
NASSR 1999 Preliminary
Program
THURSDAY,
AUGUST 12: Romanticism on a New
World Stage
Sessions 1, 2,
3; Beatrice
Chancy
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 13: New Romantic
Media
Sessions 4, 5,
6; Viscomi Plenary;
Chancy Plenary Panel; Harbour Tour and Banquet
SATURDAY,
AUGUST 14: Embodying
Romanticisms
Sessions 7, 8,
9; Bewell Plenary;
Kilgour Plenary; Masked
Ball
SUNDAY,
AUGUST 15: Euromanticisms past,
passing and to come...
Sessions 10, 11,
12
THROUGHOUT CONFERENCE: Meet Halifax kiosk
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST
11
1:00-10:00 p.m.: AIRPORT
GREETER
7:30-10:00 p.m.: EARLY
REGISTRATION
THURSDAY AUGUST 12
Romanticism on a New World
Stage
9:00a.m.-3:30 p.m.:
AIRPORT GREETER
8:30-10:00 a.m. and all day: REGISTRATION
10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. BOOK
DISPLAY
9:45 a.m.: INFORMALWELCOME
from the NASSR '99 Steering
Committee
10:00-11:30 a.m. SESSION ONE
1A. Romanticism and the New World
Haliburton Room
MODERATOR: Andy Seaman (Saint Mary's)
William D.Brewer (Appalachian State): "Charlotte
Smith and the American Agrarian Ideal"
Nanora Sweet (Missouri-St.Louis): "Recreating 'The
Forest Sanctuary' at Halifax: Felicia Hemans and T.H.
Browne"
Chris Koenig-Woodyard (Oxford): "'Beneath the
Sternness of Acadian Skies: The Canadian 'Village' of
Oliver Goldsmith"
1B. Staging the New I: Imperialism and
Colonialism
Evangeline Room
MODERATOR: Greg Kucich (Notre Dame)
Jeffrey Cox
(Colorado-Boulder):"Staging Slavery: `My pain is dere
game'"
Marjean Purinton (Texas Tech):
"British Women Playwrights: 'New' Perspectives on the
Commerical/Colonial Enterprise"
Daniel O'Quinn (Guelph): "Colonial Spectacles: the
Irish Vizier and the Female Knight in James Cobb's Ramah
Droog"
1C. Romantic Dramatic Forms: Performing the Subject,
Gender and the State
Moodie Room
Special Session: Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie)
Trish Lootens (Georgia):
"Drama and Monologues: Pre-Victorian Performance in the
Writing of Letitia Landon"
Michael Kohler (SUNY
Binghampton): "Governmentality, the younger Kean's drama,
and the 'dramatic lyric'"
1D. (Re)Placing Romanticism
Screening Room
MODERATOR: David Fuller (University of Durham)
Anne D. Wallace (Southern Mississippi): "'Sense of
Place': A New-Fashioned Critical Romanticism"
Julia Wright (Waterloo): "Divisive Geographies and
Sympathetic Travellers: Owenson's The
Missionary"
Nahoko Miyamoto (Toronto): "Wales and America in
Shelley's Queen Mab and Southey's
Madoc"
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. LUNCH
NASSR Advisory Board Meeting
(closed)
1:00-3:00 p.m. SESSION TWO
2A. New World Romanticisms
Haliburton Room
MODERATOR: Jill Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado at
Boulder)
Deanna Turner (New York): "'Rip Van Winkle,' 'Kubla
Khan,' and the Poetics of Fragmented Dreams"
James A. Butler (La Salle): "Home (at Grasmere and
On the Range): Wordsworth and Owen Wister's The
Virginian"
Hugo Azérad (Cambridge): "Romanticism
Unbound: Faulkner's Epiphanic
Style"
2B. New Texts and Textual Scholarship
Evangeline Room
Special Session: Anthony
Harding (Saskatchewan)
Paul Magnuson (New York): "Reading paratextually:
Coleridge's 'Monody on the Death of Chatterton'"
David Fuller (Durham):
"Modernizing Blake: the 'Longman Annotated Texts'
Blake"
David Baulch (West Florida): "Multiple Plurality:
Hypertext and William Blake's The Four Zoas
Manuscript"
Michael O'Neill (Durham):
