Romanticism & History 10th Annual NASSR Conference 22-25 August 2002

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Jump to schedule for:  Thursday (am / pm) | Friday (am / pm) | Saturday (am / pm) | Sunday

• Special Events:  Reception | Cash Bar & Banquet | Conference Pub
• Meetings:   NASSR Advisory Board-Executive Meeting |  NASSR Business Meeting (*all members welcome*) | ERR Editorial Board

Wednesday, August 21

5:00 - 9:00 PM Registration (NORTH DINING ROOM)

8:00 - 10:00 PM Joint NASSR Advisory Board & Executive Meeting (NORTH MEETING ROOM)

Thursday, August 22

****(Shuttle #1 leaves Delta Armouries for Station Park Inn and Windermere Manor at 8:15 AM)

****(Shuttle #2 leaves Station Park for Windermere Manor at 8:30 AM)

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Registration/Refreshments (BOARD ROOM)

1. Special Session: Drama and Theatre History, 1770-1840: Romantic-Era Drama and Theatre I: Texts and Interpretation

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Michael Eberle-Sinatra (U of Montreal)

• Michael Gamer (U of Penn) and Jeffrey Cox (U of Colorado): "Whose Standards?: Editing Dramas that (Don’t) Matter"
• Marjean D. Purinton (Texas Tech U): "Performing and Interpreting British Romantic Drama by Women at Today’s University"
• Reeve Parker (Cornell U): "Listening to Remorse: Coleridge’s Dark Employment"

2. Women Poets: History and Loss

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Kathleen McConnell (Dalhousie U)

• Silvia Bordoni (U of Nottingham): "Felicia Hemans’ Heroic Women of Roman History"
• Theresa Adams (U of Wisconsin, Madison): "‘To-day has nothing in common with Yesterday’: Letitia Elizabeth Landon and the Passing of Romanticism"
• Michael T. Williamson (Indiana U): "Memorializing a Contaminated Nation: Felicia Heman’’s Public Elegies"

3. Political Performance I: Elocution and its Discontents

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: Sarah Zimmerman (Fordham U)

• Judith Thompson (Dalhousie U): "‘‘Practising Fluency’’: Rhetorical, Intellectual Class Mobility in the Political Lectures of John Thelwall"
• Vickie Myers (Pepperdine U): "Coleridge’s Moral and Political Lecture: Oratory as History"
• Dan White (U of Toronto): "‘As Face Answers Face’: Coleridge and the Unitarian Pulpit"

4. Special Session: Dances of Romanticism

NORTH DINING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Steven Bruhm (Mount St. Vincent)

• Anne Stapleton (U of Iowa): "Masterful Narratives: Policing the Public Body and Positioning the Practice of National Dance"
• Gary R. Dyer (Cleveland State U): "The Politics of Waltzing"
• Joel Faflak (Wilfrid Laurier U): "Shelley’s Maddening Dance"
• Steven Bruhm (Mount St. Vincent U): RESPONDENT

5. The Historical Imagination in an International Frame

MEETING ROOM B

Chair: Mark Asberg (U of Western Ontario)

• Maria Luna (Universidad Autóónoma Metropolitana/Azcapozalco): "Romantic History and Romantic Novels in Mexico"
• Mark Hewitt (New York U): "[Re]zoning the Naive: Schiller's Construction of Auto-historiography"
• Mari Hatavara (U of Tampereen): "Historical Novel between Romantic Imagination and Historicist Determination: Questions of Probability in the Finnish Historical Novel in the Middle of the 19th Century"

10:45 AM - 12: 15 PM PANELS

6. Special Session: Romantic Era Drama and Theatre II: Performers and Theatres

Organizer & Chair: Catherine Burroughs (Wells College)

• Jonathan Mulrooney (U of Vermont): "The Making of British Theater Audiences, 1800-1830"
• Melynda Nuss (The University of Texas at Austin), "’The gravis Esopus of our stage’: Animals in the Theater of Romanticism"
• Celestine Woo (Fort Lewis College): "‘Romantic Actors’ and the Formation of Shakespeare Characterology"

7. Special Session: Comparatively Speaking

MEETING ROOM B

Organizer & Chair: Jan Plug (U of Western Ontario)

