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NASSR Annual Conventions, 1993-
The Political and Aesthetic Education of Romanticism
2nd Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
10-13 November 1994
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Preliminary Programme (as published in the NASSR Newsletter [Fall 1994])
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10:00-11:45 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Uneducated Poets" (special session organized
by Alan Richardson, Boston C)
"The Untutored Muse" (Alan Richardson)
"'Children o' the Soil': Peasant Poetry and Organic
Nationalism" (Scott McEathron, U of Southern
Illinois)
"Romantic Ideology and the 'Natural Genius': Women Poets,
Anthologies, and the Production of Poetic History in the
1790s" (Laura Mandell, Miami U)
"No Advantages of Education: John Clare's Vulgarity of
Language" (James McKusick, U of Maryland Baltimore
County)
"Schiller:
Aesthetics and Politics" (Chair: Michael Morton, Duke
U)
"Aesthetics and Politics from Benjamin to Schiller:
Rethinking the Aesthetic State" (Jonathan M. Hess, U of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
"Romanticism, Bildung, and the 'Literary
Absolute'" (Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate
School)
"Schiller's Political Aesthetics: The Refinement of Liberal
Democratic Man" (Michael Valdez Moses, Duke
U)
"The Critique of Aesthetic Ideology: Radical Democracy and
Friedrich Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of
Man" (Jacqueline LeBlanc, U of
Massachussetts)
"Romanticism and the Homoerotic" (Chair: Eve
Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke U)
"'My very touch were to be infectious': Godwin's Caleb
Williams and Homoerotic Panic" (Ranita Chatterjee,
U of Western Ontario)
"Byron's Homo-Narcissism: or 'Heathcliff, I am
Nellie'" (Steven Bruhm, Mount St. Vincent U)
"Sexual Pedagogies and the Lesbian Body in 'Christabel'"
(Andrew Elfenbein, U of Minnesota)
"Sappho, Sexuality, and the Romantic Sublime" (Sharon
Setzer, North Carolina State U)
"Sexual
and Political Instruction in the Work of Mary Shelley"
(Chair: Jeanne Moskal, U of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill)
"Learning to Curse: Translation, Rape, and Instruction in
Mary Shelley's Proserpine" (Mary Loeffelholz,
Northeastern U)
"Women and Education in Mary Shelley's Lodore"
(Ann M. Frank Wake, Elmhurst College)
"Ghostly Pedagogies: Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and the
Writing of Poetic Identity" (Ghislaine McDayter, Duke
U)
"'The god undeified': Valperga and the Education
of Romantic Subjects" (Daniel E. White, U of
Pennsylvania)
1:15-3:00 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Scenes of
Instruction in Blake" (Chair: Paul Yoder, U of
Arkansas-Little Rock)
"Blake's Songs: Of Instruction and Its Experience"
(Nelson Hilton, U of Georgia-Athens)
"(Con)(In)structing Albion: Blake, Gender, and Politics:
1792-95" (Catherine McClenahan, U of St.
Thomas)
"Righting Albion: Blake's Canon Revision" (Paul
Yoder)
"Late Kant, Middle Blake: Toward a Theory of Blake's
Political Education" (Steven Goldsmith, U of
California-Berkeley)
"Darstellung and the Lessons of
Post-Structuralism" (Chair: James Rolleston, Duke
U)
"The Crisis of Representation in Romanticism: Romantic
Darstellung and Poststructuralist Critical Theory"
(Irena Nikolova, U of Western Ontario)
"Postfacing the Preface in Coleridge" (Sophie Thomas,
Oxford U)
"Rhetorical Pragmatism: Jeremy Bentham and the
Predictability of Fiction" (Peter Roman Babiak, York
U)
"The Romantic Object of Beauty and the Suppression of Art"
(Laura Claridge, US Naval Academy)
"Victorian
Receptions of Romanticism" (Chair: Clyde de L. Ryals, Duke
U)
"'Useful herbs to take the place of weeds': The Politics of
Wordsworth's Victorian Reception" (Gary Harrison, U of
New Mexico)
"Feminizing Romanticism: Tennyson's Embowered Maidens and
Morbid Poets" (Alice Fasano, New York U)
"Romanticism Theorized: Sartor Resartus Revisited"
(Nigel Alderman, Duke U)
"Suffering Meter: Swinburne and the Sapphic Scene of
Instruction" (Yopie Prins, U of
Michigan)
"The
Education of John Keats" (Chair: Marilyn Gaull, New York