"Editing Shelley's Shorter Poems: The Critical
Implications"
2C. Women Poets, Subjectivity and Dramatic
Forms
Moodie Room
Special Session: Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie)
Nancy Paul (Queens, Kingston):
"Foregrounding the Dramatic Monologue: Sarah Fielding and
the Labyrinths of the Mind"
Lisa Vargo (Saskatchewan):
"Romantic Poems and Revisionary Histories of the Dramatic
Monologue: Mary Robinson and Tabitha Bramble"
Suzanne Waldman (Dalhousie):
"Female Subjectivity as Drama in Hemans' Records of
Woman"
Patricia Rigg (Acadia):
"Augusta Webster's Portraits: Looking Through the
Eye"
2D. Romantic History and the Passing of the
New
Screening Room
MODERATOR: Pam Perkins (University of Manitoba)
Justin Baird (Western
Ontario): "Causeless Aversion: Godwin, Hume and Traumatic
History"
Michael Macovski (Fordham): "Gibbon, Goldsmith and
Historiography: Romantic Conceptions of Temporality"
Mark Canuel (Illinois-Chicago): "Keats, Sectarianism
and the Art of Obsolescence"
Michael T. Williamson (Indiana U of Pennsylvania):
"Felicia Hemans's Elegiac Poetry and the Contaminations of
New Grief"
2E. Romanticism and New Sciences
Prince Hall
MODERATOR: Gordon McOuat (Kings)
Andrew Seaman (St. Marys): "Thoughts on the
Implications of Chaos and Complexity Theory"
Ron Broglio (Florida):
"(Thermo) Dynamic Transformation Countering Organic
Growth"
Vicky L. Adams (Alabama): "Mary Shelley's Novels,
Romanticism and Ecology"
John Greenway (Kentucky):
"`Øersted's Acoustics and Danish
Romanticism"
3:00-3:30 p.m. "BREAK,
BREAK, BREAK..."
3:30-5:00 p.m. SESSION THREE
3A. Staging the New II: Gendered
Perspectives
Haliburton Room
MODERATOR: Julie Carlson (California at Santa
Barbara)
Jane Moody (York, England): "Performance as
Sensation"
Sarah McCleave (Queen's,
Belfast): "The Shaping of Galatée: Imagery and
Passion in the Life and Career of Marie Sallé"
Daniela Garofalo (Maryland): "Byron's
Sardanapolous: a New Era of Peace and the
Anachronism of Martial
Leadership"
3B. Transatlantic Romanticism
Evangeline Room
Special Session: Joel Pace (Oxford/Wisconsin)
Karen Karbiener (Columbia): "The Eagle's 'I':
Wordsworth's Presence in Whitman's Furtive Backward
Glances"
Astrid Wind (Oxford): "Sheridan's Pizarro and
the Politics of Staging American Indians"
Bruce Graver (Providence): "Baillie and the
Bostonians"
3C. The Cenci Today
Moodie Room
Special Session: Mark Bruhn (Regis)
Victoria Myers (Pepperdine): "The Trials of The
Cenci"
George Elliott Clarke (Duke/Toronto): "Racing
Shelley's The Cenci, or Reading Incest as
Slavery"
Mark Bruhn (Regis): "Indicting Silence: Shelley's
Drama of Decorum"
3D. Nouvelle Cuisine
Screening Room
MODERATOR: David McNeil (Dalhousie)
Timothy Fulford (Nottingham on
Trent): "Romanticism, Breadfruit & Slavery"
Timothy Morton (Colorado):
"Antiquing"
Pamela Perkins (Manitoba): "A
Taste for Scottish Fiction: Christian Johnstone's Cook
and Housewife's Manual"
5:30-6:30 p.m., Kings President's Lodge
PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION
6:30-8:00 p.m.,
OPEN TIME
8:00-10:00 p.m., Alderney
Landing Theatre, Dartmouth
BEATRICE CHANCY
FRIDAY AUGUST 13
New Romantic
Media
10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. BOOK
DISPLAY
8:30-10:00 a.m. SESSION FOUR
4A. Romantics as News: Authorship and
New Media Technologies
Haliburton Room
Special Session: Lisa M. Wilson (Buffalo)
Lisa M.Wilson (Buffalo): "Mary
Robinson and the Della Cruscans: Romantic Media
