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George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss

Saturday 6 November 2010

Tom and Maggie overwhelmed by the flood: Rischgitz/Getty Images  

In an early review of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860), Henry James observed: "English novels abound in pictures of childhood; but I know of none more truthful and touching than the early pages of this work." This one-day conference will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the novel which marked a turning-point for Eliot herself, in the terms of a complex working-through of personal history and memories, but also in terms of the development of nineteenth-century fiction. In a letter to her publisher John Blackwood, Eliot wrote of a need for a "widening psychology" to better understand the vicissitudes of modern life. This conference will consider this broadening-out of thinking and subjectivity in the context of "the personal" in the novel; but also in its encounter with the feelings of others, and in its elegiac meditations on the nature of the past and time, and on a society that was rapidly changing.

Registration:
£35 Standard
£25 IES Members/Postgraduate students/Unwaged
£10 Undergraduates

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PROGRAMME

9.30am

Registration: foyer, Senate House South Block

10.00

Opening remarks, Barbara Hardy (Birkbeck and Swansea)

Room G22/26

10.10

Paper 1: Chair: Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (Exeter)

Room G22/26

David Amigoni (Keele): 'Inheritance and Parental Investment in The Mill on the Floss'

11.00

Tea and coffee

Room G35

11.30

Paper 2: Chair: Adelene Buckland (UEA)

Room G22/26

Kathryn Hughes (UEA): 'Who were the Dodsons? Uncovering Traces of Family History in The Mill on the Floss'

12.30

Lunch (own arrangements)

1.45

Short Papers 1: Chair: John Rignall (Warwick)

Room G22/26

Alain Jumeau (Paris-Sorbonne): 'Translating The Mill on the Floss'
Donna Maynard (Exeter): ' "She had often wished for Books with more in them": Imagined Space and the Making of "More"
in The Mill on the Floss'

2.50

Short Papers 2: Chair: Barbara Hardy (Birkbeck and Swansea )

Room G22/26

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (Exeter): 'Maggie Tulliver & The Ethics of Work'
Louise Lee (KCL): 'Maggie Tulliver & The Ethics of Boredom'

3.50

Tea and coffee

Room G35

4.15

Short Papers 3: Chair: Louise Lee (KCL)

Room G22/26

Barbara Hardy (Birkbeck & Swansea): 'A Portrait of Lucy Deane'
Catherine Brown (New College, Oxford): ' The Mill on the BBC in 1978'

     

5.15pm

Wine reception

Grand Lobby, 1st Floor

     

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Enquiries: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email jon.millington@sas.ac.uk

 

   
 
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