• Stephen Hancock (Purdue U): "Shelley’s Sublime Body: George Eliot and the Appropriation of Aristocratic Moral Authority"
• Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert (De Paul U): "The ‘Romantic’ as Comparative Tool"
• Surti Singh (De Paul U): "Negativity as Sense: Reading between Hegel and Nancy"

8. Romantic Fashions

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: Julia Emberley (U of Northern British Columbia)

• Angela Borchert (U of Western Ontario): "Fashioning History: German Fashion History Between Classicist Ideals and Romantic Irony"
• Clara Tuite (U of Melbourne): "Romantic Retro: The Absentee, Political Allegory and Interior Decoration"
• Nicholas Mason (Brigham Young U): "Sharing History: The Mutually Constitutive Relationship of Advertising and Literature in Romantic-Era Britain"

9. Versions of History: Lady Morgan and Mary Shelley

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Carolyn Weber (Oxford U / U of San Francisco)

• Kevin Hutchings (U of Northern British Columbia): "Pastoral Idealism and the End of History: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man"
• Lisa Vargo (U of Saskatchewan): "Mary Shelley and the Writing of History"
• Dana Van Kooy (U of Colorado, Boulder): "Re-presenting History in The Wild Irish Girl"

10. Blake and History

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: Nathaniel Leach (U of Western Ontario)

• David M. Baulch (U of West Florida): "‘Man Human formd’: Aesthetic Judgment in Blake’s October 2, 1800 Letter to Thomas Butts"
• Michael Hamburger (Boston U): "‘Wise guardians of the poor’: The Parish Functionary, the Poor Laws, and Gilbert’s Act in Blake’s ‘Holy Thursday’"
• Dennis M. Welch (Virginia Tech): "Blake and the Famine of 1795"

12:30 - 1:30 PM LUNCH:  (on your own, or in the Grand Hall)

1:45 - 3:45 PM PANELS

11. Special Session: Visualizing History: Memory in German Romanticism

MEETING ROOM D

Organizer & Chair: Angela Borchert (U of Western Ontario)

• Richard Sperber (Carthage College): "Myth and History in Romantic Travel Writing: Adalbert von Chamisso’s Account of the Marshall Islands"
• Nicholas Halmi (U of Washington): "Historical Suppression and Expression in German Romantic Architecture"
• Waltraud Maierhofer (U of Iowa): "De-visualizing the Witch: Tieck’s Hexen-Sabbat"
• Codula Grewe (Columbia U): RESPONDENT

12. Blake, Wordsworth and the Protestant Work Ethic

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Rachel Billigheimer (McMaster U)

• Wayne C. Ripley (U of Rochester): "‘Satan divided against Satan’: Blake and the Rise of the Secular in Protestant Biblical Exegesis"
• Colin Jager (Rutgers U): "Prayers Plow Not! Blake, Paley and the Division of Labour"
• Benjamin Kim (SUNY, Stony Brook): "Industry and Low Pursuits: Reading Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’ as an Historical Allegory"
• Dylan Krieg (U of Massachusetts): "Loco-Descriptive Poetry and the Absent Abbey: Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’"

13. Women’s Historical Writing and the Contours of Romantic Historiography

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Chair: Greg Kucich (U of Notre Dame)

• Greg Kucich (U of Notre Dame): "New Directions in Studies of Women Writers and Romantic Historiography"
• Michael Macovski (Fordham U): "Fossils, Bank-Notes, and Antiquarians: Towards a Theory of Romantic Historiography"
• Devoney Looser (U of Missouri-Columbia): "Jane Porter, Retrospection, and History"
• Kari Lokke (U of California, Davis): "Heretical History in George Sand’s Jean Ziska"

14. Remainders of History

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: Justin Baird (U of Western Ontario)

• Rebecca Gagan (U of Western Ontario): "Nietzsche’s Indigestion or How to 'Have Done' with Idealism"
• Noah Herringman (U of Missouri, Columbia): "Antiquarianism and Discipline Formation, 1805-1825"
• Julia M. Wright (Wilfrid Laurier U): "‘The Same Dull Round Over Again’: Colonial History in Moore's Memoirs of Captain Rock"

