The UC California Dickens Project has just released its schedule
for the "Victorian Mystery" conference to be held August 5-8 at
Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz.
Further questions about the conference may be addressed to
the Dickens Project, Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, CA 95064, tel.:
408-459-2103; fax: 459-4424.
Thursday, August 5
6:30 Sherry Hour And Registration Kresge College Town Hall
7:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Albert D. Hutter
University of California, Los Angeles
7:45 Victorian Murder: Female Motives and Methods
Judith Knelman
University of Western Ontario
Friday, August 6
11:15 True Crime
Moderated by Robert Newsom
University of California, Irvine
Laura Inman
Columbia University
Gender and Victorian Female Crime: The Case of Maria Manning
Patrick Leary
Indiana University
The Poisoning of Husbands: Arsenic and Sexual Politics at Mid-Century
1:45 The Newgate Novel
Moderated by Joseph Childers
University of California, Riverside
Anne Humpherys
Graduate Center and Lehman College, City University of New York
"Police Intelligence": Newgate Narrative and the Construction of Crime
Kenneth Thompson
University of Virginia
Didactic Sensationalism and the Newgate Controversy: Oliver Twist, Jack
Sheppard, and Courvoisier
Larry Wolff
Boston College
Juvenile Criminality and Erotic Sentimentality in Oliver Twist
3:30 Mystery and Identity
Moderated by Patrick McCarthy
University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas Caramagno
University of Nebraska
Victorian Ideas on the Dual Brain
Kathleen Spencer
University of Nebraska
Mysterious Powers of Mind: Late Victorian Fantastic Fiction
Peter Dale
University of California, Davis
Oscar Wilde: Crime and the "Gracious #011#Shapes of Art"
7:00 Dessert Party and Entertainments
Saturday, August 7
8:45 "The Curs" [of Scotland Yard]
Donald Rumbelow
Formerly of the London Metropolitan Police
10:30 Mysteries of Mind and Body
Moderated by Regenia Gagnier
Stanford University
Sara Berman
Columbia University
The Meaning of Mediumship
Michael Doylen
University of California, Santa Cruz
Writing the Body, Writing the Mind: Phrenology and the Construction of
Victorian Subjectivity
Diana Basham
University of Warwick
Grey Ladies: Victorian Women's Ghost Stories and Victorian Women Ghosts
1:30 Mysteries of the Text
Moderated by Roni Natov
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Barbara Gottfried
Bentley College
Figures of Mystery on the Threshold of the Domestic: Heathcliff and the
"Tenant" of Wildfell Hall
Brian Cheadle
University of the Witwatersrand
The Case of the Dark Surgeon: Mystification and Mystery in the Later Dickens
Ian Duncan
Yale University
The Secret History of the World in The Moonstone
Sunday, August 8
9:00 Mystery and Sensation
Moderated by Troy Boone
University of Rochester
Catherine Hollis
University of California, Berkeley
"Am I Tied to a Wheel?": Locomotion in#011# Lady Audley's Secret
Susan David Bernstein
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Colonizing Domestic Mysteries: The Discourse of Primitivism and Collins's
Sensation Fiction
Ronald Thomas
Trinity College
The Lady Vanishes: The Mystery of Identity in Victorian Sensation Fiction
10:45 Gender, Mystery, and Detection
Moderated by Joss Marsh
Stanford University
Teresa Mangum
University of Iowa
Wilkie Collins, Detection, and Deformity
Susan Katz
New York University
Dispossession and Self-Creation: The Case of the Female Sleuth
Susan Leonardi and Rebecca Pope
University of Maryland and Georgetown University
The Return of Irene Adler
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