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PROGRAM FOR THE 1990 MEETING

In Plenary Session

Friday, 19 October

Victorian Ladies Abroad

1. "Subversive Voyagers: Victorian Women Travellers," Deborah Morse, College of William and Mary
2. "A Natural Storyteller, Mary Kingsley," Zsuzsanna D. Snow, SUNY-Buffalo
3. "Noor-Ala-Noor, Lady Duff Gordon in Egypt," Charisse Gendron, Middle Tennessee State Univ.

Victorians, Exotic Landscapes, Foreign Art

1. "Subverting the Western Gaze: Augustus Earle's Landscape Paintings of New Zealand," Nancy West, University of North Carolina
2. "Middlemarch: Dorothea's Husbands in the Vatican Museums," Kathleen McCormack, Florida International University
3. "'Unmixed Play' or 'Deep Play?' Victorian Mountaineering and the Conquest of the Alps," Heather Henderson, Mount Holyoak College

1. "'We and the World': Juliana Horatio Ewing and Victorian Colonialism for Children," Donald Hall, University of Maryland
2. "The Spectre of Self as Spectacle: Masks as Methodology, or the Empiricism of Empire," Kristine Taya Liknn-Torre, University of Washington
3. "Victorian Travellers and China," Susan Thurin, University of Wisconsin-Stout
4. "The Direct and Indirect Discourse of Imperialism: Problems in Reading H. Rider Haggard," David Bradshaw, Earren Wilson College
5. "Minding the Body Politic: Disciplining the Empire at Home in Victorian Dedtective Fiction," Ronald Thomas, Trinity College
6. "Gendering War: The Boer Concentration Camps," Paula M. Krebs, Indiana University

PROGRAM FOR THE 1988 MEETING

Friday, 14 October
An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan

Saturday, 15 October

In Plenary Session

The Universities and High Cultural Definition

1. "Edinburgh, Oxford, Christminster: Self and Society in Victorian England," Michael Timko, QueenÍs College and CUNY Graduate Center
2. "Newmanic vs. Arnoldian Purposes in Education," Wendell V. Harris, Pennsylvania State University
3. Response on Arnold by John Greenfield, McKendree College
4. Remarks, Morse Peckham, University of South Carolina

1. "Learning to Punish: Victorian ChildrenÍs Literature," John R. Reed, Wayne State University
2. "The Mother in the Factory: Pestalozzi at the Crossroads of Victorian Discourses on Education and Gender," Karen Hornick, Columbia University
3. "Harriet Martineau's Household Education: Revising the Feminine Tradition," Linda Peterson, Yale University

1. "Pedagogy, Practice, and Production: Student Tutoring Then and Now," Myron Tuman, University of Alabama
2. "The Guidebook and the Museum: Aesthetics, Education, and Nationalism in the British Museum," Inderpal Grewal, George mason University
3. "Visual Images of Victorian Schooling: Art as Document and Propaganda," Leslie Ann Williams, Indiana University

PROGRAM FOR THE 1986 MEETING

In Plenary Session

1. "St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, Ireland," C. M. Smart, Jr.
2. "Tennyson, Keble, and the Altered Significance of The Christian Year," Patrick Scott, The University of South Carolina
3. "Can We Trust Newman's Apologia?" Frank Turner, Yale University.
4. "Theology or Phenomenology: The Tension between Faith and Perception in Gerard Manley Hopkins," Ashton Nichols
5. "Walter Pater's Two Apollos," Robert Keefe
6. "Rewriting Revelation: The Autobiographer as Idolator in Gosses's Father and Son," Heather Henderson
7. "Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and the 'Undying Life' Within," Judith Farr
8. "'Has Christianity Benefited Women?': The Question of Romola," Robin Sheets

PROGRAM FOR THE 1985 MEETING

In Plenary Session

I. The Past in Victorian Visual Arts

1. "The Taming of the Past: Domesticating History in the Novel and Painting," Judith L. Fisher, University of Texas at San Antonio
2. "The Force of the Past: The Perseus Legend and the Mythology of 'Rescue' in Nineteenth-Century British Art," Joseph Kestner, The University of Tulsa
3. "The Creative Eclecticism of William Burges. The Use of Historic Allusion," C.M. Smart, University of Arkansas

II. Remaking the Past

1. "Christina Rossetti's Dante," Antony Harrison, North Carolina State University
2. "Inventing the Italian renaissance in Early Victorian England," Alan Johnson, University of Arizona
3. "Contemporary Fact and Historical Fiction: Romola in Context," Jerome Beaty, Emory University

III. The Impact of the Past on Language

1. "The Constitutionalist Idiom: Radical Rhetoric, Reasoning and Action, 1815-1850," James Epstein, University of North Carolina
2. "Darwin, Language, and the Past," Robert Keefe, University of Massachusetts
3. "'How Does Cato Die?: Ancient Suicides and Victorian Dilemmas," Barbara T. Gates, University of Delaware

IV. The Past in the Victorian Novel

1. "Uses of the Past in Eliot and Thackeray: A Question of Power," Harry E. Shaw, Cornell University
2. "Anthony Trollope: Freedom and the Past," Roger Slakey, Georgetown University
3. "Atavism and the Happy Ending of Dracula," John Greenway, University of Kentucky

V. Keynote Address

"Victorian Culture and the Uses of the Past," A. Dwight Culler, Yale University

Abstracts of the essays above were published in Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 14 (1986).

PROGRAM FOR THE 1984 MEETING

PROGRAM FOR THE 1983 MEETING

In Plenary Session

1. "Tennyson and the Conventions of Madness," Nancy R. Wicker, U.S. Naval Academy
2. "The Victorian Critics' Dilemma: What To Do with a Talented Poetess," Kay R. Moser, Baylor University
3. "Sordello's Audiences," David E. Latane, Jr., Auburn University.
4. "Reading and Misreading in The Eustace Diamonds," Patricia A. Vernon, Auburn University
5. "Historical Fiction Among the Mid-Victorians," Monika Brown, Pembroke State University
6. "Ambivalence in the Victorian Audience's Response to the Sensation Novel," Marilyn J. Kurata, University of Alabama in Birmingham
7. "'The Unknown Public': The Discovery of the Working-Class Audience in Victorian England," Evelyn D. Asch, Shimer College
8. "Modern Audiences for Victorian Classics," LuAnn Walther, Bantam Books

Keynote:

Abstracts of the essays abover were published in Victorians Institute Journal, Volume 12 (1984).

PROGRAM FOR THE 1981 MEETING

GREETING by Joseph Sendry, Chairman, Catholic University Department of English

WELCOME by Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., President of Catholic University

FIRST SESSION
"Aestheticism and Decadence: An Overview."

1. "Aestheticism as the Fortuitous Conflation of Alien Forces"
   Wendell V. Harris, Pennsylvania State University

2. "From Aestheticism to Decadence: Evidence from the Short Story"
   John R. Reed, Wayne State University

3. Response: Alan Johnson, Arizona State University

SECOND SESSION
"Aestheticism across the Arts"