Session Details

Monday, 29 December

701. Sea Crossings

9:00–10:15 p.m., Golden Gate 8, Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on the Victorian Period

Presiding: Ann C. Colley, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo State Coll.

1. “‘The Distance Is Quite Imaginary’: Emigration, Greater Britain, and the Form of the Victorian Novel,” Philip Steer, Duke Univ.

2. “Our Convicts, Ourselves: National Sympathy, Australia, and the Power of Narrative,” Julie Barst, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

3. “Liminal Cartography: Oceanic Identities and the Boundaries of Empire in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa,” Taylor-Rebecca Kennamer, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

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