Serious Pleasures

April 1-3, 2004
University to Iowa

~~With grateful thanks to the conference sponsors~~

Arts and Humanities Initiative, Vice President for Research
International Programs Major Projects Grant
Humanities Iowa Award
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Graduate College
School of Art and Art History, English, History, Spanish and Portuguese

THURSDAY, APRIL 1

4:00 ~OPENING PLENARY~ Richey Ballroom 2nd Floor IMU

Act I: Prelude: A Piano in the Parlor
~Welcome~

Stage Manager: Teresa Mangum, Conference Organizer
University of IowaEnglish and International Programs

Mistress of Ceremonies:Roberta Marvin, International Programs

Derek Scott, School of Music, University of Salford, Great Britain
"The Musical Soirée: Rational Amusement in the Home"

5:00-7:00 Reception, Art Museum

FRIDAY, APRIL 2

8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast, 2nd Floor Lobby IMU

9:00-10:30 ~PLENARY~Richey Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Act II Crossing Continents in the Nineteenth-Century Magazine

Mistress of Ceremonies: Elsie Michie, President of INCS
Louisiana State University

Kathleen Diffley, English Department, University of Iowa
"Splendid Patriotism; Or, The Illustrated London News Covers the Confederacy"

Julie Codell, English and School of Art, Arizona State University
"Serious Pleasures of Tweaking the Raj: A Carnival of Power and Metaphysics in the Indian Press"

Lisa Survillo, Spanish Department, Pennsylvania State University
"Literature in the Hemeroteca: The Case of Spain"

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 Sessions

Session 1 Royal Recreation, Indiana Room, 346 IMU
Moderator: Carolyn Hall, English, University of Iowa

Mary Lynn Johnson, University of Iowa
"At the Queen's Pleasure: Readers to Royalty"

Emily Allen, English, Purdue University
"When the Queen Says: `Enjoy!'"

Heather Brady, Modern Foreign Languages, Monmouth College
"Josephine's Many Lives: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Icon through France and Martinique"

Judith Pascoe, English, University of Iowa
"Travels with Napoleon's Carriage: Relic Collecting and Fictional Authenticity"

Session 2 Versions of Victorian Afterlife, Purdue Room, 341 IMU
Moderator: Cynthia Stretch, English, Southern Connecticut University

Lisa Niles, English, Vanderbilt University
"Nice Work if You Can Get It? The Serious (Dis)Pleasure of Retirement"

Lynn Alexander, English
"Joyful Release: Victorian Death-Bed Scenes"

Christine Ferguson, English, University of British Columbia
"Death as Labour, Death as Leisure: Our Mutual Friend and the Uses of the Victorian Afterlife".

Sophia Andres, Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Texas-Permian Basin
"From Camelot to Hyde Park: The Lady of Shalott's Victorian Afterlife in Tracy Cevalier's Falling Angels"

Session 3 Criminal Plots, Minnesota Room, 347 IMU
Moderator: Christine Krueger, English, Marquette University

Jennifer Phegley, English, University of Missouri-Kansas City
"Sensation Fiction as a Serious Pleasure in Ellen Price Wood's The Argosy Magazine"

Edward Jacobs and Manuela Mourão, English, Old Dominion University
"Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard: Playing in the Streets, Playing in Drawing Rooms"

Michael J. Divine, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis
"On the Law Considered as One of the Fine Arts: Famous Trial Reports and Europe circa 1850"

Melissa Valiska Gregory, English, University of Toledo
"The Afterlife of East Lynne: The Pleasures and Proliferations of Victorian Melodrama"

Session 4 Race on Display, Michigan Room, 341 IMU
Moderator: Kristen Samuelian, English, George Mason University

Les Harrison, English, Texas A&M
"Unraveling America: The Broken Panoramas of Hawthorne and Whittier"

Susan Scheckel, English, State University of New York-Stony Brook
"Race and Remembrance in the U.S. Army Medical Museum"

Teresa A. Goddu, English, Vanderbilt University
"Things that Speak: Anti-Slavery Fairs and the Culture of the Marketplace"

Edward Tang, American Studies, University of Alabama
"Genteel Showmanship: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes as Barnumesque Performance"

12:00-1:30 Lunch (ticket in folder or on your own), Richey Ballroom

2:00-3:15 Sessions

Session 5 Exhibiting the World, Indiana Room, 346 IMU
Moderator: Shuchi Kapila, English, Grinnell College

Manjiri Patkar, French and Italian, University of Tennessee
"Bazaars of the Mediterranean: A Treat for the Senses?"

