American Conference on Romanticism Fifth Annual Meeting
"Cross-Currents in Romanticism"
University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday Oct. 16 - Sunday, Oct. 18
Conference Committee:
Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, English
Didier Maleuvre, French and Itlian
Gerhart Hoffmeister, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic: Committee
Chair
Conference Program
Friday Oct. 16
Registration: 10:00-5:00
11:00 a.m.: ACR Advisory Board Meeting
12:00 p.m.: Prism(s) Periodical Board Meeting
Sessions I-III: 1-2:30
I. Staging Romanticism: Art, Music, Science and Literature
Moderator: Klaus Mladek, UCSB
Kristin O'Rourke, UCSB "David, Guerin, Delacroix: History Painting as
Theater"
Sascha Lehnartz, Columbia "On Fratricide Considered as One of the Fine
Arts: The Staging of Cain
as Romantic Hero"
Martin Puchner, Harvard "Wagner and the Romantic Theater"
Noah Herringman, Harvard "Humphry Davy and the Theater of Science"
II. Cross Times: Romantic Medievalism
Moderator: Julie Carlson, UCSB
Margaret Russet, U of Southern California "Chatterton's Spirited
Youth"
Julie Carlson and Louise Fradenburg, UC-Santa Barbara "Godwin's Middle
Ages"
Peter J. Manning, U of Southern California "Scandals of History:
Cobbett's 'A
History of the Protestant Reformation'"
III. New Approaches to American "Romantic" Authors
Moderator: Raymond Fleming, Florida State University
John Ronan, UC-Berkeley "Thoreuavian Hospitality and
Transcendentalism"
Richard E. Brantley, U of Florida "Emily Dickinson: More Romantic Than
Modern"
Didier Maleuvre, UCSB "PATIENCE"
Sessions IV-VIIa: 2:40-4:10
IV. British Romantic Women Authors
Moderator: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, UCSB
Sheila Hwang, UCSB "Language as the Last Resort: The Location of
Language in
'Persuasion'"
Diana Solomon, U of Hawaii "'Laughing Her Head Off': The Threatening
Comedy
of Jane Austen's Juvenilia"
Pamela Plimpton, Warner Pacific College "Anna Letitia Barbauld and the
School
of Dissent"
V. East meets West 1
Moderator: Celeste Woo, College of New Rochelle
Rose May Verrico, UC-Irvine "Emotional Paralysis: East and West"
Christine A. Col—n, UC-Davis "Converting the East vs. Converting the
West: Pure Scripture and Sympathetic
Curiosity in Joanna Baillie's 'The Martyr ' and 'The Bride'"
Elizabeth M. Richmond-Garza, University of Texas "Goethe's Faust and
Necromantic
Nationalism: An Experiment in Protopostcolonial Tragedy"
Ann Y. Choi, UCLA "What is Korean Romanticism?: The Poems of 'Na' and
Nation"
VI. Representations of the Feminine
Moderator: Jorge Luis Castillo, UCSB
Nahoko Miyamoto, Knox College, Toronto "Hybridity and Desire in
Shelley's 'The Witch of Atlas'"
Leilani Riehle, UCLA "The 'Persuasion' of Beauty: Gentlemanly Tastes and
Anne Elliot's Good Looks"
Michelle Bloom, UC-Riverside "The Birthmark and the Pimple: Romantic
Blemishes in Fantastic Tales of
Hawthorne and Gogol"
Jorge Castillo, UCSB "The Perfect Beloved as Poetic Cipher in Gustavo
Adolfo Bécquer's Rimas"
VII. Romanticism and the Visual Arts
Moderator: Nancy Goslee, University of Tennessee
Elizabeth Hornbeck, UCSB "The Romanticism of Modernism: Architecture and
the Romantic
Voyage of (Self-) Discovery"
Catriona MacLeod, Yale "Sculpture and the Wounds of Language in
Brentano's 'Godwi'"
Nancy Goslee, University of Tennessee "Personification on Display"
VIIa. Revisioning Education: The Dissemination of Culture across
National and
Disciplinary Boundaries
Moderator: Mitzi Myers, UCLA
Donelle R. Ruwe, Fitchburg State College "'Bad Rousseau': Sarah Trimmer
and Anti-Jacobin
Pedagogy"
Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, University of Connecticut "Feminist Non-
Fiction Prose on
Education: A Genre Study in Cross-Cultural and Culturqally-Specific
Currents and
Contexts"
Susan M. Allen, UCLA "An Evening's Entertainment: Nineteenth-Century
Charade, Riddle, and Enigma Books"
Sessions VIII-XII: 4:20-5:50
