: Music Hall, Morality, and Muslim Legal Advocacy in Edwardian Liverpool

Hayley Jane Bradley (University of Manchester)
‘Stick ‘Em Up Bill ... All Over London Town’: Fly-posting the Dramas of the Day

Patricia Smyth (University of Exeter)
The Role of Visual Art in Anna Maria Hall’s The Groves of Blarney

Amy Matthewson (University of Birmingham)

Panel one – Ruskin – Room G03

Chair: To be confirmed

Deborah Lamb (University of Bristol)
Mountains in Miniature: Attention, Scale and Ruskin’s Stone of Venice

Tingran Zheng (University of Leeds)
Ruskin and Architecture in the Quarterly Review: Metropolitan and Provincial Cities

Melissa Gustin (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
Ruskin and NML

Panel two - Animals and pets - Room G09

Chair: To be confirmed

Lauren Cullen (UBC)
“Jail Birds”: Margaret Marshall Saunders’s Avian Forms

Bethany Dahlstrom (independent scholar)
From Port City to Protection Movement: Audubon, Liverpool, and the Making of Modern Bird Conservation

Lilyemma Whalley (QMUL)
Loving Fellow Creatures – Female Friendship with Animals

Panel three – Ephemeral imaginings: sense, place and self in the archive – Room G15

Chair: Clare Horrocks

Anouska Lester (University of York)

Emma Mitchell (Brunel University, London)

Matthew Roberts (University of Kent)

Panel four – Charity, philanthropy and celebrity – Room G04

Chair: To be confirmed

Elise Garritzen (University of Helsinki)
Celebrities of the Day: Victorian Advocates of Respectable Celebrity

Maud Belair (University of Edinburgh)
Charity, Poverty and Morality in the Slum: Victorian Literature from Fiction to Fact

Elizabeth Ludlow and Amanda Vernon
The Making of a Podcast Series: Adelaide Anne Procter; Victorian Poetry, Faith and Fundraising

Panel five - Spirits and ghosts – Room G07

Chair: To be confirmed

Megha Mazumdar (Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, Delhi NCR)
Transcending Mortality: Sickrooms, Spiritual Mediums, and the Affective Lives of Death in Victorian Culture

Emily Vincent (University of Birmingham)
Some talk among the older people about those sensations: Generational and Gendered Depictions of Mourning in Margaret Oliphant’s Ghost Stories

Vanya Anne Heng Wen Yia (NTU)
Ghosts and Doubles: Gothic Symbolism of Veiled Women in Bleak House

Panel six – Neo-Victorians – Room G23

Chair: To be confirmed

Ann Heilmann (Cardiff University)
In and Out of the Neo-Victorian Coffin: On Reclaiming and Reframing Lizzy Siddal

Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz (University of Malaga)
‘Their Beautiful Nocturnal Invention’: Queer Use and Trans-formation in Emma Donoghue’s Learned by Heart (2023)

Sara Lyons (University of Kent)
Feminist Autofiction, Media Backlash and the Banished Self: George Egerton’s Wheel of God (1898) and Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy (2014 to 2018)