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Entertainment & the Marketplace ______________________________________________________________________________ MIDWEST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Summer 2006 Newsletter Edited by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre ___________________________________________________________________________________ Executive Committee: Officers--James Sack (History), President (2005-7); Linda K. Hughes, Vice-President and President-Elect (2005-7); Julie Melnyk (English), Treasurer (2006-8); Alisa Clapp-Itnyre (English & Music), Executive Secretary (2005-7); Anne M. Windholz (English), Past-Executive Secretary; Members-at-Large--Patrick Leary (History, 2003-7), John Reed (English, 2003-7), Anne Helmreich (Art, 2004-8), and James Murphy (English, 2004-8). 2006 CONFERENCE: Entertainment & the “Eminent Victorians: A New Look” Detroit, Michigan. Marketplace The Thirtieth or, How the Victorians Were Annual MVSA Amused Meeting was held for the first time University of Illinois on the downtown April 20-22, 2007 campus of Wayne State University. Thanks to the --CALL FOR PAPERS-- untiring work of The Thirty-First Annual Midwest Victorian the conference Studies Association meeting will be held at chair, John Reed, the University of Illinois in Champaign- the over 50 Urbana. Our theme this year is participants—an all-time high in recent years— “Entertainment and the Marketplace: How enjoyed a Victorian atmosphere in both its lovely accommodations at the Inn on Ferry Street (see the Victorians were Amused.” In addition insert) and at the elegant Whitney Restaurant to topics about aesthetics and the arts, this where we dined for both Friday’s dinner and might include commodity exchange, circuits Saturday’s luncheon. Amongst various of circulation, networks of consumption, engaging talks--on eminent women, the DNB, concepts of entertainment, relationship and sensation fiction-- participants also enjoyed between entertainment and didacticism. We a delightful talk by Martha Vicinus as our welcome interdisciplinary papers on the keynote speaker Friday night, then celebrated th relationship between the growth of capitalism the association’s 30 anniversary with a plenary and the development of the entertainment talk by MVSA founder Lawrence Poston. industry, the relationship between Universities from all around the Detroit area entertainment in the provinces and that in the were represented, including U of M, U of M/Dearborn, and Oakland University. I think I metropole, relationship between speak for many when I say that I hope to come entertainment and religion, critiques of to Michigan again soon! entertainment, the institutionalization of See the end of this newsletter for all abstracts, entertainment (the creation of permanent and also an opportunity to renew your theaters, commercial art galleries, etc.), the membership so as to be included in our 2007 finance of entertainment, the morality of Summer Directory and all MVSA mailings. I entertainment, the objects of entertainment, thank the Humanities and Fine Arts Division at theories and treatises of entertainment, Indiana University East for financial assistance entertainments within entertainments (e.g. in the printing and mailing of this newsletter. descriptions of theater, dances, music events --Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Executive Secretary within novels), comparisons between 1 different forms of entertainment, etc. In to this campus once again. There is a good keeping with its long interdisciplinary and chance of reasonable weather at that time inclusive tradition, MVSA welcomes of year, and C-U restaurants and night life proposals from any disciplinary perspective have improved immensely since the early consonant with this broad theme. We days of our organization. As an evening encourage panels and individual papers that entertainment we are planning a mixed vocal and instrumental concert of the kind look afresh at one or more of these topics. that was still customary in early Victorian times, taking advantage of Christina’s About MVSA conferences: expertise on the subject. We also hope to Victorianists studying and working in the mount an exhibit drawing on the substantial midwestern or southern United States are resources of the UIUC library on the topic of especially encouraged to attend at MVSA, “Entertainment and the Marketplace.” All are welcome. and to make a home in this distinguished --Nicholas Temperley scholarly organization. Graduate students are particularly welcome as attendees and presenters at MVSA conferences, where they will find a stimulating and collegial From the President’s Desk atmosphere, and where conference fees are adjusted to make attendance more If the theme of our 2006 Thirtieth anniversary meeting was “Eminent affordable. MVSA annually awards the Bill Victorians: A