15. Special Session: Romantic Antiquarianism

MEETING ROOM A

Organizer & Chair: Clare Simmons (Ohio State U)

• Sophie Thomas (U of Sussex): "Reassembling History: Ruins and the Fragment"
• Laura George (U of Eastern Michigan): "The Breathing Wonders of Praxiteles: Sculpture and History in Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii"
• Kristin Flieger Samuelian (George Mason U): "Knightley in the Ruins"
• Ina Ferris (U of Ottawa): "Antiquarian Trifling: D'Israeli and the 'Small-Talk' of History"

4:15 - 5:45 PM PLENARY

GRAND HALL

16. Julie Carlson (U of California, Santa Barbara)

"Fancy's History (featuring the Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley Family)"

Chair: Tilottama Rajan (U of Western Ontario)

****(Shuttle leaves Windermere Manor at 6:15 PM for Museum London)

6:30 PM RECEPTION at MUSEUM LONDON (jointly hosted by NASSR and the Drama Conference)

7:00-9:00 PM  Showing of The Cenci (Photography Gallery at Museum London)  Concert Reading Performance May 1993 in the Old Hall at Queens' College, Cambridge.  Directed by David Farr, Produced by Reeve Parker, starring (among others) Kelly Hunter as Beatrice, Gillian Beer as Lucretia, Jonathan Bate as Savella/Judge

 Friday, August 23

****(Shuttle #1 leaves Delta Armouries at 7:45 AM for Station Park Inn and Windermere Manor)

****(Shuttle #2 leaves Station Park Inn at 8:00 AM for Windermere Manor)

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Book Exhibit

8:30 - 10:00 AM PANELS

17. Political Performance II: Words in Space

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: Daniel O’Quinn (U of Guelph)

• Reeve Parker (Cornell U): "Cutting Off Robespierre (and Pitt): Coleridge’s (and Southey’’s) Thermidorean Coup"
• Sarah Zimmerman (Fordham U): "John Thelwall, Literary Critic"
• Orrin Wang (U of Maryland, College Park): "Coming Attractions: ‘Lamia’ and the Public of Pre-Cinematic Sensation"

18. Special Session: Legacies of Paul De Man I: Romanticism, History and Futurity

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate U)

• Ian Balfour (York U): "The Dead-End of Historicist Criticism: De Man with Benjamin"
• Sara Guyer (U of California, Irvine): "‘The far side of this ongoing enterprise’: On the Question of Inheritance in de Man"
• Jan Mieszkowski (Reed College): "Beyond the Allegory of Democracy"

19. Scott and History

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: Nancy Goslee (U of Tennessee)

• Andrew Lincoln (Queen Mary College, U of London): "The Origins of Scott's Waverley and the Experience of War"
• Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley College): "Time, Money, Sanctuary, and Subjectivity in the Fortunes of Nigel"
• Miranda Burgess (U of British Columbia): "Walter Scott, Tomb Raider"

20. Special Session: Romantic Case Histories

MEETING ROOM B

Organizer & Chair: Joel Faflak (Wilfrid Laurier U)

• Julie Murray (York U): "Baillie, Wordsworth, and the Case of Economic Man"
• Mark Mossman (Bethany College): "Reading Mary Lamb’s Madness: History, Romanticism, and Mental Disability"
• Jodey Castricano (Wilfrid Laurier U): "Much Ado About Handwriting: Countersigning with the Other Hand in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

21. Victorian Romanticisms

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Matthew Rowlinson (U of Western Ontario)

• Emily Allen (Purdue U): "The Genius in the House:Jewsbury and the Victorian Domestication of the Male Romantic Poet"
• Caroline Wiebe Kimberly (Tulane U): "Man or Myth?: Literary History and the Invention of John Keats"
• Charles La Porte (U of Michigan): "The Sacred in the Secular: on the Reception of Byron’’s Cain"

10:15 - 11:45 AM PANELS

22. Representations of the French Revolution

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: William Davis (Colorado College)

