Conference Programme

Monday 15 September 1997

15.00-16.00

16.00-17.00

 

Registration

Norbert Bachleitner (Wien)
Die Rezeption englischer Autorinnen in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert

17.00-19.00   Parallel Sessions

Mary Howard (Cork)
The Sphinx of the European World. German fiction and the “novel” in Great Britain after Napoleon
Susanne Stark (Leeds)
The English reception of Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben
Christina Ujma (Loughborough)
England und die Engländer in Fanny Lewald’s Romanen und Reiseberichten

Joachim Schwend (Leipzig)
David Lodge, Out of the Shelter (1970): Rites of passage into paradise?
Osman Durrani (Kent)
The campus and its novel: Dietrich Schwanitz’s literary exploration of university life
Ute Dapprich-Barrett (Glasgow)
Magical realism: sources and affinities in contemporary German and English writing (Morgner, Winterson, Carter)

19.00

Dinner followed by novel readings by
Gabrielle Alioth and Peter Zeindler

Tuesday 16 September 1997

Breakfast

Hermann Real (Münster)
The travels of Lemuel Gulliver into remote eighteenth-century Germany

8.00-9.00

9.00-10.00

 

10.00-11.20   Parallel Sessions

Gerald Bär (Lisbon)
Cornelia Goethe - an individuality out of Richardson’s novels

Astrid Krake (Münster)
Der deutsche Richardson:  Übersetzungsgeschichte als Beitrag zur Rezeptionsgeschichte

 

Diane Milburn (Leeds)
“Denn die Toten reiten schnell”: Anglo-German cross-currents in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Elmar Schenkel (Leipzig)
G.K. Chesterton and Nietzsche

11.20-11.40

Tea/Coffee

11.40-13.00   Parallel Sessions

Daniel Hall (Exeter)
The Gothic tide: Schauerroman and Gothic novel in the late eighteenth century
F
red Bridgham (Leeds)
Kleist and Monk Lewis: give and take
 

David Horrocks (Keele)
The undisciplined past: novel approaches to history in Grass and Rushdie
David Green (Central England)
Social milieux and politics in Die Blechtrommel and Midnight’s Children: authoritarianism and chamchaism for ulterior motives

13.00-14.00

14.00-15.00

Lunch

Harald Husemann  (Osnabrück)
When William came - if Helmut were to come: fictional and factual europhobia in Britain

15.00-16.20   Parallel Sessions

Peter Skrine (Bristol)
An Anglo-German war novel from the Isle of Man: Hall Caine’s The Woman of Knockaloe
J.M. Ritchie (London)
Writing in the language of the other: German exile novelists in Britain
 

Joachim Fischer (Limerick)
Irische Perspektiven: Zum Deutschlandbild in den Romanen Canon Scheehans
Gundula Sharman (Aberdeen)
Elective Affinities with Ireland: Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandt-
schaften
and John Banville’s The Newton Letter

Tea/Coffee

15.20-16.40

16.40-18.00   Parallel Sessions

Godela Weiß-Sussex (De Montfort Bedford)
Freedom or isolation? Ways of seeing individualism in the city in British and German novels of the 18th and 19th century
Holger Klein (Salzburg)
The big city and the little man in early twentieth-century English and German novels
 

Gary Chambers (Leeds)
The German novel on the ‘A’ level syllabus



Adelheid Petruschke-Abramovici (Stuttgart)
Der englische Roman auf dem deutschen Lehrplan

18.00-19.00

 

19.00

 

Patrick Bridgwater (Durham)
“Who’s afraid of Sidonia von Bork?”
 

Reception followed by Conference dinner

Wednesday 17 September 1997

8.00-9.00

9.00-10.00

 

Breakfast

Hartmut Steinecke (Paderborn)
Britisch-deutsche Romanlektüren im frühen 19. Jahrhundert – Hofmann und Scott zum Beispiel

10.00-11.20   Parallel Sessions

Peter Hasubeck (Göttingen)
Immermann und Scott



Michael Andermatt (Zürich)
Engelland als Metapher: – Walter Scott, Augustin Thierry und das mittelalterliche England in Conrad Ferdinand Meyers Novelle Der Heilige

Sabine Hotho (Abertay Dundee)
“The rescue of some stranded ghost”: re-writings of literary history (Ackroyd, Byatt, Damm, Wolf)
Sue Sirc (Glasgow)
Myths and truths of origins and ancestors: A.S. Byatt’s Possession and Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften

11.20-11.40

Tea/Coffee

11.40-13.00   Parallel Sessions

Frank Lamport (Oxford)
Goethe, Ossian and Werther


Fritz Wefelmeyer (Sunderland)
“German and English, I call upon you to be composed in spirit”: Thomas Carlyle und der deutsche Roman
 

Andreas Kramer (Goldsmiths)
Nationality and avant-garde: Anglo-German images in Wyndham Lewis’ Tarr
André  Bucher (Zürich)
Das erzähltechnische Labor der Moderne – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Romans

13.00-14.00

14.00-15.00

Lunch

Rosemary Ashton  (University College London)
The role of the German professor in nineteenth-century English fiction


Programme as at 12 August 1997

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