Joanne C. Tong, English, University of California-Los Angeles
"Specimens of China at the Great Exhibition of 1851"

Eike Reichardt, History, State University of New York-Stony Brook
"Alien Bodies on Display: Popular Exhibitions of the 'Other' and the Question of National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914"

William R. Host, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, and Brooke Portmann, Bachelor of General Studies, Roosevelt University
"The Pulse of America: Lodging During the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893"

Session 6 Critical Circles, Michigan Room, Purdue Room, 341 IMU
Moderator: Florence Boos, Department of English, University of Iowa

Kathryn Fenton, Musicology, University of Iowa
"`Go West Young Man (but not if you're an Italian Opera Composer): The New York Times Music Critic Richard Alrich and Giacomo Puccini's "American Opera" La faniculla del West"

Wendelin Guentner, French and Italian, University of Iowa
"The Rhetoric of Salon Criticism: Claude Vignon's 1855 World's Fair--Fine Arts"

Linda K. Hughes, English, Texas Christian University
"The Serious Business of Pleasure: Louise Chandler Moulton's Transatlantic Salon in Fin-de-Siècle London"

Richard M. DCamp, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsi-Oshkosh, "Der goldne Topf: E. T. A. Hoffmann's Indefinable Sonata"

Session 7 Looking Backward: Pleasures Past, Minnesota, 347 IMU
Moderator: Chris Vandenbossche, English, University of Notre Dame

Marylu Hill, Core Humanities Program, Villanova University
"Pleasures Past: Voyeurism and History in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction"

Liz Corsun, English, University of Iowa
"Pip at the Play: 'I Laughed in Spite of Myself'"

Brent Maner, History, Kansas State University
"Strolls into the Ancient Past: The Popularity of Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Germany"

Clare A. Simmons, English, Ohio State University
"Mounds of Fun: Romantic-Era Discourses of Archaeology"

Session 8 The Sister Arts, Michigan Room, 351 IMU
Moderator: Megan Early, English, University of Iowa

Cheryl Wilson, English, University of Deleware
"Almack's Dancing at the Center of the World"

Anjali Nerlerkar, English, University of Kansas
"A Look Behind the Scenes: Spanish Lola, the Ballet and Nineteenth-Century Paris"

Anne Stapleton, English, University of Iowa
"Queen Victoria's Reel Pleasure"

Daryl Lee, French and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University
"The Paris Commune Ruins: Picturesque and the Aesthetic of the Horrible"

3:30 Coffee Break, 2nd Floor Lobby

3:45-5:00 Sessions

Session 9 Eyes Wide Open, Indiana Room, 346 IMU
Moderator: Thom Swiss, English and POROI, University of Iowa

Mike Fox and Nancy West, English, University of Missouri
"The Serious Pleasures of Nostalgia: Hermann Lea's Photographs of Wessex".

Judith E. Pike, English, Salisbury University
"Brillat-Savarin's Romantic Gastronomy: From the Arabian Coffee Bean and Odalesques to Madame Récamier's Café au Lait"

Jennifer Phillips, French, Oberlin College,
" Pierre Loti and the Gravity of Exotic Pleasure"

Dino Felluga, English, Purdue University
"Byron, Radicalism, and the Victorian Trade in Pornography"

Session 10 In Fashion, Michigan Room, 351 IMU
Moderator: Anca Vlasopolos, English, Wayne State University

Elaine Arvan Andrews, English, Ohio University
"Lucy Gray's Dress and the Figure of the Grisette in Charlotte Bronte's Villette"