• William D. Brewer (Appalachian State U): "The French Revolution as a Romance: Mary Robinson’s Hubert de Sevrac"
• Diane Long Hoeveler (Marquette U): "The French Revolution, the Gothic and the Opera of Terror"
• Wendy C. Nielsen (U of California, Santa Barbara): "An Authentic Performance?: Revolutionary Perspectives and the Case History of Olympe de Gouges"

23. Special Session: Legacies of Paul De Man II: Materiality and History

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate U)

• Charles Mahoney (U of Connecticut): "Allegories of Dis-Kantinuity: Kleist, Schiller and de Man’’s Materialism"
• Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate U): "The Sublime and the Event of History"
• Andrzej Warminski (U of California, Irvine): "‘Discontinuous Structure of Being Itself’: De Man’s Romantic Histories"

24. Victorian Romanticisms II

MEETING ROOM B

Chair: Krista Lysack (Queen's U)

• Lauren Gillingham (York U): "Hazlitt, Carlyle, and the Internalisation of Romantic History"
• Robert K. Lapp (Mount Allison U): "Making History in the Post-Byronic Era: Bulwer-Lytton, Maginn, and the Hot Chronology of 1831"
• Bruce Wyse (U of Northern British Columbia): "‘The curse of his sentence was—never to forget!’: Placements and Displacements of Byron in Bulwer-Lytton"

25. Friendship and the Nation

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: James Allard (U of Waterloo)

• Peter Melville (McMaster U): "Staging the Nation: Hospitable Performances in Kant’s Anthropology"
• Geraldine Friedman (Purdue U): "The Ladies of Llangollen: Sensibility, the Nation, and Women’s Production"
• Michael John Kooy (U of Warwick): "Matrons and Madmen: Anna Letitia Barbauld Writes the Lives of Deceased Friends"

26. Special Session: Mourning and Memory

MEETING ROOM D

Organizer & Chair: Ranita Chatterjee (California State U)

• Roland Weston (U of Waikato): "’Let these dry bones live!’: Memory, Moral Knowledge and Progress in Godwin’s Essay on Sepulchres (1809)"
• J. Andrew Hubbell (U of Susquehanna): "A Nostalgia for the Future: Historical Knowledge and the Prophetic Mode in Regency England"
• Philip Shaw (U of Leicester): "The Return of Waterloo"

12:00 - 1:00 PM LUNCH (on your own, or in the Grand Hall)

1:15 - 2:45 PM PANELS

27. Keats and History

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: Michael Sider (U of Western Ontario)

• Beth Lau (California State U, Long Beach): "Keats’s and Chatterton’s Recreations of the Past"
• Joshua David Gonsalves (New York U): "Historiographicaporia—The Ir-resolution of Romantic Reflexivity"
• Gillen D’Arcy Wood (U of Illinois): "‘Hyperion,’ History, and the British Museum"

28. Romanticism and the Baroque, Literary and Philosophical

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Chair: Arkady Plotnitsky (Purdue U)

• Arkady Plotnitsky (Purdue U): "The City from Romanticism to the Baroque: The Memories of the Past and the Memory of the Future"
• Silke Maria Weineck (U of Michigan): "‘What Kind of I?’—Kleist's Redoubling of Molièère's Amphitryon"
• Jochen Schulte-Sasse (U of Minnesota): "Spinoza and the Genealogy of Romantic Transcendentalism"

29. Special Session: Existing in History: Romantic Authenticity and Historical Empiricism

MEETING ROOM B

Organizer & Chair: Gavin Budge (U of Central England)

• Gavin Budge (U of Central England): "Existing in History: Romantic Authenticity and Historical Empiricism"
• Neil Hargraves (U of Bahamas): "Individual Agency and Historical Change in William Robertson’s History of Charles V and History of America"
• Laura Mandell (Miami U): "Virtue and Evidence: Projection vs. Transferential History in Debates of the 1790s about Regicide"

30. Border Crossings: Rethinking the Romantic / Victorian Divide

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: Christopher Keep (U of Western Ontario)

• Christopher Keep (U of Western Ontario): "Necessary Connexions: Networks, Webs, and Encyclopaedias"
• Dino Felluga (Purdue U): "The Fetish-Logic of Bourgeois Subjectivity, or, the Truth the Romantic Poet Reveals about the Victorian Novel"
• Margaret Linley (Simon Fraser U): "Literary Keepsakes and New Media"

