Thursday, September 9
9am CST/3pm BST (60 min)
1A. Dickens
- Katie Holdway, “Appropriation, Authorship, and Anecdote: Pickwick’s Comic Circulation in Newspaper Press 1836-1837”
- Matthew Poland, “Dickens’s Cheap Edition and the Poetics of Circulation in Dombey and Son”
- Fern Pullan, “Fashioning the Sensation Novel: Cultural Craze or Critical Pariah?
Chair: Lydia Craig
1B. Revolutions and Evolutions of Methodologies
- John Morton, “1850: A Case for the Single-Year Study in Victorian Periodicals Research”
- Scott C. Thompson, “Applied Description: Circulating Science and Sensation”
- Andrea Stewart, “Mapping Multiplicity: The Evolution of the Digital Archive and Network Analysis”
- Hannah Alford, “British Literary Annuals: Materiality and the Digital Archive”
Chair: Laurel Brake
15 minute break
10:15 CST/4:15pm BST (60 min)
2A. All the Year Round
- Beth Sherman, “‘Intolerable Bondage’: The Guano Trade, the Islands of Hell and Coolie Labor in All the Year Round and Household Words”
- Elizabeth Anderman, “Revolutionary Masculinity: A Tale of Two Cities on Both Sides of the Atlantic”
- Jessica Durgan, “All the Year Round and Revolutionary Color”
Chair: Iain Crawford
2B. Periodical Poetry
- Linda Hughes, “Comic Fixed-Form Poems in Punch and Fun”
- Rebekah Phillips, “May Kendall’s Evolution”
- Tai-Chun Ho, “The Poet as Fundraiser: Writing Catchpenny Verse in Nineteenth-Century Military Crises”
Chair: Patrick Leary
15 minute break
11:30 CST/5:30 BST (60 min)
Colby Award Presentations
15 minute break
12:45 CST/6:45 BST (60 min)
4B. Evolutionary Rhetoric and Representation
- Anne DeWitt, “Periodical Poetry and the Question of the Darwinian Revolution”
Chair: Fionnuala Dillane
4C. Making Magazines in Victorian Maker Culture
- Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, “‘Directly from the hands of the artists’: The Dial as DIY Magazine”
- Marion Grant, “‘Revolting against “that thunderous clamour of the steam press”’: Pamela Colman Smith, Hand-Coloring, and The Green Sheaf”
- Alexis Easley, “The Illuminated Page: Periodical Poetry and Mid-Victorian Women’s Scrapbooks”
Chair: Michelle Reynolds
The live portion of the panel will include a DIY digital scrapbook activity.