Program

14th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
Providence College, Providence, RI
6-9 August 2009

Except where noted, all listed events will take place on the Providence College campus.

Thursday, August 6
Albertus Magnum Hall (AM)

2:30-6.00 p.m. REGISTRATION AM 136

6:30 p.m. Optional Activity: Concert Under the Elms
Greg Abate Jazz Quartet
John Brown House Museum Lawn
52 Power Street, Providence
401.331.8575 x33
$8.00 - on you own

Friday, August 7
Albertus Magnus Hall (AM)

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Refreshments AM 136

9:00-10:40 Panel 1: Dickensian Beginnings and Endings
Chair: TBA
AM 137

David Parker, Kingston University
The Pickwick Prefaces
Jerome Meckier, University of Kentucky
Great Expectations - "a good name?"
Bert Hornback, Universitat des Saarlandes
Dickens's Last Words
Robert Heaman, Wilkes University
Pip as Artist

10:40-10-55 Coffee Break AM 136

11:00-12:40 Panel 2: Technologies of Reading and Writing
Chair: TBA
AM 137

Ken Crowell, Purdue University
Alternate Expectations: The Dual Roles of Novelist and Publisher in Great Expectations
Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall University
"Our Skeptical As If": John Tyndall and the Science of Dickens's Style
Anita Fernandez-Young and Robert Young, Nottingham University
The Character Structures of Dickens's Novels: Evidence of Development and Innovation
Joel J. Brattin and Rodney Gorme Obien, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Project Boz: Methods, Achievements, and Goals

12:40-2:00 Lunch AM 136

2:00-3:40 Panel 3: Gender and Sexuality, Then and Now
Chair: TBA
AM 137

Sharon Kehl Califano, Shortridge Academy
Containing "Romantic Friendships": Same-Sex Male Desire in Dickens's David Copperfield and Tim Sturgis's Tim
Michael D. Lewis, University of Virginia
The Female Homosocieal in Our Mutual Friend
Natalie McKnight, Boston University
Gender Bending in Little Dorrit - Fiction and Film
Shari Hodges Holt, University of Mississippi
The Feminine and Masculine Carol: Post-Feminist and Post Colonial Discourses in Ebbie and Ebenezer

3:40-3:45 Coffee Break AM 136

3:45-5:25 Panel 4: Transatlanticism and Cultural Space
Chair: TBA
AM 137

Peter Blake, Sussex University
"I think Americans have had enough of British correspondents": George Augustus Sala and Charles Dickens in America
Diana C. Archibald, University of Masschusetts Lowell
Ports Matter: Transatlantic Travel and Dickens's Perception of America
David Paroissien, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Bill of Fare: Eating and Drinking in Martin Chuzzlewit
Nancy Metz: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University
The Problem of Wiltshire

Saturday, August 8
Feinstein Center (FC)

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Refreshments

9:00-10:30 Panel 5: Written on the Body: Physical Subjectivity
Chair TBA
FC 400

Ralph F. Smith, University of Ottawa
The Fevers of Oliver Twist
Peter J. Capuano, University of Virginia
Handling Animality in Great Expectations
Karen Chase and Michael Levenson, University of Virginia
Dickensian Fidgets

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:25 Panel 6: Dickens Under the Microscope
Chair: TBA
FC 400

Leslie Simon, Boston University
Measuring Nothingness in Martin Chuzzlewit: Nineteenth-Century Mathematics and the Politics of the Self
MIchael Klotz, Wake Forest University
Registering Uncertainty: Great Expectations, the Statistical Movement, and the Census of 1861
Philip Allingham and Wayne Melville, Lakehead University
The Author and the Scientist: Household Words and "Science for All" in Victorian Britain
Julia F. Munro, University of Waterloo
"Strange, scientific, mournful, all at once": Photographic Allusions in Bleak House

12:25-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:25 Panel 7: Reading Dickens from Within and Without
Chair: TBA
FC 400

Jessica Straley, University of Utah
"A Jolly Game": Pick-Pocketing and Interiority in Oliver Twist
Eleanor Salotto, Sweet Briar College
Burning Down the House: Bleak House and the Plenitude of Form
Robert Tracy, University of California - Berkeley
Arthur Clennam Reads Little Dorrit
Deb Gettelman, College of the Holy Cross
"Patience": Little Dorrit and Dickens's Psychology of Reception

