The Literary 1880s
Date/Time
Date(s) - 23/03/2012 - 24/03/2012
All Day
Location
Conference Room, David Hume Tower
Categories
University of Edinburgh: Conference Room, David Hume Tower
Workshops sponsored by British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Spaces are limited – please email Sarah Ames to attend.
Programme:
Friday 23rd March 2.00 -5.15
James, Stevenson, and the Literary Essay
2.00-3.00 The Literary Essay in the 1880s
Andrew Taylor, ‘James, Trollope and the Categories of Fiction’
Sara Lodge, ‘Max Beerbohm, Camp Aesthetics and “1880”’
3.00 Tea/coffee
3.30-5.15 Roundtable on the New Edinburgh Edition of Stevenson’s Essays: Robert-Louis Abrahamson, Richard Dury, Lesley Graham, Alex Thomson
Saturday 24th March 9.15-5.00
The 1880s: Literature’s Uncertain Decade
9.30-11.30 William Greenslade (UWE): ‘”Family and Friends”: High-mindedness and the Secular Turn’
Clare Pettitt (King’s, London): ‘Cables, Coding, and Telegraphic Culture in the 1880s’
Anna Vaninskaya (Edinburgh): ‘”The Truth About Russia”: British Culture and Russia in the 1880s’
11.30 Coffee
12.00-1.00 Stephen Arata (Virginia): ‘The Modernity of the 1880s’
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-4.00 John Holmes (Reading): ‘’Bridges against Hopkins: The Historical Significance of 1880s poetry’
Glenda Norquay (LJM): ‘Toils and spoils: commodifying literary culture – a Stevenson case study’
Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford):‘The diseases of modern life and One of our Conquerors’
4.00 Coffee
4.30-5.00 Roundtable discussion: Helen Small (Oxford), Sara Lodge (St Andrews), Andrew Taylor (Edinburgh), Penny Fielding (Edinburgh)