Money

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12.00-2.00 REGISTRATION (Taliesin Theatre Foyer)

Tea/coffee and Welsh cakes will be served during Registration

• Malcolm Bowie (All Souls, Oxford)
  President of the British Comparative Literature Association

PLENARY 1 (Taliesin Theatre)

• Gillian Beer (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
  Credit Limit: Fiction and the Surplus of Belief

3.15-3.45 TEA/COFFEE (Taliesin Theatre Foyer)

SESSION 1

• Shaindy Rudoff (Bar-Ilan): The Colour of Money, or When Money Fails [O'Connor, Morrison] [Abstract]
• Guy Snaith (Liverpool): 'There's Trees and there's Trees': Impoverished Lives in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Bonheur d'occasion [Abstract]
• Glenn Keyser (California, Davis): The Unexpected Pleasures of Downward Mobility: Money and Behaviour in Good Morning, Midnight [Abstract]

SESSION 2

• Alison Halsall (York, Toronto): 'Take my blood, not my money!': Vampires, Capital and Class [Abstract]
• Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion): Wasting Money, or Making Money out of Waste? Recycling and the Economy of Our Mutual Friend [Abstract]
• Michael Sanders (Lancaster): Getting to Grips with Greed: The Early Victorian Quest for the Ethical Capitalist [Abstract]

SESSION 3

• Hildegard Hoeller (Babson): Friend/Enemy: Melville's Treatise on the Impossibility of the Gift [Abstract]
• Sina Vatanpour (Lille III/Paris VIII): Money, American Identity and Alchemical Transmutation [Abstract]
• William Little (DePauw): Taking it Back: The Crisis of Currency in David Mamet's American Buffalo [Abstract]

SESSION 4

• Paul Barnaby (Edinburgh): Nana in Milan: Cletto Arrighi and the Italian Reception of Zola [Abstract]
• Glyn & Ludmilla Hambrook (Wolverhampton & Varna): Legal Tender, L'égale tendre: Poet-Prostitute Transactions in European Symbolist Poetry [Abstract]
• Angela Kimyongür (Hull): Capitalism and the Figure of the Prostitute in the Novels of Louis Aragon [Abstract]

SESSION 5

• Elizabeth Duquette (Reed): 'A Bug of Real Gold': Money and Translation in Histoires extraordinaires [Abstract]
• Andrea Varney (Sussex): Linguistic Currency: The Commodification of Language in Early French-English Dictionaries and Bilingual Manuals [Abstract]

5.30-6.30 GENERAL MEETING (Faraday Building, ESSO Lecture Theatre)

6.30-7.15 WINE RECEPTION (Fulton House Refectory)

Hosted by the School of European Languages, University of Wales Swansea

7.15 FORMAL DINNER (Fulton House, Café West)

Bar open after dinner until midnight

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7.30-9.00 BREAKFAST (Fulton House Refectory)

SESSION 1

• Deborah Holmes (Queen's, Oxford): The Merchant as Catalyst in the Modern European Novel: Money-Go-Round in Thomas Mann and Italo Svevo [Abstract]
• Daniela Janes (Toronto): The Rewards of Poverty in James de Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [Abstract]
• Patrick Brady (Tennessee, Knoxville): Greed, Luxury and Colonialist Exploitation in the Light of Chaos and Complexity Theory [Abstract]

SESSION 2

• Daniel Carey (Galway): Locke, Money and Enthusiasm [Abstract]
• Freya Johnston (Newnham, Cambridge): Economies of Style: Adam Smith and Propriety [Abstract]
• Hidenori Suzuki (Lancaster): Money and Discourse [Abstract]

SESSION 3

• Robin MacKenzie (Swansea): 'Art for Art's Sake...': Money and the Aesthetic in Proust's À la recherche [Abstract]
• Antoinette Taneva (UCL): The Quarry of Knowledge: Cioran's Encounter with a Pascalian Scott Fitzgerald [Abstract]
• Val Morgan (Essex): 'Undetermined Differences': Devaluation and Revaluation in Shakespeare's King John and Anouilh's Becket [Abstract]

SESSION 4

• Jessica Burstein (Washington): Counterfeit Modernism [Abstract]
• Karen Daw (Exeter): Crystals, Counterfeits and Cubism: The Pastiche of Value [Abstract]
• John Sloan (Harris Manchester, Oxford): Henry James and the Confidence Game [Abstract]

10.30-11.00 TEA/COFFEE (Taliesin Theatre Foyer)

