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The Noise of History: Literature and Culture in the 1930s 1-2 November, 2003 Conference Programme (Provisional) SATURDAY 1 November 8.00-9.15 Registration9.15-10.40 Parallel Sessions Dylan Thomas and Glyn Jones Emma Davies (University of Wales, Swansea) ‘Glyn Jones: Surrealist Masculinities in his 1930s Work’ Harri Roberts (University of Glamorgan) ‘“Before I Knocked”: Dylan Thomas’s Early Poetic Practice’ Cinema Alun Horan (Trinity College Carmarthen) ‘The Reflections of Hooverian Individualism in Hollywood Cinema of the 1930s’ Liz Oakley-Brown (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) ‘“The Time is Out of Joint”: Shakespeare and the 1930s on Film’ Keith Williams (University of Dundee) ‘Things That Came (and Went?): H. G. Wells, Politics and Cinema in the 1930s’ Modernism I Kevin Asman (Hendrix College) ‘The Abortive Rebellion: 1930s Bourgeois Radicalism and the Perseverance of Modernist Politics in Britain’ Daniel Williams (University of Wales, Swansea) ‘Towards a Populist Modernism: Idris Davies and Langston Hughes in the 1930s’ 10.40-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.00 PLENARY SESSION Andy Croft ‘The Carelessness of History: Randolph, Raymond and Randall Swingler’ 12.00-1.30 Parallel Sessions Identities I Anne Borsay (University of Wales, Swansea) ‘A Legacy of the 1930s? Disability in the Wartime Documentary Film.’ Angela D. Dillard (New York University) ‘Social Justice in the City: Religion and Political Radicalism in Detroit in the 1930s’ Paddy Ladd, (Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol) ‘With These Hands: Resisting the Suppression of Sign Language in the 1930s’ Mass Culture Nick Hubble (University of Sussex) ‘“And In This Hour Are Crowded All Men’s Lives”: the Thirties Public House in History’ Tanya Smith (University of Toledo) ‘The Allegorical Eliot: A Catty Commentary on 1930s London’ Antifascism and Intellectualism Karina Von Lindeiner (St Hugh’s College, Oxford) “Ours is the Decision: Klaus Mann’s Journals Die Sammlung and Decision: A Review of Free Culture. Attempts at an International Cultural Exchange in the 1930s and Early 1940s’ Liesbeth Haagdorens (Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp) ‘Lion Feuchtwanger’s Antifascist Poetics in Exile’ 1.30-2.30 Lunch 2.30-4.00 Parallel Sessions Ireland Hilary Lennon (Trinity College, Dublin) ‘Frank O’Connor, Cultural Transitions, and 1930s Ireland’ Emilie Pine (Trinity College, Dublin) ‘Teresa Deevy: The King of Spain’s Daughter’ Carol Taaffe (Trinity College, Dublin) ‘Brian O’Nolan’s At Swim-Two-Birds and the National University’ Working-Class Fiction Chris Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘One End Street? Eve Garnett and Proletarian Pastoral, 1937-1962’ John Place (St Martin’s University College, Lancaster) “The effort … to recognize the stature of a portion of unimagined existence”: Southern white writers and the plight of poor-whites in the 1930s. Robert Ward (St Martin’s University College, Lancaster) ‘Representations of the “Bread-Line” in American Writing of the 1930s’ Cultural Narratives Mary Grover (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘“Touching Grossly on Fine Issues”: the Rhetorical Similarities of Q. D. Leavis and Warwick Deeping’ Terry Rodgers (Bath Spa University College) ‘Conservative Book Clubs in the 1930s’ Peter Faulkner (University of Exeter) ‘The “Claiming” of William Morris in the 1930s’ 4.00-4.15 Coffee 4.15-5.15 PLENARY SESSION Janet Montefiore ‘Private Journal and Public History in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon’ 5.15-7.00 EVENING BREAK 7.00-8.0 0 PLENARY