THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5th, 2009, 2:00 – 3:40 PM
Fathers,
Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Successions: The Transfer of Power—or Worse—from
Generation to Generation
Chair: Phyllis Thompson,
East Tennessee State University
Bruce Mayer,
Lynchburg College, “Monarchical Succession in the Télémaque”
David
Paxman, Brigham Young University, “Bad Parents and Coming of Age in the Eighteenth-Century
Novel”
Suzanne Cook, Duquesne University,
“‘I am the very slave of circumstance: Byron’s Critique of Masculinity
in Sardanapulus”
Theater,
Street, Colony: Intersections of Stage Convention and Unstructured Experience
Chair:
Bärbel Czennia, McNeese State University
Heather
Sullivan, Trinity University, “From the Fiery Earth Spirit to the Hybrid
Effervescence of the Four Elements: Theories of Dirt and Goethe’s Ur-Faust
versus Faust I & II”
Amy J. Riordan,
Texas Christian University, “The Ballad Collection in The Beggar’s
Opera”
Brett McInelly, Brigham Young
University, “Ludere Cum Sacris: Methodism, Mimicry, and the Eighteenth-Century
Theater”
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5th, 2009, 4:00 – 5:45 PM
Defoe
Chair:
Kit Kincade, Indiana State University
Kimberly
Latta, University of Pittsburgh: “Defoe on Fashion, Femininity, and Fiction”
Michael
R. Griffiths, Rice University: “‘My little Family’?: Defoe's Species
of Property”
Joyce C. Palmer, Texas Woman's
University, “Moll Flanders: A Primer for Deceit”
Serendipity and
Miscellany: The Inspiration and Significance of an Unexpected Find
Chair:
Martha Lawler, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
David
Paxman, Brigham Young University, “Fuller than Full: Advice and Conduct Books”
Julie
Grob, University of Houston, “Lust and Luxury in the Edwin A. Miles Dictionary
Collection”
J. Karen Ray, Washburn University, “The Female
Perspective on Domestic Architecture in Hester Thrale Piozzo's Observations
and Reflections on her Travels through France, Italy, and Germany.”
Phyllis
Thompson, East Tennessee State University, “Women and Medical Practices.”
Criminal Values
and Traumatic Experience: Representations of Crime, Deviance, and Shock in Eighteenth-Century
British Literature
Chair: Dwight Codr,
Tulane University
David Mazella, University
of Houston: “Redescriptions of Crime and Luxury in Mandeville and Smollett”
Eugenia
Zuroski Jenkins, University of Arkansas: “Belinda's Deviance and the Perils
of the Coffee Table in The Rape of the Lock”
Sally
Culpepper, University of Alabama at Birmingham, “Sound and Silence in Frances
Burney’s 'A Mastectomy'”
Joanna O’Leary
Rice University, “Feeling at Home in Empire: Hospitals, Hospitality, and
National Health in Humphry Clinker”
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5th, 2009, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Grand Presidential Reception Featuring Exquisite Hors d’ Oeuvres and an Open, Hosted Bar
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 9:00 – 10:40 AM
The
Popular Eighteenth Century
Chair: Linda
V. Troost, Washington and Jefferson College
Fritz-Wilhelm
Neumann, Universität Erfurt, “The London Entertainment Industry”
Sayre
N. Greenfield, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, “Weasels, Whales,
and Stricken Deer: Restoration Hamlet”
Linda
V. Troost, Washington and Jefferson College, “Manifestations of Robin Hood”
Gothic Ideologies
Chair:
John Burke, University of Alabama
Eric Peterson,
University of California, Irvine, “Congenial Horrors: How Pastoral Becomes
Gothic in James Thomson’s Winter”
Noelle
Chao, Cornell University, “Ann Radcliffe's Buried Voices”
Martina
Jauch, Purdue University, “Transformations and Translations of Freedom in
the Gothic: Friedrich Schiller and Charles Brockden Brown”
Denise
Millstein, University of Alabama, “Hallmarks of the Romantic Gothic: Politics,
Sex, and Byron”
Offbeat
Behavior and Philosophical Daring: Enlightenment Images of Unorthodox Efficacy
Chair:
Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University
R.