VIII. Session Cancelled
IX. The Impact of the French Revolution
Moderator: Fred Randel, UC San Diego
Scott Hess, Harvard "'The Lyrical Ballads' and the Long Revolution:
National Print Circulation and the Shift to a
Civil Society in England and France"
William Richey, University of South Carolina "Public Rehabilitation in
Coleridge's 'Fears in Solitude'"
Thomas L. Brennan, Brandeis "Hope Crossed, Hope Elicited: Wordsworth's Drowned Man at Esthwaite and the French Revolution"
Julie Murray, York University, Canada "Allegories of Irony: Edmund
Burke's 'Reflection on the Revolution in
France' and the Resistance to History"
X. Comparative Approaches to Keats
Moderator: James McKusick, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Jeffrey W. Gilbert, Florida State "The Progression of Romantic
Pessimism: Leopardi and Keats "
Chris Foss, Texas Christian University "Love's Self-Deception and the
Other in Keats' 'Endymion' and 'Lamia'"
Emily Sun, Yale "Impersonality and the Maternal in Keats and Winnicott"
Denée Pescarmona, UC-Santa Barbara "The Aggresssive Act of Salvation:
John Keats's Attempt at an 'Oriental Tale' in 'The Eve of St. Agnes'"
XI. Slavic and European Romanticism
Moderator: Patrick Vincent, UC Davis
William Carter, UCSB "'Poor Liza,' Or The Desire of German Letters"
Maria Kalinowska, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland "Polish
Romantic Drama Seen Against the Cultural
Heritage of Europe"
Nadia Grosser Nagarajan, Berkeley "The WILD THYME. Karel Jaromir Erben's
Manifesto of Czech Romantic Poetry"
XII. Comparative Perspectives on Lord Byron
Moderator: Nanora Sweet, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Dino F. Felluga, Purdue "'With a most voiceless thought': Byron against
Scott, or the Radicalism of Textual
Culture"
Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University "Byron's Manfred and the
Mutuality of the
Human: Philosophy, Art, Music"
Dan Kline, Ohio State "Byron's Piecemeal Pageant: Active and Reactive
Self-Fashioning in
'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'"
6-8 pm Reception, Faculty Club
Hosted by the College of Letters and Science
and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
Special Guests:
Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Dilling Yang, and Dean David Marshall
8 pm: Plenary Session.
Keynote Address:Virgil Nemoianu, Catholic University of America:
"Is there a Romantic Center? The Case of Chateaubriand's Multiple
Uncertainty"
Saturday, Oct. 17
Registration: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sessions XIII-XVIII: 8:00-9:30
XIII. Romanticism and Sexuality
Moderator: Ellis Dye, Macalester College
Laura Nutten, Arizona State "Percy Shelley's 'The Cenci': Pleasure,
Pain, and the 'Unhappy Consciousness'"
Ellis Dye, Macalester College "Goethe's Adelheid Von Walldorf as a
Case of Repetition
Daniel Fineman, Occidental College "Deliquescence and Delight:
Putrefaction, Orgasm, and the Seminal in E. A. Poe"
Fred W. Randel, UC-San Diego "Intertextuality, Sexuality, and Community Property in the Shelleys' Alastor"
XIV. Romanticism and Biography
Moderator: Eugene Stelzig, SUNY-Geneseo
Lisa Kasmer, UCLA "Queen Elizabeth as Figuration of the Public: The
Revolutionary Epistemology Within Lucy Aiken's 'Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth'"
Steven Zani, SUNY-Binghamton "Clubfoot, Caul and Controversy: Byron and
the Biographical Foundations of Romantic Bodies "
Eugene Stelzig, SUNY-Geneseo "Goethe Against the Grain of Rousseau:
'Poetry and Truth' as a Corrective to 'The Confessions'"
Eric Clarke, University of Pittsburgh "Kant's Kiss: Eroticism and
Romantic Hagiography"
XV. Session Cancelled
XVI. East meets West 2
Moderator: Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, University of Texas
Marie-France Latronche, San Diego State "The Impact of India on French
Romanticism"
Jesse T. Airaudi, Baylor University "Preface to 'Lyrical Ballads,' A. D.