Technologies and the Construction of a Female
Poet-Celebrity"
Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern): "L.E.L.: Fame,
Femininity and Female Authorship"
Ghislaine McDayter (Bucknell):
"Convulsions in Rhyme: Byromania, Hysteria and Literary
Commodification"
4B. Romanticism and Slavery:
Interventions and Representations
Evangeline Room
MODERATOR: Jeffrey Cox (Colorado at Boulder)
Deborah Kennedy (St. Mary's): "Helen Maria Williams
and the Long Campaign against the Slave Trade"
Mary Kelly Persyn (The
University of Virginia's College at Wise): "Can the
subaltern be heard?: The Haitian Revolution and the
Romantics"
Terry Provost (Concordia): "The Imagi/Nation in
Naming: Re/Veiwing the Enlightenment through Negresse or
Portrait of a Negro
Slave"
4C. Coleridge between Press and
Podium
Moodie Room
MODERATOR: Michael Cobden (Kings)
Robert Lapp (Mt. Allison): "Romanticism Repackaged:
the New Faces of Old Man Coleridge in Fraser's
Magazine 1830-32"
Sarah Zimmerman (Fordham):
"Staging Instruction: Coleridge and the Emergence of the
Public Literary
Lecture"
4D. Romanticism and the New
Psychology I
Screening Room
Special Session: Alan Richardson (Boston
College)
Alan Richardson (Boston College): "Romanticism and
the New Psychology, Then and Now"
David Miall (Alberta):
"Reading Nature: Coleridge's Kinaesthetic Landscapes"
Beth Lau (California State-Long Beach): "Wordsworth,
Memory and Cognitive
Neuroscience"
10:00-10:15 a.m. SHORT BREAK
10:15 a.m.-11:30 noon: Plenary
Prince Hall
DIGITAL
FACSIMILES: READING THE BLAKE
ARCHIVE
Joe Viscomi (North
Carolina):
author of Blake and the Idea of the Book (1993),
co-editor of two volumes in The Illuminated Books of
William Blake (1993), and of the on-line William
Blake Archive
Introduced and moderated by Ronald
Tetreault
(Dalhousie).
11:45 am-12:45 p.m. LUNCH
12:45-2:15 p.m. SESSION FIVE
5A. Romanticism and the
News
Haliburton Room
MODERATOR: Robert Lapp (Mount Allison)
Jonathan Mulrooney (Boston): "Hazlitt the
Reporter"
Kim Wheatley (William and
Mary): "A Fresh Look at the Wat Tyler Controversy"
Richard Matlak (Holy Cross): "Wordsworth and the
Publicity over his Brother's Death at
Sea"
5B. New Words, New Voices
Evangeline Room
MODERATOR: Haley Bordo (Western Ontario)
Angela Esterhammer (Western
Ontario): "Romanticism and the New Speech Act"
Anne Urbancic (Toronto):
"Niccolo Tommaseo:
Protosemiotician"
5C. Aesthetics and the New Canon:
Challenges of Class and Gender
Moodie Room
MODERATOR: John Rieder (Hawaii)
Kevin Binfield (Murray State):
"Towards a Working Class Romanticism: The Aesthetics of the
Luddites"
Katherine Harris (New York):
"Considerable Minorities in British Annuals/Gift Books: A
Selection of Poetry Published in Friendship's
Offering"
Frankie Allmon (Indiana): "Paradoxes of Propriety
and Property: The 'melancholy tale' of Hannah More and Ann
Yearsley"
5D. Blake and the Technological
Text
Screening Room
MODERATOR: John Greenway (Kentucky)
Kevin D. Hutchings (Western Ontario): "Illicit
Prophecy: Blake's Antinomian Response to Newton"
Warren Cariou (British Columbia): "Blake and the
Eucharistic Machine: Technology and Mimesis in The Four
Zoas and Milton"
Arkady Plotnitsky (Purdue):
"Materiality and Conceptuality in Blake's The Marriage
of Heaven and
Hell"
2:15-2:30 p.m. SHORT BREAK
2:30-4:15 p.m. SESSION SIX
6A. Digitizing Romanticism
Prince Hall
Special Session: Neil Fraistat (Maryland)
These presentations have been mounted on the
Romantic Circles website.
