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20th International Conference on Romanticism Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan September 26-29, 2013
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 1 PM Shuttle departs from the Royal Park Hotel and arrives at Meadow Brook Hall on the Oakland University campus. Registration 9 AM-12PM (Royal Park Hotel) 1 PM-6 PM Meadowbrook Hall (Oakland University) Concurrent Sessions 1 A-D, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Meadow Brook Hall (Oakland University) Session 1 A (Thursday, 1:30-2:45): Time and Death (Library) Chair: Jeff Chapman, Oakland University 1. Neil Finlayson, York University: “The Relations of Things: Time in Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer” 2. Emily Zarka, Arizona State University: “The Undead Presence: Exploring Boundaries of Life, Death and Sex in ‘Christabel,’ ‘The Skeleton Priest,’ and ‘The Aerial Chorus’” 3. Mark Lounibos, Finlandia University: “Byron’s (Bio)Politics: An Aesthetics of Entombment”
Session 1 B (Thursday, 1:30-2:45): Animal Relations (Sun Porch) Chair: Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University 1. Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University: “Romantic Relations and Constructive Affinities: Notions of Family in Kater Murr” 2. Marjean D. Purinton, Texas Tech University: “Canines and Quadrupeds: Human and Animal Relations Staged in Romantic Drama” 3. Laura J. George, Eastern Michigan University: “Posthumanist Wordsworth? Relations between humans, animals and things in The White Doe of Rylstone”
Session 1 C (Thursday, 1:30-2:45): Oakland University Student Panel (Ballroom) Chair: Rachel Smydra, Oakland University 1. Jason Storms, Oakland University: “Discourses of Personhood and Contract in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein” 2. Nathan Reiber, Oakland University: “Josiah Warren and Godwinian individualism in 19th Century America” 3. Shannon Cooley, Oakland University: “The Newfoundland: Animal Metaphors in Antebellum Literature” 4. Allison Bohn, Oakland University: “Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Tradition and NineteenthCentury Brain Science: An Exploration Invested in Literature and Neurological Experimentation”
Session 1 D (Thursday, 1:30-2:45): Percy Bysshe Shelley (Study) Chair: Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, Oakland University 1. Shalon Nicole Noble, University of Western Ontario: “Ecology of Joy in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound” 2. Elizabeth Bishop, Emory University: “Facing Alterity, Witnessing Death: the Question of Suicide in Adonais” 3. Bart Andreacchi, “Representation and The Real in The Cenci”
First Plenary Session: Thursday, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Ballroom) Moderator: Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University Presentation: Fredrick Burwick, Research Professor, UCLA “Pirates of the Romantic Stage”
Concurrent Sessions 2 A-D, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Meadow Brook Hall Session 2 A (Thursday 4:15-5:30): Reception (Library) Chair: William Davis, Colorado College 1. Stacey L. Hahn, Oakland University: “Balzac and the French New Wave: A Problematic but Enticing Relationship” 2. Hollie Harder, Brandeis University: “Recipes for the Romantic artist in Proust’s In Search of Time” 3. Christopher Kelleher, University of Toronto: “‘The Problem of Sex’: Relations of Hybridity, Romanticism, and Failed Revolutions in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” Session 2 B (Thursday 4:15-5:30): Thelwall’s Daughter of Adoption (Sun Porch) Chair: Yasmin Solomonescu, University of Notre Dame 1. Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University: “The Saint Domingue Slave Rebellion and Feminist Reform in John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption (1801)” 2. Judith Thompson, Dalhousie University: “Building up a Family in The Daughter of Adoption” 3. Molly Desjardins, University of Northern Colorado: “Blood Relations: John Thelwall’s Daughter of Adoption and the Slavery Debate of the 1790’s”
