THE
TWELFTH ANNUAL DICKENS
SYMPOSIUM
SPONSORED BY
THE DICKENS SOCIETY,
THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
LETHBRIDGE,
THE DEAN
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE
PROGRAM
Friday,
Aug. 17, 2:30--3:15pm
Registration
Refreshments
3:30--5pm
PANEL
ONE: AMERICAN NOTES
Chair:
G. Morgentaler (University
of Lethbridge)
1)
Natalie McKnight, Boston University,
"Dickens,
Niagara Falls and the Watery Sublime."
2)
Emily Heady, Liberty University,
"Imitation
and the Inimitable: Mimicry and Power in Dickens's American Notes."
3)
Matthew Kerr, Oxford University,
"A
Dull Mechanic of Fun: Making
Light of Dickens's American Notes."
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Saturday,
Aug. 18, 9--10:30am
Concurrent
Sessions: Dickens: Critical Approaches to The Novels
PANEL
TWO: DICKENS: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE NOVELS (1)
Chair:
Trey Philpotts (Arkansas
Tech University)
1)
Bert Hornback,
"Opening
Dickens"
2)
Leslie
Simon,
Boston University,
"Archives
of the Interior: Exhibitions of Domesticity in The Pickwick Papers."
3)
Nancy Metz, Virginia Tech University
"I
Hear America Screaming."
4)
Sarah Bleakney, University of Florida,
"Bounderby's
'Blustery' Fronting of Masculinity in Hard Times."
PANEL
THREE: DICKENS: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE NOVELS (2)
Chair:
Anita Fernandez-Young
(Nottingham University Business School)
1)
Alan Rauch, University of North Carolina,
"The
Regency Dickens."
2)
Catherine Sheckler, Université de Montréal,
"Dressing
the Part: Clothing as a Site of Identity in Oliver Twist."
3)
Kristin Sanner, Mansfield University,
"Mr
Merdle's Dead Body as Text: Medical Authority in Dickens's Little
Dorrit."
4)
Natalie Huffels, McGill University,
"History
as Traumatic Return in A Tale of Two Cities."
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COFFEE
BREAK
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Saturday,
Aug. 18, 10:45am--12:15pm
PANEL
FOUR: DICKENS: CRITICAL APPRAOCHES TO THE NOVELS: DAVID
COPPERFIELD AND BLEAK
HOUSE (3)
Chair:
Natalie Cole (Oakland
University)
1) Ralph F.
Smith, University of Ottawa,
"David
Copperfield and the Spoilt Child."
2)
Daniel Siegel, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
"David
Copperfield Stalled."
3)
Robert Heaman, Wilkes University,
"David
Copperfield as Artist and Man."
4)
Lynn D. Zimmerman, Notre Dame College,
"A
Self-Forming Narrative: Esther's Autobiographical and Collaborative
Writing of Bleak
House."
PANEL
FIVE: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE NOVELS:
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (4)
Chair:
Elizabeth Bridgham (Providence
College)
1)
Suzanne Clark, University of Western Ontario,
"Prosthetic
Solutions in Our Mutual Friend."
2)
Apryl Denny, Viterbo University,
"The
'b(l)oofer' Lady: Female Sexuality in Our Mutual Friend and Dracula."
3)
Joseph Jordan, University of California at Berkeley,
"Our
Mutual Friend as Verse."
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LUNCH:
12:15--1:30pm
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Saturday,
Aug. 18, 1:45--3:15pm
PANEL
SIX: DICKENS AND OTHER WRITERS
Chair:
David Paroissien (University of Massachussets at Amherst,
retired)
1)
Jerome Meckier, University of Kentucky,
"The
Three Clerks and Rachel Ray: Trollop's Revaluation of Dickens
Continued."
2)
Richard Fantina, University of Miami,
"A
Tale of Two Charleses: Dickens and Reade."
3)
Mark Cronin, Saint Anselm College,
"Dickens,
Thackeray and the Curious Case of 'The Curate's Walk.' "
4)
Deborah A. Thomas, Villanova University,
"
'Don't
Let the Bastards Grind You Down': Echoes of Hard Times in
the The
Handmaid's Tale."
PANEL
SEVEN: DICKENS, EDUCATION AND LITTLE DORRIT
Chair:
Monique R. Morgan (McGill University)
1)
Philip Allingham, Lakehead University,
"Spiritual
Guides and Educative Companions in A Christmas Carol, The
Chimes and Martin
Chuzzlewit:
The Guide on the Side versus the Sage on the Stage."
2)
Eric G. Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington,
"Doing
Dickens and Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary Connection in the
University
Literature Classroom."
3)
Evan P. Schneider, University of Rhode Island,
"The
Affect of Accounting: Guilt Exacted in Little Dorrit."
4)
Jessica H. Gray, University of Rhode Island,
"The
Masochistic Manipulations of Little Dorrit."
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COFFEE
BREAK
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Saturday,
Aug. 18, 3:30--5pm
SINGLE
SESSION:
PANEL
EIGHT: DICKENS AND WILKIE COLLINS
Chair:
Keith Wilson (University
of Ottawa)
1)
John Kofron, City College of New York,
"Imagining
the Arctic: Polar Exploration in the Novels of Charles Dickens and
Wilkie
Collins."
2)
Natalie B. Cole, Oakland University,
"Giants'
Tea, Beanstalks and Bride-cake: Problems of Leisure in Vacation Texts
by Dickens
and Collins."
3)
Jennifer A. Halloran, Duke University,
"Social
Poison and Intention in Charles Dickens's Sections of 'The Lazy Tour of
Two
Idle Apprentices.' "
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Saturday,
Aug. 18, 5--6:15pm
Business
meeting, Dickens Society
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Dickens
Dinner, 7pm
Montefiore
Club
1195
rue Guy
(Within
2 blocks of Hotel du Fort)
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Sunday,
Aug. 19, 9am--10:30am
PANEL
NINE: BIOGRAPHICAL
Chair:
Jason Camlot (Concordia
University)
1)
Lillian Nayder, Bates College,
"Catherine
Dickens Plays Montreal: Amateur Theatrics and the Idea of Privacy."
2)
Robert Garnett, Gettysburg College,
"The
Invisible Mourner."
3)
Lisa Rodensky, Wellesley College,
"Popular
Dickens."
4)
Joel J. Brattin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
"The
Attendance Book for the Guild of Literature and Art."
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Sunday,
Aug. 19, 10:45am--12:15pm
PANEL
TEN: DICKENS AND OTHER MEDIA
Chair:
Bob Heaman (Wilkes University)
1)
Caley Ehnes, University of Victoria,
"Dickens's
Dioramic Language: The (Re)creation of Landscape in Pictures from
Italy."
2)
Robert Terrell Bledsoe, University of Texas at El Paso (retired),
"All
the Year Round and Music as 'A Serious National Matter.' "
3)
Chinmayi Kattemalavadi, Oakland University,
"Losing
the Apron, Releasing the Voice: Composing Space for Women in Jarrold's Great
Expectations."
4)
Christoph Schully, Freiburg University,
"Dickens
Re-Popularized: The BBC's 2005 Bleak House."
Sunday, Aug. 19, 2--3:30pm
(approx.)
WALKING TOUR OF OLD MONTREAL with Alan
Hustak, journalist and author of Exploring
Old Montreal:
An Opinionated Guide to Its Streets, Churches, and Historic Landmarks.
Last modified 17 July 2007