Tamara S. Wagner, List of Publications

Publications

Books:

Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.

Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819-2004: Colonial and Postcolonial Financial Straits and Literary Style. Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.

Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004.

Edited Books and Collections:

Ed., notes, and introd. The Widow Wedded; or The Adventures of the Barnabys in America. By Frances Trollope. 1843. London: Pickering & Chatto, in progress.

Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2009.

(co-edited with Neil Murphy, Brendan Quigley, and Daniel Jernigan) Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2009.

(co-edited with Narin Hassan) Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth-Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700-1900. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007. Paperback edition 2010.

Edited Special Issues:

Frances Trollope. Spec. issue of Women’s Writing 18, no.2, forthcoming in 2011.

Charlotte Yonge. Spec. issue of Women’s Writing 17, no.2, forthcoming in December 2010.

(co-edited with Julia Kuehn) Victorian Orient. Spec. issue of Critical Survey 21, no.1 (2009).

Silver-Fork Fiction. Spec. issue of Women’s Writing 16, no.2 (August 2009).

Revisiting the Nineteenth Century. Spec. issue of Fiction and Drama 18, no. 1 (2007).

Journal Articles:

“‘Very saleable articles, indeed’: Margaret Oliphant’s Repackaging of Sensational Finance.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 71, no. 1 (March 2010): 51-74.

“Clinical Gothic: Sensationalising Substance Abuse in the Victorian Home.” Gothic and Addiction. Spec. issue of Gothic Studies 11, no.2 (2009): 30-40.

“Home Work: The Ambiguous Valorisation of ‘Affliction’ in Charlotte Yonge’s The Pillars of the House (1873).” Victorian Review 35, no.2 (2009): 101-115.

“Violating Private Papers: Sensational Epistolarity and Violence in Victorian Detective Fiction.” The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture 3, no.1 (December 2009): 23-53.

“From Satirised Silver Cutlery to the Allure of the Anti-Domestic in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing: Silver-Fork Fiction & Its Literary Legacies.” Silver-Fork Fiction. Spec. issue of Women’s Writing 16, no.2 (August 2009): 181-190.

“Silver-Fork Legacies: Sensationalising Fashionable Fiction.” Silver-Fork Fiction. Spec. issue of Women’s Writing 16, no.2 (August 2009), 301-322.

“Stretching ‘The Sensational Sixties’: Genre and Sensationalism in Domestic Fiction by Victorian Women Writers.” Victorian Review 35, no.1 (2009): 211-228.

“London's Great Starfish: The Construction of Mid-Victorian Suburban Fiction.” Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens 69 (2009): 151-167.

(co-written with Julia Kuehn), “Beyond Orientalism: Texting the Victorian East.” Victorian Orient. Spec. issue of Critical Survey 21, no.1 (2009):1-3.

“Speculators at Home in the Victorian Novel: Making Stock-Market Villains and New ‘Paper Fictions.’” Victorian Literature and Culture 36, no.1 (2008): 43-62.

“Depressed Spirits and Failed Crisis Management: Charlotte Yonge’s Sensationalisation of the Religious Family.” Victorians Institute Journal 36 (2008): 275-302.

“‘Essentially a Lady’: Resistant Values of the Shabby-Genteel in Ellen Wood’s Novels of Highlife.” Women’s Writing 15, no. 2 (2008): 200-219.

“‘If he belonged to me, I should not like it at all’: Managing Disability and Dependencies in Charlotte Yonge’s The Two Guardians.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 4, no.2 (2008): n.p.

“‘Old Marley married a Chinese writer’: Towards An Aesthetics of Confident Intertextuality.” Asiatic 2, no.2 (2008): 52-64.

“Lost in a Good Book: Remapping the Victorian Novel in Post-Millennium Britain.” Victorians Institute Journal 35 (2007): 81-108.

“Speculations on Inheritance and Anne Brontë’s Legacy for the Victorian Custody Novel.” Women’s Writing 14, no.1 (2007): 117-139.

“Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent.” Victorian Representations of War. Spec. issue of Les Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens 66 (2007): 319-338.

