Daily Conference Schedule: Saturday, November 15, 1997

This is our schedule as of November 1, 1997. Final changes will be announced at the conference.


Saturday, 8:15-9:45 (Sessions 13 - 18)

SESSION 13: Travel Writing and the Enactment of Victorian Feminism

SESSION 14: Mind the Gap: Partisan Travelers and Political Tourism SESSION 15: Nineteenth-Century British Notions about Americans SESSION 16: Visualizing India, Ceylon, and the Middle East SESSION 17: American Attitudes Toward Germany and Poland SESSION 18: To and from the Antipodes: Writing about Australia and Australian Travel Writing


Saturday, 10:00 - 12:30 (Sessions 19 - 24)

SESSION 19: Missionary Positions: Converting Peoples and Landscapes

SESSION 20: Collaborative Journeys: Travel Writing and Collaboration SESSION 21: Creating and Critiquing America: Eighteenth-Century Delineations of American Identity SESSION 22: In Search of the Good: Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Travelers in Europe and the Middle East SESSION 23: John Bull's Sons in Mother Russia SESSION 24: Pratfalls and Catastrophes: The Role of Accidents in Narratives of Travel


Saturday, 1:30 - 3:00 (Sessions 25 - 30)

SESSION 25: Travelling Reveals the Nation: The Role of Conquest, Race, and Religion in British Travellers' Collective Imagining, 1770-1904

SESSION 26: Transnationalism and Re-colonization in the 1880s and 1890s SESSION 27: Constructing and Deconstructing the American South as a Site of Difference SESSION 28: The Female Gaze and Women's Travel Narratives about the Middle East SESSION 29: Voyages In and Out of England SESSION 30: Anglo-American Responses to the Romance and Reality of Nineteenth-Century Italy


Saturday, 3:30 - 5:30 (Sessions 31 - 36)

SESSION 31: Chauvinism and the Traveler's Response to Religion and Politics

SESSION 32: The Cultural Baggage of the Nineteenth-Century American Traveler SESSION 33: Captivity, and Shipwreck Tales and the Travel Narrative SESSION 34: The Burden of the Past: Representation of the Balkans, Turkey, and Greece in Anglo-American Travel Narratives SESSION 35: Displacement and Exile in Twentieth-Century American Travel Novels SESSION 36: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Travel Writing


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