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CIVIL CONFLICT
6:00 p.m. Registration and Cash Bar, The Attic
6:30 Executive Board Meeting
7:30 Thomson Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), an overview and
demonstration by Scott Dawson, product manager and Rob Hume, Evan Pugh Professor of English (Penn State University)
8:30 The Oral/Aural Experience, Peter Staffel (West Liberty State College)
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast, Second Floor College Union Building
8:30-10:00 Panels Session I
A. Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History: Session I, Eleanor Shevlin, chair (West Chester University)
1. Ellen Moody (George Mason University), "’Case Out from Respectability a while:’ Anne Murray Halkett’s Warfare in Manuscripts”
2. William E. Rivers (University of South Carolina), "Editing Nicholas Amhurst’s Contributions to the Craftsman: Some Issues and Responsibilities"
3. John Heins (University of Maryland), "Salomon Gessner’s Integrated Work as Publisher, Writer, and Artist"
1. Joanne Roby (University of Maryland), "Beyond the Formula: Female Characters in Haywood’s Early amatory Fiction”
2. Amy R. Moreno (Franklin and Marshall College), "Place, Custom, and Ritual in Tabitha Tenney’s Female Quixotism”
3. Danielle Gissinger (Duquesne University), "Re-Framing Women as More Than ‘Tulips in a Garden’: Vanitas Painting and the Female Body in Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies and Rachel Ruysch’s Flowerpiece"
C. France and England at War: Early in the Century, Theodore E. D. Braun (University of Delaware) and John Radner (George Mason University), co-chairs
1. Gene Hammond (Maret School, Washington, DC), "Jonathan’s Naïveté: Swift’s Ignoring the Asiento in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht"
2. Ann Cline Kelly (Howard University), "La Fontaine and the Scriblerians: The War Between the Species"
3. Scott Paul Gordon (Lehigh University), "Martial Arts in the French and Indian War: Benjamin West’s Death of Socrates (1756)"
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Conversation
10:30-12:00 Panels Session II
A. Research in Progress on Primary Materials, James E. May (Penn. State University), chair
1. Christopher Mayo (Adelphia University), "Efface, Expunge, and Emend: Textual Editing and Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son"
2. Walter Keithley (Arizona State University), "Arthur Young’s Unpublished Commonplace Book: Problems and Possibilities"
3. Aimee Levesque (Buffalo State College), "The Whimsical Jester: Researching an Era through an Unusual Book"
B. Dramatic Conflict in Literature and the Performing Arts: Session I, Gloria Eive, chair (St. Mary’s College of California)
1. James McGlathery (University of Illinois), "Warring with Oneself in Gluck’s Armide"
2. Linda Reesman (CUNY/Hofstra University), "Dramatic Language Forges Revolutionary Ideologies in Women and Nations"
3. Gloria Eive (St. Mary’s College of California), "Shades of Meaning in Beethoven’s Fidelio"
1. Lori H. Zerne (West Virginia University), "The Harlequin Savage: Omai the Tahitian and Eighteenth-Century British Constructions of Racia Difference"
2. Melissa Downes (Clarion University), "The Sexual Lives of Noble Savages: John Gay’s Polly"
3. Dale Katherine Ireland (Las Positas College), "Conflicting Reflections: Literary Representations of the New World on the Thames and of London"
12:15-1:15 Buffet Lunch, First Floor College Union, Ballroom
1:30-3:00 Panel Sessions III
A. Family Upheaval/National Upheaval, Bonnie Robb, chair (University of Delaware)
1. Luanne Frank (University of Texas, Arlington), "Kleist and Goya: Artistic and Life Response to Foreign Occupation and Epistemological Conflict"
