Anxious Forms 2016: Masculinities in Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century
October 28th 2016
University of Glasgow
8.45 – 9.15: Registration
9.15 – 9.30: Opening and Welcome. Abigail Boucher and Laura Eastlake(Senate Room)
9.30 – 10.30: Keynote Speaker: Dr Patricia de Montfort, ‘Gender and Style in the Circle of James McNeill Whistler’ (Senate Room)
10.30 – 10.45: Tea/Coffee/Scones
10.45 – 12.30: Panel Session 1
Panel 1A: “Masculine Feeling” (Senate Room)
Chair: Mark Lewis
Nicholas Manning (University Paris-Sorbonne): “‘White Hot, But Still Strong’: Intense emotion as Victorian proof of masculine strength.”
Jean Marie Sherry (University of Manchester): “‘A Cedar Hath Fallen’: Letters on the death of ‘father’ Tennyson, 1892.”
Helen Stark (Queen Mary University of London): “‘The Old Story of Werther Over Again’: The man of feeling in Romantic Literature.”
Lyndsay Galpin (University of London): “‘Unhealthy Sentimentality’: The male love-suicide and emotional masculinity in Victorian Britain.”
Panel 1B: “Masculine Pasts, Presents, and Futures” (Turnbull Room)
Chair: Laura Eastlake
Quentin Broughall (Independent Scholar): “This is a (Ro)man’s world: virtus and the construction of masculinity among Victorian Britain’s social elite.”
Susannah Niskanen (University of Dundee): “Ic þis giedd wrece bi me ful geomorre: Victorian conflicts of masculinity in Anglo-Saxon translation.”
Rebecka Klette (Birkbeck): “‘Time and people seem insane to me!’: Masculinity in temporal crisis in the works of August Strindberg.”
Karen Sturgeon-Dodsworth (Teeside University): “Sympathy for the Devil: Re-reading Men and Masculinities in Neo-Victorian Fiction”.
Panel 1C: “Masculine Spaces” (Carnegie)
Chair: Abigail Boucher
Joanne Knowles (Liverpool John Moores University): “‘A Perfect Appreciation of the Picturesque’: Landscape and masculinity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s fiction.”
Kate Hill (University of Reading): “‘You are not properly appreciated’: Professionalization, status and masculinity in museums.”
Rosalind White (University of London): “Masculinity Under the Microscope: The question of gender in natural history.”
Evan Hayles Gledhill (University of Reading): “Just as Men Feel: Patriarchy and the gothic home.”
12.30 – 1.30: Lunch
1.30 – 2.45: Panel Session 2
Panel 2A: “Queerness” (Senate)
Chair: Dominic Janes
Jack Sargent (University of Exeter): “Masculine anxiety in John Addington Symonds’s ‘In the Key of Blue’.”
Ana Markovic (University of Glasgow): “Wildean Queer Vampirism in Robert Hichens’sFlames: A London Phantasy and George S. Viereck’s The House of the Vampire.”
Caitlin Silberman (University of Wisconsin – Madison): “Feathered Dandies, Fertile Capital, and Queer Reproduction in James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room.”
Panel 2B: “Identity and Trauma in Conflict” (Turnbull)
Chair: Lyndsay Galpin
Lauren J Nixon (University of Sheffield): “Masculinity, the Military, and Heroism during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.”
Helen Goodman (Royal Holloway): “Revolutionary Anxiety and Violent Masculinities: Political psychopathy, trauma and crisis in A Tale of Two Cities and Barnaby Rudge.”
Linda Maynard (Birkbeck): “‘I was Quite Distraught’: Brotherly anxieties in the Great War.”
Panel 2C: “National Masculinity” (Carnegie)
Chair: Abigail Boucher
Rebecca Senior (University of York): “Allegorical Invaders? British masculinities and sculpture in the wake of Anglo-French conflict during the Nineteenth Century.”
Rebecca Barr (National University of Galway): “Worrying John Bull: Ireland and the visual politics of masculinity.”
Zsolt Bojti (Eotvos Lorand University – Hungary): “Queer Masculinities: The Hungarian as trope in Late-Victorian Queer Literature.”
2.45 – 4.00: Panel Session 3
Panel 3A: “Male Bodies” (Senate)
Chair: Louise Creechan
Christy Wensley (University College London): “Packed Tight and Pulled Together: Fashionable forms in The Ambassadors.”
Deirdre Shepherd (University of Edinburgh): “Fighting Talk: Manly sports and the Victorian male.”
Sally Tuckett (University of Glasgow), ‘The good, the bad and the bellygerents: the clothed body and masculinity in John Kay’s Edinburgh etchings’
Panel 3B: “Parody, Caricature, and Performance” (Turnbull)
Chair: Rebecka Klette
Dominic Janes (University of Keele): “Fear and Desire of the Victorian Aesthete: The evidence of cartoons and caricature.”
David Ibitson (North Lindsey College, Lincoln): “The Idler’s Club: Masculinity, parody and the city in the ‘New Humour’ of the Fin de Siècle.”
Panel 3C: “Empire” (Carnegie)
Chair: Churnjeet Mahn
Dúnlaith Bird (Université Paris 13): “Expeditious Masculinities: Exploration and Imperialism in the travel writing of Richard Burton and Francis Galton.”
Madeline Boden (University of York): “Frederic Leighton, Richard Burton and Orientalist Masculinity.”
Suchitra Choudhury (University of Glasgow): “Imperial Masculinity: Jos Sedley in William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.”
4.00 – 4.15: Tea / Coffee
4.15 – 5.15: Keynote Speaker: Professor Bradley Deane,”The Crisis in the Crisis of Victorian Masculinity.” (Senate)
5.15 – 5.30: Closing remarks and prize-giving, courtesy of Cambridge University Press.
6.00: Conference Dinner at the Private Dining Room, Oran Mor.
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