Call for Papers

Sensational Men: Victorian Masculinity in Sensation Fiction, Theatre and 
the Arts

  18th April 201

Co-hosted by Falmouth University and the Victorian Popular Fiction 
Association

  Venue: Falmouth University, Cornwall



Keynote Speakers:

William Hughes, Bath Spa University

Andy Smith, University of Sheffield



Villainous, feminised, weak and wanting; men in the sensation genre are 
often seen as lacking. Critical readings of the genre, moreover, have 
tended to focus on its constructions of femininity, largely neglecting 
representations of men and masculinity.   Examining the under-explored 
subject of Victorian men, masculinity and sensation, “Sensational Men: 
Victorian Masculinity in Sensation Fiction, Theatre and the Arts” 
represents a timely and important intervention in the field.



This one day symposium at Falmouth University will provide a point of 
focus and intellectual exchange for scholars working in many different 
fields such as: popular fiction studies, theatre studies, Gothic 
studies, art history, early photography and film, theories of gender, 
sexuality and nation in nineteenth century studies.



Proposals for panels and papers may include, but should not be limited 
to:



Empire and masculinity

Female masculinity

Gentlemanliness and masquerade

Masculinity and the nervous body

Monstrous masculinity

Queer masculinities

Manliness and sensation

Race and masculinity

Sexualised men

Neo-Victorian Sensation fictions



150-200 word abstracts to be sent by: 1st December 2014 to Ruth Heholt 
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Joanne Ella Parsons
PhD Candidate
Bath Spa University

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