1492"
Pratima Prasad, Butler University "Colonial Subjectivity and the French
Romantic Novel"
Creighton W. Don, U. of Michigan "'Indulgent Eastern Infidels':
Medical Controversy and De Quincey's Opium Dreams"
XVII. Romantic Literature and Music
Moderator: Virgil Nemoianu, Catholic University of America
Lori Wagner, Elizabethtown College "Music, Magic, and Math: The German
Romantic Text"
Keith Chapin, Stanford "Building Harmony: Architectural Music and
Musical Architecture in Early Romantic Aesthetics"
Candace Skopura, Yale "'Fantastic' Musical Narratives of E. T. A.
Hoffmann and Hector Berlioz"
Suzanne Summerville, University of Alaska "Adelbert von Chamisso: The Poet of Frauen-Liebe and Botanist on the good Ship Rurik"
XVIII. Comparative Perspectives on Novalis
Moderator: Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont
Manfred Engel, Universität Hagen "Romantic Literary Dreams: Novalis and De Quincey"
Kerstin Behnke, Northwestern University "'Coming Across': Knowledge of
the Sign in Novalis's Fichte Studies"
Deborah Janson, West Virginia University "The Intersection of Nature and
Culture in Novalis's 'Die Lehrlinge zu Saïs"
William Davis, The Colorado College "The Body of the Poet: Novalis,
Shelley"
Sessions XIX-XXIII: 9:45-11:15
XIX. Romanticism and the Fine Arts
Moderator: Michelle Bloom, UC Riverside
C. P. Seabrook Wilkinson, University of South Carolina "Washington Allston: A Painter-Poet's Poems about Painters"
John E. Grant, University of Iowa "Infernal Methods in Education, as Revealed by Blake, Goya, and Delacroix"
Michael J. Call, Brigham Young "The Colonizing Gaze: Delacroix in North
Africa"
XX. Romanticism, Race and Gender: The Case of India
Moderator: Anne Mellor, UCLA
Denise Komer, University of South Carolina "Negotiating Between Sympathy and Subjectification: Female Travellers in India"
Marie A. Dakessian, UCLA "Fictions of Sati: Envisioning the Bride of
Death"
Julie Fromer, University of Wisconsin, Madison "National Identity and
Masculinity in De Quincey's 'Confessions of an Opium-Eater'"
Melissa Klimaszewski, UC-San Diego "Bad Blood: Race, Gender and Fear of Miscegenation in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'"
XXI. Romanticism and Orientalism
Moderator: Naji Oueijan, Notre Dame, Lebanon
Angelica Maria DeAngelis, UCSB "French Women Travelers of the Orient"
Emily Haddad, University of South Dakota "Art and Architecture: The
Islamic Orient as a (Counter-) Romantic Utopia"
Naji B. Oueijan, Notre Dame University, Lebanon "The Romantic
Selflessness: Sufism in Romanticism"
XXII. Romanticism and Cognitive Neuroscience
Moderator: Porter Abbot, UC-Santa Barbara
David S. Miall, University of Alberta "Beyond the Picturesque: An
Affective Poetics of Coleridge's Landscapes"