“Oriental Halves and Unlovely Hybrids: Rewriting Racialisation and Discourses on Degeneration in Victorian Southeast Asia.” Science and Race. Spec. issue of Journal of Commonwealth Studies: Les carnets du Cerpac 5 (2007): 197-218.

“Victorian Narrative Forms Beyond Recovery: Preface to a Revisited Nineteenth Century.” Revisiting the Nineteenth Century. Spec. issue of Fiction and Drama 18, no. 1 (2007): i-x.

“The ‘Silver-Fork’ Governess: Shifting Highlife in Catherine Gore’s Novels.” Revisiting the Nineteenth Century. Spec. issue of Fiction and Drama 18, no. 1 (2007): 91-113.

“Boutique Multiculturalism and the Consumption of Repulsion: Re-Disseminating Food Fictions in Malaysian and Singaporean Diasporic Novels.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 42, no.1 (2007): 31-46.

“Singapore’s New Thrillers: Boldly Going Beyond the Ethnographic Map.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 37, no.2-3 (2006): 69-90.

“‘Magnetic’ Clues to the Past: Reinvestigating the Victorians’ Regency in Eleanor’s Victory.” CLUES 25, no.1 (2006): 81-95.

“Victims of Boutique Multiculturalism: Malaysian Chinese and Peranakan Women Writers and the Dangers of Self-Exoticisation.” TRANS (2006) <http://www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/02_2/wagner16.htm>

“The Miser’s New Notes and the Victorian Sensation Novel: Plotting the Magic of Paper Money.” Literature and Money. Spec. issue of Victorian Review 31, no.2 (2005): 79-98.

“Wilkie Collins’s Custody Novels: Parental Abduction and Family Business.” Wilkie Collins Society Journal 8 (2005): 31-47.

“‘A Strange Chronicle of the Olden Time:’ Revisions of the Regency in the Construction of Victorian Domestic Fiction.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 66, no.4 (2005): 443-475.

“Victorian Fictions of the Nerves: Telepathy and Depression in Wilkie Collins’s The Two Destinies.” Victorians Institute Journal 32 (2004): 189-214.

“High-Rise Heartlands: Singapore’s Fictional Cityscapes.” Genre 24 (2004): 166-182.

“Emulative versus Revisionist Occidentalism: Monetary and Other Values in Recent Singaporean Fiction.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39, no.2 (2004): 73-94.

“‘A barrage of ethnic comparisons’: Occidental Stereotypes in Amy Tan’s Novels.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 45, no.4 (2004): 435-445.

“‘After another round of tissues’: ‘Bad Time’ Fiction and the Amy Tan-Syndrome in Recent Singaporean Novels.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38, no.2 (2003): 19-39.

“Nostalgia for Home or Homelands: Romantic Nationalism and the Indeterminate Narrative in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer.” Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 10 (2003) <http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey/articles/ cc10_n03.html>

“Overpowering Vitality: Nostalgia and Men of Sensibility in the Fiction of Wilkie Collins.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 63, no.4 (2002): 473-502.

“Phrenology and Representations of Physical Deviance in Victorian Fiction.” Postgraduate English 5 (2002) <http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dng0zz5/wagner.htm>

“Nostalgia, Historicity, Hybridity: Representations of Asian Identities in the Historical Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro and Catherine Lim.” Atlantic Literary Review 2, no.4 (2001): 154-165.

“John Collier’s Tummus and Meary: Distinguishing Features of Eighteenth-Century Southeast Lancashire Dialect.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen – Bulletin de la Societe Neophilologique – Bulletin of the Modern Language Society 100, no.2 (1999): 191-205.

Book Chapters:

“Detecting Business Fraud at Home: White Collar Crime and the Sensational Clergyman in Victorian Domestic Fiction.” In Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment. Ed. Albert C. Pionke and Denise Tischler Millstein. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010.

“Ominous Signs or False Clues?: Difference and Deformity in Wilkie Collins’s Sensation Novels.” In Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature. Ed. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 47-67.

“‘Social Suicide – yes’: Sensational Legacies in Mary Cholmondeley’s Diana Tempest.” In Mary Cholmondeley. Ed Carolyn Oulton and SueAnn Schatz. London: Brookfield: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. 11-23.

