Session Details

Friday, 28 December

243. Mid-Victorian Self-Assessments: Victorians between Past and Future

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New Orleans, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Division on the Victorian Period

Presiding: Linda Kay Hughes, Texas Christian Univ.

1. “The Mill on the Floss, Sentimental Historicism, and the Time of Mid-Century Equipoise,” Nathan K. Hensley, Duke Univ.

2. “Structures of Regret: Promoting Strategic Investment in the Mid-Victorian Novel,” Rebecca F. Stern, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia

3. “Self-Conscious Self-Assessment: The 1850s Voice of George Eliot,” Kathleen McCormack, Florida International Univ.

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