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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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