Conference Agenda

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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