Theresa M. Kelley (Texas-Austin) and Richard
Sha (American): "The Sister Arts go Digital: The
Romantic Circles Art Gallery"
Emma Clery (Sheffield Hallam):
"The Corvey Project Website: Collaborative Excavation of
the Professional Woman Writer 1790-1840"
Thomas Crochunis (Brown) and Michael
Eberle-Sinatra (Oxford): "Editing Electronically Women
Playwrights of the Romantic Period"
Kyle Grimes (Alabama): "Beyond the Paper Chase: A
Comprehensive Online Romantics
Bibliography"
6B. Romanticism and Chaos
Evangeline Room
Special Session: Hugh Roberts
(California-Irvine)
Charles Snodgrass (Texas A and M): "Fractal Borders
of Scotland within Britain; or, How Long is the Coastline
of Romanticism?"
Clifford J. Marks (Wyoming):
"Ethics and Chaos: Shelley's 'Triumph of Life'"
R. Paul Yoder (Arkansas-Little Rock):
"Self-Similarity in Blake's
Jerusalem"
6C. The Red and the Green: Rethinking
the Relation between Ecocriticism and Ideological
Criticism
Moodie Room
Special Session: Robert Anderson (Oakland)
Michael Kohler (SUNY
Binghampton): "A Romantic Critique of Environmental
Modernization"
Gary Harrison (New Mexico):
"Millennial Ecology: Malthus and Young on Population and
Agriculture"
Thomas Hothem (Rochester):
"Romantic Ecology and Visual Aesthetics: Re-reading WW's
Guide to the
Lakes"
6D. Romanticism and the New
Psychology II
Screening Room
Special Session: Alan Richardson (Boston
College)
Matt Green: "Disruptions of Identity: Points of
Intersection between Blake's Urizen Books and Cognitive
Neuroscience"
Michael G. Miller (Murray State): "Modern
Neuroscience and Coleridge's Theory of the
Imagination"
Robert C. Hale (Texas A and M): "'The Danger of a
Mother's Voice': Identification and Wordsworth's 'Her Eyes
are Wild'"
Cynthia Whissell (Laurentian): "Dimensions of
Linguistic and Emotional Style: Computerized Analysis of
the Prototypical Romantic
Poets"
4:15-5:00 p.m. BREAK to get to the Delta
Barrington
5:00-6:30p.m. Sackville Room, Delta
Barrington Hotel
Public Plenary
Panel
OLD WORLD TO NEW: BEATRICE IN HISTORY
George Elliott Clarke,
author (Duke/Toronto)
Maureen Moynagh, professor (St. Francis
Xavier)
Sylvia Hamilton, filmmaker
David States,
historian
7:00-10:00 p.m. Murphy's on the
Waterfront
HARBOUR TOUR AND
BANQUET
Music supplied by Brae Celtic Music, in the
Scottish, Irish and Cape Breton
Traditions
SATURDAY AUGUST 14 (joint day with IGA)
Embodying
Romanticisms
10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. BOOK DISPLAY
8:30-10:00 a.m. SESSION SEVEN
7A. New Boots, New
Bodies
Haliburton Room
MODERATOR: Joel Faflak (Western)
Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate): "Harold Bloom's
Body"
James Allard (Waterloo):
"'Mortal, Immortal': Embodying Keats"
Paul Youngquist (Penn State):
"Byron's New Boot: Poetry, Politics and the Prosthetic
Body"
7B. Romantic Women
Writers and the Novel
Evangeline Room
MODERATOR: Candace Ward (Illinois State)
Irena Nikolova (Western
Ontario): "Mary Shelley's Valperga and the
Prophecies of History"
Judith Davis Miller (Sacred Heart): "Charlotte Smith
and the Limits of Utopian Vision"
Shelley King (Queens,
Kingston): "New Definitions of Gender Codes in Adeline
Mowbray"
7C. New Approaches to
the Conversation Poems
Moodie Room
MODERATOR: Judith Thompson (Dalhousie/Kings)
David Rogner (Concordia, Illinois): "Coleridge in
the Claude Glass: A New Look at the Conversation
Poems"
Daniel E. White (Puget Sound): "Coleridgean Dissent
and the Conversation Poems:Sermoni
Propriora'"
7D. New
Subjectivities, New Identities
Screening Room
MODERATOR: Jerry Hogle (Arizona)
Laura Quinney (Brandeis):
"Byron, Shelley and the Attrition of Consciousness"
Andrea Henderson (Michigan): "Keats, Tighe and the
Remaking of the Soul"
Debbie Lee (Washington State): "Romantic
Lies"
10:00-10:30 a.m.