31. Representing Celtic Heroes: Madoc and Braveheart

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Julia M. Wright (Wilfrid Laurier U)

• Shawna Thorp (Auburn U): "The Manipulation of History: Prince Madoc and Nationalist Propaganda"
• Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (Penn State U): "British Conquistadors and Aztec Priests: Appropriating Spanish History in Robert Southey’s Madoc"
• Julie Kipp (Hope College): "Braveheart in the Romantic Era: Women Writers on William Wallace"

3:00 - 4:30 PM PLENARY

GRAND HALL

32. David L. Clark (McMaster University)

"We 'Other Prussians': Bodies and Pleasures in Late Kant"

Chair: J. Douglas Kneale (U of Western Ontario)

4:45 - 6:45 PM PANELS

33. Special Session: Romantic Medievalism

MEETING ROOM A

Organizer: Elizabeth Fay (U of Massachusetts, Boston); Chair: Clare Simmons (Ohio State)

• Elizabeth Fay (U of Massachusetts, Boston): "Romantic Medievalism: Pastness and History"
• Clare Simmons (Ohio State U): "The Romantic Invention of the Medieval: A Linguistic History"
• Mark Schoenfield (Vanderbilt U): "The Antiquities of Modernity: Blackwood’s Magazine and the Tory Invention of History"
• Tilar Jenon Mazzeo (U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh): "Mary Shelley and the Italian Trecentisti"

34. Animality and Humanity

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Lisa Vargo (U of Saskatchewan)

• Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence (Tufts U School of Veterinary Medicine): "Keats and a Nightingale: Dissolution of the Human-Animal Boundary"
• Barbara Seeber (Brock U): "Ecofeminism and Frances Burney’s Novels"
• Christopher R. Clason (Oakland U): "Feline Characteristics and Complexity Theory in German Romanticism: the Case of Hoffmann’s Kater Murr"

35. Special Session: Jane Austen on/ in/ as/ Popular History

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Jill Heydt-Stevenson (U of Colorado)

• William Galperin (Rutgers U): "The Historical Austen"
• Jill Heydt-Stevenson (U of Colorado): "Austen's Popular History: Jewelry and Miniatures in Sense and Sensibility"
• Deidre Lynch (Indiana U): "‘Very little white satin, very few lace veils’: Austen, Costume Drama, and the Feminized Past"
• Mary Ann O’Farrell (Texas A&M U): "Jane Austen, Punch Line"

36. Aural/Oral Histories: Bards, Ballads, and Minstrelsy

NORTH DINING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Michael Macovski (Fordham U)

• Michael Macovski (Fordham U): Introduction: "Talking History: Aural Antiquaries and Mediated Minstrelsy"
• Maureen McLane (Harvard U): "Mediums, Messages, Minstrels: Mediating the Historical"
• Celeste Langan (U of California, Berkeley): "Sound, Silence, Meter: Telegraphy and Telepathy in Scott"

6:45 - 7:30 Cash Bar

GRAND HALL

****(Shuttle leaves Windermere Manor at 7:00 PM for Station Park Inn and Delta Armouries—for those not attending Conference Banquet)

7:30 PM BANQUET

GRAND HALL

****(Shuttle leaves Windermere Manor at 10:00 PM for Station Park Inn and Delta Armouries)

Saturday, August 24

(Shuttle #1 leaves Delta Armories at 8:15 AM for Station Park Inn and Windermere Manor)

(Shuttle #2 leaves Station Park Inn at 8:30 AM for Windermere Manor)

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Registration

9:00 - 10:30 AM PANELS

37. Teaching Romanticism and History

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Bonnie Gunzenhauser (Millikin U)

• Kyle Grimes (U of Alabama, Birmingham): "Shelley, Lord Ellenborough, and the Case of Daniel Isaac Eaton: Censorship Trials and Historicist Pedagogy"
• Bonnie Gunzenhauser (Millikin U): "Historicizing Communities of Reading: An Approach to Romantic Historicist Pedagogy"
• Don Ulin (U of Pittsburgh, Bradford): "Romantic Revisions: Meeting the Challenge of History in the Undergraduate Survey"

