Panel 6A

Rutgers Student Center

Room 402

Critical Traditions

Chair: Sally Ledger (English and Humanities / Birkbeck College, University of London)

Aaron Matz (Comparative Literature / Yale University)

“The Ibsen Conflict and the Violence of Realism”

Jason Boyd (English / University of Toronto)

“Fighting for his Life: Oscar  Wilde’s Battling Biographers (Frank Harris and Bernard Shaw vs. Alfred

 Douglas and Robert Sherard)”

Jonathan Farina (English / New York University)

"'A case of deformation of character': Conflicts of Caricature and R. H. Horne on Dickens’ Things"

Dianne F. Sadoff (Miami University of Ohio)

“High Culture, Low Culture: Hollywood / Bollywood Conflicts”

Panel 6B

Rutgers Student Center

Room 407

Tradition in the Historical Imaginary

Chair: Virginia Gilmartin (English / Rutgers University)

Andie Tucher (Journalism / Columbia University)

“Uncle Bud and the Yankees’ Noose: History vs. Tradition vs. Desire in a Family Story of the Civil War”

Elizabeth Duquette (Tanner Humanities Center / University of Utah)

“Only Brute Force and Sordid Rivalry”: Henry James’s Captivity Narrative”

Panel 6C

Rutgers Student Center

Room 410AB

Romantic Agents

Chair: William Galperin (English / Rutgers University)

Eric Eisner (English / George Mason University)

“Personality Conflict: Arnold Reading Shelley between Public and Private”

Susan Zlotnick (English / Vassar College)

“Catherine Moreland’s ‘Unaccountable Character’: Northanger Abbey, Female Agency, and the Marketplace”

Beth Lau (English / California State University, Long Beach)

“Male vs. Female Romanticism: Jane Austen, the Male Poets, and the Dangers of Imagination”

Panel 6D

Rutgers Student Center

Room 411ABC

Theism versus Darwinism

Chair: George Levine (English / Rutgers University)

Emma Francis (English and Comparative Literary Studies / University of Warwick)

 “Olive Schreiner’s Woman and Labour: God, Darwin and the ‘Asthmatic Jew’”

Alexis Harley (English / University of Sydney)

“Darwin and I:  Evolutionary Theory and the Victorian Individual”

Dan Malachuk (Humanities / Daniel Webster College)

“Mill’s Intelligent Design: Liberal Conflicts over ‘Theism’”

Carolyn Burdett (English / London Metropolitan University)

“Machines, Minds,  and Faith:  Materialist Fantasy in the Late Nineteenth Century”