U)
"'A Cockney Schoolroom': Keats and the Modern Academy"
(Nicholas Roe, U of St. Andrews)
"Keats in the Cockney School: An Aesthetic and Political
Education" (Jeffrey Cox, Texas A & M)
"Aesthetic Education in the Public Sphere: Haydon, Hazlitt,
and Keats's Elgin Marbles Sonnets" (John Kandl, New
York U)
"Romanticism and the Education of Psychoanalysis: Keats and
(The Fall of) Hyperion" (Joel Faflak,
U of Western Ontario)
3:30-5:30 FIRST PLENARY DISCUSSION
Welcome: Robert F. Gleckner, Thomas Pfau (Duke U)
"Virtual Ekphrasis: Scott's World Picture" Jrome Christensen (English, Johns Hopkins U)
"Gendering the Soul," Susan Wolfson (English, Princeton U)
Respondent: Peter J. Manning (U of Southern California)
8:45-10:30 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Coleridge
and the Political Education of Criticism" (special session
organized by James McKusick, U of Maryland-Baltimore
County)
"Transitions: The 'Logic' of the 'Wildest Odes'"
(Heather J. Jackson, U of Toronto)
"Friendly Instruction: Coleridge and the
Configuration of Social Knowledge" (Regina Hewitt, U of
South Florida)
"The Genius of Failure, the Masquerade of Fame: Coleridge's
Sociology of Literature in the Biographia
Literaria" (Adrienne Donald, Princeton
U)
"Coleridge's Unfinished Aesthetic Education: Coleridge,
Schiller on Culture and the State" (David Aram Kaiser,
U of Kentucky)
"Romanticism, Education, and the History of
Science" (special session organized by James K. Chandler, U
of Chicago)
"Knowing Nature: Science, Romanticism, and the Empire of
the External World" (Laura Doyle, Harvard U)
"Coleridge, Shelley, and Science's Millennium" (Mark
Kipperman, Northern Illinois U)
"The Body which Speaks to the Body: Pedagogies of Human
Influence in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Alison
Winter, California Institute of Technology)
"Frankenstein: Specifying the Limits of Pedagogy"
(Maureen McLane, U of Chicago)
"British
Romantic Fiction: Gender and History" (Chair: Susan Thorne,
Duke U)
"Courting Ruin: The Economic Romances of Frances Burney"
(Miranda Burgess, Boston U)
"Falling into Quotation: Persuasion and the Fall
of Woman" (John Morillo, North Carolina State
U)
"Historical Fiction as Pedagogy: Scott's Travelling
Education and an Approach to Romantic Historicism in the
Novel" (Richard Maxwell, Valparaiso U)
"Scott's Authorised Version: From Waverley Romance to
Magnum Opus Historical Truth" (Clare Simmons,
Ohio State U)
"Was (or
is) There an Identity We Can Call 'Romanticism'?" I (a
special session organized by Jerrold E. Hogle, U of
Arizona)
Introduction: "The Question of One 'Romanticism.'" (J.
Hogle)
"Romantic Identity and the Community of Sentiment"
(Stephen C. Behrendt, U of Nebraska-Lincoln)
"The 'Myth' of Romanticism and the Idea of Community"
(Celeste Langan, UC-Berkeley)
"I don't believe in Romanticism (The University does it for
me)" (John Rieder, U of Hawaii-Manoa)
Respondent: Marshall Brown (U of Washington)
11:00-12:45 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Politics,
Epistemology, and Rhetoric in Shelley" (Chair: Eric Walker,
Florida State U)
"Tutelary Bureaucracies: Compelling the Civic Conscience in
Prometheus Unbound and The Cenci"
(Michael Kohler, Johns Hopkins U)
"Unteachable Learning: On the Parting of Poetry and Madness
in Shelley's Julian and Maddalo" (Silke-Maria
Weineck, U of Pennsylvania)
"Art, Nature, and Analogical Inference in Shelley's 'Mont
Blanc'" (Michael Vicario, Penn State U)
"The Empress's New Mind: Shelley's The Witch of
Atlas as the Scene of Instruction" (Arkady
Plotnitsky, U of Pennsylvania)
"The
Romantic Body: Between Sustenance and Pathology" (Chair:
Anne K. Mellor, UCLA)
"The Nurse's Tale: The Fostering System as National and
Imperial Education" (Katie Trumpener, U of
Chicago)
"Educating Mothers to be Mothers: Romanticism and the
Maternal Breastfeeding Controversy" (Julie Costello, U
of Notre Dame)
"John Brown's Medical Romanticism" (Martin Wallen, U of
Oklahoma)
"Confessing the Body: Lamb on Drunkenness, Hazlitt on Sex"
(Bonnie Woodberg, Florida State U)
"Models of
Aesthetic and Political Instruction in Godwin, Wordsworth,
and Hazlitt" (Chair: Nicholas Roe, U of St.
