A Joint Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States. Hosted by Emily Carr University of Art and Design and University of the Fraser Valley. Sponsored in part by University of Northern British Columbia and University of Victoria

Thursday Oct 15th
9-11: VSAWC Executive meeting
11-1: VISAWUS Executive meeting
1230-1330: Registration

1330-1500 – Keynote: Erika Rappaport ~ Victorian Cultures, Imperial Legacies, and the Creation of Global Markets for Indian Tea

1500-1530 – coffee break

1530-1700 – Session 1

1.a Special Session - Galleries, Dealers and Critics: London's Art Market in the Nineteenth Century.

  1. Pamela Fletcher (Bowdoin College) -  Shopping for Art: The Rise of the Commercial Art Gallery
  2. Anne Helmreich (Case Western Reserve University) - The Goupil Gallery at the Intersection between London, Continent, and Empire
  3. Julie Codell (Arizona State University) - The Art Press and the Art Market

1.b Dealing in Dickens

  1. Jill Rappoport (Villanova) – Illegitimate Exchange: Theft, Gift, and the Dickensian Market
  2. Nikole King (UC Riverside) - Nobody’s Guilt: Patterns of Male Self-Renunciation in Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit
  3. Susan Cook (U South Florida) Home Baked Speculation: Economic Crisis, English Muffins, and Nicholas Nickleby

1.c “Come buy, come buy”: Victorian Advertising

  1. Karen Kurt Teal (U of Washington) – Trollope’s Bugbear: Anxious Masculinity, Credit, and the Victorian Marketplace in The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, by One of the Firm (1862)
  2. Dagni Bredesen (Eastern Illinois U)- Female Detectives in the Marketplace: Agents, Actors, and Ads in Popular Print Culture 1855-1900
  3. Alberto Gabriele (NYU) - 'Luxury for the Millions': The Narratives of Advertising in the Victorian Periodical Press of the 1860s

1700-1900 – Reception (cash bar) / dinner on your own

Friday October 16th

0830-1000 – Session 2

2.a Colonialism & its Consumers

  1. Amanda Sciampacone (UBC) – Consuming China: The Visual Marketing of Hong Kong after the First Opium  War in G.N. Wright and Thomas Allom’s China Illustrated
  2. Charn Jagpal (U of Alberta) - White Bodies, Indian Dances: Marketing the Nautch on the Western Stage
  3. Priti Joshi (U of Puget Sound) - Marketing Colonial Experience: John Lang’s India in Britain

2.b Hot Commodities

  1. Christopher Keep (University of Western Ontario) – Spirit Photography and Commodity Fetishism in the Nineteenth Century
  2. Scott Banville (U of Nevada) - Marketing the Music Hall
  3. Ann Tandy (U of St Thomas) - Sewers and Subways:  The Old and New Economic Spaces Underneath Victorian London

2.c Negotiating Femininity

  1. Sean S. Grass (Texas Tech) - Lady Audley’s Portrait: Textualization and the Marketing of Victorian Femininity
  2. Anne Longmuir (Kansas State U) – Women and the Market in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
  3. Deborah Denenholz Morse (College of William and Mary) - Defying Vulgar Commerce: Celebrating Female Desire and the English Realist Novel in Trollope’s Ayala’s Angel

1000-1030 – coffee break

1030-1200 – Session 3

3.a Workshop - Julie Codell: Aesthetics and the Market

3.b Special Panel – Children and the Market

  1. Mavis Reimer (U of Winnipeg) – Supplementary Reading: Producing the Reader of Girls’ Books
  2. Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson U) – Decadent Animals: Consuming their Young in the Fin de Siècle
  3. Monica Flegel (Lakehead U) – Selling Kindness: The RSPCA and the Philanthropic Child

3.c Workshop – Solveig Robinson Marketing the Book

1200-1330 – Lunch (on your own)
                        VSAWC AGM and lunch

1330-1500 – Session 4

4.a Packaging Christmas

  1. Emily Simmons (U of Toronto) - ‘A Goodish Profit on the Original Investment’:  Luggage, Writing, and ‘Market Stories’ in Dickens’s Christmas Numbers
  2. Caley Ehnes (UVic) - ‘Winter Stories—Ghost Stories . . . round the Christmas fire’: Victorian Ghost Stories and the Christmas Market
  3. Brandon Chitwood (Marquette) - A Victorian Christmas in Hell: Secularizing the Sacred in Tennyson's In Memoriam

