Under the auspices of the Department of English and German (UV) and funded by the GVA Research Project (AICO/2021/225), this conference was the first in a series of events organised as part of a three-year funded research project on women and entrepreneurship in the entertainment industry of the nineteenth century and its afterlives.
Plenary lectures and papers discussed the following areas of research:
- (Neo-)Victorian re-stagings of the nineteenth century by women
- (Neo-)Victorian female managers and producers
- Fictional recreations of (neo-) Victorian female managers and producers
- Fictional recreations of (neo-) Victorian female managers and producers in film and on the stage
- Rewritings of nineteenth-century spectacle in (neo-) Victorian fiction by women writers
- Rewritings of nineteenth-century spectacle in (neo-) Victorian theatre by women playwrights
The following keynote addresses were given at the conference:
- Polly Teale (Artistic director and playwright), “A Wish for Wings. An urgent thirst to see, to know, to learn”.
- Janice Norwood (University of Hertfordshire), “Ghost Papers: Creative Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Actresses”.
- Beth Palmer (University of Surrey), “Nineteenth-Century Women’s Lives on the Contemporary Stage”
- Lin Pettersson (Universidad de Málaga), “Powerful Women and the Music Hall in Neo-Victorian Fiction”
A performance of Jim's Leg and The Mothers' Meeting by L. S. Phibbs translated by group member Miguel Teruel and staged by Cactus Teatre with an after-show talk was first staged during the conference. You may watch the full performance here.
The conference included an interview with Vanessa Montfort (playwright) by Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina (UV) and with Ian Rickson by María Gaviña Costero (UV)
Videos of the conference are available here.
Advisory board:
- Rosario Arias (Universidad de Málaga)
- Jim Davis (University of Warwick)
- Viv Gardner (University of Manchester)
- Mª Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Universidade da Coruña)
- Kate Newey (University of Exeter)
- Patricia Pulham (University of Surrey)
Main Organizers:
- Laura Monrós-Gaspar (UV)
- María Gavina Costero (UV)
- Victoria Puchal Terol (VIU)
Organizers:
- Miriam Borham Puyal (USAL)
- Andrea Burgos (UV)
- Ana Fernández- Caparrós Turina (UV)
- María Gaviña Costero (UV)
- Dina Pedro (UV)
- Sarai Ramos Cedres (UV)
