Registration for the Selling Cultures conference, organised by the
Association for Research in Popular Fictions and the Research
Society for Victorian Periodicals, is now open. Please go to the
ARPF website for further information, www.arpf.org.uk. Programme
details outlined below.
Popular Fictions: Selling Cultures?
Sat 20 & Sun 21 November 2010
Liverpool John Moores University
Provisional conference programme
Saturday 20th November
9.00 - 10.00 Registration and coffee / tea
Introduction
10.00 - 11.00 Plenary One
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 - 12.45 Session 1
Panel A - Comic Cultures
Punch v 'Funch'? Brand Rivalry, Parody and Pastiche
Therie Hendrey-Seabrook (University of Sussex)
Marketing the Anti-New Man in Punch Magazine
Tara MacDonald (University of Amsterdam)
Comic Almanacs and the Periodical Press 1830 - 1860
Brian Maidment (University of Salford)
Panel B - A Question of Value: Richard & Judy's Book Club
'A Good Authentic Read': exoticism in the postcolonial novels of the
Richard & Judy Book Club'
Helen Cousins (Newman College)
The Roles of the Storytellers: Richard and Judy read The Jane Austen Book Club
Jenni Ramone (Newman College)
Suspicious Minds: Richard & Judy's Book Club and Its Resistant Readers
Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham)
Proclaiming pleasure and taste: Empirical Method and the Richard and
Judy Book Club
Nickianne Moody (Liverpool John Moores University)
12.45 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 3.00 Session 2
Panel A - Religious and Missionary Cultures
Sensational Sermonizing: Ellen Wood, Good Words and the Conversion
of the Popular
Julie Bizzotto (Royal Holloway)
Describing the Indescribable: The Great Exhibition through
Religious Periodicals
Geoffrey Cantor (University of Leeds and UCL)
Selling the Missionary Ideal: How the Missionary Press was Used in
the 19th Century
Clive Jolliffe (University of Kent)
Panel B - Promoting Narratives as Products
Stevenson, Du Maurier, Collins and the Selling of Posthumous
Literary Collaboration
Kirsty Bunting, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire
Christmas Anthologies in Portugal
Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta, University of Birmingham
The Publishing Industry and the American Memoir Boom
Julie Rak, University of Alberta
3.00 - 4.00 Roundtable on publishing and research on popular fictions
Chair: Amber Regis
4.00 - 4.15 Coffee break
4.15 - 5.45 Session 3
Panel A - Leisure, Education and Consumption
'Typifying the ideal': Talbot Baines Reed, Character Formation and
the Boy's Own Paper
Simon Machin (Roehampton University)
Consumption, Diffusion and Influence; or, the Consequences of
Three Metaphors
Jude Piesse (University of Exeter)
Representations of the Past in the Leisure Hour: Selling History to
the Working-Man
Doris Lechner (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg)
Panel B - Fiction and Publishing Cultures Between the Wars
'The Danger of the Expedition': Travel and Romance in E. M. Hull's The Sheik
Dr Lisa Regan, University of Hull
The 1930s: W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and popular fiction
Rebecca Gordon, University of Aberdeen
The Hogarth Press and the Middleman: The Impact of the Book Society
in the 1930s
Dr Nicola Wilson, University of Reading
5.45 Delegates invited to gather for dinner at the Everyman
Bistro, Hope Street
Sunday 21st November
9.30 - 11.00 Session 4
Panel A - Reading Women/Women Reading
The Serialization of Middle-Class Domestic Time
Maria Damkjaer (King's College)
Charlotte Younge's 'Goosedom'
Georgina O'Brien Hill (University of Chester)
Puffing and Slating - The Debate over Anonymity versus Signature
in Victorian Book Reviewing
Isabel Seidel (University of Aberdeen)
Panel B - Selling Film and TV to Twenty-First Century Audiences
"This Could be the Next Lost": FlashForward's bid on audience expectation
Enrica Picarelli, University of Naples "L'Orientale"
Remaking Film, Remaking Meaning: Repackaging Horror Cinema for a
Post-9/11 Audience
Sarah Wharton, University of Liverpool
The Wire: Detective McNulty and destabilising the white detective agency
Roshan Singh, Liverpool Hope University
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 - 12.45 Session 5
Panel 11 - Locating Cultural Identities
Sherlock's Slums: The Periodical as an Environmental Form
Jonathan Cranfield (University of Kent)
'Yankee Humour': Selling 'America' in the late-Victorian Joke Column
Bob Nicholson (University of Manchester)
Selling a Mechanized Culture: the Production of British Popular
Cultural Perceptions of the Role of the Steam Railway as
'Civiliser' in India and Africa 1853 - 1901
Di Drummond (Trinity University College)
Panel 12 - Advertising, Product Placement and Participation
Selling Bond: A Cultural History of Product Placement and the James
Bond Franchise
Tanya Nitins, Queensland University of Technology
Advertising and Social Identity: The Supernatural self in Printed
Advertisements
Irene Petratou, Panteion University, Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece
Literary pretentions; Alice in Fan-tasy land
Pauline Archell-Thompson
12.45 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 2.30 Plenary Two
Dr Jim Mussell (University of Birmingham)
2.30 - 2.45 Coffee Break
2.45 - 4.15 Session 6
Panel A - Identity Formation
The Commodity of Writing: The Identity of Money in the Dickensian Periodical
Alfie Bown (University of Manchester)
Transatlantic, National and Regional Identities in the Antebellum
South: the 'great British Reviews' and the Southern Rose (1835 - 1839)
Anna Luker Gilding (King's College London)
Panel B -Performance and Publics in Nineteenth-Century Culture
"My public shall be the reader, and my stage a book": Selling
conjuring and conjuring selling in Victorian popular narratives
Chris Pittard, University of Portsmouth
'Perils and Adventures in Central Africa': The Magic Lantern and
narratives of missionary life
Nickianne Moody, Liverpool John Moores University
South and North: a 'national' paper and regional distinctions
Mike Benbough- Jackson, Liverpool John Moores University
4.15 - 4.30 Closing discussion
Dr. Clare Horrocks
Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication
(LJMU Early Career Researcher Fellow 2010-2011)
Office 105B Dean Walters Building
Liverpool John Moores University
St James Road
Liverpool L1 7BR
Tel: 0151 231 5035
