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Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century
Tuesday 23 July, 2019, 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
Organisers: Dr Amy Culley, Dr Alice Crossley, Dr Rebecca Styler
9.00 Registration (open plan area outside lifts, floor 3: or turn right at the top of the stairs)
9.45 Welcome (ATB3116)
10.00 Panel session 1 (see below for details of panel papers – abstracts on conference website)
1A Writing and Im/maturity (ATB3101)
1B Ageing as Decline? (ATB3202)
11.20 Coffee break
11.40 Panel sessions:
2A Women Ageing with Authority(ATB3101)
2B Recovering the Ageing Body (ATB3202)
1.00 Lunch (provided)
2.00 Panel sessions:
3A Counter/Stereotypes of Ageing(ATB3101)
3B The Bildung Narrative and its Discontents (ATB3202)
3.30 Tea break
4.00 Plenary: Professor Devoney Looser (Arizona State University), ‘Ageing in Public:
Women Authors in the Nineteenth Century’ (ATB3116)
Drinks reception
7.00 Conference closes: Delegates are invited to join the conference organisers for a meal at a local restaurant. Please confirm if you would like to come by emailing Alice Crossley by 17th July:
Panel Session 1 (10-11.20)
1A Writing and Im/maturity
Pete Newbon (Northumbria): ‘“Too much of the Boy-Man”: Romanticism, Masculinity and Infantilism’
Jonathon Shears (Keele): ‘Ageing Byronically: Branwell Bronte’s Allusion to Don Juan’
Claudia Capancioni (Bishop Grosseteste, Lincoln): ‘Growing Up in a Multicultural Context: “a new sort of country” in Prince Peerless: A Fairy Folk Story Book’
2B Ageing as Decline?
David McAllister (Birkbeck, London): ‘Retrospection, Contingency, and Regret in Dickens’ Late Midlives’
Catherine Charlwood (Oxford): ‘“Part steals, lets part abide’: The Memory of Youth in Thomas Hardy’s Poetry’
Hanh Bui (Brandeis, MA): ‘Ageing, Immortality, and Nineteenth-Century Vitalism in Walter Besant’s The Inner House’
Panel Session 2 (11.40-1pm)
2A Women Ageing with Authority
Cassie Ulph (Bishop Grosseteste, Lincoln): ‘A Granddame’s Garrulity’: genres of knowledge in Hester Piozzi’s Lyford Redivivus’
Francesca Blanch-Serrat (Univ. Autonoma, Barcelona), ‘To “leave my name in life’s visit”: Anna Seward’s construction of a posthumous legacy in old age’
Carme Font Paz (Univ. Autonoma, Barcelona), ‘In the Words of a Sage and Ageing Exegete: An Approach to the Intellectual Contribution of Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible’
2B Recovering the Ageing Body
Millie Van Der Byl Williams (UCL, London): ‘Memory, the Body, and the Self: Dementia in a Nineteenth-Century Asylum’
Sarah McHugh (Queens University, Belfast): ‘Health Care for Older Women in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’
June Oh (Michigan State University): ‘“[A]ll lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs of a side”: Gowland’s Lotion, Medically Aged Faces, and Individualism’
Panel Session 3 (2-3.30)
3A Counter/stereotypes of Ageing
Gemma Carney and Leonie Hannan (Queens University, Belfast): ‘G. Stanley Hall’s Narrative of Senescence’
Caitlin Doley (York): ‘Whistler’s Mother: The Painting that Attacked the Nineteenth-Century Ageing Narrative, and its Afterlife’
Shira Gottlieb (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): ‘ “The New Grandmother”: Ageing, Womanhood and Child Education in Mary Cassatt’s Mrs Cassatt Reading to Her Grandchildren’
Susanne Bayerlipp (Frankfurt): ‘“At your age, ma’am, you should be careful”: Age, Objects and Affects in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford’
3B The Bildung Narrative and Its Discontents
Trisha Urmi Banerjee (Harvard, MA): ‘Age and Dissymmetry in Austen’s Persuasion’
Natalie McGartland (Georgetown University, Washington DC): ‘The Problem of “girlhood” in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Girl’s Own Paper’
Pyunghwa Lee (Brandeis, MA): ‘Realism and Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Midlife’
Registration (no charge) by 17 July https://lias.lincoln.ac.uk/narrativesofageing/