Andrews)
"'Of Deception and Frankness': Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and
the Jacobin Response to Emile" (Gary Handwerk,
U of Washington)
"The man, whose eye / Is ever on himself': The Ideological
Function of Aesthetic Self- Surveillance in Bell,
Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth" (Thomas Pfau, Duke
U)
"Wordsworth and the Great Wheel of Education" (Alison
Hickey, Wellesley C)
"Interest and Imagination: Hazlitt's Essay on the
Principles of Human Action" (Deborah Elise White,
Columbia U)
"Marketing
Romantic Music: The Age of Lost Innocence" (special session
organized by James Deaville, Music, McMaster
U)
"Creating a Musical Public and Constructing Musical
Modernism: The New-German School and the Euterpe Concerts
in Leipzig" (James Deaville)
"Piano Arrangements in the Nineteenth Century:
Marketing/Domesticating/Canonizing" (James Parakilas,
Bates C)
"Re-Educating the 'Classical' Public: "The Romantic Revival
and the Contemporary American Musical Scene" (Michael
Saffle, Virginia Tech. U)
2:00-3:45 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Was (or
is) There an Identity We Can Call 'Romanticism'?" II
(special session organized by Jerrold E. Hogle, U of
Arizona)
"Introduction: The Defence of Romanticism" (Jerrold
Hogle)
"What Happens When Jane Austen and Fanny Burney Enter the
Romantic Canon?" (William Galperin, Rutgers
U)
"Romanticism, Coleridge, and the Hermeneutics of the
Ethical Sublime" (David Haney, Auburn U)
"The Survival of Romanticism: Poets and Poetics Since the
Early Nineteenth Century" (Jeffrey Robinson, U of
Colorado-Boulder)
Respondent: Jean Hall (Cal. State U--Fullerton)
"Educating
the Eye: Visual Arts and Exhibitions" (Chair: John L.
Sharpe, Duke U)
"Teaching Discipline: Sketching and Drawing Manuals in
British Romanticism" (Richard Sha, American
U)
"Blake and the Aesthetics of the Sketch" (Joseph
Viscomi, U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
"Aesthetic Education in Blake's Illustrations to Young's
Night Thoughts" (Grant Scott, Muhlenberg
C)
"Romantic Exhibition and the Rise of the Viewing
Public"(C. S. Matheson, U of Windsor)
"The
Contours of a Feminine Romanticism" (Chair: Stuart Curran,
U of Pennsylvania)
"Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth: 'Dark
Forgetfulness' and 'The Intercession of Saint Monica'"
(Kari Lokke, U of California-Davis)
"An Education in Stereotypes: Hemans's 'Red Indians'"
(Nancy Moore Goslee, U of
Tennessee-Knoxville)
"Anna Seward's Arcadian Voice: Finding a Place in Darwin's
Botanical Garden" (Elizabeth Fay, U of
Massachusetts-Boston)
"Realizing a Romantic Pedagogy: Romantic Women Writers and
the Romance of Real Life" (Michael Gamer, U of
Pennsylvania)
"Irony,
Individuality, and Aesthetic Strategy in German
Romanticism" (Chair: Paul Cantor, U of
Virginia)
"The Politics of Individualitt in Schlegel,
Novalis, and Hlderlin" (Gerald N. Izenberg, Washington
U)
"Productive Rupture: the Discreet Irony of an Aesthetic
Education in Kleist's ber das Marionettentheater"
(Anthony Reynolds, New York U)
"Reading the Book of Nature in E. T. A. Hoffmann"
(David Vandenberg, Emory & Henry C)
"The Power of Music and/or the Power of Words" (Ulrich
Schnherr, Columbia U)
