2nd

TOPIC: DECEIT AND IMPOSTURE

                 IN 18th- AND 19th-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

DATE: November 20, 2014

COORDINATOR: Dr Jakub Lipski, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz

DEADLINES: 

• proposals (about 200 words) - September 20
• complete papers - October 20

CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS:

• mask and disguise in literature
• impostors, tricksters, frauds and masqueraders as literary characters
• hypocrisy and/as civility
• unmasking and detection as plot patterns
• literary forgeries and hoaxes
• writing as masquerade: the politics of pseudonyms and anonymity
• writing li(v)es

PROGRAMME

10.00-11.00 Plenary lecture:

Michael Hollington, ‘Dickensian Quacks'

11.15-12.45 Session I

Przemysław Uściński, ‘Circles of Deceit: The (Illusive) Sameness in Alexander Pope's
          Essay on Man and The Dunciad'
Anna Paluchowska-Messing, ‘Who Wears a Mask in Cecilia? On the Carnivalesque
          in Frances Burney’s Fiction'

Jakub Lipski, ‘Masquerade Scenes in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
          and The Italian'

13.00-14.00 Session II

Monika Mazurek, ‘The Mummeries of Rome: The Catholic Liturgy as Theatre
          in Victorian Literature

Agnieszka Setecka, ‘Disguise in Victorian Sensation Fiction'

14.30-15.30 Session III

Paulina Jędrysiak, ‘“How little we know of what passes in other people’s minds”-
          The Mask of Morality in Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll'

Monika Szymczak-Kordulasińska, ‘Mask and Disguise in “The Duel of Dr Hirsch”
          and “The Dagger with Wings” by G. K. Chesterton'