Beth Bradburn, Boston College "Romantic Poetry and the Embodied Mind"
Francis F. Steen, UCSB "The Growth of the Imagination in Wordsworth's
Goslar Manuscripts"
William H. Harris, University of Tennessee "Fixed Eyes and Moving Minds: Perception Theory and Romantic Poetry"
XXIII. Wordsworth in Context 1
Moderator: Robert Anderson, Oakland University, Michigan
Adam Schnitzer, Cornell University "Wordsworth's Family and the Romantic
Century"
Yi Zheng, Tel Aviv "'Shadowy Things that Work Endless Changes': The
Other Intermediaries in Wordsworth's Education"
Matthew Schneider, Chapman University, Orange County "The Nowhere Man
and Mother Nature's Son: Competitive Collaboration In and After 'The Lyrical Ballads'"
Karen Hadley, University of Louisville "'Marked by History': Culture,
Time, and the Role of Allegory in 'The Prelude' Book VII"
Luncheon Banquet 12-2 p.m:Address by Larry Peer, ACR Executive
Director, Brigham
Young University:
"The Name and Nature of Romanticism Revisited"
Sessions XXIV-XXVIII: 2-3:30
XXIV. Wordsworth in Context 2
Moderator: Jesse Airaudi, Baylor University
Sally Corran, University of Tennessee "Mind the Gap: Narrative
Identification and Distancing in 'Lyrical Ballads'"
Lance Newman, Brown University "Wordsworth in Massachussetts, Country-
Seat Federalism, and the Politics of Nature"
Robert Anderson, Oakland University "Romanticism, Ecology and Dwelling:
Wordsworth's 'The Ruined Cottage'"
XXV. New Approaches to Shelley
Moderator: Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut
Clifford J Marks, University of Wyoming "Crossing Ethical Borders in Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'"
Jonathan Kim, Brandeis "The Triumph of Thought: Shelley's Minding
Rousseau's Words"
James Keller, State University of New York "'The Wilderness has a
Mysterious Tongue': Phenomenological Cultural Studies in Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'"
Neil Arditi, University of Virginia "T.S. Eliot, Paul de Man, and 'The
Triumph of Life'"
XXVI. Race and Gender in German Romanticism
Moderator: Katharina von Hammerstein, University of Connecticut
Eric Bernreuter, Wayne State University "Gender and Romanticism:
Masculinity, Femininity, and Androgyny in Friedrich Schlegel's 'Lucinde'"
Kitty Millet, Cal State University, Long Beach "Marginal Romantics and
Conflicts of Conscience: Rahel Varnhagen's Search for Jewish Identity and Its Future Implications"
XXVII. Romantic Aesthetics and its Aftermath
Moderator: Nanette le Coat, University of Texas, San Antonio
Brett Bourbon, Stanford "From Soul-Making to Person-Making"
David Pugh, Queen's University, Canada "Echoes of Herder and Schiller in
Collingwood's 'The Principles of Art'"
Petra Liedke Konow, Loyola Marymount "No Anxiety of Influence? E. T. A.