"BREAK, BREAK, BREAK..."
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
SESSION
EIGHT
8A. Byron's New
Clothes
Haliburton Room
MODERATOR:Robert Anderson (Oakland)
Laura George (Eastern Michigan): "Byronism and the
Dandy as Hero: New Varieties of Masculinity under Commodity
Capitalism"
Nicholas Mason (SUNY-Stony Brook): "`Bookselling,
backshop, Paternoster Row, paltry proceedings': Byron and
the Creation of the Brand-Name Author"
Jacqueline Pitcher (Acadia):
"`A path to perpetuity of fame': Byron and
Celebrity"
8B. Coleridge: the New
Text
Evangeline Room
MODERATOR: Michael O'Neill (Durham)
Nicholas Halmi (McMaster):
"The Norton Critical `Coleridge's Poetry and Prose'"
Murray J. Evans (Winnipeg): "What's New in
Coleridge's Opus Maximum?-and the Case of the
'Unsatisfactory' Ending to the 'Essays on Method' in The
Friend"
Alison Hickey (Wellesley): "The Body of My Father's
Writings: Sara Coleridge's Genial
Labour"
8C. New Approaches to
Marriage and Female Sexuality in Romantic Fiction
Moodie Room
MODERATOR: Shelley King (Queens)
John Pierce (Queens, Kingston): "Theory, Practice
and Double Critique in Amelia Opie's Adeline
Mowbray"
Sarah Emsley (Dalhousie): "A New Kind of Marriage in
Secresy and Sense and Sensibility"
Jill Heydt-Stevenson (Colorado-Boulder): "'New'
Sources of Bawdy Pleasure in Jane Austen's
Novels"
8D. Barbauld: New
Readings
Screening Room
MODERATOR: Lisa Vargo (Saskatchewan)
Karen Hadley (Kentucky): "The Wealth of Nations, or
the Happiness of Nations?: Barbauld's Malthusian Critique
in 'Eighteen Hundred and Eleven'"
Haley Bordo (Western Ontario):
"'Crossing Lines': Anna Lætitia Barbauld's
'Washing-Day' and the Performance of Genre"
William R. Hooton III (Duquesne): "The Universal
Tongue of Nature Unitarianism, Pantheism and Anna
Barbauld's 'The Mouse's
Petition'"
12:00-1:15 p.m.
LUNCH
NASSR Business Meeting (Everyone
Welcome!)
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Prince Hall
Plenary
PATHOGENIC TRANSPORTS:
LITERATURE IN AN AGE OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL
CRISIS
Alan Bewell
(Toronto):
author ofWordsworth and the Enlightenment (1989),
Romanticism and Colonial Disease (1999), Medicine
and the West Indian Slave Trade
(1999)
Introduced and moderated
by Tim Fulford (Nottingham
Trent)
3:00-3:30 a.m.
"BREAK, BREAK, BREAK..."
3:30-5:30 p.m. SESSION NINE
9A. Romantic
Fevers
Haliburton Room
Special Session: Patricia deMeo (Dalhousie)
Katherine T. Meiners (Moorhead State): "Suffering,
Rehabilitation, Reputation: Sara and S.T. Coleridge"
Candace Ward (Illinois State):
"'A Fit of Illness': Sick Bodies and Aching Hearts"
Jock Murray (Dalhousie): "Medicine in Alexandre
Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo"
Marcia Allentuck (City U of NY):"Sir Humphrey Davy's
Salmonia: Romantic Ecocriticism and the Angling
Cure"
9B. Back to the
Future: Romanticism and Technologies of
Production
Evangeline Room
Special Session: Dino Felluga
(Purdue)
Geraldine Friedman (Purdue):
"Mary Diana Dods & Queer Romantic Modernity:
Pseudonymy, Passing & the Limits of Biography"
Scott Hess (Harvard): "Death
and the Author: Wordsworth, the Epitaph,
Self-Representation and the British Print Market"
Dino Felluga (Purdue): "`With
a most voiceless thought': Byron and the Radicalism of
Textual
Culture"
9C. The Bodies of
Romanticism
Moodie Room
MODERATOR: John Pierce (Queens)
Glen Brewster (Wesfield State College): "The
Distintegration of the Social Body in Blake and Mary
Shelley"
M. Royce Kallerud (Truman
State): "The Body Politic and Shelley's The Last
Man"
Peter Otto (Melbourne):
"Becoming (post)modern/Recovering the body: Blake,
Swedenborg and the Desire for an Absolute Body"
David J. Bondy (Windsor): "(Re)Reading Oothoon's
Desire"
9D. Reassessing
Romantic Origins
Screening Room
MODERATOR: Robert M. Ryan (Rutgers)
Anthony Lake (Bilkent,
Turkey): "Thomas Chatterton, Romanticism and The Origins of
Nationalism "
Michael Zeliff (Smithsonian
Institution): "John Keats: Highmindedness and a Jealousy
for Good in the 'Poems' Volume of 1817"
Gary Handwerk (Washington): "Beyond Beginnings:
Friedrich Schlegel's Late Historiographical
Work"
9E. Romanticism and
the New Gothic: Seminar Special
Sackville Room, Delta Barrington Hotel
Joint Special Session with IGA: Jerrold Hogle
(Arizona)
Note: This Special Session will be devoted to discussing
and debating, rather than delivering, the papers.