SESSION 1

• Nedal Al-Mousa (Hashemite, Amman): A Social Psychological Study of the Theme of Avarice in Al-Jahiz's Book of Misers [Abstract]
• Richard Newhauser (Trinity, San Antonio): Avarice in Personification Allegory: Vice or Virtue? [Abstract]

SESSION 2

• Will McMorran (Queen Mary, London): 'No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?': The Storytelling Contract in Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne and Sade's Justine [Abstract]
• Janine Dove-Rumé (Tours): Body, Text and Currency in David Henry Thoreau's Walden [Abstract]

SESSION 3

• Christopher Jones (Manchester Metropolitan): The Root of All Evil in Agatha Christie and Sabine Deitmer [Abstract]
• Nicoletta McGowan (Manchester Metropolitan): Value(s) (f)or Money: Modes and Motives in Crime in Contemporary Italian Female-Authored Fiction [Abstract]

SESSION 4

• Catherine Hoffmann (Le Havre): Financial Matters, Motives and Metaphors in William Gerhardie's Early Works [Abstract]
• James Raeside (Keio Gijuku, Tokyo): The Money-Go-Round: Priestley, Ibuse and the Twentieth-Century Picaresque [Abstract]

12.00-1.00 PLENARY 2 (Taliesin Theatre)

• Anthony Nuttall (New College, Oxford)
  Marlowe the Reductionist: Iron versus Gold

1.00-2.00 LUNCH (Fulton House Refectory)

SESSION 1

• Astrid Kurth (Sidney Sussex, Cambridge): Marketing/Consuming Illness: Long-Term Survivor Performance in Mario Wirz's Es ist spät, ich kann nicht atmen. Ein nächtlicher Bericht (It is Late, I Cannot Breathe: A Nocturnal Report) and Biographie eines lebendigen Tages (Biography of a Lively Day) [Abstract]
• Karin Preuss (Swansea): Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Re-Reading Tales of Tieck, Hoffmann, De La Motte Fouqué and Chamisso with Georg Simmel's Philosophie des Geldes [Abstract]
• Marie-France Rouart (Nancy II): Un commerce interdit: la bourse de Judas, du folklore au mythe

SESSION 2

• Kirstie Blair (St Anne's, Oxford): Hearts of Gold: The Value of Love in Victorian Women's Poetry [Abstract]
• Mary Peace (Sheffield Hallam): 'Gluttons for Benevolence': Desire and Feminine Economy in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Sentimental Fiction [Abstract]

SESSION 3

• Nancy Rosenfeld (Haifa): 'Money, by hatfulls and pocketfulls': Mr Badman Goes into Business [Abstract]
• Ann Louise Kibbie (Bowdoin): The Narrative of Circulation and the Blood Libel: Charles Johnstone's Chrysal [Abstract]
• Yang-Sook Shin (Incheon): The Spectacle of Money in Defoe's Roxana and K.R. Park's The Land [Abstract]

SESSION 4

• Richard Gapper (KCL): The Love of Money: Businessmen in Twentieth-Century French Fiction [Abstract]
• Graham Townsend (Brighton): What Happened to the Stolen Bank Notes? Eugène Ionesco's rewriting of a Graham Greene Anti-Capitalist Thriller [Abstract]
• Tony O'Brien (Hull): Henri Barbusse and the Wealthy Communist's Dilemma: In for a Penny, In for a Pound? [Abstract]

3.30-4.15 TEA/COFFEE (Taliesin Theatre Foyer)

• Adam Phillips (London)
  Money at Work: The Bribe and the Analyst

6.00 Coaches leave for Dylan Thomas Centre

Depart from Fulton House Steps

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7.30-9.00 BREAKFAST (Fulton House Refectory)

SESSION 1

• Kevin McLaughlin (Brown): Staying in Character: Paper and Money in Hardy [Abstract]
• Brian Cooper (SUNY Oswego): Speculations on Panic: Harriet Martineau and Benjamin Disraeli on the Crash of 1825-6 [Abstract]
• Daniel Youd (Princeton): 'Distaining Virtue': Money in a Nineteenth-Century Chinese Allegory [Abstract]

SESSION 2

• Carolyn Betensky (George Washington): Princes as Paupers: Slumming in Sue, Besant and James [Abstract]
• Alisa Hartz (Brown): Aesthetic Means: Disinterest and Money in Henry James' The Aspern Papers [Abstract]
• Simon Fellows (Wolverhampton): The Art of Rejection [Bernhard, Goytisolo] [Abstract]

SESSION 3

• Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (East Anglia): Money, the Law of the Genre of Realism [Abstract]
• John Mazaheri (Auburn): Money versus God in Eugénie Grandet and Silas Marner [Abstract]
• Andrew Watts (Bristol): Beyond Paris: Monetary Themes in Balzac's 'Province' [Abstract]