Session 2 C (Thursday 4:15-5:30): Generic Relations: The Ballad (Ballroom) Chair: Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University 1. DeLisa D. Hawkes, North Carolina Central University: “Lyrical Ballads: a malleable revolution” 2. Ruth Knezevich, University of Missouri-Columbia: “Romantic Media Relations: Thomas Percy’s Paratexts” 3. Andrew McKendry, Queens University: “Will the Public Please Step Forward? Representing Public Opinion in Byron’s The Vision of Judgment”
Session 2 D (Thursday 4:15-5:30): Romantic Travel 1 (Study) Chair: Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Oakland University 1. Emily Dolive, University of New Hampshire: “Physical and Intellectual Journey in Keats’ Poetry and Prose” 2. Dominique Zino, CUNY Graduate Center: “Liquid Freedoms and Sunken Properties: Henry James’s Remediation of the Picturesque Tour”
ICR Presidential Address, 5:45-6:15 PM, Meadow Brook Hall (Ballroom) Moderator: Larry Peer, Brigham Young University, Executive Director, International Conference on Romanticism Presentation: Stephen Behrendt, University Professor and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, President of ICR Reception, 6:30 PM -8:00 PM (Christopher Wren Dining Room) 8:00 PM – Shuttle departs from Meadow Brook Hall on the Oakland University campus and returns to the Royal Park Hotel
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013: (The Royal Park Hotel) 8 AM – 9 AM: Breakfast, Royal Park Hotel Registration: 8 AM-5 PM, Royal Park Hotel Concurrent Sessions 3 A-D, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM, Royal Park Hotel Session 3 A (Friday 9:00-10:15): Distant Relations: Locating Kinship (Parlor A) Chair: David Sigler, University of Idaho 1. William Davis, Colorado College: “‘One with Everything’: Romantics Inventing Greece” 2. Thomas McLean, University of Otago: “Byron, Russia, and Sardanapalus” 3. Christopher Thomas, Indiana University: “Clothed in Tattoos: The Re-Writing of Identity in George Vason’s Authentic Narrative of Four Years’ Residence in Tongataboo”
Session 3 B (Friday 9:00-10:15): Feminism (Parlor B) Chair: Kathryn McEwen, Michigan State University 1. Amy L. Gates, University of Illinois at Chicago: “Vindication and Vocation: Relating Career and Self-Concept in Wollstonecraft’s Work” 2. Carrie Busby, University of Alabama, Birmingham: “Performing Byronic Gender: Anne Lister Reads, Relates and Projects” 3. Geraldine Friedman, Purdue University: “Signifying Life: Anna Seward’s Love Poetry and Love Letters on and to Honora Sneyd”
Session 3 C (Friday 9:00-10:15): Intertextuality (Parlor C) Chair: Hollie Harder, Brandeis University 1. Mark K. Fulk, SUNY Buffalo: “Raising the Sublime: A Burkean Reading of Ice Road Truckers” 2. Catherine Talley, University of California, Berkeley: “I am the Other: Nerval’s Creative Intertextuality” 3. Brad Bannon, University of Tennessee: “Lord Byron and the Father of Lincoln’s Assassin”
Session 3 D (Friday 9:00-10:15): Wordsworth (Parlor D) Chair: Rob Anderson, Oakland University 1. Renee Harris, University of Kansas: “Wordsworth Performs Mental Science: The Interrelations of Mind, Body, and Nature in Forming the Poetic Consciousness” 2. Steve Tedeschi, University of Alabama: “Wordsworth’s Relation to Urban Ideology” 3. Timothy Wilcox, Stony Brook University: “Throwing Away the Ladder: The Prelude as a Model for Digital Aesthetics”
Concurrent Sessions 4 A-D, 10:30AM – 11:45 AM, Royal Park Hotel Session 4 A (Friday 10:30-11:45): Relations of Gender (Parlor A) Chair: Amy L. Gates, University of Illinois at Chicago 1. David Sigler, University of Idaho: “British Romanticism, Sexual Relations, and the Novel: Reassessing Woman, As She Is, and as She Should Be” 2. Chris Koenig-Woodyard, University of Toronto: “Jane Austen and Horrid Novels: Intersections of Gender and Genre with Parsons’ The Castle of Wolfenbach” 3. Dawn Kaczmar, University of Michigan: “William Blake’s The Book of Thel and Feminine Identity”