Susan Hiner, French, Vassar College
"Class in Drag: Fashion and Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century France"

Michelle Mouton, English, Cornell College
"Heirloom Jewels, Sexual Borders, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel"

Scott Sheridan, French, Illinois Wesleyan University
"Skirting the Issues: Representations of Women in the French Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Biographic Review"

Session 11 Ways of Reading, Minnesota Room, 347 IMU
Moderator, Gordon Bigelow, English, Rhodes College

Karin A. Wurst, German, Michigan State University
"Reading for Pleasure at the Core of Cultural Consumption"

Nicole Fluhr, English, Southern Connecticut State University
"The Artist as Critic, or Swinburne, Morality, and the Novel"

Jane F. Thrailkill, English, University of North Carolina
"Music, Mind-Cure, Meditation: Toward a Theory of Narrative Pleasure"

Caroline Levine, English, University of Wisconsin
"The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Scientific Knowledge and Popular Fiction"

Session 12 Musical Mutations, Purdue Room, 341
Moderator: Roberta Marvin, International Programs, University of Iowa

Francesco Izzo, Music, New York University
"The Legacy of Figaro in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Italy"

Hilary Poriss, Music, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music
"Malibran, Romeo, and a Tale of Suicide: Aria Substitution in Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi"

Roberta Montemorra Marvin, International Programs, University of Iowa
"The `Real Thing'? Verdi's Operas in the Victorian Parlor"

Christina Fuhrmann, Musicology, Ashland University
"Scott Repatriated?: La Dame Blanche Crosses the Channel"

Laura Tunbridge, Music, University of Reading
"Byron and Bishop Burlesqued: Gilbert à Beckett's Man-Fred"

7:00 Banquet (ticket in folder or dinner on your own), River Room, 1st floor IMU

SATURDAY, APRIL 3

8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast, 2nd Floor Lobby

9:00-10:30 Sessions

Session 13 Illicit Pleasures, Michigan 351
Moderator: Bluford Adams, American Studies and English, University of Iowa

Jennifer A. Crets, American Studies, St. Louis University
"General Tom Thumb: Representative Man-Child"

Hildegard Hoeller, English, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
" Freaks and the American Dream: Horatio Alger, P.T. Barnum, and the Art of Humbug"

Joe Kember, Film Studies, University of Teesside
"`She was born alive and is now on view': Early Cinema and Freak Shows"

Lisa Z. Sigel, History, DePaul University
"Family Pleasures: Incest and Desire Among the Edwardian Middle Class"

Session 14 Child Culture, Indiana Room, 346 IMU
Moderator: Mary Moran, English Department, University of Iowa

Bryan Ganaway, History, Presbyterian College
"Toys in the Kinderstube: Playing at Middle-class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918"

Deirdre McMahon, English, University of Iowa
"Colonial Sojourn and Domestic Success: Reading Gender in Imperialist Juvenile Fiction"

John Pennington, English, St. Norbert College
"Serious Pleasures of Desire: The Fantasies of George MacDonald and Lewis Carroll"

Laura Mooneyham White, English, University of Nebraska
"Imperial Anxieties and the Victorian Fairy Paintings of Richard Dadd"

Session 15 Bad Boys, Minnesota Room, 347 IMU
Moderator: Nick Yablon, American Studies, University of Iowa

Elizabeth Lee, Art, Wabash College
"Sex and the `Gilded-Age' City: Stanford White and Augustus Saint-Gaudens at New York's Madison Square Garden"

Barbara Black, English, Skidmore College
"The Pleasure of Your Company"

Elaine Parsons, History, Duquesne University
"Representing the Ku-Klux Klan in Popular Culture"

Maureen Martin, English, Indiana University
"Stags and Sassenachs: The Masculine Mystique of Highland Deer-Stalking"

Session 16 Religious Ecstasy, Purdue Room, 341
Moderator: Jeff Cox, History, University of Iowa

Alexandra N. Leach, University Library, Columbia College
"Pleasures of the Serious"

