"COLOR AND COLORFULNESS IN

NINETEENTH-CENTURY liFE"

~ SENeSA

SENCSA Officers and Board Memben

President: VICe-President:

Secretary: Treasurer:

Journal Editor:

Board Members:

Gayla S. McGlamery, Loyola CoUege/Baltimore Jack Rhodes, The Citadel "Marilyn Kurata, University of Alabama at Birmingham N. Lee Orr, Georgia State University Suzanne O. Edwards, The Citadel

NllRCY Fix Anderson, Loyola University/New Orleans Hu~ Andrews, Northern Michi~n University DaVid Bradshaw, Warren Wilson College Robert M. Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology Tadviga da Costa Nunes, Muhlenberg College "Maureen Egan, Elms College Shoshanna l<.napp, Lee College, University of Judaism William Jack Lohman, University of Tampa John Pfordresher, Georgetown University Ann Marie Ross, California State University/Fullerton William H. Scheuerle, University of South Florida Linda Zatlin, Morehouse College

Address inquiries about membership and seod changes of address, etc., to: Tack Rhodes "SENCSA Vice-President Department of English The Citadel Charleston, SC 29409

Address information to be included in the next newsletter to:

mustration:

Marilyn Kurata SENCSA Secre~ Department of English Umversity of AIablima at Birmingham Birmingham, AL 55294

Fran~ois Grenier de Saint-Martin TM Amateurs, 1826 (Lithograph)

SOUTHEASTERN NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDmS ASSOCIATION

"COLOR AND COLORFULNESS IN

NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIFE"

April 2 -4, 1992

Hosted by the University of South Florida at Tampa

Hyatt RegBfU:J Hotel

PR.OGRAM DIRECTOR.: Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes Muhlenberg College

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS DIRECTOR.: Regina Hewitt

University of South Florida

1:30.5:30

1:50-8:50

5:50-5:00

3:30-5:00

6:S0 P.M.

THURSDAY, APRIL 2

REGISTRATION • ESPLANADE LOBBY

BOARD OF ADVISORS MEETING • ESPLANADE SUITE II

PANEL 1: COLOR IN THE ROMANTIC ERA • ESPLANADE SUTl'E m Moderator: William Garrett (University of South Florida)

"'A Devil ofa Mannerist': Color, Italian Art and Byron's Mafl/rltJ:' Ann R. Hawkins (University of Kentucky)

.. Art and Color in Keats' "The Eve ofSt. Agnes'" Grant F. Scott (Muhlenberg CoUege}

fA La B,lU Asmtcbll, or B,U:S Couft tmt:f Faslaionobll Magrur.itu. Addruud Particularly to tIu Ladiu" Becky W. Lewis (University of South Carolina)

fALyingto Save a Life: Riot and the Pastoral in Scott's Till H,aft of MidlothUm" Kevin W. Sweeney (University of Tampa)

PANEL 2: ARTISTIC INTERAC1'IONS • ESPLANADE SUITE 1 Moderator: David Bradshaw (Warren Wilson College)

'''Her Cheek of Flame': The Use of Color in William Morris' 'The Defense of Guenevere'" Nancy Jane Tyson (University of South Florida)

"Lady Audley's Secret Portrait and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" Susan Balee (Columbia University)

-Photography in Dtmi41 Dmmt/,q." Katlileen McCormack (Florida International University)

"Color as Image, Reality, and Perception in George Eliot's Fiction" Katherine M. Sorensen (University of Dallas)

RECEPTION -HENRY B. PLANT MUSEUM UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA 401 Kennedy Blvd., West Runvations arI nquintl.

8:00A.M.

8:00-12:00

8:80-10:00

FRIDAY, APRIL 3

CO~-ESPLANADELOBBY

REGISTRATION • ESPLANADE LOBBY

PANEL 5: AESTHETICS AND INFLUENCES • ESPLANADE SurJ'E m Moderator: Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes (Muhlenberg College)

- "In the Eye of the Beholder: Younl' Goethe, Helmhotz, Hering and Land on Color Phenomena Frederick Burwick (University of California, Los Angeles)

- "Eugene Delacroix and the 'Gray of Nature': A Case of Color and Colonialism" Shaw Smith (Davidson College)

"Color and Th4 Crayon MagtI%ine: From Theory to Application" Charles Thomas WaTters (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania)

- "To Gloat on the ••• China That's Ancient and Blue: Appropriating the Blue Willow Pattern" Patricia O'Hara (Franklin and Marshall CoDege)

10: 15-11:45 PANEL 4: MULTI-COLORED CONFIGURATIONS OF WOMEN - ESPLANADE SurrE m Moderator: Ward Hellstrom (Western Kentucky University)

"Fabric or Fabrication: Male Narrators' Coloring of Woman in Victorian Novels" Kathleen Anderson (University ofIowa)

"From Long Purples to a Long Blue Gown: Ophelia and the Color of Power" Daniel Rutenberg (University of So~th Florida)

"Is Cio-Cio San Puccini's Other? Race, Class, Gender and Leitmo­tivic Complex in Moda1tuJ Buttnjl," Claire Detels (University of ArbDsas)

"Women as Colorful Chords in Late Nineteenth-Century American Painti " Bailey'an Hook (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

10: 15-11:45 PANEL 5: SHADES OF THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE - ESPLANADE SUIrE II

12:00-2:00

2:00-5:00

2:15-3:45

4:00-5:30

Moderator: Frankie Hutton (Lehigh University)

