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Mary Shelley in Her Times (Preliminary Program)

22 - 24 May 1997

Co-Directors: Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran

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Sponsored by the Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc.,
in conjunction with the University Center and Graduate School
of the City University of New York

Prochansky Auditorium

Here is the essential program for the upcoming bicentenary conference on Mary Shelley. There is no cost for registration, but, since we need to watch numbers I would appreciate an email note from anyone expecting to attend being sent to curran@english.upenn.edu. If anyone wishes to attend the final banquet, the cost will be $50: advance reservations must be made through me. I'm appending as well the information on conference accommodation we have sent to participants: note the deadline for two of the hotels.

Thanks for your interest,

Stuart Curran
University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, 22 May 1997:

  • Thursday, 1:45-2:00: Introductions.

  • Thursday, 2:00-2:30: Betty T. Bennett: "Not this time, Victor!": The evolution of Elizabeth from Frankenstein to Falkner.

  • Thursday, 2:30-3:00: Jackie DiSalvo: Mary Shelley's Maternal Politics and Milton's Politics of Sonship

  • Thursday, 3:00-3:30: Jeanne Moskal: Godwin, Switzerland, and Mary Shelley's History of a Six Weeks' Tour

  • Thursday, 3:30-3:45: BREAK

  • Thursday, 3:45-4:15: Nora Crook: The Taming of Frankenstein: Did She or Didn't She?

  • Thursday, 4:15-4:45: William St Clair: The Impact of Frankenstein on Nineteenth-Century Culture

  • Thursday, 4:45-5:00: BREAK

  • Thursday, 5-5:30: Pamela Clemit: From The Fields of Fancy to Matilda: Mary Shelley's Changing Conception of her Novella

  • Thursday, 5:30-6:00: Charles Robinson: Mathilda as a Tragic Actress

  • Thursday, 6:30-8:00: Conference Reception at the New York Public Library

Friday, 23 May 1997:

  • Friday, 9:30-10: Marilyn Butler: Black Beatrice, or the Cultural Politics of Valperga

  • Friday, 10-10:30: Tilottama Rajan: Situating Valperga: Mary Shelley, Romanticism, and the Dynamics of Narrative

  • Friday, 10:30-11: Michael Rossington: Future Uncertain: The Republican Tradition and its Destiny in Valperga

  • Friday, 11-11:15: BREAK

  • Friday, 11:15-11:45: Gary Kelly: Politics of Autobiography/Autobiographical Politics in Mary Shelley's Novels

  • Friday, 11:45-12:15: Mitzi Myers: The Female Author between Public and Private Spheres

  • Friday, 12:15-1:30: LUNCH

  • Friday, 1:30-2: Michael Laplace-Sinatra: Limited Freedom: Mary Shelley and the Pressure of Authorship in Frankenstein and The Last Man
  • Friday, 2-2:30: Samantha Webb: Editing the Apocalypse: The Last Man, History and the Agency of Romantic Authorship

  • Friday, 2:30-2:45: BREAK

  • Friday, 2:45-3:15: Anne McWhir: Mary Shelley, Disease, and the Infected Text

  • Friday, 3:15-3:45: Constance Walker: Kindertotenlieder: Mary Shelley and the Art of Losing

  • Friday, 3:45-4:00: BREAK

  • Friday, 4-4:30 Stuart Curran: Frankenstein in Hypertext

  • Friday, 4:30-5: Steven Jones: The Last Man Web: Hypertext, Reception, and Publishing History
  • Friday, 5:30-7: Conference Reception: CUNY Department of English

  • Friday, 7-8:30: Staged Reading of Frankenstein: an original adaptation by Betty T. Bennett; performed by American University Theater Alumni

Saturday, 24 Mary 1997:

  • Saturday, 9:30-10: Anne Mellor: Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril

  • Saturday, 10-10:30: Meena Alexander: Mary Shelley: Colonialism, Memory and the Gendered Body

  • Saturday, 10:30-10:45: BREAK

  • Saturday, 10:45-11:15: Paula Feldman: Mary Shelley and the Literary Annuals

  • Saturday, 11:15-11:45: Judith Pascoe: Poetry as Souvenir: Mary Shelley in the Annuals

  • Saturday, 11:45-12: BREAK

  • Saturday ,12-12:30: Michael O'Neill: "Trying to Make It as Good as I Can": A Reappraisal of Mary Shelley's Editing of Shelley's Poetry and Prose

  • Saturday, 12:30-1: Arnold Markley: Breaking Out of Her Times: Cross-Dressing and Disguise in the Fiction of Mary Shelley

  • Saturday, 1-2: LUNCH

  • Saturday, 2:00-2:30: Greg Kucich: Mary Shelley's Lives and the Gendering of History

  • Saturday, 2:30-3: Judith Barbour: Genius Unveiled: Mary Shelley's Life of William Godwin

  • Saturday, 3-3:15: BREAK

  • Saturday, 3:15-3:45: William D. Brewer: William Godwin, Chivalry, and Mary Shelley's Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck

  • Saturday, 3:45-4:15: Lisa Vargo: "Words have More Power than Any One Can Guess": Lodore and the Contexts of Its Times
  • Saturday, 4:15-4:30: BREAK

  • Saturday, 4:30-5: Marion Kingston Stocking: The Persistence of Memory: Claire Clairmont's Recollections of Mary Shelley

  • Saturday, 5-5:30: E. Douka Kabitoglou: Blood Sisters: Mary Shelley, Liz Lochhead, and the Monster

  • Saturday, 7:30: Keats-Shelley-Association reception and dinner: University Club

  • ACCOMMODATIONS

    Luxury:

    Hotel Lexington, 511 Lexington Avenue at 48th Street, New York, NY 10017. telephone 212/755-4400; FAX 212 751-4091. $155 plus 13 1/4% tax + $2.00 occupancy tax per night Sales Manager:Susan Beyer -- tel 212/688-2330

    Standard (theater district Ramada Inn, which it is):

    Milford Plaza, 270 West 45th Street, entrance on 8th Ave, New York, NY 10036. telephone 212/869-3600, 1-800/221-2690; FAX 212/944-8357. $119 plus 13 1/4% tax + $2.00 occupancy tax per night Sales Manager: Steve Leonard

    Reasonable (one express subway stop away: #2 or 3 Broadway red line):

    Beacon Hotel, Broadway at 74th Street, New York, NY 10025. telephone: 212/787-1100; FAX 212/787-8119. $99 plus 13 1/4% tax + $2.00 occupancy tax per night

    Spartan (conventual-monastic: separate toilets, baths, clean, safe):

    Vanderbilt YMCA, 244 East 47th Street off 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10017. telephone: 212/756-9600; FAX 212/752-0210 $51 single; $63 double (bunk) plus 13 1/4% tax + $2.00.

    The rates at the Lexington and Milford Plaza are special academic rates that we have arranged for. (The Sales Manager's names are provided in case any question is raised about the rate.) In making reservations at the Milford Plaza, please specify the Mary Shelley Conference--at the Lexington, the S.U.N.Y. discount rate. In planning for this conference, it did not occur to any of those involved that this would be the Memorial Day weekend in the US. On top of that, it is also the week that the US Navy Fleet is in town. The result is that demand for rooms will be high, and these hotels are bending over somewhat to be helpful since they might expect to fill their rooms for the extended weekend. Should any of you wish to stay beyond the end of the conference (viz. Sunday or Monday), these same rates will apply. However, for the Lexington and Milford Plaza, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT ROOM RESERVATIONS BE MADE BY 21 APRIL, a month in advance. After that, the rooms revert to the central pool, and it will be catch as catch can.


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