SESSION 4

• Margot Versteeg (Amsterdam): Penurious Snobs and Penniless Hacks: Money as a Structuring Device in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spanish Restoration Drama [Abstract]
• Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Memphis): The Performance of Money: Speculating on Character in Nineteenth-Century Drama [Abstract]
• Roman Luckscheiter (Paris): The Paying Audience and the Morals around 1848 [Abstract]

10.30-11.00 TEA/COFFEE (Taliesin Theatre Foyer)

SESSION 1

• Bettina Hofmann (Wuppertal): Money and Children in American Literature: Mark Twain and Henry James [Abstract]
• Andreas Motsch (Toronto): 'Money Material', or: The Writing of the Belt [Abstract]

SESSION 2

• Jacob Edmond (Auckland): Cracking the Market in Contemporary Poetry: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Lyn Hejinian and Yang Lian [Abstract]
• Wimal Dissanayake & Dorothy Wong (Hong Kong): Gambling as a Trope in Chinese and Indian Fiction [Abstract]

SESSION 3

• Silvana Colella (Macerata): The Currency Romance: Burney's The Wanderer and the Bullion Controversy [Abstract]
• Alex Dick (Toronto): Coleridge, Restriction and 'The Bullion Controversy' [Abstract]

12.00-1.00 PLENARY 4 (Taliesin Theatre)

• Margaret Anne Doody (Notre Dame)
  In Possession: Person, Money and Exchange from Daphnis and Chloe to Roger Ackroyd

1.00-2.00 LUNCH (Fulton House Refectory)

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7.30-9.00 BREAKFAST (Fulton House Refectory)

SESSION 1

• Alec Marsh (Muhlenberg): The Economy of Being: Money Metaphors in Martin Heidegger's The Essence of Truth [Abstract]
• Zachary Sng (Johns Hopkins): Metaphor, Money and Corruption in Paul de Man's Epistemology of Metaphor [Abstract]
• Abrahim Khan (Trinity College, Toronto): Kierkegaard on Money and Mercy [Abstract]

SESSION 2

• Marie-Luise Kohlke (Swansea): 'Seller and Commodity in one, a whore is her own investment in the world': The Female Body as Capital and Currency in Angela Carter's Short Stories Black Venus and The Loves of Lady Purple [Abstract]
• Norma Clarke (Kingston): Celebrity Marketing: Laetitia Pilkington sells Jonathan Swift [Abstract]
• Michela Canepari-Labib (Milan): Money, Sex and Language: The Concept of Exchange in J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country [Abstract]

SESSION 3

• Duncan Large (Swansea): Derived Lives, Received Opinions: Parodic Plagiarism in Sterne and Hoffmann [Abstract]
• Karen Seago (North London): Faking It: The Unauthorised Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales in England [Abstract]

SESSION 4

• Eric Spencer (Albertson): Purses and Percies: Prince Hal's Rhetorical Economy [Abstract]
• David Margolies (Goldsmiths): From Social Bond to Contract: Debt in Rabelais and Shakespeare [Abstract]

10.30-11.00 TEA/COFFEE (Taliesin Theatre Foyer)

SESSION 1

• Rainer Emig (Regensburg): Treasure Hunts: Between Morality and Decadence [Stevenson, Haggard, Karl May] [Abstract]
• Kirk Layton (Mount Royal, Calgary): After the Gold Rush: Wealth as Social Commentary in the Canadian Fiction of Robert Service, Ralph Connor and Stephen Leacock [Abstract]

SESSION 2

• Margueritte Murphy (Bentley): Of Gifts and Gambles: The Two Economies of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda [Abstract]
• Cynthia Skenazi (California, Santa Barbara): The Gift: Forms of Exchange in Marot's Epistles [Abstract]

SESSION 3

• Hans Gabriel (North Carolina School of the Arts): Audit or Forgery? Mid-Nineteenth-Century German-Language Realism and Modes of Finance [Abstract]
• Samuel Willcocks (Pennsylvania): Song as Currency [Michael Beheim] [Abstract]

SESSION 4

• Roger Simmonds (Nottingham): Freedom under Capital: The Ideal of the Artist/Critic and the Laws of the Market [Abstract]
• Constance Fulmer (Pepperdine): A Woman's Right to Earn Money of her Own: Edith Simcox's Repudiation of George Eliot's Choices for her Heroines [Abstract]

12.00-1.00 PLENARY 5 (Faraday Building, ESSO Lecture Theatre)

• John Sutherland (UCL)
  Worthy of their Hire: Literature and Cash

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