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9:00am PS4A: Travel Fiction and Travel Writing (1) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Melissa JENKINS
Time and the Temporalities of 'Progress' in Flora Tristan’s 'Peregrinations of a Pariah', 1833-1834
Yasmin AKHTER
Adventurous Travel: Children Imagining Africa
Melissa JENKINS
Electricity as a Modern Device in the 19th Century Science Fiction Literature
Amalia COTOI
11:00am PS5A: Travel in Fiction and Travel Writing (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Ross Forman
Pleasures of Mobility in Mary Seacole’s and Eliza Potter’s Memoirs
Lindsey Chappell
“Always hurrying from one thing to another”. British travellers in China and the pressures of modernity
Silvia GRANATA
Moving Crowds: “Sticky” Affect in British Accounts of Chartism and China
Jessica VALDEZ
Transatlantic Temporalities: Timely Conversations Between White British and Black American Women Gardeners
Alicia CARROLL
2:00pm PS6A: Narrative Time, the Gothic and Its Uses Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Claudia Capancioni
The Quickening: Pregnancy and Pronatalism in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Eileen CLEERE
The Kentucky Tragedy and Octavia Bragaldi: Time and Gothic Drama
Jennifer CAMDEN
The Shadow of Progress in Ellen Wood’s The Shadow of Ashlydyat
Mason Patterson
Rushing Blood and Languid Limbs: The Speed of Suspense in Le Fanu’s Carmilla
Kelsey Rall