New Look,” our urban and Mary Burgan Prize for an outstanding Midwest locale, Wayne State University, paper by a graduate student at the Detroit, Michigan, presented an conference, while the prestigious Arnstein environment surprisingly nineteenth Prize supports dissertation research of an century for the fifty to sixty “eminent interdisciplinary kind. Conference news Victorians” who attended. Wayne State is can be found on the MVSA website at located near the East Ferry Street Historic http://www2.ic.edu/MVSA/ District of Midtown Detroit. The Inn on Ferry, which was the conference hotel, is actually composed of four restored Submissions: By October 31st, email a contiguous Victorian mansions and two 500-word (only) abstract to Alisa Clapp- carriage houses. I stayed in one of the Itnyre, Assoc. Professor of English, Indiana carriage houses and was immediately University East: [email protected]. attracted to the high ceilings, Please mention “MVSA 2007 Paper scrumptious colored wall paper, and brass Submission” in the Re: line and include your bedsteads which so much resembled the own name, title, institution, email and snail upper middle class Victorian bedroom. mail addresses, a phone number, and the Even more astounding was the Whitney abstract itself in the text. If you must include mansion, where the conference dinner and luncheon was held. It was built in an attachment, please include the above 1894 in a Romanesque style by the Detroit information in it, too. If you do not receive architect Gordon W. Lloyd for the lumber an email confirmation of receipt, please re- baron David Whitney, Jr. The 21,000 submit. square foot home has ten bathrooms, sufficient for even the well-oiled members From the 2007 Conference Coordinators of the MVSA, and fifty-two rooms. A grand The 2007 conference will be taking place at staircase dominates the Great Hall of the the University of Illinois at Urbana- mansion and colorful Tiffany stained Champaign, April 20-22, hosted by Walter glass panels richly illuminate the second Arnstein, Christina Bashford and me. and third floors. For revealing this sector Conference space and accommodation of American Victoriana to interested have been reserved at the Illini Union. We nineteenth-century scholars, one can are all enthusiastic about welcoming MVSA hardly thank enough our local 2 arrangements chair, John Reed. Thanks University of Illinois. As I try to peer into also should be offered to others who the shadowy region beyond the light Jim casts helped fund the conference, hence ahead, I find myself recalling the arch keeping fees down: D.J. Trela, Dean of the through which Tennyson’s Ulysses looks, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Michigan-Flint; Jim Searing, toward “that untravelled world, whose chair of the History Department at UIC; margin fades / For ever and for ever when I and Chris Comer, Dean of Liberal Arts move.” Victorian studies is as vibrant as ever, and Sciences at UIC. but the academic terrain within which it goes forward is changing profoundly, and the Making a conference successful, as I boundaries of regional organizations like ours trust our Thirtieth anniversary meeting was, involves the untiring work of a have recently been shifting in relation to the number of people, especially our intrepid new national organizations like the North Executive Secretary, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, American Victorian Studies Association. and our long-serving and uncomplaining Treasurer, Julie Melnyk. The distinctive features of MVSA are Our Vice-President, Linda Hughes, bailed well suited to future aims and needs. In an us out of numerous difficulties unforeseen by your President, as did our talented era of constrained travel budgets, a regional Executive Committee, Anne Windholz, organization that sponsors conferences Patrick Leary, John Reed, Anne Helmreich within a contained geographical area can and James Murphy. I would also like to offer members and interested parties express my appreciation to Marc affordable access to annual conferences. Plamondon for help at the MVSA MVSA conferences are highly-focused, highly- conference on matters technical. selective, and highly interdisciplinary; they Last year, I ended my “A word from the also operate on a smaller scale relative to Incoming President,” with a plea for some others and feature programs with no someone to relieve our indefatigable but opposing sessions. Those who attend thus tired web-master, Bob Koepp, of his duties. have excellent opportunities to form We do thank Kirsten Parkinson of Hiram networks and participate in an ongoing College, Ohio, therefore, for stepping conversation over the course of the meeting. forward and taking on this task! As a member of the Arnstein Award committee and regular presenter at our conferences, Yet the “fading margin”
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