16th Annual Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium: Talk Sense

Date
Feb 8, 2025
Location

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Event Description
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Program

10 a.m. • Breakfast (coffee & pastries)

10:15 a.m. • Introductions & Welcome

10:30 a.m.

  • Sonal Rana (Rutgers University)
    “Dramatic Misjudgments and Arranged Affect in Henry James's The Ambassadors
     
  • Lauren Bunce (Princeton University)
    "Marcher's Secret Watcher: The Labor of Knowing in Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle”

12 p.m. • Lunch Break

1:30 p.m.

  • Mursal Sidiqi (University of Pennsylvania)
    "Prefacing Persian Poetry: Translating Sufism in Victorian England"
     
  • Rachel Leichner (Lehigh University)
    “'Parachutes and Railroads – Man-Traps and Spring-Guns!': Prostheses in Edgar Allan Poe's ‘The Man That Was Used Up’”
     
  • Eliza Browning (Princeton University)
    “'There Was Such a Dead Silence': Economies of Slavery and Marriage in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

3 p.m. • Closing Remarks

3:15 p.m. • Reception

Sponsors
  • Princeton Victorian Colloquium
  • Rutgers Nineteenth-Century Research Group
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