Programme

Friday, 24 November

9:30-11:00	Panel session 1. Chair: Csaba Maczelka   Reading in Northanger Abbey and Evelina SIMON Rebeka (University of Pécs)   Exploring the Vampiric Motifs in Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon SIMON Réka Boglárka (University of Pécs)   An Exiled Hero and the Throne of a New World – Margaret Cavendish and the ‘Romancical’ GYENIS Dorina Katalin (University of Pécs)
11:00-12:00	Registration, Coffee Break
12:00-13:15	Conference opening Plenary lecture 1. Chair: Mária Kurdi   The word and the image: early modern female self-representations in the works of Cavendish and Gentileschi HÖRCHER Ferenc (University of Public Service, Budapest)
13:15-14:15	Lunch Break
14:15-15:45	Panel session 2. Chair: Csaba Maczelka   The Sister of Telemachus: The Main Character of Margaret Cavendish’s “Assaulted and Pursued Chastity” as the Embodiment of Progress and Conventions KVÉDER Bence (University of Pécs)   Self-Reflexivity and Creating Fancy in The Blazing World of Margaret Cavendish LUKÁCS Laura (University of Pécs)   Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World and the Challenges of Early Modern Texts BARTA Alexandra (Independent Researcher, Budapest)
15:45-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-19:00	Panel session 3. Nonconformist Marys and Marias: Women on Self-Development in English Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century Chair: Mária Kurdi   Eighteenth-Century Sisterhood in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Reading and Reviews ANTAL Éva (Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger)   “It is not necessary that I should marry”: Self-reliance in Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice (1799) JANCZER CSIKÓS Dóra (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Eighteenth-Century Female Conditions as Reflected in Maria Edgeworth’s Fictive Letters KALÓ Krisztina (Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger)   Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the idea of modern tragedy RUTTKAY Veronika (Károli Gáspár University, Budapest)   Excess and Vulnerability in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man PÁLINKÁS Katalin (Independent Researcher, Budapest)   Madame Brulart’s Bastille-bijoux: Echoes of history in private lives in women’s writings around the French Revolution GÁRDOS Bálint (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
19:00	Reception

Saturday, 25 November

9:00-11:00	Panel session 4. Chair: Roslyn Joy Irving   On Nuns, Husbands and Purgatories: Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun and 18th-Century Actors’ Adaptation for the Theatre Filip Bul KRAJNIK (Masaryk University of Brno)   Aphra Behn and the Poetics of Restoration Prose Fiction MACZELKA Csaba (University of Pécs)   Political and Social Activism of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Ljubica MATEK (Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek)   “Must our wants find their supply in murder?”: Intersectional social conscience in Ann Yearsley’s A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade ANDL-BECK Boróka (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Plenary lecture 2. Chair: Gabriella Hartvig A matrilineal literary inheritance? Frances Sheridan and Anne Elizabeth Sheridan Le Fanu Clíona Ó GALLCHOIR (University College Cork)
12:30-13:30	Lunch Break
13:30-15:00	Panel session 5. Chair: Zsuzsanna Csikai   Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the contemporary novel HARTVIG Gabriella (University of Pécs) From Frances Sheridan’s A Trip to Bath (1765) to Elizabeth Kuti’s The Whisperers (1999) KURDI Mária (University of Pécs) Marriage and Masculinity in the Later Fiction of Eliza Haywood Dita HOCHMANOVÁ (Masaryk University of Brno)
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-17:00	Panel session 6. Chair: Filip Bul Krajník   “Her jealousy of Adeline, However She Could Not Communicate”: Ann Radcliffe Writing Intergenerational Relationships Roslyn Joy IRVING (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz)   From Udolpho to Manderley: Navigating Feminine Identity through the Gothic tradition Özlem DEMIREL (University of Pécs)   The Hungarian Reception of Jane Austen TÓTH Orsolya (University of Pécs)
17:00	Closing remarks

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