6th

TOPIC: CRIME AND DETECTION
             IN 18th- AND 19th-CENTURY BRITAIN

DATE: 19 May 2017

COORDINATOR: Dr Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, University of Warsaw

DEADLINES: 

• proposals (about 200 words) - March 1
• complete papers - April 30

CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS & THEMES:

• Night Watch, thief-takers, Bow Street Runners, 

           ‘bobbies’ and plainclothes policemen

• The Metropolitan Police and/vs local police forces
• the ways and means of detection
• the ‘gentleman detective’ and the ‘gentleman criminal’
• fictional female detectives’ exploits
• class, gender, and race in detective stories
• crime in London and in the regions; railway crimes; penal colonies
• the spectacle of crime: public executions, crime and detection on stage
• narrating crime in literature and the press
• adapting and appropriating 18th- and 19th- century criminals and detectives

PROGRAMME

10:00-11:00 Plenary lecture

Chair: Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko

Jonathan Cranfield 

Of Time and the City: Sherlock Holmes and the Strand Magazine, 1891-1930

11:30-13:00 Session 1
Chair: Małgorzata Nitka

Marek Błaszak
Mrs Radcliffe’s Young Heroes and Heroines as Proto-Detectives

Jacek Mydla
Reopening the Gothic Trunk: The Mechanics of Suspense in William Godwin’s
Caleb Williams

Agnieszka Setecka 
“If I were a clever romancer…”: The Clash of Realist and Sensational Conventions
in Margaret Oliphant’s Salem Chapel

14:00-15:00 Session 2
Chair: Marek Błaszak

Małgorzata Nitka
“Though I may be a detective, I am still a woman.” Duty and Doing Good
in Andrew Forrester’s The Female Detective

Anna Orzechowska
“Phantom of the past”: Effacing the Female Detective in Grant Allen’s Hilda Wade:
A Woman with Tenacity of Purpose and Fergus Hume’s Hagar of the Pawnshop

15:30-16:30 Session 3
Chair: Jacek Mydla

Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska
Depicting a Sleuth Less Extraordinaire: Martin Hewitt’s Investigations

Dominika Oramus 
The Noble Art of Detection. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger:
Naturalist, Magus and Detective

17:00-18:00 Session 4
Chair: Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska

Magdalena Pypeć
The Mesmerist as Criminal in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Klara Mednis
Penny Dreadful and Myths about Victorian Crime and Detection
in Contemporary Popular Culture

Plenary lecture: room 335
Sessions: room 345
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