Natalie Mo - The University of Hong Kong Abstract The doppelganger is a recurring character across literary history. Within nineteenth-century British literature, it is most commonly associated with gothic fiction in which it functions as an externalization of the protagonist’s transgressive desires. This paper argues that this character type is common not only in gothic […]
Anneliese Ng - The University of Hong Kong Abstract This talk examines how Elizabeth Gaskell offers an alternative plot for the fallen woman in her 1853 novel Ruth. Gaskell reworks the dominant plot of the fallen woman genre by revoking what Amanda Anderson calls “the downward-path principle.” It dictates that once a woman has sex outside […]
by Professor Rodney H. Jones (University of Reading)
by Professor Asif Agha ( University of Pennsylvania)
by Professor Miriam Meyerhoff (Victoria University of Wellington )
by Professor Don Kulick (Uppsala University)
