THE QUIXOTIC EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Stacey Jocoy, Library of Congress Music Division, Texas Tech University
"'From Rosy Bow'rs': Purcell's Manipulative Madwoman as Social Threat in The Comical History of Don Quixote"

Francien Markx, George Mason University
"J. F. Reichardt and the dual personas of Heinrich Wilhelm Gulden / Guglielmo Enrico Fiorino"

Gloria Eive, Arts Review Editor, Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment
"The Zarzuela and Tonadilla: Popular Dramas as Sub Rosa Expressions of Discontent and Social Criticism"

Plenary Address and Welcome Reception

3:00 p.m.

Illustration by John Vanderbank for Vida y hechos del ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (London, 1738)

Saturday, February 25

8:30-9:45 a.m.

Chair: Phyllis Thompson, East Tennessee State University

      Barbara Benedict, Trinity College
      "Friendship and Gender: Female Homosociability and Brotherly Love"

      Leah Orr, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
      "Printing the Dead: Posthumous Publication in the Eighteenth Century"

      David Mazella, University of Houston
      "A single year's perspective on women's writing: genres, producers, audiences in 1771"

      Sarah Potvin, Texas A&M University
      "Of the Temper of Fishes: Margaret Cavendish on Disaster, Climate, and Character"

      Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
      "The 1721 Smallpox Pandemic: Lockdowns, Vaccine Hesitancy, Asia-Bashing, and Misinformation Campaigns"

      David Eick, Grand Valley State University
      "A Journal of the Pandemic Lit Course"

 

Anonymous illustration from Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha (Antwerp, 1672-73)

Chair: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University

Ashley Bender, Texas Woman's University
"The Database of Eighteenth-Century Stage Properties: Blunt's Moveables in The Rover"

Chantelle MacPhee, Saint Leo University
"Making Sense of the Sound: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Music and Eighteenth Century Literature"

Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University
"'Some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed': Jane Austen and Bibliotherapy"

Chair: J. T. Scanlan, Providence College

Taylin Nelson, Rice University
"On Eating Dog: Tracing (Anti)Imperialism through Goldsmith, Johnson, and Boswell"

Peter Kao
"The Cave Scene in Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) as Representation of Imperial Discontent"

David Nunnery, Stanford Online High School
"Chaos Theory and Johnson's Lives of the Poets: The Strange Attraction of John Dennis"

12:30-1:30 p.m. Taco Bar Lunch

Detail of Charles-Antoine Coypel's cartoon for the Gobelins manufactory. Over two hundred pieces of Coypel's Don Quixote tapestry series were woven between 1714 and 1794. Engaving published in a deluxe folio edition in Paris, 1724.

Chair: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma

      Martha Lawler, Louisiana State University-Shreveport, Noel Memorial Library
      "Could It Be and Is It Possible?: A Selection of Medical Writings Found in the James Smith Noel Collection"

       Andrew Selcer, University of Louisiana
      "Defoe's Airship as Narrative Technology"

      Reagan Swearingen, Texas A&M University
      "'Too Fine for Mortal Sight': A Defense of the Sylphs in The Rape of the Lock"

Chair: Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University

      Jim May, Lancaster, PA
      "Edward Young's A Poem on the Last Day (1713), Its Revisions, and Its Reception"

      David Alvarez, DePauw University
      "Constructing 'Religion' in John Hughes' The Siege of Damascus (1720)"

      Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University
      "A Methodist Opera? The Troublers of Israel (1767) as Response to the Anti-Methodist Critique"

 

William Hogarth, Six Illustrations for Don Quixote (London, c. 1756)

Chair: Ashley Bender, Texas Woman's University

Sarah Warner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"The Feminine Folkloric Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian"

Serena Foster, University of Houston
"Estranged by a Veil: The Gothic Other and the Uncanny Sublime"

Rowan Morar, Rice University
"Automata, Animals, and Athletes: Violence and Masculinity in Pierce Egan's Boxiana (1812) and William Litt's Wrestliana (1823)"

Jonahs Kneitly, Texas A&M University
"The Book of Unca; or, The Female American"

Chair: Sam Cahill, Texas A&M University

Charles Tita, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
"Ignatius Sancho's Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African (1782): Race and Nation as a Rhetoric of Resistance"

Rachel E. Johnston, Texas Woman's University
"Tilting at Windmills: Mobility, Marriage, Race, and Power in The Female American and The Woman of Colour"

Jeremy Webster, Ohio University
"Don Quixote and Savage Whiteness in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko"

Phyllis Thompson, East Tennessee State University
"Teaching the 18th century through equity-centered, anti-racist, trauma-informed praxis"

Chair: Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University

John Scanlan, Providence College

C. Earl Ramsey, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

David Wade Nunnery, Stanford Online High School

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Don Quixote Reading, c. 1780-1790. Black chalk and bister wash on paper.

Chair: David Eick, Grand Valley State University

      Fayçal Falaky, Tulane University
      "Rousseau's quixotic senses"

      Denis Grélé, University of Memphis
      "A Reaction to Liberalism in Two French Utopias, La Nouvelle Héloise and La Nouvelle Clarice"

Chair: Gloria Eive, Arts Review Editor, Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment

      Kelly Malone, Sewanee, University of the South
      "Going Viral: Selling Conspiracy in 'The Horrid Hellish Popish Plot'"

      Linda Reesman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
      "A Visionary Journey of Revealed Religion: Coleridge Beyond Priestley"

      Holly Kruitbosch, University of Nevada, Reno
      "'Discontent (if not suppressed) will breed disloyalty': Angst in Carolean Ballads, 1660-1664"

 

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