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Ni!,eteenth Century Studies Associa~on ' . i 17th' Annual .Confere~ce

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Apri12';'4~ 1998 . 'University of ~bama in Huntsville .

1998 Conference Directors julie English Early. Univers!tY of Alabama in Hutitsville DavId Stewart. Uni~ of A1abam~ in Huntsville

1991-98 NCSA Officers President jadviga da Costa Nunes, Muhlenberg College

Vice-President jack Rhodes.lhe Citadel .

Treasunoz Joseph Ganiner, University of.Kentucky

StcI~ Regina ~ University of South Florida

journal FdttQr . Patricia o· Hara. Fmnklin and Mamba1l College .

Newsletter Editor Carole KTagc%. Davidson College

AltbivIst Audre Spies. Hollins College

Board Meni'bers Robert Craig. Gecqia institute of Technology .

Phylis Floyd. Mtddgan State Univtl~ .

Suzanne Johnson Flynn. Gettysburg College

Heather McPherson, ~ of Alabama at Birmingham

Maio. jane ~ Florida IntematiC?DBl UJiiveJsio/ .

Robert M. R~ ~ Unmrstty at camden

William H. ScbeJlerle, Un1~ of South Florida

jania: Simon, UniV£rSity of Geoigi.a

EI.iZa1leth Winston, University of Tampa

Our thanks for the gem:roas ~ of

The Univaslty of Alabama in Huntsville The Humanities Center . The Dean of ~ eopqe of llberal Arts The Depattments of An and An Hlstmy, English, and Music Sigma Tau Delta . . ' . .

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AU daytime eftIlIS taR p1ate at the Huntsville Bilton , '

ThursdaY. Apr1l 2ud

Board~ , 2:00-4:00 pm. Von Braun Room

RegistIadon , ' 4:00- 6:45 pm. Heritage Foyer

~ and PafOl'lll1l1e at the BauIsv.UIe Museum rl Art , , .

1:00 pm. Rfr:eption

The Dean's Wekome Sue W. ICtrkpatrfck, Dean of the tollege of ll1?em1 Arts

8:00 p.m. Recital /I..a:tIue

David Z. Kushner Univezsl3:~~ ' ,

Fm1frfc Chopin: Body and Soul ~1amd)

Friday, Apri) 3rd

Ccmdumla1 breakfast 1:30-8:30 am. Heritage Foyer

H1JNTRoOM

Session I 8:30-9:45 a.m.

TIiERAPEunc POEllCS Mod,etaritr: David S. Neff University of Alabama in Huntsville

Ar~'~ The~~ limits ofMmtal , Bebag ill I. Mernorillltl ~ B. Andrews ' Noii:lvm Micblgan Universil¥

"As Jf the top of my brad has aJJDe ofr': Emily DiddDson aiu1 mId~. Discourse on PaiD and ADatIaIa . ,

WiUWatsan University of Soutb.em Mississippi . .

uJlCOllb'01lab1e Bodies: Byron and the, Battle wkhNatarc

Jennifer l.okash . McGill Umversity

TB'E EMPm COMES HOME , Mooeraror: Reatna Hewitt

, . University of South FlOIida ..

The 5iaYaF Sc:iaIa:: WilkIe Collins, Dr. Beajalia, aDd the Coniiadklmy'Politks of the Vktorian , H1IJIUlD.e Mo'ftlll£llt

Ronald D. Mmtlson Mcm:bead State University . ' ,

In the Bosom. of Her White Ih'ess: Fid.ions of the Adorned Female Body ami Imperial Spectacle in VkJoriIlD Britain .

·Piya.Pal laplnski . Bowling Green SUUe Universltf

!.oug DisbmrII..oDIdD DislaDre: Jmagtntng the Remote = ~ and Native BOdies

Universltf of Florida

Von BraUD. Room

DEsmOus BoDe Modrmtor: Elizabeth Winston ' Univemity of Tampa

S1X8kiDa Bodies: Disabled Women in Y:u:torian I.ha:ature as Erotic Oanne1s and Erotic Centers

Mattba StoddaJ:d'HaImes Plymouth ~ College

Sensing ihe Soa1: The ApI"""'" Fm.mist:?desmnic Discou:rse and ~"HIghly . Wrought"NoveIs .

. Dorri R. Beam . Universltf of Vitginia .

WaxiDg Podic1 A ClOsei LoOk at Some of Dqas' Scalpt1lla Mattha :sarl'

UniveIslty of MatyIand. College Park .