Hoffmann's Coming to Terms with his Cultural Heritage"
XXVIII. Uneasy Spaces: British Romantics Writing Home and Away
Moderator: Joetta Harty, George Washington University
Karen O-Connor-Floman, George Washington "(Writing) Ireland Writing the
East: Lady Morgan's 'The Wild Irish Girl' and 'The Missionary'"
Supriya Goswami, George Washington "Scott's East in 'The Surgeon's
Daughter'"
Joetta Harty, George Washington "The Islanders: How the Young Brontës
Expanded the Empire Without Leaving Home"
Prateeti Ballal, University of Massachussetts "Countering Missionaries:
Religious Debates in Mary Sherwood's 'Tales of Henry and Boosy'"
Sessions XXIX-XXXIV: 3:45-5:15
XXIX. US-German Cross-Currents
Moderator: John Ronan, UC-Berkeley
Katharina von Hammerstein, University of Connecticut "'Life, Liberty,
and the Pursuit of Happiness.' Sophie Mereau-Brentano's Utopian Visions of Liberty and Equality as in France and America"
Birgit Noll, Washington University "Melville and Jean Paul Richter "
XXX.Comparative Perspectives on Foscolo
Moderator: Larry Peer, Brigham Young University
Moira Di Mauro-Jackson, Southwest Texas State University "Foscolo,
Leopardi and Gautier: Different Visions of the Function of Poetry in the Romantic Era"
Ilona Klein, Brigham Young "German Coeval Reception of Ugo Foscolo's
Writings"
Cecilia Boggio, University of Southern California "A Comparative Study
in Canonicity: Ugo Foscolo and Lord Byron"
Davidi Stimilli, Northwestern University "The Birth of the Smile:
Romantic Cosmogonies in Foscolo and Rilke"
XXXI Mary Shelley, 'Frankenstein'
Moderator: James McGavran, University of North Carolina
Beth Weisenberger, Indiana University "A Space Between: Considering Romantic Adolescence"
Chris Hamilton, UCLA "Frankenstein vs. Frankenstein: Mary Shelley, James
Whale, and the Homoerotic"
James Holt McGavran, University of North Carolina "'Insurmountable
Barriers to our Union': Male Bonding, Homosexual Panic, and Death on the Ice in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'"
Gaura Shankar Narajan, Columbia "World Extension in Mary Shelley's
'Frankenstein'"
XXXII. Domesticity and Empire
Moderator: Julie Weller, George Washington University
Catherine Ganze Smith, George Washington "The Desiring Harem: Reading Empire in Elizabeth's Gaskell's 'Cranford'"
Joffrey Hotz, George Washington "Empire and the Aesthetics of 'Home':
Wordsworth's 'The Prelude' and 'The Recluse'"
Julie Weller "A New Other in 'Mansfield Park': Fanny Colonized"
XXXIII: Comparative Perspectives on Heine
Moderator: Gerhart Hoffmeister, UCSB
Susan Bernstein, Brown University "Paganini in Paris: Music, History and
Reference"
Larson Powell, Columbia U. "Towards a Theory of Heine's Humor"
Charles Senger, UC-San Diego "Hegel, Heine and the French Revolution"
XXXIV. Comparative Perspectives of French Romanticism
Moderator: Didier Maleuvre, UCSB
Scott Sprenger, Brigham Young "French Fantastic Literature: Romantic or
Realist?"
Scott M. Tann, UC-Davis "Invasion of Spaces in the Historical Novel of
the French Restoration"
Robert R. Daniel, Saint Joseph's University "The 'Nouvelle École' in France from 1820 to 1832: Shakespeare and Walter Scott (Mis-) Appropriated"
Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut "Effigies and Endings:
Narratives of Suicide"
Saturday 5:30 p.m.:
Business Session,:
Larry Peer, ACR Executive Director, Brigham Young University
Margaret Higonnet, ACR President, University of Connecticut
Sunday, Oct. 18
Sessions XXXV-XL: 8-9:30
XXXV. US and European Cross-Currents 1
Moderator: Manfred Engel, Fernuniversitaet Hagen
Joselyn M. Almeida, Boston College "'New and Ample Materials for Poetic
Description': Williams' and Humboldt's New Continent "
Faith Barrett, UCBerkeley "'The Word Made Flesh': Blasphemy and the
Lyric Address in Baudelaire, Mallarmé and
Dickinson."
