Anxious Forms 2018
Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Bodily Fluids in the Long Nineteenth Century
Friday, 27th July 2018, Aston University, Birmingham
8.45 – 9.15: Registration (Main Building Reception)
9.15 – 9.30: Opening and Welcome (MB708b)
9.30 – 10.30: Keynote Speaker – Professor Talia Schaffer: ‘Fluid Reading: Subjectivity, Sentimentality, and Sociality’ (MB708b)
10.30 – 10.45: Tea / Coffee (MB708c)
10.45 – 12.30: Panel Session 1
Panel 1A: Bleeding like Christ: Stigmata (MB708a)
Chair: Daniel Jenkin-Smith
Tine Van Osselaer (University of Antwerp): ‘Liquid gospels: on the gender of stigmata’
Kristof Smeyers (University of Antwerp): ‘Supernatural blood: Fearing, fighting, fantasising about stigmata in Victorian Britain’
Panel 1B: Public versus Private (MB708b)
Chair: Abigail Boucher
Tamara S. Wagner (NTU, Singapore) [paper delivered in absentia]: ‘The Victorians and Breastmilk: Maternal Nursing in Popular Fiction’
Helen Goodman (Bath Spa University): ‘Beaver hearts and crocodile tears: authenticity, secrecy, and weeping in Dickens’s early fiction’
L. Anne Delgado (Indiana University): ‘Making the Modern Ghost: Popular Science and the Invention of Ectoplasm’
12.30 – 1.30: Lunch (MB708c)
1.30 – 2.30: Plenary Speaker – Dr Kate Lister: ‘Buzzkill: The Victorians and the Vibrator’ (MB708b)
2.30 – 3.45: Panel Session 2
Panel 2A: Socio-Sexual Fluids (MB708a)
Chair: Rebecka Klette
Di Yang (University of Sussex): ‘Blood, Determinism and Tragedy in George Eliot’s Fiction’
Louise Benson (University of Bristol): ‘Blood and Hysteria in 1853’
Rebecka Klette (Birkbeck, University of London): ‘Syphilitic insanity and incontinence: The uncontrolled bodily fluids of degenerative decline’
Panel 2B: The Anxiety of Effluence (MB708b)
Chair: Jen Baker
Jim Scown (Cardiff University): ‘“The night-soil nuisance”: Human Excrement in Gaskell’s Manchester’
Joan Passey (University of Bristol/Exeter): ‘Vomiting Victorian Vacationers: Motion Sickness and the Embodied Traveller in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination’
Isabella Shields (University of Glasgow): ‘The Love Letters of James Joyce: Scatological Fetishism, Transgression and National Hygiene Reform in the early 1900s‘
3.45 – 4.00: Tea / Coffee (MB708c)
4.00 – 5.15: Panel Session 3
Panel 3A: Imperialism and Exoticism (MB708a)
Chair: Laura Eastlake
Edward Armston-Sheret (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘Exploring Bodily Fluids in the Long Nineteenth Century’
Douglas Small (University of Glasgow): ‘Blood Magic and Godly Substance: The Island of Dr Moreau and Victorian Anthropologies of Medicine’
Daisy Butcher (University of Hertfordshire): ‘Menopause: The Female Mummy’s Curse’
Panel 3B: “Mind-Body in Flux” (MB708b)
Chair: Louise Benson James
Nancy Marck Cantwell (Daemen College, Amherst): ‘”Mere Victims of Feeling”: Tearful Women and the Crisis of Lineage in Middlemarch‘
Megan Nash (University of Sydney): ‘The Sentimental Secretions of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens’
Patrick Walsh (University of Queensland): ‘When Blood Became Chemical: Hormones and the “Crucial Experiment”‘
5.15 – 5:30: Closing remarks and Prize Giving (MB708b)
6.30: Conference Dinner at Syriana (Meet at Main Building reception on the ground floor at 6.00)
Supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS): http://www.bavsuk.org
Supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS): http://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
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