Session 4 B (Friday 10:30-11:45): Philosophical Relations (Parlor A) Chair: Tom Schmid, University of Texas El Paso 1. Joshua Wilner, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY: “The Mathematical Sublime and Chaos Theory in Kant and Wordsworth” 2. Nicole Sütterlin, University of Basel: “Dark Relations: Romanticism and Deconstruction” 3. Daniel Lorca, Oakland University: “The Romantic Condition and Cervantes: Please Stop Reading Don Quixote so Seriously”
Session 4 C (Friday 10:30-11:45): Visual Arts (Parlor C) Chair: Thora Brylowe, University of Pittsburgh 1. Thora Brylowe, University of Pittsburgh, and Jonathan Vander Woude, University of Pittsburgh: “Working the Line: Romantic Engravers and Their Employers” 2. Neil Holmstrom, University of Tasmania: “The Relationship between Romantic, Artistic Representations of Female and Male Death” 3. Flavia Ruzi, University of California-Riverside: “The (Un)Making of Georgiana’s Selves: English Portraiture and the Aesthetic Production of the Duchess of Devonshire”
Session 4 D (Friday 10:30-11:45): Wollstonecraft and Family (Parlor D) Chair: Steve Tedeschi, University of Alabama 1. Sharon Lynne Joffe, North Carolina State University: “‘Expressions in My Mother’s Letters’: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Familial Relationships in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley Circle” 2. Melissa McCoul, University of Notre Dame: “Maternal Vision and Structures of Affection in Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence”
Lunch: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM – on your own (please refer to the list of restaurants in downtown Rochester near the conference venue) ICR Executive Committee Lunch & Meeting: Royal Park Hotel, Stratford Conference Room Concurrent Sessions 5 A-D, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Royal Park Hotel Session 5 A (Friday 1:30-2:45): Biographical Relations (Parlor A) Chair: Roger Whitson, Washington State University 1. Seth Howes, Oakland University: “Sibling Incest and Romantic Selves in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones” 2. Hannah Markley, Emory University: “‘In and among us’: Specters of Friendship in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria” 3. Rebecca Nesvet, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: “Sweeney Todd's Romantic Ancestry”
Session 5 B (Friday 1:30-2:45): Romantic Travel 2 (Parlor B) Chair: Mark Fulk, SUNY Buffalo 1. Jessica Roberson, University of California, Riverside: “The Palm-Tree of ‘No Kindred Hue’: Negotiating Cosmopolitan Relations in Hemans, Williams, and Smith” 2. Kaitlin Gowan, Arizona State University: “The Poet: A Wandering Scholar: A Romantic Proto-Scientist in Percy Shelley’s Alastor: or The Spirit of Solitude” 3. Lisbeth Chapin, Gwynedd-Mercy College: “Shelley, Sex, and the City: London, Leghorn, and ‘Letter to Maria Gisborne’”
Session 5 C (Friday 1:30-2:45): Colonialism (Parlor C) Chair: Kathleen Pfeiffer, Oakland University 1. Kemael Johnson, Wayne State University: “The Romantic Subversion of British Colonialism: John Thelwall’s New World Plays and Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince” 2. Lisa Plummer Crafton, University of West Georgia: “‘Strange alteration wrought on every side’: Place and Exile in Wordsworth” 3. Talissa Ford, Temple University: “Republican Ragamuffins: A. M. Falconbridge and the Globalization of Sierra Leone”
Session 5 D (Friday 1:30-2:45): Mary Shelley & Science (Parlor D) Chair Jennifer Gower-Toms, Oakland University 1. Amy Mallory-Kani, SUNY Albany: “Mary Shelley’s The Last Man: Humanity, Immunity, and the ‘Magnificent Drama’ of Personhood” 2. Kisa Marie Lape, University of Maryland: “Dissecting History: Surgery and the Social Body” 3. Kent Linthicum, Arizona State University: “Extinction of the Future: The Last Man and Romantic Science”