4:15-6:15 SECOND PLENARY DISCUSSION
"The 'Inhibitions of Democracy' on Romantic Political Thought: Thoreau's Democratic Individualism," Nancy Rosenblum (Political Science, Brown U)
"The Doubled Consciousness of Early Capitalist Culture," Steven Watts (History, U of Missouri-Columbia)
Respondents: Cathy Davidson (English, Duke U) & Michael Gillespie (Political Science, Duke U)
8:45-10:30 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Aesthetic
Valuation and Social Process: the Reviewers Reviewed"
(Chair: John Kandl, New York U)
"The Pedagogy of Enlightened, Radical, and Romantic
Readers: An Example from John Thelwall" (Michael
Scrivener, Wayne State U)
"Making the Romantic Ideology: Hazlitt, Coleridge, and the
Wat Tyler Affair" (Robert K. Lapp, Dalhousie
U)
"Rape, Patricide, and Execution: A Play on Violence"
(Young-ok An, U of Southern California)
"Language,
Theory: Implicating the Political" (special session
organized by Carol Jacobs, SUNY-Buffalo)
"The 'End of Art' in Friedrich Hlderlin's 'Stimme Des
Volkes'" (Eva Geulen, U of Rochester)
"The Sublime of the Nation and the German Question"
(Ian Balfour, York U)
"Res publica: Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Schlegel,
and 'Political Romanticism'" (Matthew Hartman, Johns
Hopkins U)
"The Force of the Positive: The Hyperions of Keats and
Marx" (Tom McCall, U of Houston)
"Women
Poets and the Romantic Aesthetic" (special session
organized by Stephen C. Behrendt, U of Nebraska-Lincoln and
Harriet Kramer Linkin, New Mexico State U)
"Women and Della Cruscanism, Women and Romanticism"
(Judith Pascoe, U of Iowa)
"The Merging of Public and Private: Charlotte Smith's
Beachy Head" (Kay Cook, Southern Utah
U)
"Staging History: Catherine Macaulay, Joanna Baillie, and
Felicia Hemans" (Greg Kucich, U of Notre
Dame)
"One Sings, the Other Doesn't: Letitia Landon and Mary
Tighe, or How Women Poets Image the Romantic Aesthetic"
(Harriet Kramer Linkin)
"Shakespeare and the Scene of Romantic Literary
Instruction" (special session organized by Charles Mahoney,
U of Connecticut-Storrs)
"Savoyard Shakespeare: Wordsworth in the Hills of Paris"
(Reeve Parker, Cornell U)
"Master Betty Masters Shakespeare: Managing the Queer
Character of Youth" (Julie Carlson, U of
California-Santa Barbara)
"Patrolling the Bard: Hazlitt, Coriolanus, and
Romantic Apostasy" (Charles Mahoney)
11:00-12:45 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Music and
Culture in French and German Romanticism" (special session
organized by Jeffrey Kallberg, U of
Pennsylvania)
"Some Romantic Images in Beethoven" (Maynard Solomon,
New York)
"Practicing Music and the Practice of Sex : Sex and Music
in French Romantic Discourse" (Jeffrey
Kallberg)
"Romantic Music under Siege in 1848" (Sanna Pederson, U
of Pennsylvania)
"Education, Romantic Aesthetics, and the Denial
of Rhetoric" (special session organized by David Ferris,
Queens College & CUNY Graduate Center)
"Rhetoric and Denial on Keats's Urn" (David
Ferris)
"Poetic Education: Shelley's 'Defence' and the Crisis in
Romanticism" (Roger Blood, Yale U)
"Language and the 'Body Politic'" (Claudia
Brodsky-Lacour, Princeton U)
"From
Picturesque to the Sublime: The Cognitive Structure of the
Romantic Image" (Chair: Annette Wheeler
