Programme

Philo I

Lobby (P5)

Welcome and Introduction

Sarah Wegener & Wolfgang Funk

Philo II

00-212

Keynote

Prof. Hilary Marland (Warwick): “‘The Protracted Funeral of Puerperal Insanity’? Diagnosis, Heredity and Reproduction in Britain c.1900”

Chair: Wolfgang Funk

Panel 1: Sexuality and Reproduction

Chair: Sarah Wegener

Lorraine Rumson (FU Berlin): “‘Would You Like to Have Your Cunt Pricked?’ Discourses of Virginity and its Loss in Victorian Pornography”

Melissa Sarikaya (Erlangen): "Sexuality and Reproduction in A. Mary F. Robinson’s Poetry“

Workshop Dinner

Heiliggeist, Rentengasse 2, 55116 Mainz

Panel 2: Pathological Reproductions

Chair: Lorraine Rumson

Louise Benson James (Ghent): “The Menopause and Hysteria in Victorian Medical Texts and Women’s Fiction”

Martina Allen (Frankfurt): “‘The Great Unhinging Agent’: The ‘Disease’ of Drug Addiction as the Birthing of the Other in Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Stoker’s Dracula”

Ashni Clayton (Washington): “(Re) Producing the Human: Monstrosity, Artificiality, and the Importance of the Maternal Body in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

Panel 3: Reproductions of Nation and Time

Chair: Louise Benson James

Leonie Jungen (Mainz): “‘At such unworthy hands’: Transgenerational (Re-) Productions of the Nation in Scott’s Waverley (1814)”

Sarah Wegener (Mainz): “‘My little Now perpetually’: Michael Field’s Rifts in Reproductive Temporality”

Panel 4: Reproductions of Text and Author

Chair: Martina Allen

Deborah Giggle (East Anglia): “A Crisis of Credibility: Class-Based Impacts of Eugenic Thinking on Socially-Marginalised Authors of the Fin de Siècle”

Mary Elizabeth Gearen (Cambridge): “Textual and Sexual Reproduction in Dracula”

Franziska Stolz (Munich): “Patch Works: Rethinking Myths of Creativity in Frankenstein”

Final Discussion and Farewell

Sarah Wegener & Wolfgang Funk