Dorothy Richardson 1873 – 1957
Dorothy Richardson Society
Second International Dorothy Richardson Conference: Pointed Roofs Day
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Room 102
30 Russell Square
Birkbeck College
10.30 Coffee and registration
11.00 Introduction, Scott McCracken
11.15 Session 1
Eveline Kilian (Humboldt University), ‘Pointed Roofs: Self-contained Novel or Work in Progress?’
Maria Llantada Diaz, (University of Vigo), ‘Pointed Roofs: the genesis of Pilgrimage’
Annika Hagström, (Lund University), ‘Villette Revisited: Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofs and Feminine Realism’
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Session 2
Francesca Frigerio (Milan University), ‘The Mirror Venus. Pointed Roofs between Pre-Raphaelites and Aestheticism’
Rebecca Bowler (University of Sheffield), ‘The Gaze of the Other: Observation and Negative Self-fashioning in Pointed Roofs’
Juliet Yates (Keele University), ‘Female Fluidity: Mind versus Body in Pointed Roofs’
3.30 Tea
4..00 Roundtable on Pointed Roofs. Chair, Scott McCracken
Panellists: Eveline Kilian, Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow), Joanne Winning (Birkbeck College).
5.00 Richardson Society
6.00 Close
7.30 Conference Dinner