. SrssionD 10:00-11:30 un.

W$E BEYOND WOlDS ' Mod_~Rocbe1~on Florida 1n~......-..-,- --;-1 Universl.ty

~ fiStoae:~adFkp1nasis inFHPbrdl BaDelt BrowDiDg's Poetry . .

MaIpr:et M. Marlier . . AubUrn Universf.ty · .

EmersDJl. and die Body: The DlviBe Animal . ~ L ICUnba11 . Drew University

Sam~ WIsdom: Rr6gadug BodIes iii ThI Riag tlIIIl . tMBook . .

5azanne Batley 1i'ent Universf.ty

DmoRDERLY CONDucr Modemtor: George Robb William Paterson Universi1¥

The Nd'arlous Madame ResteD: A Woman in the Pah1h:Eye

Cvnthia" Watkins Ridmdson Vniveml1;y of Maine

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THE TRoUBLE Wrm WOMEN-MndemtDr. Heather Md'.berson University of Alabama at BIrmingham.

- ~ Out ~ Body: The Mothds Body in john Rusldii's Mau~ and Pahlished Poems

. . . David Hanson . . . Soutlastrnl Louisiana University

A~ ~ Gm~ and Fin.cJe.SRcle MythS of ~ SexaaJiIy .

. ChrJS~ . Unt~ofFlorJda

, . Beyond HYsteria: Baldy's Imaginative Woman

Suzanne JohnsOn Flynn Geu.ysbuig College

-11:45-1:00 Baitage~l .

Itmmeon and Business Meeting

1:15-2:30 ~ . . Haitage BaJ.lrom:n n aDd m

1CEYN0IE ADDRESS (free and open to 1he public)

James R.. Kincaid . A£rol Arnold Professor of ~ish University of Soutban Qillfomia

Some Calllt Pr.c:kbur. . . Protecdng aud .ExposiDJ the C'JdJd's ~

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JOHN BIlowN's BoDe: 'IBE Sm!s AND orATioN OF PoLUICAL BoDe AND THE BODY Pounc

ModeIator: Eisaberh Brown Urma&ity of Southern California

"_waaderiDg., rest1ess ~ 01', Fort/da with Browa, Booth, aDd J bH:oIn . .

Mik.e~ . 1JntversiIf of SoUIbem California

4Ifmhllmrd in a thoasaad Scmgs &: stodes": John Brown's ~ aad Cuhmal1lepre5e!ltatioD.

Duncan Fabaty r~_ Unive:rslty of New York, i};T Gaduate Center

Sei7Jng die Sword of Revolatkm: John Brown' and tile ~ of ~ Washington

Robert D. Stun' ' Katt State University, S~ . ' .

Sm.UCI'URAl. BoDIES Modemtor: Ana-lsabel Altaga-Buchenau 1JntversiIf of Southern Mississippi

IadustrIaI Rr:Yolutian in J9th-Ceu.tary Fra1u:e: Embodimf'JIt as MrJaP-

Martin SchwIiiz , East Ca1;oltna Univei:sily

~ Gagr Got a Mobile Home: The Atda:itedomal Body in Marla Cummias's ThB l..tImpllghtllr

Am 1.; Kart ' , , Unlve~f WisconSin-MadtsOn

- An::hltectural Body ~ 1:lJe PsytboJogy of Sty)e' ln 19th C. Aiddt.ti:taral1hoaght

Robert M. Ctaig , Gemgia Institute of Teclmology

. 'l'JlANSC:BNDEN MOVES ,Modemtor: Mark S. Holland East Tennessee State University

~ imaged modt": Femllline DoaHe 0mst:i0asDaIs ' In AugaSIa Wehstds "By tbe Lo~

QuniJJe Martin I..cmisJaIUl State University

"Dini is the 'I.; ...... from lIaunmf': U_'hhP and ~rEvelya n;~N7d.itmd Imagay Elise lawton Smirh

Millsaps Con. __ EJizahdh Barrett ~s Cross Dressers

. Mary S. Pollock . Stetson University .',

SessIoaIV 4:15-5:30 pm; ,

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IN THE 'MARxE:rPI.Ac:R Moderator. Ocravia.Davis Univemlty 'of Califomia, San Diego

-l1IInl Cab, ManhoncJ. ad the"C'.olml1ibD1ty CiisIs

Susan Walsh UnivI:rsltf of New Hampshlre, MandJester

"lbeNew~1be&ohUm dMlsai'iilltSDeIur

.~J:tver.dty

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BonmsPoLmC Modemtor: Ellyn Lockerble Grosh Wheaton 'COJ.J.ege .