L. Smith, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Bewitched by a Courtesan:
Aphra Behn’s Commercialization of Language in The Rover and The
Feigned Courtesan”
Melissa A. Wehler,
Duquesne University, “‘A free and Christian land’: The Role of
Christianity in Baillie’s Witchcraft”
John
Scanlan, Providence College, “Johnson and Boerhaave”
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 2009, 10:55 AM – 12:35 PM
Woman’s
Writing as Sublimation in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Psychoanalytic Approach
Chair:
Ed Cameron, The University of Texas–Pan American
Ed
Cameron, The University of Texas-Pan American, “Sublimating Gender Difference:
The Terror/Horror Division in Eighteenth Century Gothic Literature”
Linda
Belau, The University of Texas-Pan American, “Sublimation and Women’s
Experience in Eighteenth-Century Captivity Narratives”
Catherine
Peebles, University of New Hampshire, “Fanny Burney’s Transformative
Art and the Female Malady”
Hume
and the Usual Suspects I
Chairs: Eva Dadlez
and James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
Horace
(Bud) Fairlamb, University of Houston–Victoria, “Hume and Vico on the
Natural History of Religion”
J. Carl Ficarrotta,
United States Air Force Academy, “Feelings and Norms: The Special Case of
Moral Approbation in Hume”
Mentoring
and Intertextuality in the Eighteenth Century I
Chair:
Phyllis Thompson, East Tennessee State University
Dwight
Codr, Tulane University, “‘Miss was in the Plot’: Sally Godfrey
and the Rise of the Novel”
Nicholas Nace, University of California–Berkeley,
“Resisting Richardson: The Unsuccessful Mentorship of Urania Hill Johnson”
John
Kinkade, Centre College: “Mentoring Young Writers in ‘The Rambler’”
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 2009, 2:00 – 3:40 PM
Eighteenth-Century
Travel: Spilling Over the Borders of Self, Space, and Time
Chair:
Dale-Katherine Ireland, California State University, East Bay
Michael
Rotenberg-Schwartz, New Jersey City University: “Seeing the Holy Land; or,
On the Distinction between Religious and Secular Travel”
Dale
Katherine Ireland, California State University, East Bay: “Travels of the
Dialogic ‘I’ in Samuel Johnson's Life of Milton”
Bärbel
Czennia, McNeese State University, “Farmer George and Farmer Cook: An Eighteenth-Century
Cock-and-Bull Story and its Effect on Modern Pacific Art”
Beccie
Puneet Randhawa, University of Texas At Brownsville, “Historicizing Crevecoeur’s
New American Man in Letters of an American Farmer.”
Art, Action, and the Good
in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
Chair:
Michael Matthis, Lamar University
Kevin Dodson,
Lamar University, “The Primacy of the Practical: Progress, Inevitability,
and the Highest Good”
Michael Matthis, Lamar
University, “Subjectivity and Necessity: Kant and the Ideality of Purpose”
Matthew
Landers, Louisiana State University, “Mapping the Enlightenment: Encyclopedias,
Leibniz and the Universal Library.”