Cafarelli)
"Jane Austen and the Picturesque: Aesthetic Instruction and
Romantic Epistemology" (Jill Heydt-Stevenson, U of
Texas-San Antonio)
"The Lessons of Imitatio Christi and Imitatio
Naturae in the Work of Caspar David Friedrich"
(Hillary A. Braysmith, U of Southern
Indiana)
"The Political Aesthetic of Adam Mller and Caspar David
Friedrich's Landscape Painting" (Peter Foley, U of
Arizona)
"'Sur les paules d'un pauvre esclave': Salvation, sperance,
and Equality in Gricault's Raft of Medusa"
(Albert Alhadeff, U of
Colorado-Boulder)
"Pastoralism, Eroticism, Enlightenment, and
Geometry in Wordsworth's Prelude" (Chair: Judith
W. Page, Millsaps C)
"Teaching the 'Art of Seeing': Pastoral Vestiges in Thomson
and Wordsworth" (Kevis Goodman, Yale U)
"Wordsworth's Nationalist Geometry" (William Jewett,
Yale U)
"Soldier Boys and Male Romantic Poets" (James Holt
McGavran, U of North Carolina-Charlotte)
"'The light of circumstances, flash'd / Upon an independent
intellect': Education and Progression in The
Prelude" (David Garcia, Cornell U)
"Re-mapping Romanticism: Of Domestic and
Oriental Subjects" (Chair: John Waters, Duke
U)
"Reading Habits: Scenes of Miseducation in the Romantic
Line" (Marlon Ross, U of Michigan)
"Wordsworth's Aesthetic Appropriation of Nature: A
Problematic Step Toward Eco- ideology" (Martha Bohrer,
Miami U)
"Eastern Non-Dualism and the Sublime in Late
Eighteenth-Century English Poetry" (Kathryn Freeman, U
of Miami)
"Theory and History in Romantic Orientalism and Romantic
Studies" (Susan B. Taylor, U of Colorado-Colorado
Springs)
2:00-3:45 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Reverse
Instruction: Romanticism and Postmodernism" (Chair: Timothy
Morton, New York U)
"Legislators of the Post-Everything World: Shelley's
Defence of Adorno" (Robert Kaufman, U of
California-Berkeley)
"Educating Postmodernism: or, Reading Backwards from
Postmodern Fiction to John Clare" (Theresa M. Kelley, U
of Texas-Austin)
"Fantastic Modernity, Fantastic Reflexivities: Keats,
Jameson, and the Postmodern Urn" (Orrin Wang, U of
Maryland at College Park)
"Imitating Silence: Byron, Hood, Poe, and Campion"
(Carol Jacobs, SUNY-Buffalo)
"Politics
and Ireland: The Edgeworths" (Chair: Nigel Alderman, Duke
U)
"The Edgeworths and the Interests of Education" (Mark
Canuel, Johns Hopkins U)
"Maria Edgeworth: Teacher and Critic" (Francis Botkin,
U of Illinois-Chicago)
"'His eyes upon us': The Lesson of the Informer in
Edgeworth's 'Lame Jervas'" (Julia M. Wright, Concordia,
Montreal)
"'The Little Remnant': Alterity, Femininity, and the
National Tale" (Ina Ferris, U of
Ottawa)
"Uneducated Poets: Expanding the Canon" (Chair:
Scott McEathron, U of Southern Illinois)
"Theoretical Conditions of the Expansion of the Romantic
Poetic Canon" (John Waters, Duke U)
"Lubin's Literacy: John Clare and the Possibilities of the
Peasant Poet" (Bridget Keegan, Samford U)
"Patronage and the Peasant-Poet in the early Romantic
Period: Theorizing the Beginnings of Ann Yearsley, Robert
Bloomfield, and Felicia Hemans" (Chad Edgar, New York
U)
"The Ghosts of Competing Literacies in John Clare's
Autobiography" (Richard Swartz, U of Southern
Maine)
"Theorizing Romantic Drama" (Chair: Robert F.