Concurrent Sessions 6 A-D, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Royal Park Hotel Session 6 A (Friday 3:00-4:30): Trans-Atlantic (Parlor A) Chair: Seth Howes, Oakland University 1. Dana Ringuette, Eastern Illinois University: “‘Let us consider what obstructions impede the good era’: The Methods of Margaret Fuller and Samuel Taylor Coleridge” 2. Christopher Hanlon, Eastern Illinois University: “Whitman’s ‘Word out of the Sea’ and Atlantic Noise” 3. Laurel Hankins, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth: “Early Times in American Romanticism”
Session 6 B (Friday 3:00-4:30): Blake (Parlor B) Chair: Doris Plantus, Oakland University 1. Roger Whitson, Washington State University: “Steampunk William Blake: Genealogies of Critical Making” 2. Brandee Easter, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “‘My fierce fires are better than thy snows’: Urizen as Printmaker” 3. Jennifer Davis Michael, Sewanee: The University of the South, “‘God becomes as we are’: Blake, Irenaeus, and the Perilous Paths of Orthodoxy” 4. David Baulch, University of West Florida: “’Living Form’: William Blake’s Gothic Relations”
Session 6 C (Friday 3:00-4:30): Mary Russell Mitford: Local, Global and Digital Relations (Parlor C) Chair: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg 1. Kellie Donovan-Condron, Babson College: “‘In the various relations of life’: Female Relationships in Mitford’s Blanch” 2. Samantha Webb, University of Montevallo: “Mary Russell Mitford’s Romantic Collectivities: Social Relations and Cottage Politics in Our Village” 3. Lisa M. Wilson, SUNY Potsdam: “Authorial Relations: Mary Russell Mitford’s Recollections” 4. Elisa Beshero-Bondar, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg: “Launching a Digital Mary Russell Mitford: the MRMS Collaborative Project”
Session 6 D (Friday 3:00-4:30): Godwin Shelley Circle (Parlor D) Chair: Robert Anderson, Oakland University 1. Norma Aceves, California State University-Northridge: “Romantic Necrophilia: Death and Desire in the Godwin-Shelley Circle” 2. Yasmin Solomonescu, University of Notre Dame: “‘What signifies prating”: Godwin’s Things as They Are and the Rhetorical Tradition” 3. Suzie Asha Park, Eastern Illinois University: “‘With rocks and stones and trees’: Recessive Relations between Objects in Romantic Writing”
Second Plenary Session, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Parlor D) Moderator: Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Oakland University Presentation: Doris Kadish, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of French and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia “French and Haitian Romanticisms” Dinner: 6:00 PM – on your own in Downtown Rochester (please refer to the list of downtown Rochester Restaurants)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2013 Registration, 8 AM-5 PM, Royal Park Hotel 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: Breakfast, Royal Park Hotel (Gallery South) Concurrent Sessions 7 A-D, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM, Royal Park Hotel Session 7 A (Saturday 8:30-9:45): Creative Relations (Parlor A) Chair: David S. Hogsette, New York Institute of Technology 1. David S. Hogsette, New York Institute of Technology: “Romanticism in Victorian Mythopoeic Fantasy: The Relationship between Coleridge’s Cognitive Theory and George MacDonald’s Redemptive Imagination” 2. Daniel R. Mangiavellano, Tulane University: “Habit, Creativity, and the Blue-Coat Boys of Christ Hospital” 3. Elizabeth Neiman, University of Maine: “Romantic Discourse about Authorship: Poetic Genius and its Relations to the Novel Reader-turned-Writer”
