NACBS: 5-8 Oct: part 5

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:50:55 +0100

21 (Re)defining masculine identity in Victorian sensation and adventure fiction
Chair: Christopher Kent (U of Saskatchewan)

'True and false ideas of the gentleman in Victorian sensation novels'
Janet L. Grose (Union U)

'"No woman in it": the search for homosocial utopia in the
late-Victorian Imperial adventure novel'
Leslie Haynsworth (U of Virginia)

'"We need men": Kipling's portrait of the Imperialist as a young man'
Karen A. Droisen (U of Virginia)

Commentator: William Cohen (U of Maryland, College Park)

22 National Identities and Gendered Identities in early twentieth century
Britain
Chair: Peter Stansky (Stanford U)

'Celt, saxon and Boer: British national identity, Empire, and the
1911 investiture of the Prince of Wales'
John S. Ellis (Boston College)

'The making of Tommy Atkins: masculinity, propoganda, and the liberal
theories of motivation'
Nicoletta F. Gullace (Bates College)

'"Some corner of a foreign field that is forever England': the Great
War revisited'
Virginia Tiger (Rutgers U, Newark)

Commentator: William Kuhn (Carthage College)

23 Geoffrey Elton Remembrance Session II
Chair: William Tighe (Muhlenberg College)

'Westminster and Whitehall: a palace revolution in government'
David Starkey (LSE)

'The majestic revolution: the Tudors and the invention of
Protestant Imperial kingship'
Dale Hoak (College of William and Mary)

'Cromwell and finance: historical evolution and revolution'
James D. Alsop (McMaster U)

'Thomas Cromwell's influence in one county: political and religious
conflicts in Hampshire during the late 1530s'
Ronald Fritze (Lamar U)

'Thomas Cromwell, the Reformation, and local government in Surrey,
1529-40'
William B. Robinson (Southern Louisiana U)

Commentator: the audience

24 Women's Cross-class Friendships in Early Modern England
Chair: Kathryn Temple (Georgetown U)

'Courting the Queen: _Love's Labours Lost_ at the court of Elizabeth I'
Nely Keinanen (U of Helsinki)

'Let's (not) be friends: Aemilia Lanyer's dedications to _Salve Deus
Rex Judeorum_
Lisa Schnell (U of Vermont)

'Mistress and maid: women's friendship in _The New Inn_'
Helen Ostovich (McMaster U)

Commentator: Karen Roberson (Vassar College)

25 Policing, Prosecution and Punishment in Late-Eighteenth-Century London
Chair: J. S. Cockburn (U of Maryland, College park)

'Policing, locality, and legitimacy in the City of London, 1785-1815'
Andrew Harris (Stanford U)

'The Home Office, punishment, and the police in London, 1775-85'
Simon Devereaux (U of Toronto)

'Law reform and the culture of violence in eighteenth-century London'
Greg Smith (U of Toronto)

Commmentator: Elaine Reynolds (William Jewell College)

Details of session 26 through 39 will be distributed on Monday and Tuesday.

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