Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century
Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century
Provisional Programme
Registration open: £70 full fee (£50 postgraduate fee).
See: https://sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/
Friday 26th March
9:15-9:45: Coffee and Registration
9:45-10.55: Plenary Lecture
Malcolm Chase (University of Leeds): ‘The Politics of Sight: Chartism's Graphic Dimension’
11:00-12.45: Panels
A) European Politics in Word and Image
Danny Karlin (University of Sheffield): ‘Madame de Staël as Corinne: the Figure of the Singer’
Jim Cheshire (University of Lincoln): ‘Gustave Doré’s Illustrations to Idylls of the King and Anglo-French Politics’
B) European Influences
Marie-Stephanie Delamaire (Columbia University): ‘European History vs American Politics: Thomas Nast’s Cartoons of the Reconstruction Era’
Jan-Dirk Baetens (University of Leuven): ‘Democracy in Style: The Case of Pre-Rubenism’
Anwesha Dutta Ain (TechnoIndia College of Technology): ‘Company Poetry: Constructing India and Consolidating Colonial Power’
C) Politics and Form
Itsuki Kitani (Durham University): ‘The Palate, Stomach, and Heart: Shelley’s Aesthetics of Political Gastronomy in Queen Mab’
Frederik Van Dam (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): ‘The Parergon of Morality: Aesthetics and Politics in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels’
Matthew Bevis (University of York): ‘Edward Lear’s Lines of Flight’
12:45-13:45: Lunch
13:45-14:15: Marcus Waithe: Ruskin Online Museum
14:20-15:50: Panels
A) Poetry of Crisis
Martin Dubois (University of Cambridge): ‘Hopkins and the European “culture wars”’
Michael Perraudin (University of Sheffield): ‘Poetry of the Rhine Crisis, 1840’
Eveline G. Bouwers (University of Bielefeld): ‘Greed, Gluttony and Lust: Depictions of the Roman Catholic Clergy in Imperial Germany’
B) English and French Political Caricature
Jack Rhoden (University of Sheffield): ‘Louis Napoléon in the French Second Republic 1848-51’
Britta Martens (University of the West of England): ‘Literary and Visual Representations of the French Emperor Louis Napoléon’
Therie Hendrey-Seabrook (University of Sussex): ‘Punch’s Political Practice, or Drawing the Line Between Radical Shock and Political Persuasion’
C) Reception and Representation
Jane L Bownas (Open University): ‘Representation of the Napoleonic Wars in the Works of Thomas Hardy and J.M.W. Turner’
Kirsten Harris (University of Sheffield): ‘The ‘Labour Prophet’?: Representations of Walt Whitman in the Socialist Press’
John Lee (University of Bristol): ‘Following Rudyard Kipling’s “The Absent Minded Beggar”’
15.50-16.05: Coffee
16:10-17:20: Plenary Lecture
Lindsay Smith (University of Sussex): ‘To the grave and back: Pre-Raphaelitism and the Aesthetics of Resurrection’
18:00-19:30: Drinks Reception in Sheffield Town Hall, hosted by the Lord Mayor.
20:00: Dinner at a local restaurant
Saturday 27th March
9:00-10:10: Plenary Lecture
Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College, Massachusetts): ‘Tennyson in “Waste Soudan”: Poetry and the Relief of General Gordon’
10:15-11:45: Panels
A) Poetry and Nationalism
Charlotte Ashby (Birkbeck, University of London): ‘The Kalevala and Finnish Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century’
Brian Vick (Emory University): ‘Poetry, Prints and Politics – and Music – at the Vienna Congress’
Salah J. Khan (Mississippi State University): ‘Romantic Irony and Revolution: The Intersection of Aesthetics, Gender and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France’
B) Robert Browning and the Pre-Raphaelites
John Woolford (University of Sheffield): ‘Painting Presence and Absence: Browning, Rossetti and Illustration’
Christine Chettle, (University of Leeds): ‘The Political Currency of Repetition in Ernest Jones’s “The Song of the Low” and Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”’
Gal Manor (Levinsky College of Education; University of New England): ‘Images of the Semite ‘Other’ in Robert Browning’s poems: the Arab and the Jew from The Return of the Druses to Ferishtah’s Fancies’
C) Identity and Origins
Irene Rabinovich (Holon Institute of Technology): ‘The Portrait of a Jewish Actress: Historicizing Rachel’s Jewishness’
Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford): ‘Queen Victorian and Poetic, Political and Pictorial Uses of Medievalism’
Matthew Campbell (University of Sheffield): ‘'Moore, Maclise and the New Mythology: The Origin of the Harp'.
11:45-12:00: Coffee
12:00-13:30: Panels
A) Writing Radical Politics
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (University of Helsinki): ‘“Nor Happiness, nor Majesty nor Fame”: Proletarian Decadence and English Impulses in the Early Finnish Working Class Literature’
Ingrid Hanson (University of Sheffield): ‘Political Action and Poetic Form in William Morris’s Chants for Socialists and The Pilgrims of Hope’
David Gent (University of York): ‘Poetry and Political Radicalism in the 1830s West Riding: Poetic Critiques of the Whig Politician Lord Morpeth’
B) Theorising Aesthetics
Erin Snyder (University of Sheffield): ‘Geological drawings and nineteenth century politics’
Margaret Werth (University of Delaware): ‘Painting, Poetry, Politics: Impressionism’
Matthew Haigh (Aarhus University): ‘Abolition was an Aesthetic Experience’
13:30-14:30: Lunch
14:30-16:00: Panels
A) Pre-Raphaelite Art and Poetry
Antoinette Curtin (Trinity College Dublin): ‘The Politics of Ugliness in Pre-Raphaelite Art’
Julia Doménich (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): ‘“The Glorious Lady of my Mind”: Dante Gabriel Rossetti reads Dante Alighieri’
Katja Lindskog (Columbia University): ‘Missing Images: William Morris and the Politics of History’
B) Poverty and Protest
Charlotte Boyce (University of Portsmouth): ‘“When Hunger Rages Fierce and Strong”: The Politics of Hunger in Victorian Illustrated Periodicals, 1840-49’
Debbie Bark (University of Reading): ‘Poetry of Social Conscience, Poetry of Transition: Ann Hawkshaw’s ‘The Mother to Her Starving Child’ (1842)’
Meagan Timney (University of Victoria): ‘“By Cruel Slavery’s Iron Hands”: Mary Hutton and the Sheffield Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society’
16.05-16.15: Coffee
16:15-17:40: Closing Roundtable Discussion:
Bertrand Taithe, Martina Lauster and Mike Sanders; chaired by Samantha Matthews
FIN.