38. The Poetics of Cultural Dissonance: German-Jewish Writing, 1780-1848

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: Thomas Pfau (Duke U)

• Thomas Pfau (Duke U): "Dampfguillotine: Ludwig Böörne, Executor/Executioner of the German Ideology"
• Jeffrey Grossman (U of Virginia): "Bildung and its Critics: Heinrich Heine, Berthold Auerbach, and the Question of a German Jewish Subculture"
• Jonathan Skolnik (U of Oregon): "Romanticism and Jewish History: German-Jewish Historical Fiction and the Poetics of Cultural Dissonance"

39. Special Session: "'The past is a foreign country': Romanticism and its Views of History"

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Organizer: Jeanne Moskal (U of North Carolina); Chair: Deirdre Coleman (U of Sydney)

• Deirdre Coleman (U of Sydney): "Millenial and Historical Time: The Swedenborgians in Africa and London in the Late 18th Century"
• Esther Wohlgemut (St. Mary’’s U): "Sir Thomas More's Tour of the Lake District: History and Travel Writing in Southey's ‘Colloquies’"
• Jan Wellington (Utah Valley State College): "Haunted by History: Romantic Women Travellers and the Aesthetics of Reappearance"

40. Romantic Pathographies

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: Alan Bewell (U of Toronto)

• Michelle Faubert (U of Toronto): "Autopathography: John Clare and the Problem of Mad Self-Reflection"
• James Robert Allard (U of Waterloo): "In Submission: Fanny Burney’s Patient Narrative."
• Alan Bewell (U of Toronto): "Diagnosing the Coming Plague: Colonial Medicine and Prophecy in Southey’s Social Theory"

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PANELS

41. Imagined Peoples

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: Jennifer Jones (U of California, Santa Barbara)

• Dallen J. Rose (Washington State U): "‘A war more than civil’: Greece as the Orient in John Cam Hobhouse’s Journey through Albania and other Provinces of Turkey to Constantinople in the Years 1809 and 1810"
• Christopher Flynn (U of Nebraska, Omaha): "Black Irishness: Racial Fluidity and the Plight of the Striving Classes in William MacReady's The Irishman in London"
• Paul Youngquist (Penn State U): "White Romanticism"

42. Romanticism and the Speaking Subject

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Monika Lee (Brescia College, U of Western Ontario)

• Lisa Butler (Wilfrid Laurier U): "‘Acquit and justify myself’: Edmund Burke and Foucault's Confessing Subject"
• Jessica McShan (Queens’ College, U of Cambridge): "‘Are we not formed as notes of music are’: Shelleyan Lyricism and the Romantic Historicization of Musical Aesthetics"
• Janelle A. Schwartz (U of Wisconsin, Madison): "Echo and the New Mimesis of History: Oratory Expression in Prometheus Unbound"

43. Radicalism and Reactions

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: Andrew Elfenbein (U of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

• Kevin Gilmartin (California Institute of Technology): "Counter-Revolutionary Enterprise and the Crisis of the 1790s"
• Juan Sanchez (U of Notre Dame): "‘A Great Step in Freedom and Knowledge’: Leigh Hunt and the Napoleonic Wars"
• Timothy Morton (U of Colorado, Boulder): "Imagining Radical History: Some Theoretical Problems"

44. Romantic Aesthetics/Romantic Ethics

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Chair: Mark Mossman (Bethany College)

• Dewey W. Hall (Mount San Antonio College): "Sustaining Romanticism: Postmodernism and the Ethical Sublime"
• Nat Leach (University of Western Ontario): (title to be announced)
• Fred Burwick (UCLA): "Romantic Irony, Metadrama, and the Demonic"

12:30 - 1:30 PM LUNCH (on your own or in the Grand Hall)

1:45 - 3:45 PM PANELS

45. Accidents of History

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: Kevin Hutchings (U of Northern British Columbia)

• Robert Corbett (U of Washington): "History as Catastrophe: William Godwin’s Mandeville, the Gothic, and Critical National Narrative"
• Ross Hamilton (Barnard College, Columbia U): "Accidental History"
• Jennifer Jones (U of California, Santa Barbara): "Caves of the Real: 'Sublime Fiction' and Mary Shelley's The Last Man"

