Conference "Victorian Antipathies“

November 3, 2022, 4:00 p.m. (CET)

"Victorian Antipathies" - manifestations of antipathy in Victorian literature and culture.

Time: November 3, 2022, 4:00 p.m. (CET) – November 5, 2022, 4:30 p.m. (CET)
Venue: Baden-Württemberg Stiftung / Literaturhaus
Kriegsbergstr. 42 / Breitscheidstraße 4
Stuttgart
Link: Institut für Literaturwissenschaft 
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The conference "Victorian Antipathies" turns the spotlight on various manifestations of antipathy in Victorian literature and culture to explore their literary and cultural significance, to determine their aesthetic implications, and to identify their progressive potential.

"Victorian Antipathies" Program:

Thursday, 3 November 2022 (Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, Kriegsbergstr. 42)

4:30 pm: Nina Engelhardt (Stuttgart) & Anja Hartl (Konstanz), Welcome Address

5:00-6:00 pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS I

  • Pamela Gilbert (University of Florida), “Antipathy, Hatred and Disgust”

6:00-8:00 pm: Conference Warming / Reception

Friday, 4 November 2022 (Literaturhaus, Breitscheidstraße 4)

9:00-10:30 PANEL I: ANTIPATHY AND GENDER IDENTITY

  • Helena Esser (Birkbeck), “Stoned by Sisterhood? Ouida’s Libertarian Misogyny”
  • Fiona MacHugh (Dundee), “Maternal Antipathy as a Symptom of Puerperal Insanity and the Preservation of the Maternal Ideal”
  • Lara Virrey (Edinburgh), “Native, Female, Unmarried, and Elderly: Anti-Humanisms and Late-Victorian Antipathies for the Female Sage Figure in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and People of the Mist (1894)”

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 PANEL II: ANTIPATHY AND GENRE

  • Irmtraud Huber (Konstanz), “Antipathy and Judgement: Revisiting the Dramatic Monologue”
  • Will Abberley (Sussex), “The Ecopolitics of Disgust in John Ruskin’s Nature Writing”

12:00-1:30pm Lunch Break

1:30-2:30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS II

  • Zachary Samalin (New York University), “The Antagonistic Century”

2.30-3.00pm: Coffee Break

3:00-4:30 pm PANEL III: ANTIPATHY AND CLASS IDENTITY

  • Linda Mathlouthi (Lorraine), “Antipathy, Aversion, and Rejection: The Case of the Labouring Classes in Victorian England”
  • Sophie Franklin (Tübingen), “Contagious Antipathy in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey”
  • Carolin Sternberg (Vechta), “Pernicious Reading: Penny Dreadfuls between Popularity and Moral Panic”

4:30-4:45:Coffee Break

4:45-5:45: KEYNOTE ADDRESS III

  • Tara MacDonald (University of Idaho), “Victorian Affect Aliens”

7:00 pm:Conference Dinner

Saturday, 5 November 2022 (Literaturhaus, Breitscheidstraße 4)

9:00-10:30 PANEL IV: ANTIPATHY AND RACIAL PREJUDICE

  • Tim Sommer (Heidelberg), “The Limits of Sympathy: Negative Affect and Victorian Negotiations of Racial Difference”
  • Ge Tang (Melbourne), “Race, Victorian, Antipathy, and Emotional Practice”
  • Jessica M. Durgan (Bemidji State University, Northern Minnesota), “Blind Antipathy in Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch”

10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-12:30: PANEL V: ASIA AND ANTIPATHY

  • Ross G. Forman (Warwick), “‘The Furious Prejudice and Blind Superstition of That Awful Country’: Chinese Antipathy in Late Victorian Narrative”
  • Atul V. Nair (Hyderabad), “Victorian Antipathies: Reporting the 1857 Uprising in Select Indian English Periodicals”
  • Purna Banerjee (Kolkata), “Racial & Sexual Antipathies-Sympathies Contestations in Cross’ Anna Lombard”

12:30-2:00pm: Lunch Break

2:00-3:30pm: PANEL VI: VICTORIAN AND BEYOND

  • Geoffrey Rodoreda (Stuttgart), “Restraint and the Colonised Other: Shifting Antipathies from Jane Eyre to Heart of Darkness”
  • Julia Boll (Konstanz), “[sic]: Conrad’s N-Word and Ugly Feelings Past and Present”
  • Viktoriya Sukovata (Kharkiv), “Victorian Antipathies in the Novels of Agatha Christie”

3:30-4:00 pm: Concluding Discussion

 

Please register via e-mail: Dr. Nina Engelhardt or Dr. Anja Hartl

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