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'Grop[ing] in the Darkness': Frederick William Robinson’s Tales of Female Crime and Incarceration

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2006, November)
'Grop[ing] in the Darkness': Frederick William Robinson’s Tales of Female Crime and Incarceration. Paper presented at 48th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, USA
No abstract available.

Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2013, September)
Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life. Paper presented at Lesser Victorians: Beyond the Canon in Victorian Fiction, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin
No abstract available.

"Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse

Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2016, August)
"Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse. Paper presented at ESSE 2016, National University of Ireland, Galway
This paper examines the work of two of the main protagonists behind the cultural and political revival of Ireland in the early twentieth century, W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pears...

Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman.

Presentation / Conference
Wasson, S. (2011, August)
Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011., University of Heidelberg, Germany
The International Gothic Association facilitates dissemination of research in Gothic and horror from the eighteenth century to the present, and the Conference is held once eve...

'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884)

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2012, June)
'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884). Paper presented at Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928), Newcastle University, UK
No abstract available.

Constructing citizenship through suffragette prison diaries

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2010, June)
Constructing citizenship through suffragette prison diaries. Paper presented at 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, University of Sussex
No abstract available.

Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism

Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2013, December)
Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism. Paper presented at World-literatures, Discrepant Transnationalisms: Beyond Region and Nation?, Stuttgart, Germany
The Scottish Renaissance Movement of the 1920-30s was a response to what many literary artists of the period saw as Scotland’s provincialisation within the United Kingdom and ...

Mediating the world of the prison: class and gender in Victorian convict autobiography

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2006, July)
Mediating the world of the prison: class and gender in Victorian convict autobiography. Paper presented at 5th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
No abstract available.

Victorian convict lives: selling the prison experience

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2007, August)
Victorian convict lives: selling the prison experience. Paper presented at British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, 8th annual conference: Victorian cultural industries & elites, University of Salford
No abstract available.

Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival

Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2017, December)
Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival. Paper presented at European Revivals Conference V - Cultural Mythologies around 1900, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
This paper will argue that the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth, early twentieth century was first-and-foremost a Symbolist movement. Focusing on the writing, thought and ...