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AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior

Literature and the Domestic Interior
Symposium to be held at the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
23 October 2004

'Think of a kitchen table then', he told her, 'when you're not there'.
Woolf

'The interior furniture of houses appeared together with the interior
furniture of minds.'
Lukacs

An international group of scholars will discuss the pyschological
interior; realism; space and gender; art and the interior; modernity; and
domestic, social, and urban spaces.

Full symposium details, along with the downloadable booking form, are
available on the Centre's website: www.rca.ac.uk/csdi under 'events'.

Registration: Full delegate fee: £40, Student delegate fee: £20. Fee
includes sandwich lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea. Deadline for
registration is 8th October 2004. Please complete and return the
downloadable booking form (see website), along with a cheque made payable
to Royal College of Art.

For further information,
contact csdirca.ac.uk;
t. +44 (0)207 590 4183
or access its website at www.rca.ac.uk/csdi.

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PROGRAMME

Saturday, 23 October

10.00-10.20 Registration and Coffee
10.20-10.30 Introduction

10.30-12.30 First Session: Locating the Domestic

Catherine Richardson (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
‘Early Modern Plays and Domestic Spaces’

Charles Rice (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
‘Immersion and Rupture: Walter Benjamin’s Literary Interior’

Morag Shiach (Queen Mary, University of London)
'Woolf and Richardson: The Modernist Home and Urban Space'

Alison Light
'Writing and Autonomy: Beyond "A Room of One's Own"'

12.00-12.30 Discussion

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.00 Second Parallel Session I: The Social and Domestic I

Sophia Pickford (St. John’s College, Cambridge)
‘Imagining the Historical Interior: The French Renaissance Chateau through
Sixteenth-Century Literature’

Claire Lamont (University of Newcastle)
‘Jane Austen’s Public Rooms’

Sara Thornton (UCL)
‘When the sofa won’t float: Furniture, Characterization and Politics in
Henry James’s The Bostonians’

1.30-3.00 Second Parallel Session II: Narrative and Progress?

Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway)
'Slums, Model Dwellings and the People: Mrs Humphrey Ward, Walter Besant
and the Question of Interiority'

Thad Logan (Rice University)
‘Domestic Space and the Novel’

Charlotte Grant (AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior)
Reading the House of Fiction: From Object to Interior, 1720-1920

2.30-3.00 Discussion

3.00-3.20 Tea

3.20-4.50 Third Parallel Session I: Social and Domestic 2

Ailsa Boyd
‘The Search for Home in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth’

Marilyn Casto (Virginia Tech. University )
'Imagined Space: Interiors in the Work of L. M. Montgomery'

Genevieve Preston-Chavez (Huntington Library)
‘Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm and the Modern Interior’

3.20-4.50 Third Parallel Session II: Art and the Aesthetic

Geoffrey Gilbert (American University of Paris)
‘"Ma maison, vous ne l’ignorez pas, est la maison des artistes":
Naturalism, Modernism, and the Domestic Place of Art

Guiliana Pieri (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘Gabriele D'Annunzio and the Italian fin-de-siecle Interior'

Victoria Rosner (Texas A&M University)
‘Framing Dorian Gray’

4.30-4.50 Discussion

4.50-5.30 Final Discussion with coffee & tea

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