“The Victorian Sermon Novel: Domesticated Spirituality and the Sermon’s Sensationalisation.” In A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Robert Ellison. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. 309-338.

“Sensationalising Women Writers: Madwomen in Attics, the Sensational Canon, and Generic Confinement.” In The Madwoman in the Attic 30 Years After. Ed. Annette Federico. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. 183-202.

“Introduction: Narratives of Victorian Antifeminism.” In Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Ed. Tamara S. Wagner. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2009. 1-18.

“Marriage-Plots and ‘Matters of More Importance’: Sensationalising Self-Sacrifice in Victorian Domestic Fiction.” In Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Ed. Tamara S. Wagner. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2009. 137-158.

“Double Diasporas? – Re-Presenting Singaporeans Abroad.” In Diasporic Histories: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism. Ed. Deborah Madsen and Andrea Riemenschnitter. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. 205-215.

“‘To my creditors I bequeath my body…’: Stock-Market Suicides and the Narrative Allure of Self-Destruction in Victorian Fiction.” In Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies. Ed. Neil Murphy et al. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2009.

“Boutique Multiculturalism and the Fictionalisation of the Victim: Selling Minority Narratives in Singapore.” In Betraying the Event: Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures. Ed. Fatima Festic. Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2009. 21-34.

“‘We have orphans … in stock’: Crime and the Consumption of Sensational Children.” In Nineteenth-Century Childhood and the Rise of Consumer Culture. Ed. Dennis Denisoff. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 201-215.

“The Decaying Coquette: Refashioning Highlife in Early-Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing, 1801-1831.” In Refiguring the Coquette: Essays on Culture and Coquetry. Eds. Yaël Schlick and Shelley King. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008. 83-102.

“Ghosts of a Demolished Cityscape: Gothic Experiments in Singaporean Fiction.” In Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime. Ed. Andrew Ng. Jefferson. London: McFarland, 2008. 46-60.

“A Passion for Other Lovers: Rewriting the ‘Other’ in Ooi Yang-May’s Fictionalisation of Multiethnic Malaysia.” In Overcoming Passions: Race, Religion and the Coming Community in Malaysian Cultural Studies. Ed. David Lim. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 167-182.

“‘Gorged-out Cadavers of Hills’: Parodying Narratives of Alterity and Transformation in The Flame Tree.” In British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary. Eds. Neil Murphy and Sim Wai Chew. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2008. 163-182.

“‘Too many voices’: The Double-Bind of Cultural Translation in Diasporic Representations of Southeast Asia.” In Cultures of Translation. Eds. Klaus Stierstorfer and Monika Gomille. Newcastle upon Tyne: CSP, 2008. 129-147.

“Rewriting Sentimental Plots: Sequels to Novels of Sensibility by Jane Austen and Another Lady.” In On Second Thought: Updating the Eighteenth-Century Text. Eds. Debra Bourdeau and Elizabeth Kraft. Newark: Delaware University Press, 2007. 210-244.

“Respectably Dressed, or Dressed for Respect: Moral Economies of Dress in the Novels of Victorian Women Writers.” In Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature. Eds. Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2007. 211-231.

“Sketching China and the Self-Portrait of a Post-Romantic Traveller: John Francis Davis’s Rewriting of China in the 1840s.” In A Century of Travels in China: A Collection of Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s. Eds. Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007. 13-26.

“Stocking up Paper Fictions: Making, Selling, and Living the Fictitious in the Self-Portraits of the Victorian Popular Novelist.” In Autopoetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Ed. Darby Lewes. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006. 15-38.

“Sensationalising Victorian Suburbia: Wilkie Collins's Basil. In Victorian Sensations: Essays On A Scandalous Genre. Eds. Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. 200-211.

“Occidentalism: Edward Said’s Legacy for the Occidentalist Imaginary and its Critique.” In Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said. Ed. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006. 145-154.

“Realigning and Reassigning Cultural Values: Occidentalist Stereotyping and Representations of the Multiethnic Family in the Works of Asian American Women Writers.” In Asian American Literary Studies. Ed. Huang Guiyou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. 152-175.