Session 7 B (Saturday 8:30-9:45): Looking East: Asia-European Relations (Parlor B) Chair: L. Bailey McDaniel, Oakland University 1. Stephen Filler, Oakland University: “Romanticism and Nationalism in the Poetry and Essays of Kitamura Tökoku” 2. Seigo Nakao, Oakland University: “Realization of Male Fantasy: Pierre Loti in Nagasaki and Tokyo”
Session 7 C (Saturday 8:30-9:45): Painting, Sculpture, and Visual Arts (Parlor C) Chair: Stacey Hahn, Oakland University 1. Sarah Lippert, University of Michigan-Flint: “Unity and Androgyny: Intersections of Masculinity and Femininity in the Art of Early Nineteenth-Century France” 2. Joseph Rockelmann, Purdue University: “Ludwig Tieck’s Artful Use of Hallucinations and the Pygmalion Effect in Die Gemälde”
Session 7 D (Saturday 8:30-9:45): Wordsworth in the Woods (Parlor D) Chair: Rob Anderson, Oakland University 1. Frank Mabee, Fichtburg State University: “Mutiny in the Woods: Maritime Radicalism in Wordsworth’s The Borderers” 2 Matthew Rowney, CUNY Graduate Center: Broken Arbour: The Ruined Cottage and Deforestation” 3. Amelia Greene, CUNY Graduate Center: “Speaking for a Place: Relational Landscapes in Clare and Wordsworth”
Concurrent Sessions 8 A-D, 10:00 AM – 11:15AM, Royal Park Hotel Session 8 A (Saturday 10:00-11:15): Ecological Relations (Parlor A) Chair: Josh Wilner, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY 1. Gabrielle Kappes, Graduate Center, CUNY: “Spinozistic Relations: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Ecological Ontology” 2. Michael R. Page, University of Nebraska, Lincoln: “The Loudons and the Agricultural Imagination” 3. Courtney Maren Hilden, University of New Orleans: “William Apess the Romantic”
Session 8 B (Saturday 10:00-11:15): Versions of Romantic Love (Parlor B) Chair: Eugene Stelzig, SUNY Geneseo 1. Andrew Kay, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “Keats’s Death-Centered Poetics and the Allegory of Reading” 2. William Porter, Harvard University: “The Single Life: Love at Walden Pond” 3. Elizabeth Weybright, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Byron’s Hebrew Melodies: Romanticizing an Old Testament Tradition of Love”
Session 8 C (Saturday 10:00-11:15): Body Relations: Sex and Text (Parlor C) Chair: Stephen Filler, Oakland University 1. Christopher Nagle, Western Michigan University, and Courtney Wennerstrom, University of Indiana: “Sade’s Last Laugh: Gothic Tales and the End(s) of Narrative” 2. Mark Diachyshyn, Dalhousie University: “‘Lady Wits, Male Coquettes and Bards of Gender Epicene’: Performance and Print Culture in John Thelwall’s Musalogia or the Paths of Poesy (1825-1827)”
Session 8 D (Saturday 10:00-11:15): De Quincey (Parlor D) Chair: Amanda Klinger, University of Oklahoma 1. Katie Homar, University of Pittsburgh, “‘Grand and Transcendent Themes’: Classical Rhetoric in De Quincey's ‘Literature of Power’” 2. Amanda Klinger, University of Oklahoma: “Urban Sensibility and Commodity Culture in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater” 3. James Nicholson, York University: “‘This mode of oblique research’ - De Quincey’s speculative essays” Lunch: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Royal Park Hotel (Parlor F) Concurrent Sessions 9 A-D, 12:45 PM – 2:15PM Session 9 A (Saturday 12:45-2:15): Hemans (Parlor A) Chair: Daniel Lorca, Oakland University 1. Barbara Rieben, University of West Florida, “Dying to Speak: Locating Agency in the Tombs of Felicia Hemans’ Records of Woman” 2. Lisa Kirch, University of Maryland: Felicia Hemans’s Records of Woman and Mother-Child Relations: Murderous Mothers, Impartial Spectators, and Something in-between” 3. Seth Reno, Auburn University-Montgomery: “Hemans and the Affections”
Session 9 B (Saturday 12:45-2:15): Scottish Relations: Scott, Porter Chair: Nancy Moore Goslee, University of Tennessee 1. Shawna Lichtenwalner, East Tennessee State University, “Of Mice and Mendicants: Communal Support in Scottish Literature” 2. Nancy Moore Goslee, University of Tennessee: “Female Desire, National Melancholia, and the Making of Fiction” 3. Fiona Robertson, St. Mary’s University College, “‘Literary Estates: Walter Scott, J. B. S. Morritt, and Romanticism’s Delusive Architecture” 4. Jeffrey D. Cass, University of Houston-Victoria, “John Galt, Provost: The “Cloven-hoof of Self Interest”
