The idea of this panel is to showcase and discuss the sort of new work
being done in the field of Victorian law and literature in the last decade
or so-since D.A. Miller's The Novel and the Police (1988). Contributions
to this conference are to be summations and interpretations rather than
presentations of new research findings, and this panel will discuss both
the current trends and exciting, idiosyncratic directions that we see in
the study of Victorian law and literature. Please send brief proposals
for presentations along with an abbreviated cv to Jonathan Grossman
(grossman@udel.edu). Deadline: March 31, 2000.
The conference, "Locating the Victorians," will be 12-15 July 2001. The
year 2001 will mark the sesquicentenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851
and the centenary of the death of Queen Victoria. The Science Museum, the
Victoria & Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum in London's South
Kensington will therefore host a great Victorian festival with major
exhibitions and an international conference which will interpret the 19th
Century for the benefit of the 21st.
The location will be in South Kensington, London, with events at the
Museums. The meeting is being structured so as to be interdisciplinary,
broadly-based and summative. It is intended to foster communication
between students of all branches of Victorian history, culture and
literature. It will address questions such as the Victorian concepts of
progress and time, of certainty and reality, of participation and
inclusion, of gender and class, of association and organization, of art
and imagination.
Prof. Jonathan Grossman
212 Memorial Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
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