“Historicity, Personal (Hi)stories, and the Politics of Identity in the ‘Historical’ Novels of Catherine Lim.” In Anglophone Cultures in Southeast Asia. Ed. Rüdiger Ahrens, David Parker, Klaus Stierstorfer, and Kwok-Kan Tam. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2003. 97-104.

Entries in Companions, Handbooks, and Anthologies:

“Suchen Christine Lim.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Southeast Asian Writers. Ed. David Smyth. Detroit and New York: Gale Cengage, 2009. 148-152.

(with Kirstie Blair, Michael Helfand, Priti Joshi, and Grace Moore). “Chapter Four: Case Studies in Reading Literary Texts.” In The Victorian Literature Handbook. Eds. Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis. London: Continuum, 2008. 89-115.

“Asian American Stereotypes” and “Hybridity.” In Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature. Ed. Guiyou Huang. Westport: Greenwood, 2008.

“Karain: A Memory,” “Cranford,” “Green Tea,” “A Christmas Carol,” and “J. Sheridan Le Fanu.” In Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Maunder. New York: Facts on File, 2007.

“Vyvyanne Loh.” In Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature: Asian American Literature. Ed. Seiwoong Oh. New York: Facts on File, 2007.

“David Wagoner.” In A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2004.

“Wilkie Collins.” In Men and Masculinities: A Social, Cultural and Historical Encyclopaedia. Ed. Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson. Santa Barbara, ABC-Clio, 2003.

Book Reviews:

Rev. of Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain, by Kay Heath. Studies in the Novel (Winter 2010): forthcoming.

Rev. of Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women’s Fiction, by Christine Bayles Kortsch. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, forthcoming.

Rev. of Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move, by John Plotz. Modern Language Quarterly 71, no.3 (September 2010): 371-373.

Rev. of Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism, by Cora Kaplan. Victorian Review, forthcoming.

Rev. of Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns: Essays on Fiction and Culture, edited by Penny Gay, Judith Johnston, and Catherine Waters. Victorian Studies 51, no.4 (2009): 744-746.

Rev. of Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London, by Lydia Murdoch. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 12, no.1 (2007): 54-55.

Rev. of Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity, by Martin A. Danahay. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 12, no.1 (2007): 56-57.

Rev. of Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader, by Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 42, no.1 (2006): 116-117.

Rev. of Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany: Milkmaids on Parnassus, by Susanne Kord. Eighteenth-Century Women 4 (2006): 380-383.

Rev. of Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England, by Albert D. Pionke. Victorians Institute Journal 33 (2005): 229-231.

Rev. of Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature: Volume 5: Robert Yeo, by George Watt. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 5, no.1 (2005) <http://www.qlrs.com/critique.asp?id=488>

Rev. of Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Plath, by John Beer. Dickens Quarterly 22, no.2 (2005): 117-119.

Rev. of Asia-Pacific Constitutional Systems, by Graham Hassall and Cheryl Saunders. Asian Journal of Social Science 32, no.1 (2004): 174-176.

Conference Papers:

“Charlotte Yonge’s Wild West Story: ‘though he gave no connected history.’” Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship Meeting on Pillars of the House, University Women’s Club, London, 27 November 2010 (in absentia).

“Financial Fraud at Home: Victorian Domestic Fiction Speculates on Sensationalised Commerce.” Culture of the Market, Manchester University, Manchester, UK, 10-11 September (invited, via videoconference).

“Satirised Sensationalism and Settler Colonialism: Dubiously Exotic Narrative Gaps in Anthony Trollope’s John Caldigate.” Re-Orienting Victorian Studies, Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), Division of English, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 25-27 June 2010.

“From Imperialist Commerce and Cosmopolitan Modernity to Semicolonial China: Demystifying Work Abroad in Victorian East Asia.” International Workshop on Colonial Modernity and Beyond: East Asian Context, Division of English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 12-13 March 2010.

“Religiously Roaming the City; Or, When Charity Work Becomes Alluringly Unsettling.” Sex and the City 1860-1930:  Women and the Urban Experience: An International Interdisciplinary Conference, School of the Arts, University of Northampton, UK, 10-11 July 2009.

