Victorian Animals
Victorian Animals
Victorian Popular Fiction Association and Liverpool John Moores University Study Day
Saturday 18th November 2017
Aldham Roberts Library, Liverpool John Moores University
9.30 – 10.00: Registration and Welcome
10.00 – 11.15: Hands on Workshop with LJMU’s 19th-Century Special Collections archive, periodicals and digitised materials
11.15 – 11.30: Refreshment Break (included)
11.30 – 1.00: Panel 1 – ‘Victorian Cats and Dogs’
Chair: Helena Ifill
Amber Regis: ‘Writing the Unreasoning Victorian Animal: Lucy Thornton’s The Story of a Poodle (1889)’
Christopher Pittard: ‘Her Dog’s Voice: Wilkie Collins, My Lady’s Money, and Rabies’
Nickianne Moody: ‘The Vicissitudes of Victorian Cats in The Cottager and Artisan’
1.00 – 2.00: Lunch (included) with Exhibition Viewing
2.00 – 3.30: Panel 2 – ‘Victorian Beasts and Animalistic Behaviour’
Chair: Nickianne Moody
Jo Knowles: ‘Donkeys in the Background: Representing the Beasts of Burden in 19th-Century Periodicals’
Janine Hatter: ‘The Theatre of Sudden Death: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Circus Lions’
Monika Holder: ‘Animal Imagery in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Prose Fiction’
3.30 - 4.30: Keynote – Steven Gray (University of Portsmouth): ‘A Menagerie Afloat: Naval Animals and the Exotic Imagination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’
Chair: Chris Pittard
4.30: Close
5.00: Conference Dinner at a local restaurant TBC