4.b Merchants of Health and Death

  1. Patricia Michael (Holy Family University) - Marketing Melancholy: The Death Trade and the Victorian Consumer
  2. Kylee-Anne Hingston (UVic) - “A Pill in Time, saves Nine”: Marketing the Body and Identity in Wilkie Collins’s No Name
  3. Linda Seidel (Truman State U)  - Medical Innovation and Marketplace Forces: The Case of Lydgate in Middlemarch

4.c Commercial Intercourse

  1. Nancy Henry (U of Tennessee, Knoxville) – Victorian Women Represent Financial Markets
  2. Lisa Hager (University of Wisconsin, Waukesha) - Flirting with Disaster: Speculation on the Stock Exchange and the Marriage Market in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s My Flirtations
  3. Adrienne Munich (Stony Brook U)– Shopgirls: What they know and how they know it

1500-1530 – coffee break

1530-1700 – Session 5

5.a Mad Men: Marketing Masculinity (I)

  1. Carol Erwin (Texas Tech) – Disembodied Labor: Marketing the Middle-Class Male
  2. Elizabeth Campbell (Oregon State) - The Gentle Art of Selling Tobacco: Cope's Smoke Room Booklets and the Manly Pursuit of Pleasure
  3. Lara Karpenko (Carroll U) - Resisting Popular Culture: Masculinity in George Du Maurier’s The Martian

5.b Retailing Religion

  1. George Mariz (Western Washington U) – Selling Rugby: Thomas Arnold’s Strategies for Recruiting Students
  2. Teresa Traver (Cal State, Chico) – Marketing Morality: “Sunday Books” Re-Read
  3. Adrea Johnson (Regent College) - Entering the Literary Marketplace: Charles H. Spurgeon, Sermons and the Periodical Press

5.c Selling the Farm: Branding Traditional and Rural Britain

  1. Mary Laycock (independent scholar) - Marketing Art and Making a Living: Jane Maria Bowkett (1837-1891)
  2. Nanette Thrush (Chester College) - Setting the Table:  Domestic Politics and Historical Desire in the Early Victorian Era
  3. Dan Shea (Austin Peay State University) - Richard Jefferies  and The Revenge of Rural England

1830 – 2130 – Banquet

Saturday October 17th

0830-1000 – Session 6

6.a The Hard Sell: Marketing Masculinity (II)

  1. Constance Crompton (York) – Beyond Bricks, Corsets, and Cocoa: Marketing the Ideal European Man
  2. Oliver Lovesey (UBC-Okanagan) – The Hard Sell: Marketing Chastity to Victorian Men
  3. Kristen Guest (U of Northern BC) – Black Beauty, Masculinity, and the Market for Horseflesh

6.b From Pencil to Pound: Marketing the Illustrated Novel and Poem

  1. Richard Hill (U of Hawaii) - Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel
  2. Brian Donnelly (UCSB) - The Consuming Aesthetic of Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Bocca Baciata.
  3. Anabelle Bernard Fournier (UVic) - The Victorian Mass Illustrative Market as a Window to High Art: Sir Frederic Leighton’s Illustrative Crossover

6.c Dress and Dross: Fashionable Markets

  1. Leanne Page (UBC) - 'Reading the Language of Contemporary Dress': Conspicuous Consumption and the Failure of Victorian Dress Reform Initiative
  2. Amy Montz (Texas A&M) - William Thackeray's Fashionable Humbug: Consuming National Distinctions of Dress in Vanity Fair
  3. Muireann O’Cinneide (National U of Ireland, Galway) – Votes, Bonnets & Beer: Electoral Marketplaces in the Mid-Victorian Novel

1000-1030 – coffee break

1030-1200 – Session 7

7.a Exchanges

  1. Lisa Brocklebank (UBC) – Marketing the Mind
  2. Daniel Martin (University of Florida) - Speed Scenes circa 1850: A Dickensian Dromology?
  3. Eddy Kent (U of Alberta) - On Corporate Characters: A New Social Formation in Victorian Culture

