20th International Conference on Romanticism Oakland University

20th International Conference on Romanticism

Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

September 26-29, 2013

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

1 PM Shuttle departs from the Royal Park Hotel and arrives at Meadow Brook Hall on the Oakland University campus.

Registration 9 AM-12PM (Royal Park Hotel) 1 PM-6 PM Meadowbrook Hall (Oakland University)

Concurrent Sessions 1 A-D, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Meadow Brook Hall (Oakland University)

Session 1 A (Thursday, 1:30-2:45): Time and Death (Library)

Chair: Jeff Chapman, Oakland University

1. Neil Finlayson, York University: “The Relations of Things: Time in Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer”

2. Emily Zarka, Arizona State University: “The Undead Presence: Exploring Boundaries of Life, Death and Sex in ‘Christabel,’ ‘The Skeleton Priest,’ and ‘The Aerial Chorus’”

3. Mark Lounibos, Finlandia University: “Byron’s (Bio)Politics: An Aesthetics of Entombment”

Session 1 B (Thursday, 1:30-2:45): Animal Relations (Sun Porch)

Chair: Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University

1. Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University: “Romantic Relations and Constructive Affinities: Notions of Family in Kater Murr”

2. Marjean D. Purinton, Texas Tech University: “Canines and Quadrupeds: Human and Animal Relations Staged in Romantic Drama”

3. Laura J. George, Eastern Michigan University: “Posthumanist Wordsworth? Relations between humans, animals and things in The White Doe of Rylstone”

Session 1 C (Thursday, 1:30-2:45): Oakland University Student Panel (Ballroom)

Chair: Rachel Smydra, Oakland University

1. Jason Storms, Oakland University: “Discourses of Personhood and Contract in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein”

2. Nathan Reiber, Oakland University: “Josiah Warren and Godwinian individualism in 19th Century America”

3. Shannon Cooley, Oakland University: “The Newfoundland: Animal Metaphors in Antebellum Literature”

4. Allison Bohn, Oakland University: “Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Tradition and Nineteenth-Century Brain Science: An Exploration Invested in Literature and Neurological Experimentation”

Session 1 D (Thursday, 1:30-2:45): Percy Bysshe Shelley (Study)

Chair: Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, Oakland University

1. Shalon Nicole Noble, University of Western Ontario: “Ecology of Joy in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound”

2. Elizabeth Bishop, Emory University: “Facing Alterity, Witnessing Death: the Question of Suicide in Adonais”

3. Bart Andreacchi, “Representation and The Real in The Cenci”

First Plenary Session: Thursday, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Ballroom)

Moderator: Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University

Presentation: Fredrick Burwick, Research Professor, UCLA

“Pirates of the Romantic Stage”

Concurrent Sessions 2 A-D, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Meadow Brook Hall

Session 2 A (Thursday 4:15-5:30):  Reception (Library)

Chair: William Davis, Colorado College

1. Stacey L. Hahn, Oakland University: “Balzac and the French New Wave: A Problematic but Enticing Relationship”

2. Hollie Harder, Brandeis University: “Recipes for the Romantic artist in Proust’s In Search of Time”

3. Christopher Kelleher, University of Toronto: “‘The Problem of Sex’: Relations of Hybridity, Romanticism, and Failed Revolutions in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace”

Session 2 B (Thursday 4:15-5:30):  Thelwall’s Daughter of Adoption (Sun Porch)

Chair: Yasmin Solomonescu, University of Notre Dame

1. Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University: “The Saint Domingue Slave Rebellion and Feminist Reform in John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption (1801)”

2. Judith Thompson, Dalhousie University: “Building up a Family in The Daughter of Adoption”

3. Molly Desjardins, University of Northern Colorado: “Blood Relations: John Thelwall’s Daughter of Adoption and the Slavery Debate of the 1790’s”

Session 2 C (Thursday 4:15-5:30): Generic Relations: The Ballad (Ballroom)

Chair: Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University

1. DeLisa D. Hawkes, North Carolina Central University: “Lyrical Ballads: a malleable revolution”

2. Ruth Knezevich, University of Missouri-Columbia: “Romantic Media Relations: Thomas Percy’s Paratexts”

3. Andrew McKendry, Queens University: “Will the Public Please Step Forward? Representing Public Opinion in Byron’s The Vision of Judgment”

Session 2 D (Thursday 4:15-5:30): Romantic Travel 1 (Study)

Chair: Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Oakland University

1. Emily Dolive, University of New Hampshire: “Physical and Intellectual Journey in Keats’ Poetry and Prose”

2. Dominique Zino, CUNY Graduate Center: “Liquid Freedoms and Sunken Properties: Henry James’s Remediation of the Picturesque Tour”

ICR Presidential Address, 5:45-6:15 PM, Meadow Brook Hall (Ballroom)

Moderator: Larry Peer, Brigham Young University, Executive Director, International Conference on Romanticism

Presentation: Stephen Behrendt, University Professor and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, President of ICR

Reception, 6:30 PM -8:00 PM (Christopher Wren Dining Room)

8:00 PM – Shuttle departs from Meadow Brook Hall on the Oakland University campus and returns to the Royal Park Hotel

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013: (The Royal Park Hotel)

8 AM – 9 AM: Breakfast, Royal Park Hotel Registration: 8 AM-5 PM, Royal Park Hotel Concurrent Sessions 3 A-D, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM, Royal Park Hotel

