Note: This programme is still tentative. It will be periodically updated.

Friday September 19th 1997

8:00-9:00  Registration and Coffee (Registration will be open until 4:30 on Saturday)

9:00-10:30  Portraits of Ladies (Chair: Marc Plamondon)

• Paul G. Beidler (U Toronto) "Skepticism of Beauty in Vanity Fair"
• Lynne Crockett (New York U) "Gwendolen Harleth: A Reflection upon Fragmentation"
• Allan Hepburn (U Toronto) "A Short History of the Dilettante: James, Ruskin, and Taste"

10:30-10:45  Coffee Break

10:45-12:15  Les beaux arts et les belles lettres  (Chair: Kathleen McDougall)

• Soundouss Ech Cherif El Kettani (U Laval) "Zola entre la beauté des oeuvres d'art et la beauté romanesque"
• Anne Dymond (Queen's U) "Exhibitionism and the Arlésienne Woman: The Politics of Local Beauty in Frédéric Mistral's Provençal Museum"
• Elise Noetinger (Cambridge) "L'art de la contradiction: la 'sinistre beauté' du corps blessé dans L'Homme qui rit de Victor Hugo"

12:15-1:30  Lunch

1:30-3:00  Aesthetics  (Chair: Christopher Jennings)

• Andrew Schulz (Seattle U) "Nature, Beauty, and the Monstrous: The Case of Odilon Redon"
• Elizabeth M. Archer (U of Southern California) "Woman as Art: Ruskin's Theories of Woman, the Beautiful, and the Grotesque"
• Kenneth Daley (Ohio U) "From the Theoretic to the Practical: Ruskin, British Aestheticism, and the Relation of Beauty to Use"

3:00-3:15  Coffee Break

3:15-4:45  English Beauty and the World  (Chair: Ann-Barbara Graff)

• Mark D. Stephanson (Queen's U) "'Plain Jane': Race, Physiognomy, and Charlotte Brontë's Irish Accent"
• Heidi Tiedemann (U Toronto) "Visibility, 'Lookers', and the Critique of the 'Other' Woman in Jane Eyre and Villette"
• Cecily Devereux (U Western Ontario) "'Our English Girls': The Erotic Representation of the 'White Slave Trade' in the Late Nineteenth Century"

4:45-5:00  Coffee Break

5:00-6:00  Mark Cheetham (U Western Ontario) "The Politics of Beauty: Immanuel Kant and the Fernow Circle in Rome c. 1800"

6:00-9:00  A Wine and Cheese is tentatively scheduled, pending budget.

Saturday September 20th 1997

9:00-10:30  Beauty at Work  (Chair: Mitchell Frank)

• Elaine Ostry (U Toronto) "Fairy Tales and Beauty in the Age of Utilitarianism"
• Gary MacDonald (U of Florida) "Manly Beauty and the Beast: Representations of Masculinity in the Industrializing Northeast"
• Alan Chong (U Toronto) "Beauty, Illusion, and Loss: The Three Isabellas and the Economy of the Fetish"

10:30-10:45  Coffee Break

10:45-12:15  Beauty in Peril  (Chair: Sarah Winters)

• Goldie Morgentaler (U of Lethbridge) "Executing Beauty: Dickens, Reproduction, and the Aesthetics of Death"
• Benjamin Franklin V (U of South Carolina) "Beauty=Sex=Death: Plucking the Flower in Hawthorne's 'The Birth-Mark'"
• Cecile Kandl (Lehigh U) "Images of the Body: Beauty and the Feminine Ideal in Alice in Wonderland and Jane Eyre"

12:15-1:30  Lunch

1:30-2:30  W. David Shaw (U Toronto) "'Thou wilt renew thy beauty': Naturalizing the Vocative from Coleridge to Browning"

2:30-2:45  Coffee Break

2:45-4:15  The Ugly  (Chair: Elias Polizoes)

• Walter S. Minot and Leslie Ann Minot (Gannon U and U of California at Berkeley) "'Christabel' and Frankenstein: A Study of the Beautiful and the Ugly"
• Lena Udall (UCLA) "Tainted Beauty: Théophile Gautier and Decadence"
• Patrizia Bettella (U Alberta) "Discourse of Beauty and Ugliness in Italian 'Scapigliatura' and Baudelaire"

4:15-4:30  Coffee Break

4:30-6:00  Staying in Fashion  (Chair: Leigh Jerz)

• Marion Brown (U Cincinnati) "Beauty on the Ohio Frontier, 1775-1825"
• Joanna Devereux (U Western Ontario) "'Seeing's Not Believing': Artificial Hair and the Ideology of Beauty in Hardy's Fiction"
• Gina Dorré (Tulane U) "Horses and Corsets: Black Beauty, Dress Reform, and the Fashioning of the Victorian Woman"

7:30  Graduate English Association (GEA) pub

Last updated August 24th 1997