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

Parallel Panels 2

Friday 23 June, 4.00-5.00

Panel 2a: Visualising Empire (abstracts)

Prathibha Kanakamedala (University of Sussex), 'Staging Slave Runaways: a How-to Manual From Harriet Beecher Stowe'

Muireann O'Cinneide (University of Oxford), ‘Portraits of Princes: Emily Eden’s Images of Authority in India & Afghanistan’

Panel 2b: The Language on the Walls (abstracts)

Sara Thornton (University of Paris VII), 'Advertising anf the Victorian Virtual Subject'

Karen Carter (University of North Florida), 'USA Poster Gazing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris'

Panel 2c: Optical Technologies 1 (abstracts)

Sibylle Erle (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Optics and Dissent: More Optic Theory at Work in Blake's Creation Myth'

Sophie Thomas (University of Sussex), 'Exphrasis and Terror: Shelley, Medusa, and the Phantasmagoria'