“Framing Dickens: The Gothic of Broken Communication in Mugby Junction.” Dickens and the Voices of Victorian Culture, Verona, Italy, 8-10 June 2009.

“Violating Private Papers in Victorian Detective Fiction: Epistolary Interludes, Genre Breaks, and the Violent Reader.” Literature and Violence, The Eighth Annual Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 9-10 May 2009.

“Sounding out Dickens’s ‘gentleman for Nowhere’: Solitariness and the Technological Gothic in Mugby Junction.” Sound, Silence, and Literature, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 28 February 2009.

“Containing Sensational Letters: Epistolary Interludes and Emotional Distress in Victorian Domestic Fiction.” The Victorian Sensorium, Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 3-5 February 2009.

“Victorian Stock-Market Villains, Forgotten Writers, and the Shaping of Popular Fiction.” 7th Conference of Asian University Presidents & 80th Anniversary of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 14 November 2008 (invited and fully-funded).

“Victorian Stock-Market Fiction.” Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National University of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, 13 November 2008 (invited paper).

“Sermons on Salutary Suffering or Critical Exposure of Clinical Concepts: Emotional Distress in Mid-Victorian Religious Fiction.” Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions, British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), University of Leicester, UK, 1-3 September 2008.

“Circumlocuting Exotic Legacies: The Aborted Detective Plot of Little Dorrit.” Dickens Society Symposium. Kingston University, UK, 17-20 July 2008.

“The Victorian Stock-Market Novel: Sensationalising Speculators and the Changing Form of Financial Fiction.” The Novel and its Borders, University of Aberdeen, UK, 8-10 July 2008.

“Land of Opportunists? – American Business and the Colonial Imagination in Victorian Domestic Fiction.” The Idea of America in Nineteenth-Century British Culture, 1776-1914, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK, 27-28 June 2008.

“Transforming the Diaspora’s Fictionalisation: Re-presenting Self-Orientalisation.” Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies (IRICS), Vienna, Austria, 6-9 December 2007.

“The Dread-Fascination with Vulgarity: Constructing the ‘Shabby-Genteel’ in Silver-Fork Sensation Fiction.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) and Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC), University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 10-13 October 2007.

“The Victorians’ Regency: Silver-Fork Railways and the Construction of the ‘Two Aristocracies.’” Victorian Beginnings, Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), University of Western Australia, 7-11 February 2007.

“The Serialisation of the Victorian Serial Killer: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Sensation Writers and ‘The Manufacture of Novels.’” Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 20 January 2007.

“Silver-Fork Finances and Enslavement Metaphors in Fashionable Fiction, 1790-1830.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford, 3-5 January 2007.

“The Conversion of Colonial Legacies: Circumlocution in Victorian Narratives of Detection.” Revisiting the Nineteenth Century: The World, the Body, the Text, The R.O.C. English & American Literature Association, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 24-25 November 2006 (invited and fully-funded).

“Trollope’s Irish-American Returnees and the Threat of International Enterprises.” The Word, The Icon and The Ritual – Ireland – Renaissance, Revolution, Regeneration. Fourth Annual Irish Studies Conference, University of Sunderland, UK, 10-12 November 2006.

“‘To my creditors I bequeath my body…’: Stock-Market Suicides and the Narrative Allure of Self-Destruction in Victorian Fiction. Inaugural English Literature Conference: Irresponsibility, Division of English, NTU, Singapore, 28-30 September 2006.

“Stalkers in the Pastoral; Burnt Bouquets; Skeletons in the Backgarden: Gaskell in the ‘Sensational Sixties.’” Revisiting Elizabeth Gaskell and Her Works, University of Salford, UK, 22-23 September 2006.

“Capital Women in Victorian Stock-Market Fiction: Financial Speculation and Trollope’s Reinvestment in Foreign Women.” Trollope and Gender, Exeter University, UK, 17-19 July 2006.

“London’s Great Starfish: The Construction of Mid-Victorian Suburban Gothic.” Literary London 2006: Representations of London in Literature, Department of English, Maritime Campus, University of Greenwich, London, UK, 13-14 July 2006.