Session 9 C (Saturday 12:45-2:15): Illustrations (Parlor C) Chair: Sarah Lippert, University of Michigan-Flint 1. Kasturi Ghosh, Salesian College: “Visions of Light and of Darkness: In William Blake’s Book of Job and Francisco de Goya’s Black Paintings” 2. Jacob Leveton, Northwestern University: “The Visual Technology of William Blake’s All Religions are One” 3. Theresa Nguyen, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Illuminated Distraction: Visual and Verbal Relations in Blake” 4. Christina Smylitopoulos, University of Guelph: “To Look Once Again: Tegg’s Regency Satire”
Session 9 D (Saturday 12:45-2:15): Romantic Science (Parlor D) Chair: Jeffrey Insko, Oakland University 1. Kristin Shimmin, Carnegie Mellon University: “Igniting Perceptions of Scientific Intervention: Humphry Davy’s Safety Lamp and the Changes in Circulating Perceptions of Science’s Applications” 2. Jonathan Ewell, San Diego State University: “Coleridge’s Opticks: Newton, Geometry, and Figuration in The Friend” 3. Claire Van der Broek, Indiana University: “Conceptualizing Trauma in Romanticism: Literary Responses to the Psychiatric Revolution”
Concurrent Sessions 10 A-D, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Session 10 A (Saturday 2:30-4:00): Political Relations (Parlor A) Chair: Jeffrey Cass, University of Houston-Victoria 1. Peggy Dunn Bailey, Henderson State University: “‘[R]elations in the Unseen’: Oracular Romanticism and ‘The Cry of the Children’” 2. Michael Demson, Sam Houston State University: “‘Torn from every tie of relationship’: John Cahauc, a Casualty of Post-Peterloo Repression” 3. Maria Cecilia Saenz-Roby, Oakland University: “The Phantasmagoric Figures of the Nineteenth-Century in the Contemporary Novel The Passion of the Nomads”
Session 10 B (Saturday 2:30-4:00): Sensorial Relations (Parlor B) Chair: Seth Reno, Auburn University-Montgomery 1. Drew MacDonald, Queen’s University, “Hallucination on the Mail: Cowper, De Quincey, and Mediated War” 2. Julian Whitney, Emory University: “The Death of Music: A Muted Voice and the Quest for Tonal Recovery in Shelley’s ‘Adonais’” 3. Julia Susana Gomez, University of Oregon, “Susan Howe’s Sublime: Romantic-Postmodern Ethics in ‘Articulation of Sound Forms in Time’”
Session 10 C (Saturday 2:30-4:00): The Stage (Parlor C) Chair: Frederick Burwick, UCLA 1. Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Oakland University, & Ashley Shams, University of St.Thomas: “Liminality, Deception, and Identity: Albrecht’s Self-Discovery in Giselle” 2. Carol Padgham Albrecht, University of Idaho: “Romance and Real Estate: The Public and Private Worlds of Opera Diva Irene Tomeoni” 3. Kathleen Béres Rogers, The College of Charleston: “‘Bearing Scorpion Stings’: The Problem of Obsession in Joanna Baillie’s Basil: A Tragedy” 4. Lissette López Szwydky, University of Arkansas: “Birth of an Adaptation Industry: Page and Stage Relations in the Romantic Period”
Session 10 D (Saturday 2:30-4:00): Material Culture: Bodies and Things (Parlor D) Chair: Chris Hanlon, Eastern Illinois University 1. CC Wharram, Eastern Illinois University: “‘Media of Varying Densities’: Of Touching Relations in Enrst Chladni and Walter Benjamin” 2. Kathryn McEwen, Michigan State University “The Hand and the Letter: Bodily Relations in the Correspondences of Rahel Levin Varnhagen” 3. Paige Ellisor-Catoe, Anderson University: “A Textual Relationship: The Gothic Heroine and Editorial Power” 4. Ian Newman, UCLA: “Sandman Joe and the Convivial Relations of Flash Ballads”
4-6 PM FREE TIME Third Plenary Session, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Park Pavilion) Moderator: Robert Anderson, Oakland University Presentation: Ron Broglio, Associate Professor of English and Senior Scholar at the Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University. “Sheeps, Fairies, and Hogg: Biopolitics of the Ettrick Shepherd”
