New Approaches to Victorian Studies
9th Annual Symposium
21 October 2016
Friday 10:00am – 3:00pm
Stong Master’s Dining Room
Host: Lesley Higgins
Morning session, 10.15 am – 11.45 am
Moderator: Julianna Will
Deborah Neill (History)
“Human Rights or Free Trade?: A British Merchant’s Reluctant Activism in the French Congo at the End of the Nineteenth Century”
Kathryn Roberts (Humanities)
“The Letter, the Spirit, and the Obscurity of Jude: Reading Ethically, a Hermeneutical Approach to Thomas Hardy’s Final Novel”
Scott McLaren (Scott Library)
“Hostile Against Everything British: American Books in Upper Canadian Schools, 1844‒1860”
Afternoon session, 1.15 – 2.45 pm
Moderator: Khyati Nagar
Sonja Pushchak (Humanities)
“The Nature of the Charges: Science Anxiety, Publication Bias, and the Trials of Oscar Wilde”
Victor Shea (Humanities)
“‘Words of Power on the Other Side of the Ocean’: Remapping Carlyle and Mill ‘On the Negro Question’”
Anna St. Onge (Scott Library)
“‘What She Was: by Herself’: Archival Disappointments, Hints, and Spirits in the Papers of Victoria Welby”