Morag Anne Harris, Université di Bologna "'Who is this Schiller?':
Coleridge's Transmission of the Development of Aesthetic Theory and Mode between Europe and America"
XXXVI. Romantic Pilgrimages
Moderator: David Hugh, Queen's University, Canada
Heather Frey, Indiana University "Traveling Towards a Novel Self: Travel
Writing and Self-Creation in Frances Burney's 'The Wanderer' and Sir Walter Scott's 'Waverley'"
Peggy J. Ackerberg, Harvard "Swapping Romanticism: Chateaubriand in
Native America"
Donna Kimzey, Reinhardt College "'Poetical Pilgrims': Romantic
Journeys to Vaucluse and Arquà"
Gerhart Hoffmeister, UCSB "Madame de Staël in Weimar: Constructive
Misunderstandings"
XXXVII. "Romantic Science" 1
Moderator: Scott Sprenger, Brigham Young University
Cheryl A. Lambert, Brigham Young University "Experience and/as Knowledge: Romanticism and/as Science"
David J. Mickelsen, University of Utah "Eccentric Synecdoche: Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard and Victor, the 'Wild Boy' of Aveyron"
David Ogden, Georgia Institute of Technology "Conceiving Femininity: Enlightenment Optics and the Wordsworthian Visual Imagination"
Eric Sonstroem, Indiana University "Ilya Prigogine's 'Order Out of
Chaos' and Blake's Coherently Fragmented Cosmology"
XXXVIII. Romanticism and the Irish
Moderator: Michael Pippenger, Indiana University
Marjean D. Purinton, Texas Tech University "Cross-Atlantic
Representation of the Irish in Romantic Drama"
Marie-Jose Tienhooven, University of Rochester "'If This Be Art It
Deserves to Be Nature': The Revolutions of Maria Edgeworth"
Abbie Cory, UC-San Diego "Public or Private? Women and the Irish Rebellion of 1798"
XXXIX. Romanticism and Politics
Moderator: Stephanie Kuduk, Stanford
John Isbell, Indiana University "The People's Voice, 1776-1848"
Kenneth McNeil, Ohio State "Ossian, Translation, and the 'Other' as
National Origin"
Leanne Maunu, Indiana University "'All our Principles, All We Owe to
God': National Identity, Gender, and the French Revolution in Charlotte Smith's 'Desmond'"
Art Strum, Stanford "The Ethics of 'Forms' and 'Principles': A Kantian
Critique of Political Romanticism"
XL: Diasporas: Dispersing Language, Race, and Gender
Moderator: Donelle Ruwe, Fitchburg State College, MA
Kari Lokke, UC-Davis "Jewishness as Futurity in Bettine von Arnim's 'Die
Günderode'"
Patrick Vincent, UC-Davis "Translation as Tactic of Female Authorship:
Karolina Pavlova"
Nanora Sweet, University of Missouri-St. Louis "Hemans, Rushdie, and
'The Moor's Last Sigh'"
Inca Rumold, De Paul University "'Border Crossings' in Else Lasker-
Schüler's 'Die Wupper'"
Sessions XLa-XLIV: 9:40-11:10
XLa. Writing and Rewriting the Romantic Novel
Moderator: Martina Eidecker, Gerogia State
Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont "'Novels arise out of the
Shortcomings of History': Penelope Fitzgerald's Use of Novalis' Writings in 'The Blue Flower'"
Martina Elisabeth Eidecker, Georgia State "Connections and Relations:
Romantic Elements as Subversives and Constructive Discourse in Irmgard Morgner's Literary Works. An Exemplary Study of 'Gauklerlegende'"
Eva-Maria Barthel, University of Washington "Mathematical Mysticism:
Novalis and Musil"
Stefan Hoeppner, University of Oregon "Traces of Romantic Narrative in
the Writings of Arno Schmidt"
XLI. Romanticism and British Society
Moderator: Diane Hoeveler, Marquette University
Anne Mellor, UCLA "Hannah More, Agent Provocateur"
Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska "Mourning, Myth, and
Merchandising: The Public Death of Princess Charlotte"
XLII. Romantics Reading Masterpieces of the Past
Moderator:
Adeline Johns-Putra, Monash University, Australia "Woman's Seed:
Romantic Women Poets Rewriting the Bible"
Jennifer Randonis, Arizona State "Spiritual Progression in Milton's
'Paradise Regained' and Blake's 'Jerusalem'"
Diana Behler, University of Washington "August Wilhelm Schlegel as an