3:25-3:40 Coffee Break

3:40-5:20 Panel 8: Transgressive Families; Transgressive Acts
Chair: TBA
FC 400

Lillian Nayder, Bates College
Invisible Ink; or, the Power of the Postscript
Natalie Cole, Oakland University
"Little else than monstrous": the Bothers of Brotherhood in Dickens
Kiran Mascarenhas, CUNY Graduate Center
Fashion Crimes and Domestic Violence: Dickens's Mothers
Gareth Cordery, University of Canterbury
Crossing boundaries in The Old Curiosity Shop: Quilp, Commerce, and Domesticity

5:20-6:00 Dickens Society Business Meeting (all are welcome)

7:00 Dickens Dinner
Local 121
121 Washington St.
Providence, RI
401.274.2121

Optional activity: Waterfire
Downcity Providence - on the Canals
Begins at sunset (~ 7:56 p.m.), ends just past midnight
http://waterfire. org

Sunday, August 9
Feinstein Center (FC)

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Refreshments

9:00-10:30 Panel 9: Otherwordly and Intertextual Dickens
Chair: TBA
FC 400

David J. Smith, Pennsylvania State University
"The Ghost of an Idea": Visions of the Shadowy World from a A Christmas Carol to Bleak House
Kit Polga, Springfield Technical Community College, and Barbara Crippen, Memphis University School
Dickens and Balzac: Corruption and Seduction in Bleak House and Pere Goriot
Nancee Reeves, Purdue University
The Bloody Specter of Sweeney Todd in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:25 Panel 10: Representationan and the Visual Dickens
Chair:TBA
FC 400

Tracy Miller, New York University
Mtonymy, pathetic fallacy, and "what the waves were always saying" in Dombey and Son
Letitia Henville, University of Toronto
A Second Metonym: Tom-all-Alone's, Poor Jo, and Mid-Victorian Representations of Poverty
Mark Cronin, Saint Anselm College
Turning Peggotty's Boat Right Side Up: Hablot K. Browne and the Overturned Boat House of David Copperfield
Andre DeCuir, Muskingum College
Dickens and the Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic Revisited: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

12:30-1:45 Lunch

3:00 Optional Activity: Providence Trolley Tour
Tour meets at the corner of Fountain and Eddy Streets, behind the Biltmore Hotel
401.421.3825
$18.00

Providence
Information from the New York Times:
36 hours in Providence
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/travel/03hours.html

REGISTRATION FORM
14th ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
6-9 AUGUST 2009

REGISTRATION.pdf

TRAVELING TO PROVIDENCE

14th ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
6-9 AUGUST 2009

traveling to providence.pdf

DICKENS QUARTERLY

June 2009

Volume 26 Number 2

ARTICLES

Natalie McKnight: Dickens, Niagara Falls and The Watery Sublime 69

Sally Ledger: "God be thanked: a ruin!" The Rejection of Nostalgia in Pictures from Italy 79

Ewa Kujawska-Lis: Charles Dickens's and Apollo Korzeniowski's Hard Times 86


REVIEWS

Nicola Bradbury on Jeremy Tambling: Going Astray: Dickens and London 108

Robert Garnett on Jenny Hartley: Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women 111

Jennifer Gribble on Lynn Cain: Dickens, Family, Authorship: Psychological Perspectives on Kinship and Creativity 114

David Paroissien on Margaret A. Rose, ed. and introd.: Flaneurs and Idlers: Louis Huart, Physiologie du flaneur (1841) and Albert Smith, The Natural History of the Idler upon Town (1848) 117

OBITUARY

Michael Hollington Remembers Sally Ledger 121

ANNOUNCEMENTS 124

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST – Elizabeth Bridgham 127

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 133

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University. Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

DQ

Copyright 2009 by the Dickens Society

ACCOMMODATIONS
14th ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
6-9 AUGUST 2009

The Providence Biltmore

GROUP ROOM RATES are available at the historic Biltmore hotel, located in downtown Providence, within comfortable and convenient walking distance of restaurants, shopping, the Providence train station (with access to AMTRAK travel), and the Kennedy Plaza bus terminal. It is also just around the corner from Local 121, the site of the 2009 Dickens Dinner, and is a perfect point of departure and vantage point for Waterfire, Providence's unique downtown summer celebration of community and the arts, to be held Saturday evening, August 8.

