Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s 11th Annual Conference
‘Mind, Matter(s), Spirit: Forms of Knowledge in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture’
8-10 July 2019, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London
Keynote: Chris Louttit, ‘Capturing the Spirit of Bohemia: The Life of the Artist in 1860s Popular Fiction’
Keynote: Beth Palmer, ‘Sensation Fiction and the Theatre: Braddon, Boucicault and Matters of Adaptation’
Keynote: Christopher Pittard, ‘Vanishing Points: Sidney Paget, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Sherlock Holmes’
Exhibition: ‘Late-Victorian & Edwardian Paperback Fiction’, curated by John Spiers
Reading Group: ‘Altered States of Mind and Body’, hosted by James Green and Henry Bartholomew
Call for Papers
The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is dedicated to fostering interest in understudied popular writers, literary genres and other cultural forms, and to facilitating the production of publishable research and academic collaborations amongst scholars of the popular. Continue reading