The Twenty-First DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
Studies

Medievalizing Britain
April 2, 2010

University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
All sessions and events take place at the Marshall Center.

Conference website:
http://english.usf.edu/debartolo21/

The theme this year is 'Medievalizing Britain'. British culture in the four
nations (England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland) was transformed during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as medieval themes and archaic features
emerged in poetry, novels, ballad-collecting, non-fiction prose, painting,
and photography. Works such as Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English
Poetry, Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Alfred Tennyson's poems, John Ruskin's
criticism, the Pre-Raphaelites' paintings, and Roger Fenton's photographic
images signal a preoccupation with the medieval past that spanned two
centuries. This conference looks beyond traditional periodizations and
disciplinary divisions in order to trace broader patterns and forge new
connections on the topic of medievalizing Britain.

The conference will feature a keynote lecture by Professor Antony Harrison,
Distinguished Professor of English and Department Head at North Carolina
State University. Dr. Harrison is a leading scholar on Christina Rossetti
and the author of five books and numerous articles, editions, and reviews on
Victorian poetry, culture, and medievalism. The conference will also include
panels, a catered lunch, and an evening wine and cheese reception. All
events are free to participants, guests, and the public at large. The
conference is co-sponsored by the DeBartolo Endowment, the USF English
Department, and the USF Humanities Institute.

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Registration

9:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Welcome

9:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. PANEL 1: Room 3711
"Medievalism and Gender"

SAMANTHA BURTON, McGill University, "'This is ours': Elizabeth Armstrong
Forbes and the Colonial Claim to Britishness"

TERI DOERKSEN, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, "A Woman in a House of
Ancient Dignity: Medievalism, Gender, Catholicism, and Social Transformation
in Burney's Cecilia and Smith's Emmeline"

AMANDA KING, Texas State University, San Marcos, "Regina Caeli Laetare:
Medieval Marian Imagery in The Heir of Redclyffe"

BENEDICK TURNER, St. Joseph's College, New York, "Variations of
Masculinities in Tennyson's Idylls of the King: A Reflection of Social
Change in Victorian Britain, or Varied Medieval Ideas Speaking through a
Work of Victorian Medievalism?"

11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Room 3711
"Medievalism, Victorian Poetry, and Cultural Power"

ANTONY HARRISON, Distinguished Professor of English and Department Head,
North Carolina State University

12:30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. PANEL 2: Room 3711
"Medievalizing Personalities"

MARK BRADSHAW BUSBEE, Florida Gulf Coast University, "N. F. S. Grundtvig and
the Rise of English Medievalism"

HANS MATTINGLY, University of Pittsburgh, "Reanimating Modernity: Carlyle's
Use of the Medieval in Past and Present"

JOSEPH McLAUGHLIN, Ohio University, "Mitford's Medievalism and the Invention
of 'Old Japan'"

ANGELA SCHWER, Fairmont State University, "Medievalism for All: F. J.
Furnival and Medieval Studies at the London Working Men's College"

3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. PANEL 3: Room 3711
"Medievalism and Epic"

LOUIS KIRK McAULEY, Washington State University, "Medieval Meditative
Reading and James Macpherson's 'measured prose' in The Poems of Ossian"

TOM UE, McGill University, "'Oh brother, had you known our mighty hall':
Storytelling and the Individual in Tennyson's Idylls of the
King"

JACQUELINE WAY, University of California, Irvine, "'With Britain's Glory
Fir'd': Politics, Genre, and the Reception of the Medieval Brut,
1718-1744"

5:00 p.m. Reception