VISAWUS 2006 Conference Abstracts
Anne Anderson – ‘The Blue Mania’ : Collectors of Blue and White China for the House Beautiful c. 1860-1900
Sophia Andres – “Seeing Present and Future in the Past: Pre-Raphaelite Representations of Women
Kit Andrews – Victorian Teleologies: Daniel Deronda, Feuerbach, and Hegel
Sara E. Atwood – Ruskin’s Medievalism
Brenda Ayres – "The Story of a Dead Self": The Theosophical Novels of Marie Corelli
Genie Babb – Scylla’s Descendents: Mythology, Science, and Octopoid Aliens in H. G. Wells’ “The Sea Raiders” and The War of the Worlds
Noelle P. Bradley – Caricaturing Historicism: W. M. Thackeray and the Humbug of Styles
Meilee D. Bridges – The Eros of Homeros: The Pleasures of Reading Greek Epic in Victorian Britain
Susan P. Casteras – The Pre-Raphaelitization of Modern Culture
Julie F. Codell – Viewing the Past In and Through Pre-Raphaelite Art
Sasha Colby – Buried, Encoded, Occluded: Archaeology, Victorianism, and the Substrata of Modernsim
Noah Comet – “Old Idolatry”: Landon, Hemans, and Hellenism
Lana L. Dalley – Women, Capital and Classical Economics: Reading the Economic Past in George Gissing’s The Odd Women
Catherine Day – Historical Possibility and Extension of Mind in John Stuart Mill and George Eliot
Alfred Drake – Walter Pater and Victorian Hellenism
Dustin Friedman – “Artificial Artlessness”: Euphuism and “the task of poetry” in Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean
Constance Fulmer – George Eliot and Titian's Annunciation: The Virgin Mary and Fedalma As Aspects of George Eliot's Self-Concept
Alberto Gabriela – "Sensationalizing British History: Bound to John Company (Belgravia: 1868-69) and the Haunting Memory of the Sepoy Mutiny
Ramona Garcia – "'Most Englishmen did not agree with the Protestants, but still did not think it right that they should be burned for their opinions.': The Reign of Mary Tudor (1553-1558) Throught the Prism of Nineteenth-Century Liberalism"
Chris Geyer – “Blood Memory”: The Gentleman is White
Pamela K. Gilbert – Millennial Histories, Paul, and Victorian Liberalism
Jennifer Green-Lewis – If Memory Serves: Photographing antiquity in the nineteenth century
D. Rae Greiner – Sympathy as Style: In the Case of Dickens
Bryn Gribben – “Priceless Value in Diluted Homeopathic Doses”: The Jewish Man, Pain and Empathy in Trilby & The Moonstone
Marylu Hill – The Future of the Past: William Morris’ News from Nowhere and the Historical Eye
Kellie Holzer – Love as “Contraband Commodity”: Miss or Mrs? and Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753
Mary Hotz – ‘The Darkling Thrush’: The Voice of Death in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
Gail Turley Houston – Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Re-membering of a Female God
Jeffrey E. Jackson – The Once and Future Sword: Excalibur and the Poetics of Imperial Heroism in Idylls of the King
P. Keiko Kagawa – "Archi-spatiality in George Eliot's MIDDLEMARCH: An Architectural Reconstruction of the Renaissance"
Michelle Kaiserlian – A Syncretic Vision at the Close of the Victorian Age: Phoebe Anna Traquair’s Progress of a Soul
Jenni Keys – Re-imagining Empires: Representations of the Victorian in Maharanee Sunity Devee’s Rajput Princesses, Beautiful Mughal Princess, and Indian Fairy Tales
Allison Adler Kroll – Hardy's Interpretive Archaeology: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Amy Lehman – Representations of the Past in Victorian Seances
Yisrael Levin – Swinburne’s “The Last Oracle:” Nineteenth-Century Mythography and Apollonian Mythopoeia
Naomi Lloyd – The Universal Divine Principle, the Spiritual Androgyne and the New Age in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins (1893)
Kristin Mahoney – D.G. Rossetti’s Fleshly Medievalism: History and the Emergence of a British Avant-Garde
Kathleen Maloney – Studying the Past, Envisioning the future: Teaching William Morris’ News from Nowhere
George Mariz – Thomas Arnold as Historian: the Past in the Present
Valerie Mendelson – Shooting Marbles: Robert Fenton at the British Museum
Heather Milton – Novel Expectations: The Production of the Modern Subject through Victorian Narrative in A Cornish Waif’s Story: An Autobiography
Miles Mitchard – Ruskin, Hazlitt, Murillo, and the bodily poetics of radicalism
Rosemary Mitchell – The Past Laugh: Comic Attacks on Historical Discourses and Antiquaries and Heritage Tourism in R.H. Barham’s The Ingoldsby Legends.
