Hockliffe Project Conference:
'The Child Reader 1740-1840'
Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester City Campus
5-6 July 2002
To tie in with the end of the first phase of the Hockliffe Project the English Department of De Montfort University will be hosting a two-day conference to examine the culture of children's literature in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Panels and plenary lectures will cover a diverse range of subjects: children's irreverent and physical book use, the presentation of physical punishment and children's deaths in children's books, the re-writing of fairy tales, the rapacious career of John Newbery, links between oral and literary children's culture, the relationship between text and image, the 'Victorian revolution' in children's literature, best practice for curating collections of early children's books, the usefulness of digital projects, and many others themes. The full programme is set out below.
For more details please contact Dr. Matthew Grenby.
So that the organisers can gain a sense of how many people will attend the conference, and mail out further information as it becomes available, please register in advance for the conference by sending the following information to mgrenby@dmu.ac.uk:
There will be a conference fee of £25 (£10 for postgraduate students), payable at registration on the day of the conference. This fee includes registration for the conference, lunch on Friday and Saturday, and tea and coffee throughout the conference.
The conference dinner will be organised for the evening of Friday 5 July at a venue to be decided. Attendance is optional of course, and will cost extra, but the price will not exceed £15 per person.
| Friday 5 July | |
| 0930-1800 | Registration [Clephan Building: main lobby, ground floor] |
| 1015 | Welcome: Julia Briggs and Matthew Grenby (De Montfort University) [Clephan 0.01] |
| 1030 |
Plenary session 1: Ruth B. Bottigheimer (State University of New York at Stony Brook): 'The Book on the Bookseller's Shelf and the Book in the London Child's Hand' [Clephan 0.01] Chair: Julia Briggs (De Montfort University) |
| 1130 | Coffee |
| 1150 |
Panel 1:Book users and usage [Clephan 0.01] Mary Trim (Loughborough University): 'Early Modern Quaker Children and their Books' Debbie Denham (University of Central England): 'Reading for pleasure: access and availability' Lynne Vallone (Texas A&M University): 'Historiography and the Georgian Girl Reader' Chair: Judy Simons (De Montfort University) |
| 1315 | Lunch |
| 1415 |
Panel 2: Jack Whirler and Mrs. Teachum [Clephan 0.01] Julia Briggs (De Montfort University): 'Pamela's Daughters' Chris Mounsey (King Alfred's College, Winchester): 'Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers: John Newbery and his writers' Chair: George Rousseau (De Montfort University) |
| 1515 | Break |
| 1520 |
Panel 3: Reworking texts [Clephan 0.01] Marian Allsobrook, 'Magnanimous Little Grandisons: Representations of Samuel Richardson's fictional hero in boyhood by Wollstonecraft and Berquin' John Dunkley (Aberdeen University): 'Value Added: John Bewick's Illustrations to The Looking-Glass for the Mind' George Speaight, 'The Juvenile Drama' Chair: Nigel Wood (De Montfort University) |
| 1645 | Tea |
| 1700 |
Panel 4: The Undiscovered Country [Clephan 0.01] Elizabeth Johnson (Lilly Library, Indiana University): 'Distant places and strange peoples: travel books for children in the Elisabeth Ball collection' Kimberly Reynolds (University of Surrey Roehampton): 'Short Graves: narratives of childhood death for young readers' Chair: Margaret Evans (De Montfort University) |
| 1800 | Close of day one |
| 1930 | Conference dinner |
| Saturday 6 July | |
| 0900 |
Plenary session 2: Matthew Grenby and Peter Robinson (De Montfort University): The Hockliffe Project [Clephan 0.01] |
| 0930 |
Plenary session 3: Brian Alderson: 'Virtual Carts and Actual Horses' [Clephan 0.01] Chair: To be arranged |
| 1030 | Coffee |
| 1045 |
Panel 5: Collections and what to do with them [Clephan 0.01] Diana Saulsbury (De Montfort University): 'The Hockliffe Collection' Sharon Sperling (Kent Arts and Libraries): 'The Marcus Crouch Collection or A Modern Cinderella Story' Chair: To be arranged |
| 1145 | Break |
| 1150 |
Parallel sessions: Panel 6a: Re-telling traditional tales [Clephan 0.01] Morna Daniels (British Library): 'Puss in Boots' Katharn Turner (Glasgow University): 'Scottish and Irish Gaelic oral storytelling and children's literature' Winifred Yin (Tunghai University, Taiwan): 'The Lambs’ "Chapbook" Tales from Shakespear' Chair: To be arranged or Panel 6b: Books of Instruction [Clephan 0.15] Vanessa Joosen and Angela Colvert (University of Surrey Roehampton): 'Early ABC books: didactic tools or early picture books?' Nigel Wood (De Montfort University): 'Advice to children. Books of instruction and education in the eighteenth century' Beatriz Alcubierre (Centro de Estudios Historicos, El Colegio de Mexico): 'El Diario de los ninos: the first children’s periodical in the independent Mexico' Chair: To be arranged |
| 1315 | Lunch |
| 1415 |
Panel 7: Towards Victorianism [Clephan 0.01] Denis Butts: 'The Criticism and Reviewing of Children's Books up to 1840: The Case of Barbara Hofland (1770-1844)' David Rudd (Bolton Institute): 'The Last Boy: Holiday House and the Society for the Suppression of Amusement' Louisa Smith (Mankato State Univ., MN.): 'From Morals to Myths: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Children's Books' Chair: To be arranged |
| 1545 | Tea |
| 1600 |
Plenary session 4: Andrea Immel (Cotsen Collection, Princeton University): 'Joe Thompson's School-Days: Boys versus Their Masters in the 18th Century' [Clephan 0.01] Chair: Nigel Wood (De Montfort University) |
| 1700 | Conference close |