“‘The Manufacture of Novels’: Plagiarism in Victorian Representations of Creativity.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Centre for Nineteenth-Century Music & St Chad's College, Durham University, UK, 6-9 July 2006.

“The Victorian Stock-Market Novel: Plotting Financial Speculation.” Nineteenth-Century Seminar Series, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 31 May 2006 (invited lecture).

“Hard Cash and Paper Diamonds: Trafficking Colonial Property and the Conversion of the Foreign in Victorian Narratives of Speculation.” Victorian Traffic, Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 6-9 February 2006.

"’The advantages of commerce, and commerce alone’: The Rise of Romantic Commercialism in the ‘Financial Straits’ and its Impact on Occidentalist Imaginings of the Globe.” Hubs, Harbours and Deltas in South-East Asia: Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives from Asia and Europe, The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (Brussels, Belgium), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 6-8 February 2006.

“Triangulations of Austen’s Regency: Sandcastles and the Silver-Fork Enterprise.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford, 4-6 January 2006.

“Boutique Multiculturalism and Double Diaspora: Re-Writing Singapore and Malaysia.” Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Vienna, 15 December 2005 (invited talk).

“Victims of Boutique Multiculturalism: Malaysian Chinese and Peranakan Women Writers and the Dangers of Self-Exoticisation.” Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies (IRICS), Vienna, Austria, 9-11 December 2005.

“Of Bibiks, Baba Black Sheep, and Victorian Walrus Moustaches: Self-Ironic Occidentalism and Minority History in Singaporean Fiction.” Literatures in Englishes and Their Centres: Perceiving from the Inside, The Eleventh Biennial Symposium on Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region, NUS Centre for the Arts, National University of Singapore, 7-10 December 2005.

“Speculating on Ireland in the Victorian Novel: Home Rule and the Fraudulent Business of Foreign Politics.” The Word, The Icon and The Ritual [ii] - Lands of Saints and Scholars, Third Annual Irish Studies Conference, University of Sunderland, UK, 11-13 November 2005.

“Speculators at Home in the Victorian Novel: Making Stock-Market Villains and New ‘Paper Fictions.’” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 30 September – 2 October 2005.

“Occidentalism and the ‘English’ Novel: Re-Representing Southeast Asia.” ICAS 4: Fourth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Shanghai, China, 17-20 August 2005.

“Double Diaspora? – Re-Representing Singaporeans Abroad.” International Conference: Chinese Diasporic and Exile Experience, Institute of East Asian Studies and Department of Sinology, Zürich University, Switzerland, 10-15 August 2005 (invited and fully-funded).

“‘In the great scheme of commerce’: Elizabeth Gaskell and Victorian Fictions of Speculation.” Elizabeth Gaskell and Manchester: Identity, Culture and the Modern City, Manchester Centre for Regional History, Manchester, UK, 19-21 July 2005.

“Occidentalism in Singapore’s Anglophone Fiction: Victorian Wor(l)ds Lost in C.M. Woon’s The Advocate’s Devil.” ASIALEX 2005 Singapore: Words in Asian Cultural Contexts, Asia Research Institute and the National University of Singapore, Singapore, 1-3 June 2005.

“‘This was a new crime … felt to be abominable; but heroic also’: The fascination of white-collar crime in the Victorian stock-market novel.” Victorian Criminalities, Exeter University, UK, 18-19 April 2005.

“Occidentalism in the Financial Straits? Re-Representing the Region in the ‘English’ Novel.” Department of Geography Seminar Series, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 14 January 2005 (invited talk).

"‘Overpowering Vitality:’ Nostalgia as Resistance in Late-Victorian Fiction.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Roanoke, VA, 12-14 November 2004.

"‘The advantages of commerce, and commerce alone:’ The Rise of Romantic Commercialism in Colonial Southeast Asia and its Impact on Occidentalist Imaginings of the Globe.” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS), Burlington, VT, 4-6 November 2004.