Deborah Denenholz Morse, English, College of William and Mary
"Private Pleasure, Public Shame: Drunken Mothers in Hesba Stretton's Lost Gip and Brought Home"

Dawn Coleman, English, Stanford University
"Charismatic Preaching and the Victorian Novel"

Jean Fernandez, English, University of Iowa
"Serving the Leisured Classes: Servant Autobiography's Treatment of Pleasure and Recreation in The Christian Watt Papers"

10:30 Coffee Break, 2nd Floor Lobby

10:45-12:00 Sessions

Session 17 The Theatre of Economics and Political Protest, Indiana Room, 346 IMU
Moderator: Erik Simpson, English Grinnell College

Peter Manning, English, State University of New York-Stony Brook
"William Cobbett and the Chopstick Festival of 1832"

Sangeeta Mediratta, English, University of California-San Diego
"Spectacular Women: Resistant Bazaars, 1840-1870"

Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, English, Louisiana State University
"`Mechanical Sheep' and `Monstrous Powers': John Ruskin's Pantomime Reality"

Silvana Colella, English, University of Macerata
"Theorizing Happiness: Self-Defeating Work and the Pleasure of Business"

Session 18 Theatricality, Minnesota, 347 IMU
Moderator: Keith Hanley, English, Lancaster University

Laura L. Mielke, English, Iowa State University
"`I will not die to please you': John Brougham's parody of Indian Melodramas"

Thomas McLean, English, University of Iowa
"Offstage Dramas: Jane Porter, Edmund Kean, and Switzerland"

Nathan R. Elliott, English, University of Notre Dame
"A Serious Genre for Serious Theatre: The Gothic in Baillie's Plays on the Passions"

Session 19 The Domestic Arts, Michigan Room, 351 IMU
Moderator: Carolyn Jacobson, University of Pennsylvania

Stacy Carson Hubbard, English, State University of New York at Buffalo
"Looking into American Interiors of the 1890s: Titillation, Emulation, and Outrage"

Donna S. Parsons, Music and English, University of Iowa
"Art or Accomplishment: The Predicament of Nineteenth-Century Household Management and Conduct Manuals"

Talia Schaffer, English, Queens College, City University of New York
"Crafting Realism: The Leather Leaves of The Daisy Chain"

Nicole Reynolds, English, Ohio University-Athens
"Sir John Soane's Gothic Follies"

Session 20 Dangerous Women
Moderator: Mary Jean Corbett, English, Miami University of Ohio

Everett Carter, History, Bradley University
"King, Queen, Knave: Gender and Selfhood at European Gambling Casinos"

Renata Kobetts Miller, English, City College, City University of New York
"The Narrator's Role: Vanity Fair, The Novel's Mission, and Theatricality"

Beatrice Guenther, Modern Languages and Literatures, College of William and Mary
"Countering Mme. De Staël's Construction of German Geselligkeit"

Christopher Kent, History, University of Saskatchewan
"Women in Clubland"

Session 21 "No Better Fun than Chattering of Wars?" German Writing on War
Moderator: Waltraud Maierhofer, German, University of Iowa

Regine Schwarzmeier, German, Belmont College
"A Plea for Tolerance: Friederike Helene Unger's Novels Die Franzosen in Berlin [The Frenchmen in Berlin, 1809] and Der junge Franzose und das deutsche Mädchen [The Young Frenchman and the German Girl, 1810]"

Gertrud Roesch, German, University of Regensburg, Germany
"Frauen beim Scharpie-Zupfen: Die Schlachten gegen Napoleon in den Briefen Caroline von Humboldts und Rahel Vanrhagens"

Waltraud Maierhofer, German, University of Iowa, "The Female Body as Battleground in Heinrich Laube's Der deutsche Krieg [The German War, 1863-66]"

Stephen Grollman, German, Concordia College
"Hauptmann's Florian Geyer: Virtues of a Failed Historical Drama"

