Sunday, August 3
Sunday, August 3 8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Placing Thomas Lovell Beddoes I
Panel sponsored by Hunter College, City University of New York.
Chair: Alan Vardy, Hunter College
avardy@hunter.cuny.edu
1. Nat Leach, University of Western Ontario
nleach@uwo.ca
"'The Hieroglyphic Human Soul' as the Site of 'Mental Theatre'"
2. David M. Baulch, University of West Florida
dbaulch@uwf.edu
"‘Instant darkness and owl-season’: Thomas Lovell Beddoes and the Uncanny Third (Re)generation of British Romanticism"
3. Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles
fburwick@humnet.ucla.edu
"Gothic Drama and the Psychology of Apparitions"
“Let them eat Romanticism"
Chair: Timothy Morton, University of Colorado
mortont@stripe.colorado.edu
1. Silke-Maria Weineck, University of Michigan
smwei@umich.edu
"Digesting the Nineteenth Century: Nietzsche and the Stomach of Modernity”
2. Drew Hubbell, Susquehanna University
Hubbell@susqu.edu
"How Wordsworth Invented the Picnic and Saved British Society"
3. Samantha Webb, University of Montevallo
WebbS@montevallo.edu
"'Not so Pleasant to the Taste': Coleridge in Bristol and the Mixed Bread Campaign of 1795"
Testing the Borders of Romantic Studies
Chair: Leah Richards-Fisher
1. Leah Richards-Fisher, Fordham University
richardsfis@fordham.edu
"Temporal Boundaries"
2. Scott Levin, Fordham University
scottlevin88@hotmail.com
"Theoretical Boundaries"
3. Michael Raymond, Fordham University
Title TBA
4. Cara Erdheim, Fordham University
cara79@aol.com
"Geographical Boundaries"
Coleridge and Form
1. Murray J. Evans, University of Winnipeg
m.evans@uwinnipeg.ca
“The Coleridgean Sublime: A Reassessment Based on the Opus Maximum”
2. Peter Melville, McMaster University
dasein@lycos.com
“The Place of the Subject: Hospitable Failure in Coleridge's Poetry”
3. Len Epp, Oxford University
leonard.epp@balliol.oxford.ac.uk
“Coleridge and the Problem of Poetic Information”
4. Terry Shapiro, State University of New York, Stony Brook
terryshapiro@earthlink.net
"Christabel's Midnight Visit to Nightmare Abbey"
Haunting Philosophy
1. David L. Clark, McMaster University
dclark@mcmaster.ca
“Schelling's Haunt: Philosophy Among the Quick and the Dead”
2. Mark Canuel, University of Illinois, Chicago
mcanuel@uic.edu
“The Return of the Aesthetic and the Rise of the Public Intellectual”
3. Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College
jan.mieszkowski@reed.edu
"There's No Such Thing as Art History (and it's a good thing, too)"
Touring the Provinces
Chair: Gregory F. Tague, St. Francis College
gtague@stfranciscollege.edu
1. Scott Hess, Earlham College
hesssc@earlham.edu
“Rooting the Masculine Self in Motion: Gender, Class, Tourism and Identity in Wordsworth's Poetry”
2. Shawna Thorp, Auburn University
thorpsr@groupwise1.duc.auburn.edu
“Blurring the Borders: Thomas Pennant and the Transformation of Wales”
3. Kyoung-Min Han, Ohio State University
han.114@osu.edu
“Revisiting Rural Places: Wordsworth's Educational Project in the Prelude”
Sunday, August 3 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Placing Thomas Lovell Beddoes II
Panel organized by The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society, England.
Chair: Shelley Rees, The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society
reess@greenhill.org
1. Ute Berns, Technical University of Berlin
ute.berns@tu-berlin.de
"Thomas Lovell Beddoes' Death's Jest-Book: Tragedy as Harlequinade"
2. Christopher Moylan, New York Institute of Technology
cmoylanc@netscape.net
"Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Death on the Borders of Romanticism"
3. Michael Bradshaw, Manchester Metropolitan University
m.bradshaw@mmu.ac.uk
"The Jest-Book, the Body and the State"
Romanticism and the Culture of Natural History
Chair: Alan Bewell
1. Tobias Menely, Indiana University
tmenely@indiana.edu
"Traveling in Place: Gilbert White's Cosmopolitan Parochialism"
2. Judith Pascoe, University of Iowa
judith-pascoe@uiowa.edu
"The Hummingbird Cabinet"
3. Noah Heringman, University of Missouri
HeringmanN@missouri.edu
"The Social and Aesthetic Objects of Natural History"
4. Alan Bewell, University of Toronto
abewell@rogers.com
"Romantic Natural History as Colonial Science"
Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Approaches to British Fiction I
Chairs: Jill Heydt-Stevenson and Charlotte Sussman
1. Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania
mgamer@dept.english.upenn.edu
Title TBA (cp)
2. Jill Heydt-Stevenson, University of Colorado
jill.heydt@colorado.edu
"The Proper Lady and the Bawdy Woman Novelist"
3. Laura Mandell, Miami University
mandellc@muohio.edu
"Bad Marriages, Bad Novels: Mary Hays' Emma and Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary"
Transgression and Scrutiny in Romantic-Era Justice
Panel sponsored by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
Chair: Anya Taylor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
anyataylor1@juno.com
1. Susan Levin, Stevens Institute
slevin@stevens-tech.edu
"Kelly, Tooke, and Dibdin: Bankruptcy Firm"
2. Anthony Simpson, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
asimpson@jjay.cuny.edu
"The Prosecution of Bawdy Houses in Early 19th Century London"
3. Victoria Myers, Pepperdine University
victoria.myers@pepperdine.edu
"Joanna Baillie: Speculations on Legal Cruelty"
4. Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University
aa1973@wayne.edu
"Trials in Romantic Writing and the Scene of Justice: Conflicting Legal Paradigms"
Travel Narratives I
1. Bruce Graver, Providence College
beg@providence.edu
"Wordsworth in Stereoview: The Stereographic Picturesque” (cp)
2. Benjamin Walton, University of Bristol
Benjamin.Walton@bristol.ac.uk
"Looking for the Revolution in Rossini's Guillaume Tell"
3. Esther Schor, Princeton University
eschor@princeton.edu
“Outing Lady Macbeth: The Perils of Mental Travel”
Samson Agonistes: Past and Present
Chair: Ron Levao, Rutgers University
ronlevao@rci.rutgers.edu
1. William Goldstein, City University of New York Graduate Center
bill@nytimes.com
"Samson Agonistes: A Play in Perpetual World Premiere"
2. Andrew Dylan, Rutgers University
dylan@eden.rutgers.edu
"Samson Agonistes and the Allegory of Despair"
3. Michael Masiello, Rutgers University
mikhail_masiello@hotmail.com
Title TBA
Respondent: Joseph Wittreich, City University of New York Graduate Center
JWittreich@gc.cuny.edu
Sunday, August 3 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Sunday, August 3 1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Romantic Libraries
Chair: Ina Ferris
1. Heather Jackson, University of Toronto
heather.jackson@utoronto.ca
"What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?"
