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Friday, 1:30-3:00 p.m. (2 panels)________________________________
1. Conjugality and Crime in Fin-de-Siecle Britain
Chair: Julie Taddeo (University of Rochester)
"Conjugality on Trial: The Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian
Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian London"
Antoinette Burton (Johns Hopkins University)
"The Trial of Florence Maybrick and the Victorian Marriage Debate"
George Robb (William Paterson College)
"A Shock to Marriage? Clitheroe and Marital Anxiety in the Fin-de-Siecle"
Ginger Frost (Judson College)
Comment: Kali Israel (University of Michigan)
2. Gender, Ideology, and Law in the 17th Century
Chair: Roger Manning (Cleveland State University)
"Major Themes in Fifth Monarchist Legal Thought"
Michael Rogers (Northeastern State University)
"Gender, Authority, and Mimicry: Law and Law Reform in the Writings of
Female Fifth Monarchist Prophets"
Miriam Garber (Eastern Michigan University)
"John Bunyan's One-dimensional Men"
David Hawkes (Lehigh University)
Comment: Daniel Beaver (Pennsylvannia State University)
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Friday, 3:30-5:00 p.m. (3 panels)_____________________________
3. Childhood, Youth and the British Nation, 1883-1963
Chair: Martin Wainwright (University of Akron)
"`Overpressure' in London's Board Schools: Working-class Childhood and
the Late Victorian British Nation"
Gretchen R. Galbraith (Grand Valley State University)
"White `Knights of the Empire': Youth Migration, Gender and Degeneracy in
Interwar Britain"
Tammy M. Proctor (Lakeland College)
"The Children and Young Persons Act of 1963: The State Acting in Loco
Parentis No Longer"
Mary Alvey Thomas (Bentley College)
Comment: Martin Wainwright
4. Roundtable: Reading Thompson's Making of the English Working Class
Chair: Peter Linebaugh (University of Toledo)
Geoffrey Eley (University of Michigan)
Susan Thorne (Duke University)
John Bohstedt (University of Tennessee)
5. Victorian Men and Ideas
Chair: Richard Maxwell (Valparaiso University)
"Benthamism Rebuffed: Victorian Company Law Reform and the Wait for
Lawerly Consensus"
Wade E. Shilts (University of Iowa)
"How the Mob became the Masses: The Chartist Fiction of G.W.M. Reynolds"
Timothy S. Randall (Dalhousie University)
"Sympathy and the Progress of Humankind: J. S. Mill and Charles Darwin"
Michele Green (Independent Scholar)
Comment: Robert Butler (Elmhurst College)
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Saturday, 8:30-10:00 a.m. (3 panels)_____________________________
6. Sexuality and Victorian Society
Chair: Walter Arnstein (University of Illinois)
"'Courting Couples' or Courting Disaster? Conflict over Public Indecency
in Nineteenth-Century London"
Nan Dreher (Marquette University)
"Love in the Time of Victoria--Reconsidered"
Jessica A. Sheetz (Marquette University)
"Fallen Women, Fallen Men: Victorian Chastity Movements and the Sexual
Single Standard"
Susan Mumm (York University)
Comment: Sonya Rose (University of Michigan)
7. World War II and its Aftermath
Chair: David Devereux (St. John Fisher College)
"Victory for the `British Way of War?': Logistics Diplomacy and the
Decision to Invade North Africa, 1942"
Kevin Smith (Ball State University)
"Whose Finger on the Trigger?: Men and Women in Mixed Anti-aircraft
Batteries during the Second World War"
Gerard J. De Groot (University of St. Andrews)
"`Will No One Stop These Damned Scientists?': Hiroshima, Bikini, and the
Growth of Nuclear Fear in Britain 1945-1952"
Kirk Willis (University of Georgia)
Comment: Angela Woolacott (Case Western Reserve University)
8. British Identities
Chair: Jeanne Peterson (Indiana University)
"From Page to Parlour: Gestures Toward a Victorian Middle Class"
Alice L. Batt (University of Texas at Austin)
"The Democratic Myth: Education in Scotland, 1872-1914"
Thomas G. Velek (European Humanities University)
"`British and Jewish Fraternity': The Anglo-Israel Movement and the
Jewish Question in Imperial Britain"
Eric M. Reisenauer (Loyola University, Chicago)
Comment: Jeanne Peterson
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Saturday, 10:30-12:00 (3 panels)_________________________________
9. Persuading the Public: Spectacles, Exhibitions, and Art 1815-1914
Chair: Tamara L. Hunt, Loyola Marymount University
"Advertising the Army: Martial Spectacle and Public Opinion"
Scott H. Myerly (Minot State University)
"Spectacles, Consumers, and Citizens: Participatory Public Opinion at
English Exhibitions, 1851-1914."
Peter Hoffenberg (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
"Irish Identity in an English Place: Daniel Maclise's Frescoes for the
House of Lords"
Nancy Weston (St. Cloud State University)
Comment: William Kuhn, Carthage College
10. Playing for Money: Theatre and Commerce in the 18th Century
Chair: Nicholas Rogers (York University)
"Commercial Morality and the Eighteenth Century Theatre"
Susan E. Brown (Dalhousie University)
"Folly or Fancy: The Public and the Shakespeare Jubilee"
Richard Gorrie (University of Guelph)
Comment: Nicholas Rogers
11. Inside, Outside and Through Tudor London
Chair: A. L. Beier (Illinois State University)
"'What Say You to a Piece of Beef and Mustard?': Food and Eating in Early
Tudor London"
Martha Carlin (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
"A View from Outside: 'Strangers' and their Place in Elizabethan Society"
Charles Littleton (University of Michigan)
"Both Inside and Outside in Tudor London: How Useful a Category is 'Stage
Player'?"
William Ingram (University of Michigan)
Comment: Joseph P. Ward (Wayne State University)
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Saturday, 3:30-5:00______________________________________________
12. Twentieth Century Urban and Rural Politics
Chair: Thomas W. Heyck (Northwestern University)
"The Structure of Elite Power in the Early 20th Century City: Norwich
1900-1935"
Barry Doyle (University of St. Andrews)
"The 1908 By-Election in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne"
Carol A. Devlin (Marquette University)
"'Wanted--Nice Country Cottage': The Provision of Housing in the Weald
During the Inter-War Period"
Carol A. Lockwood (Purdue University-North Central)
Comment: Harold Perkin (Northwestern University)
13. Victorian Cultures
Chair: Martha Vicinus (University of Michigan)
"Tilting at History: Lord Eglinton and the Reconstruction of the Medieval
Tournament"
Nanette Thrush (Indiana University)
"She and She: a Study in British Popular Culture"
LeeAnne M. Richardson (Indiana University)
"Women on Top: Acrobats in the British Circus, 1863-97"
Brenda Assael (University of Toronto)
Comment: Roy Matthews (Michigan State University)
14. Conflict, Tradition and Change in Household and Community
Chair: Barrett Beer (Kent State University)
"Alexander, Earl of Dunfermline and the Curtailment of Witchcraft
Prosecutions in Scotland, 1597-1628"
Michael Wasser (Independent Scholar)
"Landscape, Movement, and Civic Mimesis in the West of England, 1450-1640"
James Stokes (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point)
"The Decline of the English Domestic Chaplain, 1660-1830"
William Gibson (Basingstoke College of Technology)
Comment: Katherine Swett (Ohio State University)