Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother: A Mini-conference. Session I
Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother: A Mini-conference.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
The Yale Center for British Art
In conjunction with A Staged Reading of Horace Walpole’s play The Mysterious Mother (1768), the Lewis Walpole Library organized a one-day mini-conference. Session I focused on Reading The Mysterious Mother. Session II focused on Staging The Mysterious Mother.
Organized by Cynthia Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
and
Jill Campbell, Professor of English, Yale University
Session I: Reading The Mysterious Mother
Chair: Jill Campbell, Professor of English, Yale University
Panelists:
Dale Townshend, Professor of Gothic Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University
“The Mystery of The Mysterious Mother: Textual Lives and Afterlives”
Matthew Reeve, Associate Professor, Art History, Queen’s University
“The Mysterious Mother and Crypto-Catholicism in the Circle of Horace Walpole”
Nicole Garret, Lecturer, Department of English, SUNY Stony Brook
“Mis-reading in The Mysterious Mother”
Cheryl Nixon, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“The Mysterious Orphan: Dramatizing the Betrayal of the Child”
Nicole Wright, Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder
“ ‘Kindest Laws’: Intimate Adjudication in The Mysterious Mother”
