"Thomas Carlyle and Victorian Cultural Critique"
October 14th-15th, 1995 in Columbia, SC
Co-hosted by the University of South Carolina and Columbia College

FRIDAY OCTOBER 13TH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

2.00-3.25 Session 1: Carlyle and the Victorian Social Critique

Chair: William F. Naufftus (Winthrop University)
• William E. Rivers (University of South Carolina), "A 'True Aristocracy' and the Land: the Rhetoric of Responsibility in Bolingbroke, Carlyle and Disraeli"
• Betsy Head (Texas Women's University), "Carlylean Arguments in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton"
• Marie Fitzwilliam (College of Charleston), "The Carlylean Heroic in Gaskell's Gaskell's Mary Barton"
• Kreg Abshire (University of South Carolina), "Manly Socialism: William Morris, News From Nowhere, and the Reconciliation of 'Strenuous Idleness'"

3.30-3.50 approx. Project Reports

Mark Cumming (Memorial University), "The Garland Carlyle Encyclopaedia;" Ian Campbell (University of Edinburgh), "The Carlyle Letters;" Murray Baumgarten (University of California at Santa Cruz ) and Rodger L. Tarr (Illinois State University), "The Strouse/California Carlyle Edition."

4.00-5.15 Session 2: Plenary Papers

• Ian Campbell (University of Edinburgh), "Coming to terms with the Past: the Carlyle centenary"
• John R. Reed (Wayne State University), "Recruiting the Militia: or Why the Troops didn't answer Captain Thomas's Call"

5.15-6.30 approx. Reception and Exhibit (Rare Book Room, Thomas Cooper Library)
5.15-6.30 approx. Reception and Exhibit (Rare Book Room, Thomas Cooper Library)
"Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881: A Bicentenary Exhibition based on the Rodger L. Tarr Carlyle Collection"

5.30 approx. Introductory talk:
Rodger L. Tarr (Illinois State University), "Collecting Carlyle"

Reception sponsored by the Thomas Cooper Society

6.45 p.m. Dinner

8.00 p.m. "Carlyle and Jane," by Henry Donald--the North American premiere of Henry Donald's two-person dramatization based on the Carlyles' letters

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14TH AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE

8.45-9.25 Session 3: Plenary Paper

Murray Baumgarten (University of California at Santa Cruz), "Picturesque Tourists in the Victorian Industrial City: Carlyle, the Stereoscope, and the Social Text"

9.30-10.30 Session 4: Carlyle as Historian

• Lee Baker (High Point University), "Carlyle's Turn from the Aesthetic"
• Katherine Van Eerde (Muhlenberg College), "History as Chameleon: Carlyle's Successive Interpretations"
• Virginia Thornton (University of Virginia), "Revolution and Historical Representation: the Search for Authority in Carlyle's The French Revolution"

• Lowell T. Frye (Hampden-Sydney College), "Cobbett, Carlyle, and the Voice of Social Protest"
• Larry Uffelman (Mansfield University), "Kingsley, the Victorians, and Water"
• Anthony R. Grasso (King's College), "North and South, or Gurth Disen-'Thrall'-ed: Gaskell's Response to Paternalism in Past and Present"

Book exhibit; Journals display

11.00-12.25 Session 6: Jane Welsh, Cheyne Row, Maenads and Music

• Doris H. Meriwether (University of Southwest Louisiana), "Jane Welsh Carlyle and No. 5 Great Cheyne Row: a Demon or an Angel of a House?"
• Mary B. Werner (Northern Illinois University), "'The present rules for women will not hold us'; Geraldine Jewsbury's Influence in the Stories of Jane Welsh Carlyle"
• Maureen Goldstein (University of South Carolina), "The portrayal of women in Carlyle's The French Revolution"
• Cynthia Patton (Mesa State College), "'By moments, a good man': Carlyle on Music."

11.10-12.25 Session 7: Books, Libraries and the Victorian Marketplace

• William Baker (Northern Illinois University), "Carlyle and Biblioclasm: Teufelsdrockh Book Thief Unclothed"
• Brendan Rapple (Boston College), "Carlyle on Librarianship and the British Museum"
• John B. Lamb (West Virginia University), "The Sage and Popular Knowledge: Carlyle Crying in the Marketplace"

12.30 Lunch & business meeting

1.30-2.25 Session 8: Carlyle and Reason

• Trevor McNeely (Brandon University), "Carlyle's Sartor, Newman's Apologia, and Reason"
• Jude V. Nixon (Baylor University), "Carlyle, Thermodynamics, and Tropical Discourse"

Chair: Rodger L. Tarr (Illinois State), Editor, Carlyle Studies Annual Panelists: Hayden Ward (West Virginia University), Editor, Victorian Poetry; William Baker (Northern Illinois University), Editor, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies; Cynthia Patton (Mesa State College), Review Editor, Nineteenth-Century Prose; the Editors, Victorians Institute Journal.

2.40-3.55 Session 10: Carlyle, the Intellectual

• David R. Sorensen (St. Joseph's University), "The Propriety of Genius: the Portraits of Schiller and Goethe in Carlyle's Life of Schiller"
• David F. Goslee (University of Tennessee), "Carlyle's Odin and the Etiology of Culture"
• Kenneth Brewer (Stanford), "The Hero as Man of Letters?: Carlyle and Arnold on the Charisma of the Intellectual"

2.40-3.55 Session 11: Rereading Carlyle's Social Critique

• Caroline Reitz (Brown University), "Remodelling Prisoners: Carlyle and the Othering of Violence"
• D. J. Trela (Roosevelt University), "Abbot Samson as Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Carlyle as Both"
• Mark Cumming (Memorial University), "Carlyle and the Victorian Rejection of Domesticity"

4.15-5.00 approx. Concluding Plenary Keynote Address

Clyde de L. Ryals (Duke University), "Carlyle's Liberalism" q