Gleckner, Duke U)
"Joanna Baillie's Poetic Aesthetic: Passion and 'the plain
order of things'" (Catherine Burroughs, Cornell
C)
"Liberal Self-Fashioning in Shelley's Cenci"
(Linda Brigham, Kansas State U)
"Byron as a Teacher of the Barred Subject: Manfred
and the Ethics of Desire" (Sinkwan Cheng, State U of
New York-Buffalo)
"The
Teachings of Nature in German Romanticism" (special session
organized by Alice Kuzniar, U of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill)
"'Voran leuchtest du.' What Kepler Taught the
Romantics About Nature" (Nicholas Halmi, U of
Toronto)
"Towards a Mystical Physics: An Aspect of Friedrich
Schlegel's Theory of Universalpoesie" (Paola
Mayer, U of Toronto)
"On Being the 'Last Kantian in Nazi Germany': Dwelling with
Animals after Schelling" (David Clark, McMaster
U)
4:15-6:15 THIRD PLENARY DISCUSSION
Alan Liu (U of California-Santa Barbara)
Respondents: Cynthia Chase (English, Cornell U) & William Reddy (Duke U)
8:45-10:30 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"Teaching
Violence in Romanticism" (special session organized by Mary
A. Favret, Indiana U)
"Teaching Byron's Giaour as Riddle and Message"
(Cheryl Fallon Giuliano, UCLA)
"'Rouzing the Faculties to Act': Blake's Scenes of
(Violent) Instruction" (Nicholas Williams, Indiana
U)
"Learning What Hurts: 'The School-Mistress,' the Rod, and
the Poem" (Adela Pinch, U of Michigan)
"Radical Poetry 101: Wordsworth and Contemporary Lyrics of
Resistance" (Jonathan Barron, U of North
Carolina-Charlotte)
"Romantic
Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and the Academy" (Chair: Jerome
McGann, U of Virginia)
"Poetry and the Law: the Poet as Legislator in Shelley and
Rousseau" (Lorrie Clark, Trent U)
"The Political Economy of Aesthetic Consumption"
(Margaret Russett, U of Southern California)
"Shelley's Unhumanizing Pedagogy" (Paul Youngquist,
Pennsylvania State U)
"Genius School: Coleridge, Schiller, and the Productionist
Aesthetic" (Kathleen Dillon, Temple U)
"Romantic
Knowledge: Institutions of Production and Pedagogy" (Chair:
Rhonda Ray Kercsmar)
"Institutions of Romanticism: An International Perspective"
(Clifford Siskin, SUNY-Stony Brook, and Philip Martin,
Cheltenham & Gloucester College)
"Can We Teach Romanticism to an Unromantic Generation"
(Debbie Lee, U of Arizona)
"Between Irony and Radicalism: the Other Way of a Romantic
Education" (Karen Weisman, U of Waterloo)
"A Histrionic Romantics Classroom" (Thomas Crochunis,
Rutgers U)
"Romanticism in Canada" (special session
organized by Tilottama Rajan, U of Western
Ontario)
"Nobler Savages: Representations of Native Women in the
Writings of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill"
(Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser U)
"Made One with Nature: The Commemorative Odes of the
Confederation Poets" (D.M.R. Bentley, U of Western
Ontario)
"Frye in Canada: Jonah in the Belly of the Whale" (Ross
Woodman, U of Western Ontario)
"European Romantic Nationalism, Colonial Nationalism,
Canadian Literary Criticism" (Margery Fee, U of British
Columbia)
11:00-12:45 CONCURRENT PANEL SESSIONS
"New
Romantic Canons in the Same Old Classroom: A
Problem-Solving Forum on Teaching" (special session
organized by Morris Eaves, U of Rochester)
Position papers by Laura Mandell (Miami U), Anne K. Mellor
(UCLA) & Richard Matlak (C of the Holy Cross), Jerome
McGann (U of Virginia), and Stuart Curran (U of
Pennsylvania).
"Teaching
Wordsworth's Teachings" (Chair: William Galperin, Rutgers
U)
"Teaching a Sheep to Talk: The Spiritual Education of
Romanticism" (Walter Reed, Emory U)
"Wordsworth and the Problem of Authority in Feminist
Pedagogy" (Michael Fischer, U of New Mexico)
"Wordsworth's 'The Thorn' and the Social Imagination"
(Scott Harshbarger, Hofstra U)
"'Strange Discipline': Aesthetic Education and Community in
Wordsworth's The Ruined Cottage" (Kurt Fosso,
Westminster C)
"Romantic
Education as Social and Aesthetic Practice" (Chair: Richard
Swartz, U of Southern Maine)
"The Professionalization of Knowledge: Female Education in
Middle Class Romantic Culture" (Annette Wheeler
Cafarelli, Columbia U)
"Britain and the Culture of Disestablishment" (Nanora
Sweet, U of Missouri-St. Louis)
"State Education, Taste Education" (Timothy Morton, New
York U)
"Lessons of Radical Difference: Mary Shelley and the
Politics of Family History" (Deborah Weiner, U of
Rochester)
"Genres as
Modes of Education" (special session organized by J.
Douglas Kneale, U of Western Ontario)
"Let nature be your teacher: Wordsworth and Poetical
Correctness" (Stephen Bretzius, Lousiana State
U)
"The Rising Glory of America" (Julie Ellison, U of
Michigan)
"The Ambivalence of Romantic Identity: Harmony and Conflict
in Self-Descriptions by Wordsworth and Byron" (Jean
Hall, California State U-Fullerton)
"Transport and Persuasion in Wordsworth" (J. Douglas
Kneale)
1:00-2:00 NASSR BUSINESS MEETING
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