[NIS_GS:] CFP: Trollope and Gender (UK) (2/1/06; 7/17/06-7/19/06)
Trollope and Gender
July 17 – 19 2006
Exeter University, U.K.
Keynote Speakers:
Robert Polhemus, Stanford University
Deborah Denenholz Morse, The College of William and Mary
Mark Turner, King’s College, London
Plenary Chair: Regenia Gagnier, Exeter University
Speakers include: Mary Jean Corbett (Miami at Ohio) on Trollope,
Gender, and Ireland; Lauren Goodlad (Illinois, Urbana Champaign) on Trollope,
Gender and Foreign Policy; Margaret Markwick (Exeter) on Trollope’s New Men; Kathy Psomaides (Duke) on Trollope and the Feminist Critique of Liberalism.

>From the first gender-sensitive critique of Trollope’s women by Morse, through Polhemus’s erotically-charged account of Phineas Finn in love to Turner’s genderised reading of narrative technique differentiated according to audience, the last two decades have witnessed a diametric shift in how we read Trollope. Today John Stuart Mill’s articulation of liberalism sits well with Trollope’s open and frank approach to gender and sexuality. We invite papers drawn from re-readings of Anthony Trollope in the light of the most recent thinking in gender studies.

How have perceptions of his presentation of women changed over the last twenty
years? How have the latest reframings of Victorian masculinities shaped the
reinterpretations of Trollope’s men, and how have ideas of queer theory shifted perceptions of those Trollope characters who operate at the margins?
In suggesting these possibilities, we do not seek to circumscribe the field of
study of the conference; we wish to welcome a wide and diverse view of the
significance of Trollope studies in the twenty-first century.

Topics might include­but are not limited to­the following:

Sex and the City: The Palliser Novels. Queer Trollope. Erotic Languages. Feminist Trollope? Money and Gender. Liberalism and Gender. Vulgar Women. Celibacy, or Renunciation and its Pains – and Delights. Foreignness and Gender. Sex and the Irish Question. Homosocial Bonds. Trollope’s Fallen Women. Oedipal Trollope. Trollope, Gender, and the Jewish Question. Unrequited Love. Family Bonds, – and Bondage. Trollopian Mothers. Child Erotics. Breeding and Heredity. Gendered Illustrations – Millais and Others.

Send 200-300 word abstracts by 1st February 2006 to
h.m.markwick@exeter.ac.uk

For more information, go to http://www.english.ex.ac.uk/trollope-and-gender
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