46. Enthusiasms, Affects, and Powerful Feelings

MEETING ROOM B

Chair: Ludmila Skorodumova

• Daniel Schierenbeck (Central Missouri State U): "‘Lofty enthusiasm’ and ‘vulgar superstitions’: Shelley, Hume, and Religion’s Role in History"
• Orianne Smith (Loyola U Chicago): "Romantic Women Writers and the Figure of the Improvisatrice"
• A. C. Goodson (Michigan State U): "'A Quasi Sub-Lunary State of Deep Melancholia': Sebald's Romantic Legacies"
• Justin Baird (U of Western Ontario), "Godwin’s St. Leon: Wonder, Melancholy and the Economies of Early Europe"

47. Special Session: Forgotten Literary Histories

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Harriet Kramer Linkin (New Mexico State U)

• April London (U of Ottawa): "Forgotten Literary Histories"
• Anne Close (Loyola U Chicago): "Mary Robinson’s Memoirs and Gothic Autobiography"
• Michael Scrivener (Wayne State U): "Following the Muse: Inspiration and Prophecy in the Poetry of Emma Lyon (1788-1870), Anglo-Jewish Poet"
• Michael Eberle-Sinatra (U of Montreal): "Leigh Hunt’s Blue-Stocking Revels Revisited; or, Hunt as Victorian Literary Critic"

48. Is There a Romantic Historiography?

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: David L. Clark (McMaster U)

• Stephan Jaeger (U of Madison, Wisconsin): "Is German Romantic Historiography Possible?"
• Mark Phillips (U of British Columbia): "Literary History and the Question of Genre in the Historical Writing of Early 19th-Century Britain"
• Tilottama Rajan (U of Western Ontario): "Spirit’s Psychoanalysis: Natural History and Romantic Historiography"

49. Special Session: Jane Austen on/ in/ as/ Popular History II

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Jill Heydt-Stevenson (U of Colorado)

• Robert Miles (U of Stirling): "‘Our Thing’: Jane Austen and the Politics of Identification"
• Courtney Wennerstrom (U of Colorado): "Women Writing Women’s History: Barbauld, Austen, and Burney"
• Anouschka Urrejola (Freie Universitat): "’Jane . . . only smiles, I laugh’: Laughter and Body Language in Pride and Prejudice"
• Michael Kramp (U of Northern Colorado) "Clueing into the Gypsies: The Commercial Integration of the Nomad"

4:15 - 5:45 PM PLENARY

GRAND HALL

50. Jerrold E. Hogle (U of Arizona)

"The Gothic-Romantic Relationship: Underground Histories in ‘‘The Eve of St. Agnes’’"

****(Shuttle leaves Windermere Manor at 6:00 PM for Station Park Inn and Delta Armouries—for those not attending Conference Pub)

6:15 PM CONFERENCE PUB (GRAD PUB, MIDDLESEX COLLEGE)

Sunday, August 25

****(Shuttle leaves Delta Armouries at 8:45 AM for Station Park Inn; leaves Station Park Inn at 9:00 AM for Windermere Manor)

******All NASSR Members Welcome (Continental Breakfast provided)******

9:30 - 11:00 AM PANELS

51. Special Session: Jewish History/Historiography and Romanticism

NORTH DINING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Sheila A. Spector

• Toby R. Benis (St. Louis U): "The Histories of Edgeworth’s Harrington"
• R. Paul Yoder (UALR): "Joshua the Giant Killer: Blake’s Blending of Jewish History and English Folklore in Jerusalem"
• Lilach Lachman (Tel-Aviv U): "Self-Begetting Poets: The De-formation of the Subject in Post Romantic Hebrew Poetry"

52. Ecologies and Economies

MEETING ROOM D

• Chair: Rodica Ieta (U of Western Ontario)
• Eric Sonstroem (U of the Pacific): "Jane Austen and the Specter of Malthusian History"
• Alex Dick (U of British Columbia): "‘Diversity within Union’: Money, History, and Scott"
• Karen Hadley (U of Louisville): "Wordsworth, Romantic Numeracy, and Our Enslavement to the ‘Fiction’ that Grounds Modernity"

