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First Announcement
Gissing Conference - 9-11 September 1999. Preparations are under way for an international conference at Amsterdam in the late summer of 1999. The English department in the University of Amsterdam has offered to host this first major conference to focus on the works of the English novelist, whose reappraisal has been intensified by and greatly benefited from the recent publication of his collected correspondence. The conference will be held at the heart of the old city, within walking distance of some of the world's greatest art collections. Members of the organizing committee: Prof. Martha Vogeler, Prof. Jacob Korg, Prof. Pierre Coustillas, Dr David Grylls and Dr Bouwe Postmus. Aim of the conference is to further the exchange of recent research on Gissing, ranging from the theoretical to the empirical, and from the biographical to the bibliographical.
For further information, contact:
B. P. Postmus
Engels Seminarium
Spuistraat 210
1012 VT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
e-mail: B.P.Postmus@let.uva.nl
tel.: 31-020-5253833
fax: (31) (20) 525-3052
The final decades of this century have seen the steady consolidation of George Gissing's reputation as one of the foremost novelists of late-Victorian England. His world-wide readership has been well served by many new editions of his works. The revival of interest in his life and achievement has been furthered since the early 1960s by such scholars as Jacob Korg, Pierre Coustillas, and Arthur Young, and in 1990 the Gissing Centre was opened at his birthplace in Wakefield. Crowning a generation's scholarship are the monumental nine volumes of The Collected Letters of George Gissing, published by Ohio University Press from 1991 to 1997.
This first International George Gissing Conference brings together many of those instrumental in promoting appreciation of Gissing thirty-five years ago, and they are joined by a new generation of scholars keen to continue the study of Gissing into the next century. The range of papers offered testifies to the liveliness of the current scholarly debate. It is hoped that the Conference may serve to define some of the priorities of future research.
Welcome to Amsterdam!
Registration
English Department, Spuistraat 210, 5th floor
Telephone: (020) 525 3830, and 525 3833
Hours: Wednesday, 8 September 3-6;
Thursday, 9 September 8:30-12:00
Meetings
P.C. Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, rooms 104 and 105
Welcome
Participants arriving on Wednesday, 8 September, are invited for a drink at the Amsterdam Academic Club, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 235, at 6 pm
Telephone (020)525 37 69
Lunch
Lunch is included in the Conference fee and will be served in locations to be announced at the Conference
Book Stall
The Idle Booksellers will offer for sale a wide range of new and antiquarian Gissing books in Room 538, English Department, 5th floor, Spuistraat 210
Organizers
Financial Assistance
Achtkarspelen BV, Hoorn
Burgomaster and Corporation of Amsterdam
Deen Supermarkets, Hoorn
Faculty of Humanities, Amsterdam
Programme Editor
Albert R. Vogeler
Conference venue provided by Faculty of Humanities, Amsterdam
9:30-9:45
Greeting by Bouwe Postmus. Room 104
9:45-10:30
Gissing the European. Pierre Coustillas. Room 104
10:30-11 :00
Coffee
11:00-1 1:30
Gissing '5 Criticism of the Works of Charles Dickens. Michael Cronin
11:30-12:00
Buried Treasure: George Gissing's Short Fiction. Barbara Rawlinson
12:00-12:30
Social Subordination and Superiority in Gissing's 'A Daughter of the Lodge'. Russell Price and Francesco Badolato
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-2:30
This Spectacle of a World's Wonder':
Commercial Culture and Urban Space in Gissing's "In the Year of Jubilee." David Glover
2:30-3:00
Unhappy Realism, or, How to Read a George Gissing Novel. Simon J. James
3:00-3:30
Tea
3:30-4:00
Gissing and Hogarth. John Sloan
4:00-4:30
Gissing and Modernity. William Greenslade
5:30-6:30
Reception by the Burgomaster and Corporation of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Town Hall
Dinner independently arranged
9:30-9:45
Greeting by Bouwe Postmus. Room 104
9:45-10:30 Gissing the European. Pierre Coustillas. Room 104
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-11:30 Living in Exile: Self-Image, Social Role, and the Problem of Identity. Lucy Crispin
11:30-12:00
Gender and Literary Production in "New Grub Street." Margaret E. Mitchell
12:00-12:30
Selection, Sex, and Survival in "Born in Exile." Stephen Andrew Ogden
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-2:30
Dangerous Minds: the Education of Women in Gissing's Marriage Quartet. Sandra R. Woods
2:30-3:00
Eve and Rhoda: Doubled Enigma. Arlene Young
3:00-3:30
Tea
3:30-4:00
"Denzil Quarrier" and the Politics of Dissimulation. Emanuela Ettorre
4:00-4:30
Deception, Violence, and the Criminal Act in Gissing's Fiction. Lewis D. Moore
5:30-6:30
Reception by the Burgomaster and Corporation of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Town Hall
Dinner independently arranged
9:30-10:00
Pickled Walnuts and Eating Houses: Gissing, Food, and Eating Out in Late-Victorian London. Scott McCracken
10:00-10:30
The Feminization of the City: the Streetwalker, the Flâneuse, the Shopgirl. Maria Teresa Chialant
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-11:30
Gissing and Ancient Rome. Jacob Korg
11:30-12:00
A New Biography of Gissing: Facts and Problems. Paul Delany
12:00-12:30
Gissing and his Japanese Readers. Fumio Hojoh
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-2:30
Men at Work: Masculinity and the Ideology of Labour in Gissing's Novels. Liz Hedgecock
2:30-3:00
Idiot Heroines and Worthless Women? Gissing's 1890s Fiction and Female Independence. Emma Liggins
3:00-3:30
Tea
3:30-4:45
Rediscovering "By the Ionian Sea." Texts and Slides. Wulfhard Stahl. Room 104
6:30-10:00
Conference Dinner. Restaurant David and Goliath, Amsterdam Historical Museum, Kalverstraat 92. Telephone (020) 623 6736
9:3040:00
Gissing in Context. L. R. Leavis
10:00-10:30
'Written, Too, in Exile!': A Metatextual Approach to "Born in Exile." Christine Huguet
10:30-11:00
Coffee
11:00-11:30
At Their Millennium, Fables for Our Time: The Bankruptcies of the Nations in Meredith's "One of Our Conquerors" and Gissing's "The Wairlpool. " Raymond L. Baubles, Jr.
11:30-12:00
Gissing as Thwarted Aesthete. Diana E Maltz
12:00-12:30
Women with Ideas: Gissing's "The Odd Women and the New Woman Novel. Constance D. Harsh
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-2:30
Gissing and the Lushingtons. Anthony Curtis
2:30-3:00
Gissing and Austin Harrison. Martha S. Vogeler
3:00-3:30
Tea
3:30-4:45
Rediscovering "By the Ionian Sea." Texts and slides. Wulfhard Stahl. Room 104
6:30-10:00
Conference Dinner. Restaurant David and Goliath, Amsterdam Historical Museum, Kalverstraat 92. Telephone (020) 623 67 36
9:30-10:45
Editing The Collected Letters of George Gissing
Panel:
10:45-HIS11:15
Coffee
11:15-12:15
Round table discussion
12:15-12:30
Farewell
12:30
Lunch
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