12:00-1:30 Lunch (ticket in folder or on your own), Richey Ballroom, 2nd Floor

1:30- 3:00 Sessions

Session 22 Industry and Exhibition, Indiana Room, 346 IMU
Moderator: Richard Stein, English, University of Oregon

Susanne Berthier, English, University of Grenoble
"The 1889 World Exhibition in Paris: Technology and the American Frontier"

Margueritte Murphy, English, Bentley College
"Nostalgic for the New: Commodity Aesthetics in the Industrial Expositions of Paris, 1834-1844"

Thomas Prasch, History, Washburn University
"Exhibitionary Pleasures: The Remaking of the Crystal Palace"

Ed Slavishak, History, Susquehanna University, "The `Matinee at the Mills': Industrial Tourism and Civic Boosterism"

Session 23 Travel and Tourism, Minnesota Room, 347 IMU
Moderator: Greg Kucich, English, University of Notre Dame

Katya Hokanson, Comparative Literature, University of Oregon
"Theatrical Asides: Russian Women and Spectacles of Tourism"

Mai-Lin Cheng, English, University of California-Berkeley
"`Pleasure was my Object': Dorothy Wordsworth and Other Romantic Things"

Adriana Méndez Rodenas, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa
"Tea-time in Rio de Janeiro: Maria Graham's South American Journals and the Pleasures of Travel"

Mary Burke, Keough Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame
"Gypsylorism: The Business and Pleasure of `Gypsying' in Nineteenth-Century Britain"

Session 24 In the Museum, Michigan Room, 351
Moderator: Downing Thomas, French and Italian, University of Iowa

Maria P. Gindhart, Art, Georgia State University
"Didactic and Decorative: Paintings of Prehistory at the French Museum of National Antiquities"

Daniel Harkett, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
"Auctions and Public Life in Restoration Paris"

Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Visual and Performing Arts, Clark University
"Private Pleasures: Charles Lang Freer, James McNeill Whistler, and Circuits of Desire"

Session 25 Time, Mortality, and Immortality, Purdue Room, 341 IMU
Moderator: Nigel Rothfels, History, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

Gregory Marion, Music, University of Iowa
"Memory and Forgetting: New Approaches to Temporality in Selected Works of Claude Debussy"

Anca Vlasopolos, English, Wayne State University
"The Clacks of Beaks, the Taps of Shoes on Planks"

Meilee D. Bridges, English, University of Michigan
"Unraveled: Unrolling Egyptian Mummies on Victorian Page and Stage"

Charles D. Martin, English and Philosophy, Central Missouri State University
"Can the Mummy Speak?: Manifest Destiny, Agency, and the Exhibition of the Ancient Egyptian Body"

Session 26 Complicating the "New Woman," Lucas Dodge Room, 256 IMU
Moderator: Wendy Bashant, English, Coe College

Cynthia Bland, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
"The Femme-Flâneur: Fashion(able) Observations"

Kristine Swenson, English, University of Missouri-Rolla
"Eugenics and Physiological Aesthetics in Arabella Kenealy's Detective Fiction"

Deirdre d'Albertis, Languages and Literatures, Bard College
"Vituperative Pleasure: Linton as Anti-Celebrity"

Sukanya Banerjee, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"The `Purdahnashin,' Indian Female Professionalism, and the English Reading Public"

3:00 Coffee Break, Second Floor Lobby

3:30-5:00 ~PLENARY~

Act III Sexuality in the Theatre

Mistress of Ceremonies: Teresa Mangum
English and International Programs

Kim Marra, Theatre Studies, University of Iowa
"When an 'Oriental' Stages the Orient, or Exoticism and Sexual Inversion in the Theatre of David Belasco"

Edward Ziter, Tisch School of the Performing Arts
"Exotic Spectacle in an Age of Optic Anxiety:Working between Performance and Visual Studies"

Angela Pao, Comparative Literature, Indiana University
"The Orient Comes Home:Postcolonial Perspectives on 19th-century Orientalism"

8:00-9:30 GRAND FINALE

American Magic Lantern Theatre McBride Auditorium

~The End~