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Friday, February 19
1:30 – 3 p.m. | Panel 1: Capital Accounts
On the Threshold of Friendship: Socialist Sympathy at the Fin de Siècle
Gemma Holgate (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Social Division of Intellectual Labor as a Condition of England in Kingsley's Alton Locke
Marie Sanazaro (Princeton University)
Gothic Marxism: Theorizing an Economy to the Dead
Anthony Gomez (Stony Brook University)
Response: Lacey Muckle (Rutgers University)
3 – 3:30 p.m. | Break
3 – 5 p.m. | Panel 2: Psychological Studies
The Texture of The Moonstone: Psychological Epistemologies and the Unity of Consciousness
Scott C. Thompson (Temple University)
“And Perhaps I Might Be So”: Maternal and Conjugal “Méconnaissance” and Abjection in Jane Eyre
Margaret McCurry (New York University)
The Disunity Between Choice and Consent in Daniel Deronda
Alicia Rosenthal (Rutgers University)
Response: Jeewon Yoo (Princeton University)
Saturday, February 20
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Panel 3: Spatial Surveys
“In India, or in that neighborhood”: The Critique of Domestic Imperial Capitalism in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford
Jennifer Heine (University of Southern California)
Forming Identity through Place: Late Victorian London, the Flâneur, and Metaphor in Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Emily Jordan (Arizona State University)
New Imperial Cringe: Haggard, Bathos, and the Limits of Empire
Conor MacVarish (Columbia University)
Response: Kristin Rose (Rutgers University)
12 – 1:30 p.m. | Break
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Panel 4: Forms of Loss
“The imminent horrors of Cholera”: narrative thwartedness and epidemiological crisis in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Mary Kate Guma (University of Cambridge)
Alina Shubina (Columbia University)
“A Mind Weighted with Unpublished Matter”: Edward Casaubon and Literary Maternity in Middlemarch
Emily Anderson (Rutgers University)
A Whole of Sutured Parts: In Memoriam, Ineffability, and the Labors of Piecing
Elizabeth Howard (University of Minnesota)
Response: John Schulz (Princeton University)