“A Sudden Swift Impression”: Re-Examining the Victorian Short Story
A Study Day with the Victorian Popular Fiction Association
27th January 2018
University of Brighton
68 Grand Parade
Brighton BN2 0JY
Programme
On arrival please go to the M2 Boardroom on the Mezzanine floor
9.00-9.30: Arrival and coffee
9.30-10.45: Welcome and Keynote
Dr Emma Liggins, ‘Victorian Women’s Ghost Stories and the Haunted Space: from Elizabeth Gaskell to Margaret Oliphant’
10.45-11: Comfort Break
11-12.45:Parallel session 1:
Panel A: Form, Genre and the Publishing market
Room: M2 BoardroomChair:Anne-Marie Beller
Brittany Roberts, ‘Plotting Sensation Stories: Affect and Intuition in Short Sensation Fiction’
Lindy Moore, ‘The Periodical Market and the Evangelical Short Story: Isabella Fyvie Mayo and the Sunday Magazine, 1867-1873’
Anne Chapman, ‘Visiting and Expectation in Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster” and “To-morrow”’
Panel B: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression
Room:G4Chair:Emma Liggins
Carolyn Lambert, ‘Expect the Unexpected: Masculinity In Elizabeth Gaskell’s Shorter Fiction’
Tracy Hayes, 'Darkest Wessex: Hardy, the Gothic Short Story, and Masculinity'
Vicky Margree, ‘The Good Memsahib: Marriage, Infidelity and Empire in Alice Perrin’s Anglo-Indian Tales’
Hannah Champion, ‘“Preposterous Fancies” In A “Plain, Common World”: Curiousness In Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Prism”’
12.45-1.30: Lunch
1.30-3.00:Parallel session 2
Panel C: Professionals at Work
Room: M2 BoardroomChair: Anne Chapman
Zoe Hardy, ‘“Bitter To The Taste But Bracing In The Result”: Medicine And The Short Story In Arthur Conan Doyle’s Collection Round The Red Lamp’
Jennifer Jones, ‘Insensible Victims and Unfeeling Surgeons: Anxiety about the Abuse of Power in Antivivisectionist Short Stories’
ElkeD’hoker, ‘Women’s Work: Short Story Series in The Woman At Home’
Panel D: Narrative Instability: Memory, Hauntings, Crossing Boundaries
Room:G4Chair: Carolyn Lambert
Jonathan Potter, ‘Mere Glimpses: Fragments and narrative ambiguity in popular short stories’
Katherine Wise, ‘Reading/Seeing the Palimpsest in Emma Frances Dawson’s “An Itinerant House”’
Tatiana Kontou, ‘Beyond the Ruin’
3.00-3.15: Coffee break
3.15-4.45:Parallel session 3:
Panel E: New Woman Fiction
Room: M2 BoardroomChair:ElkeD’hoker
Anne-Marie Beller, ‘Collapsing the Courtship Plot: The Challenge to Mid-Victorian Romance in New Woman Short Stories of the 1890s’
Valerie Fehlbaum, ‘Not Waving, but Laughing’
Angharad Eyre, ‘Something Sensational to Read in the Train: College Women and the New Woman Short Story’
Panel F: Detective Fiction
Room:G4Chair:Angharad Eyre
Christopher Pittard, ‘Grant Allen’s “Jerry Stokes”, the Death Penalty, and the Scene of Writing’
Lucy Andrew, ‘There’s No Place Like Holmes: The Short Story Series and the Development of the Juvenile Detective Genre’
Silvia Granata, ‘Romance At Short Notice: Mysterious Objects And Surprising Stories In Fergus Hume’s Hagar Of The Pawn Shop (1898)’
4.45: End of Study Day
6.00: Conference dinner in town