1.ibera1ism.·s Body Jknmd: 11u: Nun and t.he Anti­'CathoUc'Imaginati«m in Ninf.teenth.Ce. German .'

>Mtc:bael B. GroSs East Carolina Unhtlslty

Asy11Qll AR:hjta:tare and the Sue Body , , :Barry Fdgintnn ' Un~of~ .

Ccmtagfous DJsease, Progressive CMJizatlon, and Ur1Iul1lmewal in Cacfj l'rIIIlue 1900: . ' TDD .... ding the Bounds of lIackwml Bodies

Cate Giusdno ~Univasl1y

A lb!uGJous PuI.sE Moderator: ~ J. Szilaavi Unive:rslty of AlabRma in lfuntsville

Don't M01ewith the MusIc A Hlstorbll:nqajry tn10 the AudieDce's Sepanidon of Body aad Soa1 at . ' Oasskal CoJDrts .

Wt11em jaban Emuw Ghmt Untvtlstty

. . SUlIcri!Ig and ~ Womm's.AaD1UIIS of MimcaJPus Hr.aliDa in NineteenthCentu Fraua:

Suzanne ICaufman ' Georgia State Universlty

Body and Soal in the AD1i-MaIkal Polrmks of Fram:es Power 'Cobbe '

Sandra '1: Peacock , Georgia Southan UnlVl:rSity

6:30 ~ TOWS of Twickr.abam DJstrkt (I1'011eys J.eave from the Bilton ew:ry IS minutes,

, 6:30-1:~ p.m.)

. ~at 7:00-9:00 pm. Weedm Bouse RazptioD

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CoDJinental breakfast 7:30-8:30 a.m. Baitage Foyer

o HuNrRoOM

Session V 8:3c)"10:00 a.m.

ExcEssIVE BODIES' o Moderator. joeDen Masters 0

Boston Univemty

Dickens ami DisguSt Annette R. Federico

. jatIies Madison U~

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"Mas1od~~tt:lJaAw"" VBIltI8 and the Female Grotesque at the Workl's CDlumbhm Exposition

Kath1een. SpiI;s JndtR1J8 Univetsity

- Sex, sjmians. and ~ in 1§kh.C. Frana:; Or, o Bow to Tell a "Malitt from a Monkey - .

. Diana Snigu1'owic:z . University of Odc:ago

Mnu'OWN RooM • II I I I I t

WHOSE BoDY, WHOSE STORY Modmltor: ICatbarlne Nicholson lngs Jn~ana University .

Bodies, Birth, and Tc:clmplogkal Cbauge o Cynrbia Huff .

o Illinois State University .

Autopsy as V~ Reacting Harriet Martineau's ~

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STARING DOWN DEAm I 1 I.~ Modmtoc JD$eph GardIu:r Univemlty ofKmtucky I!

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"Where they ~ ~ on a table': Pod; and . Ii Patient' in W. E. ~s IaHospital .. .. I:;

DesmondD~ , College of Omrlesfori . . I'

1be BexIrBadral with Pain: ~ Dalk Somu:fs ; . 1Gy Ventre '

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l£e Beb1mail -UniversitY of Michigan

Session VI 10:1S.11:30 am.

EVIDENI'IARY BoDIES _ Mcx1aator: Usa ~ University of C".en.ti81 Florida

CWo T~_ of Such a Life": Rtuz and the Working-Class .6cJ@.y in ADJr)JeJlum I.a1Jor FJdion .

Ene 5c:bocket -Hampshire College

A Show of Bauds: Brading the Self in htltl'1IIuItItl Wilson

. Salah E. Cldnn . Randolph-Macon Ca11eF .

liaDsfCJlJlilJl2 5Ia~s 1Jodies: On the Lesbian TriaD21e aJUlFemale ~ in Harriet F. Wifson's 0",. Nig - _ . .

H. JOldan lJlDdry University of Colorado at BDu14e:r _

AVA1lABi.E WOMEN Modemtor: Srllekba Bell

_ UnivctSity of New Haven

~BeiJm:DtioDsof an Eiabteenth­~ "Bocly,. or What's a Bad Girl J,.tle You DoiDg in an &a I.fke 1lds1: Frith Paints lady Mary Wortley Montagu .

