Wednesday, 1 July 2015
The next North West Long19C seminar will be a double event with a free sandwich lunch provided by MMU. We will also plan to go for drinks and/or meal as usual on Oxford Rd after 5 pm. To finalise catering numbers, please can you let Emma Liggins (e.liggins@mmu.ac.uk) know if you plan to attend this event.
The North West Long Nineteenth Century Seminar: the Fin de Siecle
Wednesday 1 July 2015, Geoffrey Manton building, Lecture Theatre 4 (ground floor), 10.15am – 5pm
10.15-11.00am Tea and Coffee (ground floor atrium)
Fin-de-Siecle Periodicals, 11am-1pm
Deborah Mutch (de Montfort) Serials, Stories and Socialism: Fiction in the British Socialist Press, 1884-1914.
Linda Friday, (Edge Hill), ‘We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us’: Mapping Life, Death and the Un-dead of fin de siècle Purfleet in the Nineteenth Century press.
Gemma Outen (Edge Hill), ‘Is cycling healthy for women?’: An examination of health concerns in Wings (1892-1921)
1-2 Lunch (provided by MMU)
Afternoon session, 2-5pm
2-3.30pm
Sondeep Kandola (Liverpool John Moores), ‘Culture and Imperialism in the Irish Dorian Gray’
Kirsty Bunting (MMU) Sacred and Profane Love: The Roman experiments of Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thompson.
3.45-5.00pm
Sarah Gilbert (Liverpool John Moores) Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins: New Woman fiction as a response to naturalism.
Angelica Michelis (MMU) Sex and the City: London in fin-de-siecle women’s poetry
We are grateful for the support of BAVS, BARS and the IHSSR at Manchester Metropolitan University. For more details, contact Dr Emma Liggins, e.liggins@mmu.ac.uk
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