Confrontations
with the Supernatural, Encounters with the Metaphysical, The Problem of Evil
Chair:
Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
Elin
Dowdican, Independent Scholar, “Hero or Villain? Heroine or Victim? Wollstonecraft's
Confrontation with Cultural Conceptions of Good and Evil”
Martha
Lawler, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, “Sweet Dreams and Bad Realities:
The Adaptation of the Ethereal World Everyday Life”
Susan
Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma, “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio:
P'u Songling's Effervescent Ghosts”
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 2009, 3:55 – 5:35 PM
Desperate
Housewives in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair:
Judith Broome, William Paterson University
Cassie
Casiano, Rice University, “Safe Sex: The Dislocation of Nabob Satire onto
Female Characters in Samuel Foote’s The Nabob and Elizabeth Griffith’s
A Wife in the Right”
Amy Smallwood,
Wright State University, “Shore Wives: Perception and Projection”
Judith
Broome, William Paterson University, “‘Too old to be agreeable, and
too young to die’: Austen's Desperate Housewives”
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Chair:
Kathryn Stasio, Saint Leo University
Connie
Capers Thorson, University of New Mexico, “‘The Play's the Thing:’
A Dramatic and Interdisciplininary Approach to the Long Eighteenth Century”
Betty
J. Proctor, Houston Community College, and Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston,
“Eighteenth-Century Medievalism: Echoes of Chaucer's Wife of Bath in Defoe's
Moll Flanders”
Joseph Rudman, Carnegie
Mellon University, “Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies in Eighteenth
Century Literature: Stylistics, Statistics, and the Computer”
Religion and Literature
Chair:
Anne Barbeau Gardiner, John Jay College, CUNY
David
Venturo, College of New Jersey, "Milton's Baroque Riposte to the Augustans
in Paradise Lost”
Martine Watson Brownley,
Emory University, “Religious Tropes in Behn’s Pindaric to Burnet”
Jeffrey
Barnouw, University of Texas, “Hume's Designs on Design”
John
T. Shawcross, University of Kentucky, “Sacred Poetry Based on Christian Man;
Paradise Regain'd, Elegant, Instructive, Yet Much Depreciated”
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 2009, 6:15 – 10:30 PM
An Edifying Undersea Soirée at the Texas State Aquarium
Featuring a Plenary Address by the Distinguished David Radcliffe
Celebrating the Legendary Italian Cuisine of Chef Marco Mattolini
Unveiling Cunning Optional Green-Screen Ocean-View Photography
Showcasing the Aqueous Gymnastics of Poseidon’s Nimble Colleagues
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 2009, 8:50 – 10:25 AM
The
Janusian Mask: Opening the Gates to Comedy and Tragedy I
Chair:
Martha Lawler, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Linda
Reesman, CUNY, New York and Hofstra University, “Intoxicating Emotions of
Ordinary Women”
Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston
State University, “Female Actors in Mexico City in the 1780s and '90s: The
Human Face behind the Stage”
Greg Barnett,
Rice University, “The Violoncello da Spalla and the Eccentricities of Historical
Performance Practice”
Hume
and the Usual Suspects II
Chairs: Eva
Dadlez and James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
Laura
M. Bernhardt, Buena Vista University, “Sin and Performance”
James
W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma, “Hume and the Arts”
E.
M. Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma, “Ideal Presence: Fiction and Emotion
in the Eighteenth Century”
Approaches
to Overlooked Texts
Chair: Colby H.
Kullman, University of Mississippi
Rebecca
Jordan, Independent Scholar, “Marriage: A Poor Man’s Mansfield
Park”
Kenneth Ericksen, Linfield College,
“The Changing Wit of Jane Austen”
Janet
Wolf, SUNY–Cortland, “‘Cara Sposa’: Griselda, Alcestis, and
Other Faithful Wives in Baroque Opera”
Gloria
Eive, St. Mary’s College of California, “Ignazio Alberghi’s Diary
ossia The Elector’s Virtuoso Off-Stage”
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 2009, 10:40 AM – 12:15 PM
Frontiers
of Bibliography: The Enriched Treasure-Trove of the Increasingly Accessible Eighteenth-Century
Archive
Chair: Martha Lawler, Louisiana State
University in Shreveport
James Schorr, San
Diego State University, “Some Insight into Journalism in 1719: Papers, Publics,
and Prices”
Rachel Schneider, University
of Texas at Austin, “Edited Expressions in Emma Courtney”
Betty
J. Proctor, Houston Community College, “An Electronic, Interactive Edition
of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock”
The Janusian Mask: Opening
the Gates to Comedy and Tragedy II