Banquet Buffet “Under the Stars” 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (Park Pavilion)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2013 8 AM – 9 AM: Breakfast, Royal Park Hotel (Gallery South) Concurrent Sessions 11 A-D, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM, Royal Park Hotel
Session 11 A (Sunday 9:00-10:15): Readers and Writers (Parlor A) Chair: Julie Kipp, Hope College 1. Traynor Hansen III, University of Washington: “Contempt Breeds Familiarity: Hazlitt’s Familiar Essay in the Literary Field” 2. Eric Hood, University of Kansas: “The Making of the Writing ‘Class’: Relations of Class in Southey’s Joan of Arc” 3. Julie Kipp, Hope College, “Domestic Economy and Scot-Irish Alliances in Maria Edgeworth’s ‘The Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock’”
Session 11 B (Sunday 9:00-10:15): England’s Others (Parlor B) Chair: Julie M. Barst, Siene Heights University 1. Jacqueline George, SUNY New Paltz, “’Every one now writes’: The Ironic Intimacy of Lady Blessington’s Fictional Confessions” 2. Chimi Woo, Cedarville University, “Cross-Cultural Encounter and Colonial Relations: The Irish National Tale and Irish National Character in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl” 3. Julie M. Barst, Siena Heights University, “Colonial Landscaping: The Picturesque in Britain and Australia”
Session 11 C (Sunday 9:00-10:15): Romantic Science and Self-Relationality (Parlor C) Chair: Emily Stanback, Beckman Center, Chemical Heritage Foundation 1. Mary Fairclough, University of York (UK), “Richard Carlile, Electricity and SelfDetermination” 2. Emily Stanback, Beckman Center, Chemical Heritage Foundation, “Medical SelfExperimentation and The English Opium-Eater” 3. Elizabeth Oldfather, Rutgers University, “‘Negative Capability’ and the Neuroscience of Mental Travel”
Session 11 D (Sunday 9:00-10:15): Addictive Relationships (Parlor D) Chair: Michael Demson, Sam Houston State University 1. Corey Goergen, Emory University: “’Bowsing’ and ‘Drows[ing]’: John Keats, Addiction, and Self-Medication” 2. Jacob Hughes, Penn State University, “The Factitious Air: A Romantic Metaphor” 3. Tom Schmid, University of Texas-El Paso, “‘An Alien’s Restless Mood’: Coleridge’s [Addictive] Social World”
Concurrent Sessions 12 A-D, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Royal Park Hotel Session 12 A (Sunday 10:30-11:45): Fairy Tales (Parlor A) Chair: Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University 1. Julie Koehler, Wayne State University: “Evil Compared to Whom?: Stepsister Rivalry in the Anonymous ‘The Bounty Rewarded or the Luck of the Beautiful Klara’” 2. Shandi Lynne Wagner, Wayne State University: “Mary Shelley, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and the Literary Annual Fairy Tale” 3. Christina Weiler, Purdue University / University of Freiburg: “A Popular Classic and Its Relation to World Literature – Rediscovering Grimms’ Fairy Tales”
Session 12 B (Sunday 10:30-11:45): Captives and Freedom (Parlor B) Chair: Hyson Cooper, Temple University 1. Dashielle Horn, Lehigh University: ‘Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?’: Layers of Imprisonment in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria” 2. Mariam Wassif, Cornell University: “The Discomforts of Home: Domestic Relations in Mansfield Park and Adventures on Salisbury Plain” 3. Hyson Cooper, Temple University: “‘An Inferior and an Infidel’: Humor and Humiliation in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya”
Session 12 C (Sunday 10:30-11:45): Religious Relations (Parlor C) Chair: AnaMaria Seglie, Rice University 1. Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia, “Two Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge” 2. AnaMaria Seglie, Rice University: “Reforming the Empire: Anti-Catholicism and U.S. Imperialism in Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures and George Lippard’s New York”