Room
Junior Suite Two California Kings Single Rate or Double Rate $174
Classic King Single Rate or Double Rate $134
Superior King Single Rate or Double Rate $144
Rates are based on single or double occupancy and are subject to applicable state and local taxes in effect at the time of check-in. Currently, the tax is 13% and includes a 7% State Sales Tax and 6% Occupancy Tax. The additional person charge is $20 per person, per night.

Hotel Amenities include the following:
24-Hour Fully-Equipped Fitness Center
24-Hour Business Center
Red Door Spa
Starbucks Coffee Shop in Lobby
McCormick & Schmick's Restaurant on site
Room Service 6 a.m. - 11 p.m.

CUT-OFF DATE
Reservations by attendees must be received on or before Friday, July 3, 2009


METHOD OF RESERVATIONS
Individuals will call to make their reservations. Please call 800.294.7709 or 401.421.0700 and ask for reservations. Please request the rate for Dickens Society Symposium to receive the group rate.

Individual meeting attendees have up to 48 hours prior to their scheduled arrival date to cancel their guest room reservation without penalty. Cancellation of individual guest room reservations within 48 hours prior to scheduled arrival date will result in one night's room and tax cancellation fee.

DICKENS QUARTERLY

March 2009

Volume 26 Number 1

ARTICLES

Goldie Morgentaler: Mrs. Gamp, Mrs. Harris and Mr. Dickens: Creativity and the Self Split in Two 3

Stella Pratt-Smith: All in the Mind: Psychological Realism of Dickensian Solitude 15

Peter Blake: Charles Dickens, George Augustus Sala and Household Words 24


REVIEW ESSAY

Susan Shatto on Diane Mason: The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture 41


REVIEWS

Jenny Hartley on Angela Poon: Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period: Colonialism and the Politics of Performance 46

Jeremy Tambling on Julia Prewitt Brown: The Bourgeois Interior: How the Middle Class Imagines itself in Literature and Film 48

David Paroissien on Rosemary Hill: God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain 51

ANNOUNCEMENTS 57

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST – Elizabeth Bridgham 60

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 66

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University. Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

DQ

Copyright 2009 by the Dickens Society

DICKENS QUARTERLY

December 2008

Volume 25 Number 4

ARTICLES

Catherine Waters: "Fairy Palaces" and "Wonderful Toys": Machine Dreams in Household Words 215

Jennifer Gribble: The Bible in Great Expectations 232

Logan Delano Browning: Changing Notes into Pictures: An American Frame for Dickens's Italy 241

REVIEWS

Simon J. James on Charles Dickens: Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi 250

Christine Huguet on Nathalie Vanfasse: Charles Dickens. Entre normes et deviance 252

Meoghan Cronin on Maria Cristina Paganoni: The Magic Lantern: Representation of the Double in Dickens

David Paroissien on Brian Maidment: Dusty Bob: A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780-1870; on Michelle Allen: Cleansing the City; Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London 259

THE THIRTY-NINTH DICKENS SOCIETY MEETING AND BUSINESS 263

ANNOUNCEMENTS 266

THE DICKENS CHECKLIST – Elizabeth Bridgham 268

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 274

Dickens Quarterly is produced for the Dickens Society with assistance from the English Departments of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of General Studies, Boston University. Printed in Northampton, Massachusetts by Tiger Press.

DQ

Copyright 2008 by the Dickens Society

14th ANNUAL DICKENS SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
6-9 AUGUST 2009

The Dickens Society's fourteenth annual symposium, business meeting and dinner will be held at Providence College the weekend of August 6-9, 2009. Hotel accommodations will be in downtown Providence, RI, with shuttle service conveying delegates to and from the college, which is located in Providence's historic Smith Hill neighborhood.

Paper proposals on any aspect of Dickens and his works are invited. Final papers should be readable in 20 minutes. Please send proposals (1-2 pages) to Dr. Elizabeth Bridgham, Department of English, Providence College, 549 River Ave., Providence, RI 02918, U.S.A., or electronically to bridgham@providence.edu no later than 31 March 2009. Further symposium information and updates will be available from the Dickens Quarterly website and from the addresses above.

The Providence area is served by its own airport, T. F. Green International, and is readily accessible by train or car from Boston's Logan Airport and New York City's airports and train stations. Providence's revitalized, pedestrian-friendly downtown is notable for its flourishing artistic, collegiate, and business communities. Each summer, its network of canals hosts Waterfire, a free, public, Venetian-style carnival popular with locals and tourists alike. Providence is also within easy traveling distance of Newport, RI, New England beaches, and Cape Cod, MA.