Chair:
Linda Reesman, CUNY, New York, and Hofstra University
Colby
Kullman, University of Mississippi, “To Laugh or Not to Laugh? The Psychology
of Humor”
Maia Adamina, University of Texas
at San Antonio, “‘I know it is but a play’ Partridge and the Reader
as Audience at Garrick’s Performance of Hamlet in Fielding’s Tom
Jones”
Suzanne Poor, Montclair State
University, “Jonathan Swift: Passion or Prejudice, a Look at Bruce Arnold’s
Libretto for A Passionate Man”
Jonathan
Swift
Chairs: James and Connie Thorson,
University of New Mexico
James L. Thorson,
University of New Mexico, “Conservative versus Liberal: Jonathan Swift and
Kurt Vonnegut as Satirists above Simplistic Descriptors”
Louise
K. Barnett, Rutgers University, “Olfactory Texts: Jonathan Swift and the
Shaping Power of Smell”
Clement Hawes, Pennsylvania
State University, “Radically Speaking: The Liminal Swift”
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 2009, 1:30 – 3:05 PM
The
High Heroic Strain: Epic Moments and Daring Exploits in the Sister Arts
Chair:
Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz
John Burke, University
of Alabama, “Dryden and Dedalus: In the Temple of Apollo at the Beginning
of Book Six of Virgil’s Æneid”
Marissa
Huerta, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Sexuality and (English) National
Character: A Re-Reading of Dryden’s ‘Indian’ Plays”
Laura
Kennelly, Riemenschneider Bach Institute, Benjamin West’s Flight from War:
From Charleston, New Hampshire to Charleston, South Carolina, 1777–1779”
The Janusian Mask:
Opening the Gates to Comedy and Tragedy III
Chair:
Gloria Eive, St. Mary’s University of California
Jim
McGlathery, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, “Passion Past
and Future in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride”
Stacey
Jocoy, Texas Tech University, “‘By the Croaking of the Toad’: The
Role of Witches’ Music in Late-Restoration Tragedy”
Gloria
Eive, Saint Mary’s College of California,, “Gozzi, Goldoni, and Galuppi:
Satire, Wit, and Parody through a Venetian Lens”
Law,
Revelation, Speculation, and Literature
Chair:
John Scanlan, Providence College
Doreen Alvarez
Saar, Drexel University, “‘To the right, lives a Catholic…his belief,
his prayers offend nobody’: The Case of Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crévecoueur,
A Catholic in New York”
Steven Stryer, University
of Dallas, “Pope, Jacobitism, and the Question of Historical Allegiance”
Anne
Gardiner, John Jay College, CUNY, “Champions of Freedom of Conscience: L’Estrange
and Dryden in 1687”
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 2009, 3:20 – 4:55 PM
Religion
in the Age of Enlightenment
Chair:
Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University
Kathryn
Stasio, St. Leo University, “Sensible Sensibility: Methodism in the Age of
Reason”
Dwight Codr, Tulane University, “‘Expectation
and amendment maketh me to become an usurer’: Usury, Providentialism, and
the Age of Projects”
Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz,
New Jersey City University, “Pilgrims' Progresses: Purpose and Duration in
Holy Land Travel”
Visible
and Invisible, Spectral and Tangible: The Spiritual and Aesthetic Reverberations
of Material across Cultures
Chair:
Eugenina Zuroski Jenkins, University of Arkansas
Joseph
Conway, Washington University: “Necromancy and the New Economy: Cotton Mather's
Life of Sir William Phips”
Joseph
Matthew Meyer, University of Arkansas: "Seeking Without End: The Supernatural
as a Problematic Resolution in Brown's Wieland”
Shannon
Schreiner, University of Montana, Comparative Memory: Biological Materialism and
Diderot’s Philosophy”
Arianne Margolin,
University of Colorado–Boulder, The Universe as Beautiful and Sublime in
Early Eighteenth-Century Scientific Popularizations”
Mentoring and Intertextuality
in the Eighteenth Century II
Chair:
Dale-Katherine Ireland, California State University, East Bay
Lucia
Wolf, George Mason University, “Figures of Mentoring in Frances Burney’s
The Wanderer”
Samara Cahill, University of Notre Dame, “‘As
a father pitieth his own children’: Authority and Affection in Sir Charles
Grandison and Hester Mulso's Letters”
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 2009, 5:15 – 9:30
SCSECS on the High Seas!
Adventure Tour of the Five-Deck USS Lexington, a Mighty World-War-II Aircraft Carrier
Gigantic Multi-Course Fiesta Smorgasbord Sizzled to Perfection by El-Rancho-Grande-Level Chef Wolfgang del Corpus Christi, Enjoyed Aboard the Lexington
Majestic and Erudite Plenary Address Delivered by Cedric Reverand from the Master Admirals’ Podium of the Lexington
History-Enhanced Dance Featuring the Jubilant Tropical Tunes of the Melodic Band “Triggerfish”
Return to the SCSECS home page