Session 12 D (Sunday 10:30-11:45): Austen (Parlor D) Chair: Rob Anderson, Oakland University 1. Trevor McMichael, University of Oklahoma, “Men, Desire, and Commodity Culture in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” 2. Reema Barlaskar, Wayne State University, “Negotiating Women’s Agency through Reading Practices in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, Ann Radcliffe’s Romance of the Forest, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey”
Index Aceves, Norma Albrecht, Carol Padgham Anderson, Rob Andreacchi, Bart Bailey, Peggy Dunn Bannon, Brad Barlaskar, Reema Barst, Julie M Baulch, Daivd Berenato, Thomas Behrendt, Stephen Beshero-‐Bondar, Elisa Bishop, Elizabeth Bohn, Allison Broglio, Ron Brylowe, Thora Burwick, Frederick Busby, Carrie Campoy-‐Cubillo Adolfo Cass, Jeffrey D. Chapin, Lisbeth Chapman, Jeff Cooper, Hyson Clason, Chris Cooley, Shannon Davis, William Demson, Michael Desjardins, Molly Diachyshyn, Mark Dolive, Emily Donovan-‐Condron, Kellie Easter, Brandee Ellisor-‐Catoe, Paige Ewell, Jonathan Filler, Stephen Finlayson, Neil Ford, Talissa Friedman, Geraldine Fulk, Mark Gates, Amy George, Jacqueline George, Laura Ghosh, Kasturi Goergen, Corey
6D 10C 3D, 6D, 7D, 12D 1D 10A 3C 12D 11B 6B 12C Pres. Address 6C 1D 1C Plenary 3 4C Plenary 1, 10C 3B 1D 9B, 10A 5B 1A 12B 1B, 12A 1C 2A, 3A 10A, 11D 2B 8C 2D 6C 6B 10D 9D 7B, 8C 1A 5C 3B 3C, 5B 3B, 4A 11B 1B 9C 11D
Gomez, Julia Susana Goslee, Nancy Moore Gowan, Kaitlin Gower-‐Toms, Jennifer Greene, Amelia Hahn, Stacey Hankins, Laurel Hanlon, Chris Hansen III, Traynor Harder, Hollie Harris, Renee Hawkes, DeLisa Hilden, Courtney Marie Hogsette, David Holmstrom, Neil Homar, Katie Hood, Eric Horn, Dashielle Howes, Seth Hughes, Jacob Insko, Jeffrey Joffe, Sharon Lynne Johnson, Kemael Kaczmar, Dawn Kadish, Doris Kappes, Gabrielle Kay, Andrew Kelleher, Christopher Kip, Julie Kirch, Lisa Klinger, Amanda Knesevich, Ruth Koehler, Julie Koenig-‐Woodyard Lape, Kisa Marie Law-‐Sullivan, Jennifer Leveton, Jacob Lichtenwalner, Shawna Linthicum, Kent Lippert, Sarah Lorca, Daniel Lounibos, Mark Mabee, Frank MacDonald, Drew
10B 9B 5B 5D 7D 2A, 7C 6A 6A 11A 2A, 3C 3D 2C 8A 7A 4C 8D 11A 12B 5A, 6A 11D 9D 4D 5C 4A Plenary 2 8A 8B 2A 11A 9A 8D 2C 12A 4A 5D 2D, 10C 9C 9B 5D 7C, 9C 4B, 8A 1A 7D 10B
Mallory-‐Kani, Amy 5D Mangeiavellano, Daniel 7A Markley, Hannah 5A McKendry, Andrew 2C McCoul, Melissa 4D McLean, Thomas 3A McEwan, Kathryn 3B McEwen, Kathryn 3B, 10D McMichael, Trevor 12D Michael, Jennifer Davis 6B Nagle, Christopher 8C Nakao, Seigo 7B Neiman, Elizabeth 7A Nesvet, Rebecca 5A Newman, Ian 10D Nguyen, Theresa 9C Nicholson, James 8D Noble, Shalon 1D Oldfather, Elizabeth 11C Page, Michael 8A Park, Suzie Asha 6D Pfeiffer, Kathleen 5C Plantus, Doris 6B Plummer, Lisa 5C Porter, William 8B Purinton, Marjean 1B, 2C Reiber, Nathan 1C Reno, Seth 9A Rieben, Barbara 9A Ringuette, Dana 6A Roberson, Jessica 5B Robertson, Fiona 9B Rockelmann, Joseph 7C Rogers, Kathleen, Béres 10C Rowney, Matthew 7D Ruzi, Flavia 4C Saenz-‐Roby, Maria Cecilia10A Schmid, Tom 4B, 11D Scrivener, Michael 2B Seglie, AnaMaria 12C Shams, Ashley 10C Shimmin, Kristin 9D Sigler, David 3A, 4A Smydra, Rachel 1C Smylitopoulos, Christina 9C Solomonescu, Yasmin 2B, 6D
Stanback, Emily Stelzig, Gene Storms, Jason Sütterlin, Nicole Szwydky, Lissette Lopez Talley, Catherine Tedeschi, Steve Thomas, Christopher Thompson, Judith Van der Broek, Claire Warram, CC Wagner, Shandi Lynne Wassif, Mariam Webb, Samantha Weiler, Christina Wennerstrom, Courtney Weybright, Elizabeth Whitney, Julian Whitson, Roger Wilcox, Timothy Wilner, Joshua Wilson, Lisa Woo, Chimi Zarka, Emily Zino, Dominique
11C 8B 1C 4B 10C 3C 3D, 4D 3A 2B 9D 10D 12A 12B 6C 12A 8C 8B 10B 5A, 6B 3D 4B, 8A 6C 11B 1A 2D
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