"The Preferential Option of the Muggletonians in the Nineteenth Century" Kevin Lewis (University of South Carolina)

"Mad or Eccentric? The Changing Definition of Lunacy in Nineteenth-CentulJ' Engtand" Marilyn 1. Kurata (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

"Color, Gender, and Narrative in Dickens" lain CrawfQrd (Berry CoUege)

"Seei~ Red: Walter Crane's Depiction of Liberty" John R. Reed (Wayne State University)

LUNCHEON AND SENCSA BUSINESS MEETING -ESPLANADE SUIrE II Guest Speaker: Betsy Fahlman (Arizona State University) "Naked White Marble Ladies: Alexander Galt and Southern

Sculpture-

REGISTRATION -ESPLANADE LOBBY

PANEL 6: THE ABSENCE OF COLOR - ESPLANADE SUIrE 1 Moderator: Valeries Livingston (Susquehanna University)

"Going aU Gray: Oscar Wilde's TIu Pktur, of DoriIm Gray" Bonnie J. Robinson (University of Miami)

"James McNeill Whistler: A Most 'Colorful' Arrangement in Black and White" Catherine Carter Goebel (Augustana College)

"Ink and Color: Art and Politics in Nineteenth-Century China" Carolyn M. Bloomer (University of North Carolina at ChapelHiU)

"Fade to Black: Newman's TwiliJdlt Visions" David Goslee (University otTennessee at KnoxviUe)

PANEL 7: COLORFULLY CRAFTED BY WOMEN - ESPLANADE SUIrE m Moderator: Leona Fisher (Georgetown University)

"Drawing.BIood: Vampirism and the FIgUrative Strategy of Jane E'1"" James Diedrick (Albion CoUege}

"Whiti~ Out the Passionate Female Artist in Nineteenth-Century Bntish Women's Novels" Elizabeth Winston (University of Tampa)

4:00-5:30

_ . "'White Chim~es': Heathcli~ Rochester and theSimianization of the Irish" Elsie B. Michie (Louisiana State University)

- "Gertrude JekyU, Artist-Gardener: Color, Smell, and Sound in the Edwardian Garden" Robert M. Craig (Georgia Institute of Technology)

PANEL 8: ISSUES OF RACE AND RACISM - ESPLANADE SUITE I Moderator: Rosalie Murphy Baum (University of South Florida)

"The Extra Dimension of the Short Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt" Samuel I. Bellman (California State Polytechnic University)

- "Does Color Matter: A Case of the Eurasians in Nineteenth-Century India"

7:00 P.M.

8:00 A.M.

8:30-10:00

Srilekha ~ll (University of New Haven)

"Black, White, and RedjRead All Over: Color and Authorship in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Paul Lukacs (Loyola College in Maryland)

"Mark Twain on America's Yellow Peril" Mary Alice Herrle (pennsylvania State University at Beaver)

DINNER AND PERFORMANCE - COLUMBIA RESTAURANT 2117 East 7th Avenue (Ybor City) Please assemble at the Hyatt for bus at 6:30. Ranvations a." "'quind.

SATURDAY -APRIL 4

COFFEE -ESPLANADE LOBBY

PANEL 9: REFLECfIONS ON COLOR IN FRANCE -ESPLANADE SUITE I Moderator: Carole Kruger Stitt (Davidson College)

"'Le 'Bleu, blanc et rouge' rendu noir': The French 'Tricolore' Revised in the Novels of Madame de Duras" Ruth L. Doyle (Central Missouri State University)

"The Colorful Hysterics of the Salpetriere" Marie Lathers (Iowa State University)

"The Transition from Dark to Bright in the Early Art of Vincent van

~~~a E. Conners (Memphis State University)

- "Marcel Proust: Color of Bruises and Lilacs" Tania Smith (Universit~ de Montreal)

10:15-11:45 PANEL 10: THE LATE V1CI"ORIAN PALLE1TE • ESPLANADE SUTI'E m Moderator: Maureen Egan (Elms College)

- "Painters' Rejection of Pre-Raphaelite Color. A Mirror of the Late Victorian Psyche" Betsy Cogger Rezelman (St. Lawrence University)

- ·Kipling's 'R-nnd the Pale': A Paradigm, of Anglo-Indian possibilitY" Hugh B. Andrews (Northern Michigan University)

•••• .Always Aj>pearing Under False Colours': Margaret Fountaine's Purswt ofButterOies and Love" Julie English Early (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

- "Searching for :GreenSpace': Thomas Hardy's Enclosed Outdoors" Sandra]. Smith (Belmont University)

10:15-11:45 PANEL 11: THE CHROMATICS OF COSTUME • ESPLANADE SUTI'E 1 Moderator. Barbara Gribbel (Gulf Coast Community College)

·Curtains, Costumes, and Tablecloths: The Theatrics of Transgression" Dona Chessid (Seton Hall University)

··Cothe War therefore in Gayer Colours than Peace': 1be Functions of Color in the British Army" Scott Hughes Myerly (University of Louisville)

- "Costume and Reality: The Moral Implications of Entertainment Scenes in V~ Fair and The HO'II.U of Mirth" Melanie V. Dawson (University of Pittsburgh)

'"The Woman in Black: George Eliot's Use of the Black Dress in Adam Belli, The MiU on tNt Floss, and Midll.lntuJTch" Laurie B. Hughes (University of Tennessee, KnoxviUe)