Elizabeth Gaskell and Manchester:
Identity, Culture and the Modern City

Conference in Manchester, UK
19-21 July 2005

Abstracts

Janet Allan The Gaskell House, 84 Plymouth Grove
Sophia Andres Pre-Raphaelite Iconography and Gendered Subjectivity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Novels
Margaret Beetham Lancashire Dialect in Manchester Publications; Barbarism or Gradely Virtue
Josie Billington ‘A commodity of good names’: Elizabeth, Mrs, or E.C. Gaskell?
Mervyn Busteed Songs of Queen – and Country? Irish Migrants and Monarchy in Victorian Manchester
Steve Collins James Crossley: A Manchester Man of Letters
Deirdre D'Albertis “Job in new factory I am machinist real woman job now”: Work, Sexuality, and Generic Eclecticism in Mary Barton and Brick Lane
Frank Emmett Not Manchester: Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth and The Re-Imagined Landscape of North-East Lancashire
Shirley Foster Nineteenth-century American Views of Manchester
Peter Gardner The Seductive Politics of Mary Barton
A. D. George The Manchester Cotton Factory in the Age of Mrs Gaskell
Martin Hewitt 

Constructing the condition of Manchester: forms of social knowledge 1832-1901

Craig Horner Before Elizabeth Gaskell: Social commentary in eighteenth-century Manchester
Harumi James Mrs Gaskell's North and South and Plato's Republic
Anthony Jordan An Irish migrant family’s experience
Tomoko Kanda Labour Disputes and the City: Manchester in Mary Barton and Milton-Northern in North and South
Alan Kidd Industry, Heritage and Urban Identity: Manchester since Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Haynes Kuhlman Life in the Urban Wilderness in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction
Kathrin Levitan Literature, the City and the Census: Examining the Social Body in Victorian Britain
Brian Maidment The Poetry of Mrs. Gaskell's Manchester
Masaie Matsumura The Hertford Gallery in the Manchester Art Treasure Exhibition
Sarina Moore Working-class Residential Architecture and Class Identity in Gaskell’s Libbie Marsh’s Three Eras
Gerald P. Mulderig Elizabeth Gaskell’s Urban Perspective and the Shaping of the Life of Charlotte Brontë
Julie Nash Tales of Two Mill Cities: Manchester and Lowell, Massachusetts
Tat Ohno Are Mary Barton and North and South Industrial Fiction?
Pamela Corpron Parker Locating Elizabeth Gaskell: Literary Tourism and Cranford
Linda H. Peterson Gaskell and Brontë, Manchester and Haworth in The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Malcolm Pittock Mary Barton or North and South? Crabbe or Scott?
Robert Poole The Preston Strike: Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens and Samuel Bamford
Ann Marie Ross History and Environment in Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Peter Shapely Manchester, the 'Big' City: Civic Identity, Culture and Housing in Twentieth Century Manchester
Alan Shelston Opportunity and anxiety: Elizabeth Gaskell and the development of the railway system
David Thiele Elite Culture and Knowledge Diffusion in the Industrial Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell
Alison Twells Mary Barton (1848) and the challenge to the missionary philanthropic paradigm in the 1830s and 1840s
Frances Twinn The role of townscape and industrial landscape in Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘northern novels’
Tamara S. Wagner “In the great scheme of commerce”: Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian Fictions of Speculation