Conference participants are welcome, but are advised to
request the papers in advance from the chair(e-mail:
hogle@u.arizona.edu).
Jerrold Hogle (Arizona): "Introduction: the Times of
the 'Romantic' and the neo-'Gothic'"
Eric Daffron (Mississippi U for Women): "Double
Trouble: the Self, the Social Order, and the Trouble with
Sympathy in the Romantic and Postmodern Gothic"
Spencer Hall (Rhode Island College): "'Beyond the
Realms of Dream: Gothic, Romantic & Poetic Identity in
Shelley's 'Alastor'"
Lilach Lachman (Tel Aviv): "The Aesthetics of Fear:
Involutions of Time in DeQuincey and Dickinson"
Michael Macovski (Fordham): "Revisiting
Primogeniture: Romantic Revisions of the Kinship
Metaphor"
Arnold Markley (Penn State):
"Mary Shelley's 'New Gothic': Parody and Social Critique in
the Short Fiction"
John Rieder (Hawaii): "Patriarchal Fantasy and the
Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and its
Adaptations"
Jay Salisbury (Arizona):
"Gothic and Romantic Wandering: The Epistemology of
Oscillation"
5:30-6:15 p.m.
BREAK to get to the Delta
Barrington
6:15-7:30 p.m.
Joint NASSR/IGA
Plenary
Sackville Room, Delta Barrington
Hotel
DEAD SHELLEY
Maggie
Kilgour (McGill):
author of From Communion to Cannibalism (1990);
The Rise of the Gothic Novel
(1995)
Introduced and moderated
by Ian Balfour (York University,
Toronto)
10:00 to the end... (Graveyard
Shift):
IGA/NASSR MASKED BALL
Halifax
Citadel
SUNDAY
AUGUST
15
Euromanticisms past, passing and to
come...
10:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
BOOK DISPLAY
9:00-10:30
a.m. SESSION TEN
10A.
Romanticism and the New Europe
Haliburton Room
MODERATOR: Nanora Sweet (Missouri-St. Louis)
Esther Wohlgemut (Ottawa):
"Internationalism in The Edinburgh Review"
Kari Lokke
(California-Davis): "Rewriting Romanticism: George Sand's
Consuelo and Revolutionary
History"
10B.
Romanticism, Empiricism and the `New'
Evangeline Room
Special Session: Gavin Budge
(Central England)
Conrad Brunstrom (National
University of Ireland): "William Cowper and the Infant
Horatian: Retirements, Old and New"
Alex Dick (Western Ontario):
"The New Aristocracy: Romanticism, Money and the
Performance of 'Novelty'"
Gavin Budge (Central
England): "`Creating Taste': Coleridge's Justification to
Wordsworth in the Biographia Literaria and the
appeal to 'common
sense'"
10C.
Imperial Novelties and Antiquities
Moodie Room
MODERATOR: Moderator: John Bugg (Fordham) Eric Gidal (Iowa): "'A Useful
Companion and an Agreeable Remembrancer': Novelty and
Antiquarianism in Guides to the British Museum"
Ya-feng Wu (National Taiwan
U): "Anxiety of Empire: The Carthaginian Theme in
Turner"
10D.
