Panel 7A

Rutgers Student Center

Room 407

Nineteenth-Century Naturalisms

Chair: Alastair Wright (Art and Archaeology / Princeton University)

Michelle Foa (Art and Archeology / Princeton University)

“‘One Art Consuming the Other’: Conflict and Competition Between Music, Painting, and Literature in Zola’s L’Oeuvre"

Tom Prasch (History / Washburn University)

"‘But What Nature?’: The Debate over Naturalistic Photography, 1889-92”

Maeve Adams (English / New York University)

“Empiricism v. Realism: Moral Reasoning and the Epistemology of Literary Study in Campbell’s  Philosophy of Rhetoric”

Panel 7B

Rutgers Student Center

Room 402

Domestic Conflicts

Chair: Dinah Birch (English / University of Liverpool)

Carolyn Betensky (English / University of Rhode Island)

“Narratives of Conflict and Conflicting Narratives in the Victorian Social-Problem Novel”

Deborah Denenholz Morse (English / College of William and Mary)

“‘How Can I Be That?’: Gender Conflict and Marriage Proposals in Trollope’s Palliser Novels”

Vlasta Vranjes (English / University of California, Berkeley)

“Charlotte Brontë’s England, Charlotte Brontë’s Women: Catholic or Protestant, Cosmopolitan or National?”

Galia Ofek (English / Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Shrieking Sisters and Bawling Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in New Woman Fiction

Panel 7C

Rutgers Student Center

Room 410AB

Literary Marketplaces

Chair: Megan Ward (English / Rutgers University)

John Kucich (English / University of Michigan)

“Male Melancholia in Gender and Class Warfare:  Wilkie Collins’s Brooding Dilettantes”

Silvana Colella (Languages and Foreign Literatures / University of Macerata, Italy)

“Conflict of Interest: Cultural vs. Economic Value in Trollope’s

 Autobiography”

Anne Frey (English / Texas Christian University)

“Between Romantic and Victorian: National Bureaucracy and 'Long 19th-Century’ Authorship”

Alberto Gabriele (Comparative Literature / New York University)

“Abstract Order and Fleeting Sensations: the Aesthetics of Fragmentation in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Belgravia”

Panel 7D

Rutgers Student Center

Room 411ABC

Discourses of Violence

Chair: Dianne F. Sadoff (English / Miami University of Ohio)

Simon Dentith (Humanities / University of Gloucestershire)

“‘I Would Have Her Branded on the Face’: Class and Gender Conflicts in David Copperfield”

Judith E. Pike (English / Salisbury University)

“Constructions of Boyhood?”

David L. Smith (English / Vanderbilt University)

“Security and the Social Order: Representing the Lockmaker in Barnaby Rudge and Sybil”

Joseph McLaughlin (English / Ohio University)

“From Romance to Ritual: A.B. Mitford and the Hari-Kari”