3rd

TOPIC: THINGS AND OBJECTS

              IN 18th- AND 19th-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

DATE: March 10, 2016

COORDINATOR: Dr Joanna Maciulewicz, 
                                  Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

DEADLINES: 

• proposals (about 200 words) - January 15
• complete papers - February 21

CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS:

• durability and ephemerality of things
• the construction of the value of things in commercial society (use value, exchange value, symbolic value, sign-value)
• fashion
• collectors and collections: objects, their display and cultures of collecting 
• natural history collections, collectors and their literary influences
• the functions of descriptions of material reality in realist fiction 
• “it-narratives” - objects telling their own stories 
• objects and the imperial project 
• dress culture - the economy and semiotics of clothes-making 
• books and book-trade - the material life of books (their production, circulation, distribution etc.)
• script and print - materiality of language
• ekphrasis - the literary description of art objects 
• imaginary objects - the fictitious works of art 
• The Great Exhibition and its cultural and social influence 
• women and animals and/as objects

PROGRAMME

10.00-11.00 Plenary lecture (room 335):

Jeremy Tambling, Victorian Philosophies of Furniture
Chair: Grażyna Bystydzieńska

11.30-12.30 Session I
Chair: Joanna Maciulewicz

Magdalena Ożarska
The Pethood of Christopher Smart's Cat Jeoffry: A Human-Animal Studies Perspective
Anna Paluchowska-Messing
Clockwork Novel. The Mechanics behind Frances Burney’s Prose Composition

13.00-15.00 Session II
Chair: Jakub Lipski

Wojciech Nowicki
Prosopopoeia, Anthropomorphism And (False) Agency in It-Narratives
Joanna Maciulewicz
Authors as Objects in Eighteenth-Century It-Narratives
Marek Błaszak
Characters and Things in Mrs. Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho
Jacek Mydla
Haunted by Objects?
The Meaning and Function of Artefacts in M. R. James’s Ghost Stories

15.30-17.30 Session III
Chair: Monika Mazurek

Agnieszka Setecka
[A]ll the mysteries of the queen's heads”:
stamps, postmarks and the solution of the criminal case
in John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope
Magdalena Pypeć
‘Beautifully Got Up, But the Illustrations We Cannot Admire’ –
Tennyson’s The Princess as a Christmas Gift Book
Anna Gutowska
The Books on the Floss: An Analysis of Maggie Tulliver’s Reading
Edyta Świerczyńska
The City and the Object in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens


Sessions I-III: room 345
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