The Hoarding is pleased to present its annual list of MLA sessions on Romantic and Victorian literature. If we’ve missed something, let us know in the comments.
Thursday, 5 January
- Decentering Victorian Economies 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 106B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Nineteenth-Century Adaptation and Transmediation: Narrative Boundary Crossings 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott
- Beyond Sympathy: Affect and the Body in Romanticism 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Novel Technologies: Victorian (Old and New) Media 1:45–3:00 p.m., 112A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Reloading the Romantic Canon: New Texts and Contexts from Godwin, Shelley, and Hazlitt 1:45–3:00 p.m., 111B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Human-Animal Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century British Literature 3:30–4:45 p.m., 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
110. Bookish Histories Thursday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- The Brontës beyond the Victorian Era: Intimacy, Distance, and the Boundaries of Modernism 5:15–6:30 p.m., 105B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Confluent Infections in Victorian Literature 5:15–6:30 p.m., 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Migration and Domesticity in British Romanticism 5:15–6:30 p.m., 112B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Victorian Screens 7:00–8:15 p.m., 105B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Friday, 6 January
- Byron and Consumption Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 106B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- In Our Time: M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) Friday, 6 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 102A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Pennsylvania and Romanticism Friday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 105A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Reading Surplus: Population, Biopolitics, and Form in the Nineteenth Century Friday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 110A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Romanticism and the Longue Durée Friday, 6 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott
- Framing the Rape Victim in the Long Nineteenth Century Friday, 6 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 112A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Biographia Literaria at Two Hundred Friday, 6 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 106A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Jane Austen at Two Hundred Friday, 6 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 111B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Transformational Conditions: Gender and the Precariousness of Intimacy Friday, 6 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
421A. Craft and Design in Literary Study: The Legacy of William Morris Friday, 6 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 202A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Saturday, 7 January
- Dickens and Family? Saturday, 7 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 106B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- John Clare: The One and the Many Saturday, 7 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Renewing the Network of Digital Nineteenth-Century Studies Saturday, 7 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott
- Useful and Beautiful: William Morris and the Art of the Book Saturday, 7 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 112A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- “Victorian” in a Comparative Field Saturday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 109B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Less Life Saturday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 111B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Romantics 200: 2017 Reads 1817 Saturday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 110A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Victorian Fantasies of Empire Saturday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Romanticism Unbound Saturday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 104A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
- Medieval and Victorian Temporalities Saturday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 202A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Sunday, 8 January
682. Weathering the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Climate, Boundaries, Aesthetics Sunday, 8 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 404, Philadelphia Marriott
- Party Like It’s 1800–99: Reading British Social Gatherings in the Nineteenth Century Sunday, 8 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 112B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
749. Romanticism and the Right to Violence Sunday, 8 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott
- Pornographic, Grotesque, Stupid: Rethinking Victorian Character Sunday, 8 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 203B, Pennsylvania Convention Center