| 8.00-9.20 |
REGISTRATION |
| 9.20-9.30 |
CONFERENCE OPENING |
| 9.30-10.30 |
PLENARY 1: (Chair: Dr. Victorina González-Díaz)
Dr. Joe Bray:
The Novel, The Portrait and the 'Rise of Comparison': A study in Hamilton, Opie and Austen (Abstract 1) |
| 10.30-11.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11.00-12.30 |
SESSION 1: ATTITUDES AND AUTHORITY (Chair: Prof. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade) |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Dr. Jane Hodson:
Jane Austen and the prescriptivists (Abstract 2) |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Prof. Antonia Forster:
Correctness and elegance: Reviewers and the language of women's fiction 1750-1800 (Abstract 3) |
| 12.00-12.30 |
Prof. Carol Percy:
Defining "grammar" in the female novel of development: more than an instrument of social mobility? (Abstract 4) |
| 12.30-13.30 |
LUNCH |
| 13.30-15.00 |
SESSION 2: LANGUAGE AS THEME AND NON-THEME (Chair: Prof. Sylvia Adamson) |
| 13.30-14.00 |
Prof. Miriam Wallace (Abstract 5):
Legal rhetoric and women's fiction 1796–1828: Wollstonecraft, Inchbald, and Opie |
| 14.00-14.30 |
Dr. Jenny McAuley:
Literary and other languages in Sydney Owenson's Florence Macarthy (1818) (Abstract 6) |
| 14.30-15.00 |
Prof. Anne Bandry-Scubbi:
Body Words from Haywood to Jacson (Abstract 7) |
| 15.00-15.30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 15.30-17.00 |
SESSION 3: HYBRIDISATION (Chair: Dr. Joe Bray) |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Prof. Katharine Kittredge:
New gowns and face-eating pigs: Mary Leadbeater's The Cottage Dialogues as hybrid eighteenth-century didactic novel and nineteenth-century female bildungsroman (Abstract 8) |
| 16.00-16.30 |
Prof. Michelle Cohen:
Invisible women, invisible fiction: Women writers of educational texts in the long eighteenth century (Abstract 9) |
| 16.30-17.00 |
Dr. Anna Fitzer:
"You authors know how to manage the details of those things": Choice words in the writings of Alicia LeFanu (Abstract 10) |
| 17.00 |
CHAWTON HOUSE TOUR |
| 18.30 |
CONFERENCE DINNER (The Swan Hotel) |
| 9.30-10.30 |
PLENARY 2: (Chair: Dr Victorina González-Díaz)
Prof. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade:
Spelling and authorial identity: the question of Jane Austen's own hand (Abstract 11) |
| 10.30 - 10.50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 10.50-12.20 |
SESSION 4: LANGUAGE AND TRUTH (Chair: Mrs Christina Davidson) |
| 10.50-11.20 |
Dr. Juliette Dorotte:
Seeking the voice of truth in Charlotte Temple (Abstract 12) |
| 11.20-11.50 |
Dr. Bill Hughes
Credit and credibility: Exchange value and validity claims in the conversation of Burney's Cecilia (Abstract 13) |
| 11.50-12.20 |
Dr. Rebecca Anne Barr
'A parcel of hard words to conjure by': Language and gender in Sarah Fielding's 'The Cry' (Abstract 14) |
| 12.30-13.30 |
LUNCH |
| 13.30-15.00 |
SESSION 5 : LANGUAGE, DIALOGUE, CONVENTIONS (Chair: Dr. Gillian Dow) |
| 13.30-14.00 |
Prof. Jacqueline Labbe:
Charlotte Smith and printed dialect (Abstract 15) |
| 14.00-14.30 |
Dr. Linda Bree:
Jane Austen's style in manuscript and print (Abstract 16) |
| 14.30-15.00 |
Dr. Anne Toner:
Dullness and Dialogue: Speech attribution in Austen's Fiction (Abstract 17) |
| 15.00 -15.30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 15.30-16.30 |
PLENARY 3: (Chair: Dr. Victorina González-Díaz)
Prof. Sylvia Adamson: Jane Austen and Romantic language (Abstract 18) |
| 16.30 |
CONFERENCE CLOSING |