"A Passion for Other Lovers: The Transformation of Occidentalist Stereotyping in Ooi Yang-May’s Fictionalisation of Malaysia.” Overcoming Passions: Race, Religion and the Coming Community in Malaysia, Asia Research Institute, Singapore, 11-12 October 2004.

"‘We have orphans … in stock’: Stock-Market and Other Exchanges in Charles Dickens’s Fictions of Speculation.” 2004 Dickens Symposium, Edinburgh, UK, 3-5 September 2004.

“Headaches or Heartaches: Clinical and Romantic Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Medical and Cultural Discourses." British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St. Hugh's College, Oxford, UK, 3-5 January 2004.

“Rewriting the 1980s: The Postcolonial Historical Novel in Southeast Asia.” ICAS 3: Third International Convention of Asia Scholars, Asia Research Institute and the National University of Singapore, Singapore, 19-22 August 2003.

“The Subversive Nostalgia of the Planned Exit: Suicide and Happy Ends in the Novels of Amy Tan and Catherine Lim.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies: Fourth International Conference, Tampere, Finland, 29 June – 2 July 2002.

“A love of every thing ancient, unless it be ancient prejudices: The picturesque aesthetics of decay and ideologies of reform and revolution in Charlotte Smith’s novels.” The Aesthetics of Crisis; Crises in Aesthetics, 1688-1840, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK, 3-4 May 2002.

“Pale Blushing Heroes and Melancholy Maidens: The Aesthetics of Affliction in Novels of and on Sensibility.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK, 4-6 January 2002.

“Historicity, Personal (Hi)stories, and the Politics of Identity: Literary Cults of Nostalgia and Novel Traditions in the ‘Historical’ Novels of Catherine Lim.” Anglophone Cultures in Southeast Asia: Appropriation Continuities Contexts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, 8-11 October 2001.

“Nostalgia, Historicity, Hybridity: Representations of Asian Identities in the Historical Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro and Catherine Lim.” Asian Diasporas and Cultures: Globalisation, Hybridity, Intertextuality, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 5-7 September 2001.

"Phrenology, Physical Deviancy, and Scientific Racism: Racial Representations in Victorian Fiction.” Victorian Fringe Science Seminar, Fringe Event of Locating the Victorians, London, UK, 11 July 2001.

“Caught up between National Revolutions and Nationalist Discourse: Nostalgia, Xenophobia, and the Native Other in Fanny Burney’s The Wanderer." Romantic Nationalisms 1750-1850, University of Surrey Roehampton, UK, 28 June – 1 July 2001.

“State Capitalism and Pathology: Nostalgia in Utopian Novels of the 1880s and 1890s.” Churchill Graduate Research Conference 2001, University of Cambridge, UK, 22 May 2001.

“The Aesthetics of Affliction in Novels of and on Sensibility.” Canonical or Non-canonical, Centre or Margin? “Literature” and Cultural Forms, 1688-1840, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK, 19 May 2001.

“Mapping the Exotic and Exoticising the ‘Yahoo Within’: Beekman’s Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo.” The Exotic in the Long Eighteenth Century 1660-1830, Humanities Research Centre, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia, 26-28 March 2001.

“Memory, Nostalgia, and the Concealed Letter – Epistolary Representations of the Past in Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK, 3-5 January 2001.

“The Aesthetics of Affliction: The Sickroom-Topos in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.” “This Strange Disease of Modern Life”: Victorian Illness, Health & Medicine, Victorians Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 6-7 October 2000.

“The Languages and Aesthetics of Nostalgia.” Churchill Graduate Research Conference 2000, University of Cambridge, UK, 10 May 2000.

“Jane Austen’s England Revisited: Picturesque Tourism, Landscaped Parklands, and the Aesthetics of Nostalgia.” South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS), Baton Rouge, LA, 6-8 March 2000.

Conference Chair:

Conference Chair, Planning Committee, Re-Orienting Victorian Studies, Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), Division of English, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 25-27 June 2010.

Conference and Programme Chair, Inaugural English Literature Conference on “Irresponsibility,” Division of English, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 28-30 September 2006.

For a list of Wagner’s contributions to the Victorian and the Postcolonial Web Projects please click here.

Last updated: October 2010.