53. Special Session: Romantic Animals

MEETING ROOM B

Organizer & Chair: Ron Broglio (Georgia Tech)

• Ron Broglio (Georgia Tech): "Romantic Cows"
• Anne Zanzucchi (U of Rochester): "William Cowper's Animal Advocacy and the Poetics of Conscience"
• Kate Ready (Okanagan U College): "Of Mice and Men: Joseph Priestley, Anna Barbauld, and the Politics of Animal Experimentation"

54. Language and Subjectivity in History Writing

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: Mark Hewitt (New York U)

• Paola Mayer (U of Guelph): "Mythology as History: The Golden Age Myth in German Romanticism"
• Catherine Grimm (Wabash College): "Growing Pains: The Evolution of the Historical Subject in Novalis’ Christianity or Europe"
• Andrew Elfenbein (U of Minnesota, Twin Cities): "Wordsworthian Negation and the History of English"

55. "Why Romanticism?"

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Chair: Theresa M. Kelley (U of Wisconsin, Madison)

• Jan Plug (U of Western Ontario): "Romantic Subjects, Differently"
• Daniel O’Quinn (U of Guelph): "Triggers and Blooms: Questions Concerning Romantic Imperialism"
• Theresa M. Kelley (U of Wisconsin, Madison): "The Romantic Imaginary Meets Difference"

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PANELS

56. Special Session: Romanticism and the Secular

NORTH MEETING ROOM

Organizer & Chair: Colin Jager (Rutgers U)

• Daniel Weidner (Berlin): "Scripture and Secularisation: Johann Gottfried Herder’s Reading of the Bible"
• Charles Rzepka (Boston U): "From Relics to Remains: Wordsworth and the Emergence of Secular History"
• James T. Harris (U of South Carolina): "‘One Law for the Lion and the Ox is Oppression’: William Blake’’s Composite Art and the Construction of Historical Narrative"

 57. Scott and History II

NORTH DINING ROOM

Chair: Ina Ferris (U of Ottawa)

• Christopher Scalia (U of Wisconsin, Madison): "Scott’s Waverley and the Historiographical Implications of Scottish Jurisprudence"
• Michael Tomko (U of Notre Dame): "The Clash of Medievalisms: Scott, Hazlitt, and Joseph Berington on National Identity and the Historical Catholic Other"
• Evan Gottlieb (SUNY, Buffalo): "Enlightened Alternatives: Sympathy versus History in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian"

58. Byron and History

MEETING ROOM B

Chair: Joshua David Gonsalves (New York U)

• Jay Ward (Thiel College): "‘The ‘‘good old times’’ . . . Are gone’: Byron and the Uses of History"
• Deborah Elise White (Emory U): "‘Land without Paradise’ ­Responsibility without End: A Reading of Byron’’s Cain"
• Terrance Riley (Bloomsburg U): "Writing and Time in Don Juan"

59. Reading Histories

MEETING ROOM A

Chair: Caroline Wiebe Kimberly (Tulane U)

• Robert Anderson (Oakland U): "‘Personating a fictitious character’: Caleb Williams, Fleetwood, and the History of Reading"
• Anthony Harding (U of Saskatchewan): "Autobiography, Reaction, and the Moment of The Prelude: Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, De Quincey"
• Ghislaine McDayter (Bucknell University): "O’er Leaping the Bounds: The Sexing of the Creative Soul in Shelley’s Epipsychidion"

60. Romantic Satire

MEETING ROOM D

Chair: Lisa Butler (Wilfrid Laurier U)

• Michael Suarez (Fordham U): "History, Narrative, and the Transvaluation of Value: The Mock Biblical as a Strategy of Romantic Satire"
• Kim Jacobs (U of Cincinnati Clermont College): "‘Punch and His Wife’: Percy Shelley’s Swellfoot the Tyrant, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Topicality"
• Frances Botkin (Towson U), "Taming the Wild Irish Girl: Lady Morgan and Satire"

****(Shuttle leaves Windermere Manor at 12:45 PM for Station Park Inn and Delta Armouries)

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Last updated on August 17th by Julia M. Wright.