Intermediary of Older European Literature to the 'Modern' German Age"
Monika Ritzer, Universität Leipzig "Euripides versus Calderon. Two
Versions of Romantic Tragedy: A. W. Schlegel's 'Ion' and F. Schlegel's 'Alarcos'"
XLIII. Ecological Strains in Romantic Studies
Moderator: Mark Lussier, Arizona State
Gary Harrison, University of New Mexico "Illicit Spaces: The Discourse
on Enclosure and the Disciplining of the Rural Poor, 1780-1815"
Kevin Hutchings, McMaster University "Against Materiality? Blake's Vala
and the 'Vast Form of Nature'"
James McKusick, University of Maryland-Baltimore County "Coleridge, 'Kubla Khan', and the Theory of the Earth"
Mark Lussier "Chaos, Gaia, Eros: Ecologies of Mind in 'Prometheus
Unbound'"
XLIV: Romanticism and Modernism
Moderator: Dino Felluga, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Robert Kaufmann, Stanford "Critical Poetics Then and Now: Romanticism,
Modernism, Frankfurt School Aesthetics"
Edgar Landgraf, Johns Hopkins "The Inspiration of Language: German
Romanticism and its Simulation of Meaning"
Stephen Adam Schwartz, University College, Dublin "The Romanticism of
Cultural Studies"
Edward Duffy, Marquette University "A Plea for Letting Stanley Cavell
Call on Shelley"
Sessions XLV-L: 11:20-1:10
XLV. Oppositional Cultures in Romantic England
Moderator: Andrew Franta, Johns Hopkins
Kevin Gilmartin, California Institute of Technology "Counter-Revolution
as Cultural Reconstruction"
Mark Canuel, University of Illinois at Chicago "Wordsworth's 'Treasonous
Growth'"
Andrew Franta, Johns Hopkins "Shelley and the Poetics of Political
Indirection"
Stephanie Kuduk, Stanford "E. J. Blandford, Allen Davenport and Spencean
Poetics: Poetry and Working-Class Radicalism after the Napoleonic Wars"
XLVI. Censorship, Copyright and the Law
Moderator: Mark Rose
Kyle Grimes, University of Alabama "William Hone and the Radical
Samizdat"
Gwenann Seznec, Brooklyn "Censorship in French Romantic Theater: Victor
Hugo and the Grotesque"
Celest Woo, New York University "Rereading Romantic Censorship: An
Enabling Mechanism in Revolutionary Times"
Lisa Cesarani, New York University "Publish or Perish: Cornelius Mathews, Herman Melville and the Fight for International Copyright"
XLVII. Session Cancelled
XLVIII. "Romantic Science" 2
Moderator: Daryl Ogden, Gerogia Institute of Technology
Mary Lynn Johnson, University of Iowa "What's Lost in the Englishing of
Lavater's 'Physiognomische Fragmente'?"
Vince Willoughby, UCSB "The Glory of Technologized Motion"
Anne Frey, Johns Hopkins "'With What Motions Moved': The Physics of
Communication in Thomas De Quincey"
Paul Privateer, Arizona State "Goethe's 'Elective Affinities' and the
Ideology of Attraction"
XLIX. British Romantic Women Authors 2
Moderator: Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University
Sarah Frantz, University of Michigan "'I trust that, in this land of
freedom, I am safe from your violence': Sensibility,
Print Culture, and Transatlanticism in Mary Brunton's 'Self-Control'"
Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, UCSB "Landscaping Nationalism: 'Celtic Fringe' Landscapes in Two British Novels"
Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette "Reading the Wound: Mary Shelley's
'Mathilda' and Trauma Theory"
Kevis Goodman, UC-Berkeley "'Whether to Work or to Feel': Affective
Labor and Literary Historiography in William Wordsworth and Charlotte Smith"
L. Romanticism as Weltlitertur
Moderator: Edward Duffy, Marquette University
Michael Pippenger, Indiana University "Aussie Rules Romanticism: The
Origins of Australian National Tropes"
Karen Karbiener, Columbia University "The Eagle's 'I': Whitman's Furtive
Backward Glances, 1846-1848"
Stephen Pierson, Purdue University "Friedrich Schlegel, M. M. Bakhtin,
and the Romantic Dialogic in Whitman's Early 'Leaves'"
Juliette Parnell-Smith, University of Nebraska "Flora Tristan's Novel
'Méphis': Romanticism as Literary Propaganda"
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