New UK Research in
Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
A one-day symposium to be held at Darwin College, Cambridge, 1 February 2014
Opening remarks: 9am
Panel 1: Pushkin and Beyond in the Russian Cultural Imagination
9:10 - 10:45
Chair: Katherine Bowers (Cambridge)
Paper 1: “Dynamic conflict in Alexander Pushkin’s Boris Godunov and The Bronze Horseman”
Nigel Foxcroft (Brighton)
Paper 2: “The Figure of the Jesuit in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth Century”
Elizabeth Harrison (UCL-SSEES)
Paper 3: “The Unusual Inter-Relationship Between Russian Literature and Visual Arts in the 1870s-1880s: Aleksandr Opekushin as a Contributor to the Pushkin Myth”
Alexandra Smith (Edinburgh)
15 min tea/coffee break
Panel 2: Theoretical Approaches to the Russian Nineteenth Century
11:00 – 1:00
Chair: Connor Doak (Bristol)
Paper 1: “Lyric Subjectivity and the Circulation of Feeling in Elegies by Zhukovsky”
Alyson Tapp (Cambridge)
Paper 2: “Love as a Moral Category of Russian Literature”
Olga Tabachnikova (Bath)
Paper 3: “Topos or ‘Text’?: The Caucasian Spa in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature”
Benjamin Morgan (UCL-SSEES)
Paper 4: “Interfering with Theory: Nineteenth-Century Metafiction”
Margarita Vaysman (Oxford)
Lunch: 1-2pm
Panel 3: New Readings of Dostoevsky
2-3:40pm
Chair: Sarah Young (UCL-SSEES)
Paper 1: “Dostoevsky and the Politics of Parturition: Childbirth as Political Motif in Demons”
Muireann Maguire (Exeter)
Paper 2: “Que ‘vaut’ le récit? Narrative value and transaction in Dostoevsky’s Idiot”
Jonathan Paine (Oxford)
Paper 3: “‘Tick, Tock, Goes the Clock . . :’ Faustian Time in Dostoevsky’s ‘The Meek One’”
Inna Tigountsova (Leeds)
20 min tea/coffee break
Closing roundtable: The Past, Present and Future of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Studies in the UK
4-5:30pm
Chair: Katherine Bowers (Cambridge)
Participants:
Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis)
Sarah Hudspith (Leeds)
Ruth Coates (Bristol)
Joe Andrew (Keele)
Sarah Young (UCL-SSEES)
Following the closing roundtable, participants and attendees are welcome to join the organizers for dinner at a local restaurant.
This symposium is generously supported through a CEELBAS Research Network Workshop Grant.
