> *****************
> ** CONSUMPTION **
> *****************
>
> Eating -- Reading -- Shopping
>
> University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 29-30 June 1996
>
> An international, interdisciplinary conference on the
>representation of consuming or being consumed in the eighteenth
> and nineteenth centuries.
>
> * * *
>
> Programme
>
>Saturday 29th June
>
>4.00-4.30 pm tea/coffee and registration
>
>4.30-6.30 pm Session 1A: Consuming Texts in the 18th Century
>
> Judith Mesa-Pelly (U of Miami), '"Pronouncing Her
> Case to be Grief": Nostalgia and Consumption in
> *Clarissa*'
>
> Helen Munzing (King Alfred's C, Winchester),
> 'Phillis Wheatley's Textual Hybridity'
>
> Shaun Regan (Aberystwyth), 'Consuming Wit: Texts,
> Bodies, and Reading in *Tristram Shandy*, the
> Critical Reviews, and the Copyright Debate'
>
> * * *
>
> Session 1B: Consuming Books in Victorian England
>
> Alison Chapman (Sheffield Hallam U), 'The Consumptive
> Text: Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"'
>
> Natalka Freeland (Yale U), 'Colonial Consumption and
> Domestic Disorder: or, What's Eating at *The Mill on
> the Floss*?'
>
> Pamela K. Gilbert (U of Wisconsin, Parkside), 'The
> Devouring Reader: Victorian Metaphors of Reading and
> the Popular Book Market'
>
>6.30-7.30 pm dinner
>
>7.30-9.00 pm Session 2A: Consuming Empire
>
> Dipti Bhagat (Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert
> Museum), 'Buying More than a Diamond: Consumption of
> South Africa and the South African at the Colonial and
> Indian Exhibition 1886'
>
> Robert Jones (Aberystwyth), 'Jumbo-Sized: Zoos, and the
> Consumption of the Exotic, 1842-1882'
>
> * * *
>
> Session 2B: 18th-century Eating
>
> Kim Baldus (Northwestern U), 'Consuming Gossip: Scandal's
> Allure in the Early Eighteenth Century'
>
> David Shuttleton (Aberystwyth), '". . . of Health and
> Long Life": Dr George Cheyne and the Politic Body'
>
>
>Sunday 30th June
>
>7.45-9.00 am breakfast
>
>9.00-10.30 am Session 3A: The Consumption of Disease
>
> Clark Lawlor (Thomas Reid Institute, U of Aberdeen),
> 'Romantic Consumption: Discourses of Disease, Gender,
> and Genius'
>
> Akihito Suzuki (Thomas Reid Institute, U of Aberdeen),
> 'Consuming Metaphors of Disease: Travel and the Treatment
> of Consumption in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
> Centuries'
>
> * * *
>
> Session 3B: Metaphors of Consumption in France
>
> David Berry (Middlesex U), 'Rimbaud's Poetic
> Consumption: "The Comedy of Thirst" and "The Feasts
> of Hunger'
>
> Claire Lyu (Vassar C), 'Body Dressing: The Taste of
> Modernity in Baudelaire'
>
>10.30-11.00 am tea/coffee
>
>11.00-1.00 pm Session 4: Plenary
>
> Harriet Guest (U of York), '"These Neutered Somethings":
> Gender, Difference, and Commercial Culture in Mid-
> eighteenth-century England'
>
> Lyn Pykett (Aberystwyth), 'Women, Consuming, Producing:
> Sensation Novels of the 1860s'
>
>1.00-2.00 pm lunch
>
>2.00-4.00 pm Session 5A: Trade and Shopping
>
> Jo Dahn (Aberystwyth), '"an abundance of fine china":
> Women, Ceramics and Other Objects in Eighteenth-
> century Novels'
>
> Roberta Sassatelli (U of East Anglia), 'Consuming
> Ambivalence: Considerations on Eighteenth-century
> Narrative Discourses on Consumption'
>
> Simon Smith (U of York), 'An Exact and Industrious
> Tradesman: Joseph Sympson, Mercer of Kendal'
>
> * * *
>
> Session 5B: Feast and Famine: Ambiguities of 19th-
> century Culture
>
> Paulo de Medeiros (Bryant C), 'The Gastrosophical
> Canon: Brillat-Savarin, von Rumohr, Launcelot
> Sturgeon'
>
> Chris Hosgood (U of Lethbridge), '"The Morals of
> Shopping": Women, Shops, and the Press, c. 1880-1914'
>
> Linda Schlossberg (Harvard U), 'Consuming the Nation:
> Hunger, Race, and the Irish Famine'
>
>4.00-4.30 pm tea/coffee and departure
>
>
> * * *
>
>Fees
>
>Students: GBP 30.00 / Others: GBP 45.00
>
>Includes all meals and single, en-suite accommodation in a University
>hall of residence, very conveniently placed for all conference
>activities, on the Saturday night. (We can advise on other
>accommodation arrangements, if necessary, on an individual basis).
>
>University accommodation is also available on the Sunday night, for
>an additional GBP 21.30.
>
> * * *
>
>NB: We will be providing special bus transport to Shrewsbury after the
>last session on Sunday, thus enabling participants who do not wish to
>stay in Aberystywth for the Sunday night to catch rail connections to
>most destinations (e.g. the 1912 service from Shrewsbury to London).
>
>
> * * *
>
>For further details and a registration form - to be returned by
>*Friday June 14th* - please contact:
>
> Dominic Rainsford
> Department of English
> University of Wales
> ABERYSTWYTH
> SY23 3DY
> UK
>
> Tel: +44 (0) 1970 622213 (Direct Line) / 622534 (Dept. Office)
> Fax: +44 (0) 1970 622530
> E-mail: dcr@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> * * *
>
>Extensive information about Aberystwyth, the University, and the
>Department of English is now available on the World-Wide Web:
>
> http://www.aber.ac.uk
>
> * * *
>
> PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO OTHER APPROPRIATE LISTS.
>
> * * *
>
>Finally, we are also running a major international conference on
>*Literature and Ethics* on July 4th-7th 1996. Further details on
>request.
>
> * * *
>
>Conference organisers:
>Robert Jones, Dominic Rainsford, David Shuttleton
>
>31.v.96 DR
>
>