2. Barbara Witucki (Utica College), "The Amazing Disappearance of Civil Strife in Dorat's Théagène, Tragédie”
3. Bonnie Robb (University of Delaware), "Family Upheaval: The Illegitimate Child in Genlis’s Alphonse"
B. Current Research on Swift & Co: A Roundtable, Donald Mell, chair (University of Delaware)
1. James E. May (Pennsylvania State University), "Revising Teerink"
2. Scott Paul Gordon (Lehigh University), "Swift’s ‘Lady’s Dressing Room’ and Lady Mary’s Reply"
3. Kevin Kerrane (University of Delaware), "Swift and Orwell"
4. Louise Barnett (Rutgers University), "’Laces, Brocades, and Tissues’: Swift and Women’s Finery.”
C. France and England at War: In Mid-Century, Theodore E. D. Braun (University of Delaware) and John Radner (George Mason University), co-chairs
1. Carl Kramer (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania), "The Historiography of the Skirmish at Jumonville Glen"
2. James P. Myers, Jr. (Gettysburg College), "Lt. Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire, The ’Affaire du Canada, and Mythologizing the French-and-Indian War"
3. Robert Frail (Centenary College), "France and the American Revolution: The Three Musketeers--Crèvecoeur, Montesquieu, and Vergennes"
1. Geoffrey Sill (Rutgers University), "Sensibility and Insensibility in Burney’s Camilla: Or, a Civil Conflict with Margaret Doody"
2. Robin Runia (University of New Mexico), "The Duty of Feeling: Mary Wollstonecraft and
Emotion as the Foundation of Justice"
3.Lisa Berglund (Buffalo State College), “Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Victorian Editors; or, Saving Mrs.Thrale from Herself”
3:15-5:15
Bus Tour of Gettysburg Battlefield
OR
Walking Tours of Gettysburg: Civilians during the Battle
5:15-6:15 Wine and hors d’oeuves Reception, Science Center
Tom Jolin performing on the Hammered Dulcimer, a background of eighteenth-century melodies
6:30-7:45 Banquet, Specialty Dining Room, Dining Center
8:00 Concert: An Evening of Eighteenth-Century Music, Paul Concert Hall, Schmucker Hall [second floor]
Sunderman Conservatory Wind Ensemble
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast, Breidenbaugh First Floor [lower level]
8:30-10:00 Panels Session IV
A. Tips for Teaching Tricky Texts, Linda Troost, chair (Washington and Jefferson College)
1. Dale Katherine Ireland (Las Positas College), "Swift’s A Modest Proposal"
2. Laura Engel (Duquesne University), "A Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Clarke"
3. Elisa Besher-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg), “Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience”
4. Jack Fruchtman, Jr. (Towson University), "Hamilton, Madison, and Jay’s The Federalist
Papers"
B. Religious Conflict, Judith C. Mueller, chair (Franklin and Marshall College)
1. Mary Jane Chaffee, (affiliation?) "Civil War of the Mind: A Self at War as Expressed in Some of Rochester’s Later Works"
2. Matt Weiss (Pennsylvania State University), "The Function of Rhetorical Silence: Quaker
Worship from Seventeenth Century Radicalism to Eighteenth Century Conventionalism"
3. Peter Vethanayamony (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago) "‘I appeal to the Whole Protestant Christendom’: The Role of Benjamin Schultze in the Early Eighteenth Century Ecumenical Co-operation between the Lutherans and Anglicans"
C. Research in Progress on Primary Materials, James E. May, chair (Penn State University)
1. T. E. D. Braun (University of Delaware), "Le Franc de Pompignan Discovers Mascularity"
2. Sharon Harrow (Shippensburg University), "Haywood’s Hebrew: Researching Contemporary Contexts for Reprint Editions"
3. Kathryn Temple (Georgetown University), "Harmony and Dissonance: Continuing Research on the Poetics of Blackstone’s Commentaries"
4. Ashley Marshall (Penn State Univeristy), “Defoe as Satirist”
D. An Unlikely Trio: Austen, Johnson and Burke on Politics chair, Brijraj Singh (Hostos Community College of CUNY)
1. Linde Katritzky (University of Florida Gainesville) "Samuel Johnson’s Political Pamphlets
On Sir Robert Chambers’ Course of Lectures on English Law"
2. Raymond D. Tumbleson (Kutztown University), "The Politics of Polities in Austen’s
Global Village"
3. Joseph Pappin III (University of South Carolina), “Edmund Burke’s Emancipatory Politics and Critique of Empire: Reflections on Ireland”
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Conversation
10:30-12:00 Plenary Session, Joseph Theater, Breidenbaugh First Floor
Professor Leo Lemay, H. F. DuPont Winterthur Professor of English, University of Delaware, “Benjamin Franklin and the Heterogeneity of Ends” or the impossibility of knowing all the possible results of any complex action.