Systematic Thought and the New
Screening Room
Special Session: Tilottama Rajan (Western
Ontario)
Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario): "System and
Singularity from Herder to Hegel"
David Clark (McMaster): "Schelling Arrivant: The
History of Modern Philosophy . . . To
Come"
10:30-11:00 a.m. "BREAK,
BREAK, BREAK..."
11:00
a.m.-1:00 p.m. SESSION ELEVEN
11A.
Whither Romanticism
Haliburton Room
MODERATOR: Matt Green (Leeds)
Edward Larrissy (Leeds):
"Postmodern Romanticisms"
David Vallins (Hong Kong):
"Romanticism and Materialism: Functions of Criticism in the
21st Century"
Mark Edmundson (Virginia): "The Dead End of
Historical Criticism-And Some Ways
Out."
11B.
Romantic Renewals of the Past
Evangeline Room
Special Session: Regina Hewitt (South Florida)
Lauren G. Henry (Boston): "Britannia's Boast,
Afric's Woe: Romantic Revision of the Slave Trade
Era"
Robert M. Ryan (Rutgers): "Old and New Mortality:
Walter Scott's Religious Politics"
Ted Underwood (Colby College): "`The Wind Blows
Legend-Laden Through the Trees': Ossian's Ghosts and the
Materialization of History"
Regina Hewitt (South Florida): "Miltonic Contention:
Landor's Renewal of English
Republicanism"
11C.
Nouvelles de Staël
Moodie Room
Special Session: Theresa
Kelley (Texas-Austin)
Ann T. Gardiner (New York):
"Obiter Dicta : Germaine de Staël in The
Times, July 1817"
Julie Carlson
(California-Santa Barbara): "Madame de Staël's
Character"
Lori Marso (Union College):
"Self-Styling and the Feminized Polity in Germaine de
Staël's Ten Years of Exile"
Theresa Kelley
(Texas-Austin): "Passion and Germaine de
Staël"
11D.
Rereading the Romantic Sublime
Screening Room
MODERATOR: Moderator: Ian Balfour (York University,
Toronto)
Nicholas Mark Williams
(Indiana): "DeQuincey's 'Sublime Contagion': The Virtual
Public Sphere in the Murder Essays"
William Flesch (Brandeis): "Infinity and
Subjectivity"
Denise Gigante (Princeton): "Rereading the
Wordsworthian Mind that Feeds"
William D. Melaney (Adirondack College): "Kant's
Symptomology: Skepticism and Affirmation in Aesthetic
Discourse"
1:00-2:00
p.m. LUNCH
2:00-3:30
p.m. SESSION TWELVE
12A.
Revolution and Revival
Evangeline Room
MODERATOR: Michael T. Williamson (Indiana U of
Pennsylvania)
Vittorio Frigerio
(Dalhousie): "Backwater of History: Alexandre Dumas and the
Neapolitan Revolution of 1799"
Anne Mallory (Georgia): "Burke, Boredom and the Age
of Revolution "
Andrew M. Stauffer (California State): "Anger,
Inflammation and Revolutionary
Discourse"
12B.
Renovating Romance
Moodie Room
MODERATOR: Kathleen McConnell (Dalhousie)
Elizabeth Fay (Massachusetts-Boston): "The Romance
of Romantic Medievalism: Remembering History"
Elisa Beshero-Bondar (Penn
State): "The Eolian Harp of an Exiled Woman: Matilda
Betham's The Lay of Marie"
Chris Ann Matteo (Princeton):
"Le grand jeu and The Great Game: Chronotopes and
the Politics of Play in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
and Rudyard Kipling's
Kim"
12C.
Romantic Revivals in Ireland
Screening Room
MODERATOR: Ed Larrissy (Leeds)
Guinn Batten (Washington U-St. Louis): "'Of Death
and the Special Powers': Romantic Revivals in Contemporary
Irish Poetry"
Maureen O'Connor (Claremont): "Oscar Wilde's The
Picture of Dorian Gray as an Irish National Tale"
Bruce Wyse (Northern British
Columbia): "Traumatic Healing, Romanticism and Sacrifice in
Brian Friel's Faith
Healer"
For more
information,
contact:
NASSR
'99
Department of English
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3J5
CANADA
Fax: (902) 494-2176
e-mail: nassr99@is.dal.ca
Last updated August 8, 1999 by Kathleen
McConnell
|