7.b Financing the Fin de siècle

  1. Jeff Franklin (U of Colerado, Denver) - The Gothic as the Dark (K)night of Late-Victorian Capitalism
  2. Jennie Friedrich (Western Washington) Hold That Pose: Freeze-Framing Oscar Wilde’s Chameleonic Hellenism in 'Phrases and Philosophies'
  3. Lindsy Lawrence (Texas Christian University) - Punch’s Art of Jubilee: Marketing the Queen, the Empire, and the Golden Jubilee in Punch’s Almanack for 1887

7.c Poetry and Profit

  1. Julie Wise (U of South Carolina) - The Consumer Logic of Robert Browning and W. Stanley Jevons
  2. Dan Kline (Ohio U) - ‘How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!’: The Use of Money in A.H. Clough’s Poetry
  3. Karen Manarin (Mount Royal) - Marketing Masculinity in the North American Literary Curricula: The Case of Robert Browning

1200-1330 – Lunch (on your own)
                        VISAWUS AGM and lunch

1330-1500 – Session 8

8.a Special Session - Working Women and the Marketplace (Respondent Constance Fulmer)

  1. Arlene Young (U of Manitoba) – Selling the Image: the Victorian Middle-Class Career Woman
  2. Jessica P Clark (John Hopkins) - ’Beautiful For Ever!’: Entrepreneurial Outsiders and the Establishment of an English Beauty Industry
  3. Don LePan (Broadview) - Working “Like a Nigger”: Women and Entrepreneurship in The Romance of a Shop

8.b Special Session - Cross-Border Shopping: Shoplifting, Shopgirls, and Oxbridge Flash (Respondent Krista Lysack)

  1. Tammy C. Whitlock (University of Kentucky)  - “A New Kind of Bargain:  Shoplifting Cases and the Ordinary Nature of Stolen Goods in Victorian Britain”
  2. Lise Shapiro Sanders (Hampshire College)  - “The Iconography of the Shopgirl”
  3. Brent A. Shannon (Eastern Kentucky University)  - “Fast Tastes and Ready Money: Fashion and Shopping among University Men in the Victorian Age”

8.c Artistic Assets: Marketing Literature through Art

  1. Sophia Andres (U of Texas) -  Marketing the Victorian Novel through Pre-Raphaelite Art
  2. Linda K. Hughes (Texas Christian U) - Doubling Enticements to Buy: John Millais and Illustrated Poetry in Once a Week
  3. Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge (UVic) - The After Market for Victorian Periodical lllustrations: A Case Study of The Cornhill Gallery

1500-1530 – coffee break

1530-1700 – Session 5

9.a Marketing Morality: Mayhew, Mill, Ruskin

  1. Robert O’Kell (U of Manitoba) - Selling in the Streets: Mayhew’s Images, Voices, and Numbers
  2. Jessica Kilgore (U of Texas, Austin) - Mill, Mayhew, and the Victorian Market for Charity
  3. Graham Macdonald (independent scholar) - Discipline and Interference: Ruskin’s Political Economy and the Moral Disorder of Victorian England

9.b ETHICS, ECONOMICS, AND FELLOWSHIP AT THE FIN DE SIÈCLE

  1. Brooke Cameron (Notre Dame) - 'We Are Closer Married': Michael Field’s Sight and Song and the Ethics of Lesbian Collaboration
  2. Diana Maltz (Southern Oregon) - 'All very uncouth and experimental' Aesthetic and Tolstoyan Colonies in Britain, 1902-1909
  3. Kristin Mahoney (Western Washington U) - Towards Aristocracy: Baron Corvo and Chivalrous Male Friendship

9.c Gender and the Market

  1. Lana Dalley (CSU, Fullerton) - A Pedagogical Approach to Gender, Genre, and the Literary Marketplace
  2. Kellie Holzer (U of Washington) - 'To Hymen’s Shrine haste': Victorians and Matrimonial Advertising
  3. Jen Hill (U of Nevada, Reno) - Companies Do Blow Up Sometimes: Profligacy, Fraud, and Theatricality in Tom Taylor’s Still Waters Run Deep and Our American Cousin