10:00 Welcome and Coffee
10:15 Jennifer Kloester: ‘The Life of Georgette Heyer’
10:45 Jay Dixon: ‘Heyer and Place’
11:15 Laura Vivanco: ‘”So educational!”, she said. “And quite unexceptionable.” The Nonesuch as Didactic Love Fiction.’
COFFEE
12:00 Mary Joannou: ‘Heyer and Austen’
12:15 Sam Rayner: ‘Publishing Heyer: Representing the Regency in Historical Romance’
12:45 STRUCTURED DISCUSSION: literary value … her place in academic study … her construction of the Regency world
LUNCH
2:00 Kerstin Frank The Thermodynamics of Georgette Heyer:
Variations on the Quest for Revitalisation
2:30 Catherine Johns: ‘Class and Breeding’
3:00 Sarah Annes Brown: ‘Lady of Quality and Homosexual Panic’
3:15 K. Elizabeth Spillman: ‘Cross Dressing and Disguise in Heyer’s Historical Romances’
3:45 STRUCTURED DISCUSSION: gender and cross dressing … sexual politics … issues of class and race
