Dorothy Richardson 1873 – 1957
Dorothy Richardson Society
Third International Dorothy Richardson Conference Day
16-17 September 2011
In the Keynes Library
43-46 Gordon Square,
Birkbeck College,
London WC1HT
Programme
Friday 16 September
10.30 Coffee and registration
11.00 Introductory Remarks, Scott McCracken and Joanne Winning
11.15 Session 1
Clare Drewery (Sheffield Hallam University), ‘“The Failure of this now so independently assertive reality”: Metaphysics, Transition and Contingent Identity in Dorothy Richardson’s Shorter Fiction’
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Session 2: The Marriage Question
Juliet Yates (Keele University), ‘Her Hand in Marriage: representations of marriage in Pilgrimage
Eva Tucker, ‘Why Won’t Miriam Marry Michael Shatov?’
3.00 Session 3: Publishing Projects
Presentation and Report on the Collected Letters and a new Critical Edition of Pilgrimage.
Deborah Longworth (University of Birmingham)
Scott McCracken (Keele University)
Laura Marcus (University of Oxford)
Joanne Winning (Birkbeck College)
4.30 Tea
5.00 Session 4
Laura Marcus, ‘Introduction to Borderline’
5.30 Screening of Borderline
7.00 Break
8.00 Conference Dinner
Saturday 17 September 2011
9.00 Coffee
9.30 Session 5
Jennifer Cooke, (Loughborough University), ‘Dorothy Richardson, Queer Theorist’
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Session 6: Silence
Annika Hagstrom (Lund University), ‘Dorothy Richardson and the Poetics of Silence’
Harriet Wragg (University College London), ‘“[L]ike a greeting in a valentine”: Silent Film Intertitles in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage’
12.45 Lunch
1.45 Session 7: Impressionism
Rebecca Bowler (University of Sheffield), ‘Reading Henry James: Perception and Representation as the Double Impression’
Yvonne Wong (University of Durham), ‘“Everyday Life is Precisely What Life Is”: An Impressionist Reading of the Ordinary in Pilgrimage
3.15 Closing Words