12:00-1:30 Luncheon and Business Meeting
1:45-3:15 Panels Session V
A. Strong Drink and Philosophy, Kevin Berland, chair (Pennsylvania State University)
1. Thom Bassett (Bryant University), "Drinking, the Indigent, and Sympathy: Connections and Implications in Hume’s Enquiry”
2. Kevin Berland (Pennsylvania State University) "The Tipling Philosophers"
3. Corey Andrews (Youngstown State University) “Literary Barbarians” in Select Society: Drinking and Thinking in Mid-Eighteenth Century Edinburgh."
1. Hugh Ormsby-Lennon (Villanova University), "From Banbury Churchyard to the Edges of Empire: Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin"
2. Steven Thomas (Pennsylvania State University), "Taxing Tobacco and the Metonymies of Virtue"
C. Dramatic Conflict in Literature and the Performing Arts: Session II, Gloria Eive, chair (St. Mary’s College of California)
1. Kelly Malone (Sewanee: The University of the South), "Charles II and Bodies Politic: Popular Representations of Amorous Conflicts and Intrigues at Court"
2. Janet Leavens (University of Iowa) "Beyond Sentimentalism: Grétry’s Zémire et Axor
and the Culture of Worldiness"
3. JoAnn Udovich (Fairfield, PA), "Native Americans and the ‘Dance of Peace’: the
Reception of Rameau’s Opera-Ballet, Les Indes Galantes"
3:15-3:30 Cookie Break
3:30-5:00 Panels Session VI
A. France and England at War: Implications of the French Revolution, Theodore E. D. Braun (University of Delaware) and John Radner (George Mason University), co-chairs
1. William Hogeland (Independent Scholar), "The Whiskey Rebellion’s Un-French Radicalism: How American Views of the England-France Conflict Influenced the Washington Administration’s Response to a Civil Insurrection"
2. Cristina Berdichevsky (Gallaudet University), "Bryon, Stael, and the Napoleonic Wars"
3. John Faulkner (Ohio University-Lancaster), Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France as a Polemic Letter"
1. Nikolai Slywka (Stanford University), "Pedestrian Conflict in Gay’s Trivia"
2. Walter Gershuny (Northeastern University), "Poetic Dining: Cubières’s Le Souper"
3. Stephen Szilagyi (University of Alabama), "Civil Conflict as Polite Discourse: The Case of Samuel Croxall’s The Fair Circassian"
C. Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History: Session II, Eleanor Shevlin, chair (West Chester University)
1. A. Franklin Parks (Frostburg State University), "William Parks and the Context of
Provincial English Book Publishing"
2. Calhoun Winton (University of Maryland), "Dr. Bray Plays the Book Trades"
3. Nancy A. Mace (United States Naval Academy), "Constable, Longman and the Early Years of the Edinburgh Review"
SUNDAY, 29 OCTOBER
7:45 Birding on the Battlefield
8:30 Continental Breakfast, Briedenbaugh First Floor [lower level]
9:00-10:45 Panels Session VII
A. Discord/Concord: Readings in Eighteenth-Century Visual Images/Arts, Temma Berg, chair (Gettysburg College)
1. Robert Maccubbin (College of William and Mary) "The English Excoriation of the Scot in Graphic Satire in Mid Eighteenth Century: Images of the ‘45 and the Bute Admistration
2. Mary Margaret Stewart (Gettysburg College), "John Trumbull’s Representation of the Surrender of General Burgoyne to General Gates at Saratoga, October 17, 1777"
3. Temma Berg (Gettysburg College), "Thomas Rowlandson’s Vauxhall Gardens"
B. Shaping Landscapes and Perceptions, Linda E. Merians, chair (Stony Brook University)
1. Peter F. Perreten (Ursinus College), "Uvedale Price and ‘Connection’: Civil Conflict Resolved"
2. Peter Briggs (Bryn Mawr College), "Daniel Mendoza and the Fugitive Celebrity of Boxing"
3. Brijraj Singh (Hostos Community College of CUNY), "Revisiting Purley: John Horne Tooke’s Logocentrism"
C. France and England at War: Armed Conflict and Enlightment Thought, Theodore E. D. Braun (University of Delaware) and John Radner (George Mason University), co-chairs
1. Elizabeth Lambert (Gettysburg College), “All the Ways Burke Was Right About the French Revolution”
2. Jean-Marc Kehres (Trinity College), "Going to War: Theory and Practice in the Enlightenment"
3. William Everdell (St. Ann’s School), "Republics Against Kings"
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