Joan netPIat.o -Simon's Rock College·of Bani

~ the Sv~ GiHlle. tm lIB WilB aud-the BaDama's 1'00 Caltural Body

~Early . -Unfvm.sity of Iowa .

Womm IDIa:Ibeci: Female BocJies as Fmt.ic Tats in KRider Baa.ud .

MiICi A. Kimball . Mm'IIly Stat.e Univaslty

REvJ!RENny YOURS, Mcx1aator. sarah Kidd

_ University of Misso1ni

!GDgsley, Newman, aad the C'Dntest for Sexual Self­DllfenDimation

DavJd Goslee Untver:slty/of Tennessee

12:00-1:00 pa Herilagem

./ Bodies in Dk:kms aud Collins: ' . . A RouudIBhle em Cmrent Rararch aud PaJagogJes

Annette R. Falerk:o. Cllair ~ Madison University

Sesson VB 1:30-2:+5 p.m. .

. A.l!snmnc 1lEvJsIoNS . Modemtor: laurel A. BoIlinJ!.er

Untmslty of AJabn:ua in lf1UltSVille

RatioDa1ity, SenstbDi.ty, amd Gea1us: Rmnantic: WOlDGl Poets and the Me1ancholk: BOdy

Beth Dolan Kautz . . . . . . Univelslty of Nmth Cai'olina at (lJapel HUl

Body Paint: Vernon Lee's Aest1Iedc of the Disemhodtal Erotic

. Dennis Denisoff Univaslty ofWaterloo

"Ibat DOt a ~ be ovatookal": Gmdrr, aass. and ~:=!!!~son's Poetry . .

. UniveIsiIf of Soutbem California

UNNATUlI.AUY B.l!P.aODUCIlVE Modaator: Karm Volland Waters Ma1pnount Univaslty

A1iIRy ~ P1m:Do1ogk:al Autoblographyl Unc1a G. Zatltn Mmdmuse College .

TtaJDBa ad BepasIoD: The "DoaHe WOIIIId" from Dostoevsky to Buvsmans . .

. ]ames WiDcbell . ~ of , Alabama in Huntsville .;

The. Baud of Dmd aud the Judganmts ofParls: A Qisis hi F~AuthorsJdp .

AaronJ.~ . East Catol1Da Untveadty '.

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Rhdnric ofPowa: andAm1Dgulty in l.ateNinPteenth­Ceo.tuty FinDish Portrait PaiIitings

Tutta Palin . . University of Turku

Social DaudDg imd the Body of the Text in Early 19th~ &tgJand

" Elizabetli Oatre " ' -. ~ New york University

Arthur SymoDS and the P:re-anematic Gaze James Kelll:l' University of Tulsa

. . REMAloNG THE .AMERIcAN MAN Modelator: Rhonda"L Reymond University of Georgia

B~ Bodies: Whitman's Erotics Katherine Lewis ' University of Iowa

~~~n:=: Postbe1lU1il Litaature " ,

Jeremy Wells , . University of Michigan

The Off~dho .. Hand"of War in HIII'JIBI". Weekl,y " . ~Gill ·" " .

College of William aml Maiy

BIAIN.AND BRAWN Moderator: Carole Kruger Davidson College

Feminizing the Masndine Ideal: Anne Whitneys . Statue of I.df Ericson

Cynthia Fowler " University of De1awme

Dying to be a laWF-~ P!!Ysiology of Legal Education in Antebellum Amnica AnnFldler Ohio University

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The Aaldnnic Ideal to ~ StereotYPe: The Masniliae Body in Nineteenth-Century At:tu1ImiBB .

Susan Waller Northwestern University

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PEIlFEcnNG BoDe . MDdemtor: Jennifer c. Garlen

. . Auburn UnIversity

. ~ Amdd;y: Fnnuing the Bandug Body '. . ]oyceHuff

Geo!ge Washington. University

. __ WridDg the ~ JaddJde's MtnBltnIr Vlua . Jcan-~ Thibault .

. . GecJ1It Washington University

EmJ.]~ami the New Look of Death in late _eteent~ Amcrka

Katen p. Flood Hamndu'nivaslty

OPllONAL EVENTS

DiDer. The jazz Factory, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

ParJour §educttous

lCarcn Callaway. vocalist ~ Dean, p1anist

0ma2t, 1he VOIl Bm1lll Clvh: ~ ~:lS p.m.

The HmusvilJe Symphony: Orc:besua with the Amerkan Hom Quartet