SESSION Alan M. Wald ‘Into the Fire: African Americans, Jewish Americans, and the Anti-Fascist Crusade in United States Literature, 1936-46’ SUNDAY 2 November 8.30-9.15 Registration 9.15-10.40 Parallel Sessions Gender Cathy Clay (Lancaster University) ‘Women Writers as Friends and Critics: Storm Jameson, Winnifred Holtby and Vera Brittain’ Faye Hammill, (University of Wales, Cardiff) ‘Gender and Literary Celebrity in the 1930s: The Case of the “Provincial Lady”’ (E. M. Delafield) Sarah Dauncey (University of Warwick) ‘Escaping History or Erased by History? Tracking the Implications of Silence in Bowen’s To the North and Benjamin’s ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures Modhumita Roy (Tufts University) ‘The Progressive Writers’ Association in India’ Duncan Campbell, ‘Jerusalem, 1934: David Jones and “the fact of empire”’. Marcus Leaning (Trinity College, Carmarthen) ‘Literature, Culture and Politics in 1930s Thailand’ Politics Jon Blackwood (University of Glamorgan) “Whaur Extremes Meet”: Culture and Political Nationalism in the National Party of Scotland, 1928-34 Steve Devereux (Liverpool Hope) ‘The Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1930s’ Charles Hobday, ‘Edgell Rickword and the Communist Party’ 10.40-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.00 PLENARY SESSION Mary Joannou ‘'Reflections on the woman writer in the 1930s’ 12.00-1.30 Parallel Sessions Kinds of Fiction Graham Barnfield (University of East London) ‘Gothic Manifestos: The Novels of V. F. Calverton’ Darryl Jones (Trinity College, Dublin) ‘Last Men and Killer Diseases: H. G. Wells and the 1930s’ Laura Rattray (University of Hull) ‘Bridging the Divide: Edith Wharton and the 1930s’ Thomas, Gold and Nature Matthew Jarvis (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) ‘Visions of Nature in Mike Gold’s Jews Without Money and Nathaniel West’s Miss Lonelyhearts’ Thomas Butler (University of Notre Dame) ‘Dylan Thomas’ Saturated Noise: Resisting Reason in the Poetry of the ‘30s’ Leo Mellor (King’s College, Cambridge) ‘Dylan Thomas and George Barker: Ways of Reading Landscapes and Bodies (and Hatred)’ Identities II Isabel Adonis, ‘Joe Christmas and the Chamber of Secrets: The Black / White Dilemma in William Faulkner’s Light in August’ Mary Economou-Bailey (The American College of Greece) ‘“Revisioning” the 1930s: Carol Shield and Margaret Atwood’ Robert Nisbet (Trinity College, Carmarthen) Go Down to Your Native Place: The Writer / Reader Relationship of Geraint Goodwin and Edward Garnett’ 1.30-2.30 Lunch 2.30-3.30 PLENARY SESSION Jennifer Birkett ‘Embodied Politics: England to Europe in Storm Jameson’s Novels of the Thirties’
3.30-5.00 Parallel Sessions Drama Kathleen Bell (De Montfort University) ‘Class and Criminality in the Plays of Emlyn Williams’ Miriam Räthel (Catholic University of Eichstätt) ‘“It’s Organ Organ All the Time”: The Textualisation of Sexuality in Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood’ Reade W. Dornan (University of Central Michigan) ‘Joe Corrie: Portrait of a Miner from the Fife Coalfields’ Spain Kate Wright (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) ‘Quakers and the Spanish Civil War’ Brian Thill (University of California, Irvine) ‘“How Many Fascists Have You Killed?’: The Spanish Civil War and the Quantifying of American Commitment’ Modernism II J. Stan Barrett, (University of Michigan) ‘Imagining Audience in Wallace Stevens’s “Ideas of Order”’ Ivan Phillips (University of Hertfordshire) ‘“A Proud Symbolical Banana”, or Every Good Doggerel Has Its Day: Wyndham Lewis’s One-Way Song’ 4.00 Close
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