The Verbal and the Visual in Nineteenth-Century Culture Institute of English Studies Senate House, University of London 23-24 June 2006

Parallel Panels 1

Friday 23 June, 11.30-1.00

Panel 1a: Illustrating Periodicals (abstracts)

Laurel Brake (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Illustration and Cheap Journalism in Scotland and England: the divergent cases of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal and The Penny Magazine, 1832 ff'

Ian Haywood (Roehampton University, London), 'Illuminating Propaganda: William James Linton's Bob Thin: Or, The Poorhouse Fugitive'

Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson University, Toronto), 'Visual/Verbal Relations at the Fin de Siècle: The Yellow Book Redefines the "Illustrated Magazine"'

Panel 1b: Seeing Science (abstracts)

Melanie Keene (University of Cambridge), ' "Eyes and No Eyes": Gideon Mantell and the art of seeing pebbles'

Assimina Kaniari (University of Oxford), 'Buckland to Turner and Lyell to Verne: Geological Theory and the representation of the earth in nineteenth-century visual arts and popular culture'

Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University), 'In His Wildest Dreams: Aubrey Beardsley's Visionary Fusion'

Panel 1c: Visual Cultures of the Book (abstracts)

Louis James (University of Kent), 'Time Smokes the Picture: The Representation of the Past in Victorian Book Illustrations'

Sarah Davison (University of Oxford), 'Visual Mischief "After the Fashion of the Late Mr James Granger": The Doctored Books in Max Beerbohm's Library'

Dorothee Wimmer (Freie Universität Berlin), 'Paraphrase Versus Ekphrasis? Manet's Illustrations for Poe's The Raven'