2. Ina Ferris, University of Ottawa
iferris@uottawa.ca
"The Romance of Books"
3. Deirdre Lynch, Indiana University
delynch@indiana.edu
"Library Companions and Library Privacy"
Through Imperial Spectacles: Staging Colonialism, Gender and Class
Panel sponsored by the Literary Studies Program, Fordham University.
Chair: Daniel O’Quinn
1. Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph
doquinn@uoguelph.ca
"Introduction"
2. Laura J. Rosenthal, University of Maryland, College Park
lr118@umail.umd.edu
"Domestic and Global Economies in Late Eighteenth-Century Drama"
3. Betsy Bolton, Swarthmore College
ebolton1@swarthmore.edu
"Saving the Rajah's Daughter: Montcrieff's Cataract of the Ganges"
4. Jennifer Schacker, University of Guelph
jschack@uoguelph.ca
"Capitalists and Cannibals: English Working-Class Subjects and George Lillie Craik's The New Zealanders"
Textual Crimes: Forgery, Plagiarism, and the Law
1. Tilar Mazzeo, University of Wisconsin
mazzeo@uwosh.edu
“Unconscious Plagiarism: Coleridge and the Psychology of the Romantic Habit”
2. Kate Behr
Katebehr1@prodigy.net
“Mimesis and Hyperbole: Revealing the Romantic in the Poetry of William Henry Ireland, the Notorious Shakespeare Forger”
Transatlantic Apocalypse
Chair: Granville Ganter
1. George Anthony Rosso, Jr., Southern Connecticut State University
Rossog1@southernct.edu
"Millenarian Themes in Blake's Illustrations to Young's 'Night Thoughts'"
2. Eric Wilson, Wake Forest University
wilsoneg@wfu.edu
"Polar Apocalypse in Coleridge and Poe"
3. Christopher Fanning, Queen's University, Kingston
cjf1@qsilver.queensu.ca
"Falling Plums and Recording Angels: The Domestication of Apocalyptic Satire"
4. Granville Ganter, St. John's University
ganterg@stjohns.edu
"Dickinson's Apocalypses"
Women Writers and Experimental Form
Chair: Peggy Dunn Bailey, Henderson State University
baileyp@hsu.edu
1. Kari Lokke, University of California, Davis
kelokke@ucdavis.edu
“‘National Pride’ and ‘National Prejudice’: Revolutionary Sexuality in Charlotte Smith's ‘Desmond’”
2. Ben P. Robertson, Troy State University
ben-robertson@utulsa.edu
“Reshaping the Novel: The Importance of Elizabeth Inchbald’s Little Histories”
3. Nicholas Birns, New School University
birnsn@newschool.edu
" 'Thy World, Columbus!': Barbauld and Global Space, 1803, '1811,' 1812, 2003"
4. William Brewer, Appalachian State University
brewerwd@appstate.edu
“Sappho's Shattered Form in Mary Robinson's ‘The False Friend’”
Sunday, August 3 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Count Basil by Joanna Baillie. Directed by Leslie Jacobson.
Sunday, August 3 6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “Producing Baillie”
Chair: Catherine Burroughs, Wells College
cb64@cornell.edu
Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
jcarlson@english.ucsb.edu
Mallory Catlett, Juggernaut Theatre Company
Duchessofnewcastle@yahoo.com
Jeffrey Cox, University of Colorado
jeffrey.cox@colorado.edu
Thomas Crochunis, Brown University
Crochunis@brown.edu
Alex Dick, University of British Columbia
alexdick@interchange.ubc.edu
Michael Eberle-Sinatra, University of Montreal
michael.eberle.sinatra@UMontreal.CA
Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania
mgamer@dept.english.upenn.edu
Leslie Jacobson, Horizons Theatre Company
lesliej@gwu.edu
Gwynn MacDonald, Juggernaut Theatre Company
gwynnmac@aol.com
Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles
mellor@ucla.edu
Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph
doquinn@uoguelph.ca
Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University
mpurinto@ttacs.ttu.edu
Alan Richardson, Boston College
richarad@mail1.bc.edu
Judith Slagle
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