Deborah Denenholz Morse – ‘Imperial Memories in Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right’
Alla Myzelev – Collecting the Everyday: Peasant Utilitarian Objects as Museum Artefacts
Suzanne Ossa-Richardson – William Morris and the ‘Book Beautiful’: The Kelmscott Press in Context”
Ji-Hyae Park – The Education of Desire in Vernon Lee’s and Oscar Wilde’s Platonic Dialogues
Marilyn Pemberton – Once Upon a Time: The Use of the Past in Victorian Fairy Tales in Order to Ensure a Happily Ever After
Louise Penner – “Sensational Absences: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Romantic and Victorian Sciences of the Mind”
John Potvin – Collecting the Past: Aestheticism, Identity, and Objects of Desire
John Potvin – ‘Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon: Collecting Intimacy One Object at a Time’
Megan Price – ‘Visions of the Ancient British Landscape in Victorian Lanternslides’ An illustrated PowerPoint presentation of the life and work of an unknown amateur
J. Lyndsey Rago – Statue as Souvenir: Oliver Cromwell and Historical Consciousness in Victorian Britain
Eric Reisenauer – Romans, Israelites, and the Imperial Ideal in Britain
Dennis Rohatyn – Russell's Paradox and the Beginning of the Victorian End
Laura Rotunno – Where the Past Fits in the Present of John Caldigate
Marty Rapp Sayles – Everyone Loves a Lord: Power, Status, and Victorian Genealogy
Susanne Seales – Special Event: Elizabeth S., A Collaborative Performance of Dance and History Based on the Life of Elizabeth Siddal
Kate Sheppard – Flinders Petrie, Archaeology and Eugenics in Nineteenth Century Britain
Antony E. Simpson – The Victorians and the ‘Bloody Code’: The Persistence of 18th Century Morality in the 19th Century Mode of Capital Punishment
Robert Sirabian – The Interplay of Past and Present: Anglo-Saxonism and Tennyson’s Battle of Brunanburh
Lisa Surridge – Time, History, and Narration in E. Nesbit’s The Amulet
Ann M. Tandy-Treiber – Burrowing Towards the Future: The Buried Histories of Degenerate Races in Late-Victorian England
Karen Kurt Teal – The Old and New Victorian Gateway to the Continent: St. Pancras Station and Hotel Renovation Update
Nanette Thrush – Ivanhoe Redux
Bertram Troeger – Positioning the Wart: Some Remarks on Oliver Cromwell's Victorian Reputation
Kathleen Vejvoda – The Gods of the Hearth: Paganism in The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner
Stanwood Walker – Cecil Rhodes, Marius the Epicurean, and Imperial Ambivalence
Maria Su Wang – Historical Explanation, Adequate Cause, and Lydgate’s Plot in Middlemarch
Edward Wesley – Empedocles and Arnold
Elizabeth Coggin Womack – Historical Overdetermination and the Bourgeois Public Sphere in Browning’s The Ring and the Book
Michael Zeitler – Wessex Past and Present: Primitive Myth and Modern Man in The Return of the Native
Jolene Zigarovich – Biblical Allusions and Embedded Meaning in Charlotte Brontë’s Fiction