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1:30pm PS1D: Social Acceleration and Women’s Emancipation Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Amalia COTOI
‘I had no idea a scullery could be such a cosy place’: Domestic Labour, Social Hierarchy and Professional Women’s Identity in Institutional Spaces
Tabitha LAMBERT-BRAMWELL
Home, Alone: Subversive Female-led Households in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon and George Gissing’s The Unclassed
Rosanne BROOKS
Revisions of Romance in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop and Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman
Katarina GEPHARDT
“The More Things Change…”: The Legislative and Literary Treatments of Prostitutes
Katie Peel
3:00pm PS2D: Acceleration in the domestic sphere Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Julie WISE
Houses and other gimmicks: new domestic sciences in Victorian popular literature
Heidi Rennert
Modernity Across the Threshold: Augusta Webster and Co-Operative Housekeeping
Julie WISE
Annie Thomas’s The Modern Housewife and Trad Wives: The Persistence of Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Camille STALLINGS
5:00pm PS3D: Acceleration and Fashion Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Leslee Thorne-Murphy
Bazaar Futures: Women’s Dress Reform and Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race
Leslee Thorne-Murphy
The Bicycle Craze in Women’s Fashion: Dress Reform, the New Woman, and Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spanish Periodicals and Visual Culture
Ines Corujo Martin
Kate Chopin: Change Through Fashion
Paola NARDI
9:00am PS4D: Resisting Acceleration Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Ross Forman
Enoch's Hammer, Pulling the Plug, and Ca' Canny: Evolving strategies of deceleration in working-class responses to the industrial revolution
Frank EMMETT
Cotton and Corn: Social Unrest and Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1862
Chih-yin Hsiao
Groaning under Stasis: Speed, Acceleration, and Modernity in Sun-Yat SEN’s Kidnapped in London (1898) and NG Hing-Shang’s Upheaval in Far Cathay (1904)
Ross Forman
11:00am PS5D: Social Acceleration and the Woman Question: US & Japan Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Paola NARDI
Nakajima Shōen (1861-1901): Accelerated Speed from subservience to independence
Aiko OKAMOTO-MACPHAIL
“The great machine I call life”: Physical and Social Infrastructures of The House of Mirth
Emma Fox
“A Lotus Flower in the Mud”: Woman as Exchange Object in 19th-century Japan and America
Coleman NUMBERS
Fleeing the 'House on Fire': Accelerations and Changes in E. Wharton's The Mother's Recompense
Simona PORRO
9:00am PS7D: Tolstoy Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Sara DICKINSON
Backward Desires: Sex Work in Tolstoy’s Late Fiction and Russia’s Late Landlord Economy
Fiona Bell
Holding Difficult Stories: Russian Literature and the Slow Work of Listening for Medical Professionals
Jehanne GHEITH
"Inflatable Globules": Tolstoy's Deceleration
David HERMAN
11:00am PS8D: Time, Affects and Mental Faculties Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Jessica VALDEZ
Novel Familiarity: Deja Vu & Technologies of Perception
Sam TETT
‘Trying to get rid of the time’: speeding up and slowing down plot in Lady Audley’s Secret
Vanessa SMITH
From Chronos to Affect: Residual Exhaustion and the Disruption of “Moving-on” Time in the Late Nineteenth-Century
Anne MARCOLINE