Session 3 A (Friday 9:00-10:15): Distant Relations: Locating Kinship (Parlor A)

Chair: David Sigler, University of Idaho

1. William Davis, Colorado College: “‘One with Everything’: Romantics Inventing Greece”

2. Thomas McLean, University of Otago: “Byron, Russia, and Sardanapalus”

3. Christopher Thomas, Indiana University: “Clothed in Tattoos: The Re-Writing of Identity in George Vason’s Authentic Narrative of Four Years’ Residence in Tongataboo”

Session 3 B (Friday 9:00-10:15): Feminism (Parlor B)

Chair: Kathryn McEwen, Michigan State University

1. Amy L. Gates, University of Illinois at Chicago: “Vindication and Vocation: Relating Career and Self-Concept in Wollstonecraft’s Work”

2. Carrie Busby, University of Alabama, Birmingham: “Performing Byronic Gender: Anne Lister Reads, Relates and Projects”

3. Geraldine Friedman, Purdue University: “Signifying Life: Anna Seward’s Love Poetry and Love Letters on and to Honora Sneyd”

Session 3 C (Friday 9:00-10:15):  Intertextuality (Parlor C)

Chair: Hollie Harder, Brandeis University

1. Mark K. Fulk, SUNY Buffalo: “Raising the Sublime: A Burkean Reading of Ice Road Truckers”

2. Catherine Talley, University of California, Berkeley: “I am the Other: Nerval’s Creative Intertextuality”

3. Brad Bannon, University of Tennessee: “Lord Byron and the Father of Lincoln’s Assassin”

Session 3 D (Friday 9:00-10:15): Wordsworth (Parlor D)

Chair: Rob Anderson, Oakland University

1. Renee Harris, University of Kansas: “Wordsworth Performs Mental Science: The Interrelations of Mind, Body, and Nature in Forming the Poetic Consciousness”

2. Steve Tedeschi, University of Alabama: “Wordsworth’s Relation to Urban Ideology”

3. Timothy Wilcox, Stony Brook University: “Throwing Away the Ladder: The Prelude as a Model for Digital Aesthetics”

Concurrent Sessions 4 A-D, 10:30AM – 11:45 AM, Royal Park Hotel

Session 4 A (Friday 10:30-11:45): Relations of Gender (Parlor A)

Chair: Amy L. Gates, University of Illinois at Chicago

1. David Sigler, University of Idaho: “British Romanticism, Sexual Relations, and the Novel: Reassessing Woman, As She Is, and as She Should Be”

2. Chris Koenig-Woodyard, University of Toronto: “Jane Austen and Horrid Novels: Intersections of Gender and Genre with Parsons’ The Castle of Wolfenbach”

3. Dawn Kaczmar, University of Michigan: “William Blake’s The Book of Thel and Feminine Identity”

Session 4 B (Friday 10:30-11:45):  Philosophical Relations (Parlor A)

Chair: Tom Schmid, University of Texas El Paso

1. Joshua Wilner, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY: “The Mathematical Sublime and Chaos Theory in Kant and Wordsworth”

2. Nicole Sütterlin, University of Basel: “Dark Relations: Romanticism and Deconstruction”

3. Daniel Lorca, Oakland University: “The Romantic Condition and Cervantes: Please Stop Reading Don Quixote so Seriously”

Session 4 C (Friday 10:30-11:45):  Visual Arts (Parlor C)

Chair: Thora Brylowe, University of Pittsburgh

1. Thora Brylowe, University of Pittsburgh, and Jonathan Vander Woude, University of Pittsburgh: “Working the Line: Romantic Engravers and Their Employers”

2. Neil Holmstrom, University of Tasmania: “The Relationship between Romantic, Artistic Representations of Female and Male Death”

3. Flavia Ruzi, University of California-Riverside: “The (Un)Making of Georgiana’s Selves: English Portraiture and the Aesthetic Production of the Duchess of Devonshire”

Session 4 D (Friday 10:30-11:45): Wollstonecraft and Family (Parlor D)

Chair: Steve Tedeschi, University of Alabama

1. Sharon Lynne Joffe, North Carolina State University: “‘Expressions in My Mother’s Letters’: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Familial Relationships in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley Circle”

2. Melissa McCoul, University of Notre Dame: “Maternal Vision and Structures of Affection in Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence”

Lunch: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM – on your own (please refer to the list of restaurants in downtown Rochester near the conference venue)

ICR Executive Committee Lunch & Meeting: Royal Park Hotel, Stratford Conference Room

Concurrent Sessions 5 A-D, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Royal Park Hotel

Session 5 A (Friday 1:30-2:45): Biographical Relations (Parlor A)

Chair: Roger Whitson, Washington State University

1. Seth Howes, Oakland University: “Sibling Incest and Romantic Selves in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones”

2. Hannah Markley, Emory University: “‘In and among us’: Specters of Friendship in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria”

3. Rebecca Nesvet, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: “Sweeney Todd's Romantic Ancestry”

Session 5 B (Friday 1:30-2:45): Romantic Travel 2 (Parlor B)

Chair: Mark Fulk, SUNY Buffalo

1. Jessica Roberson, University of California, Riverside: “The Palm-Tree of ‘No Kindred Hue’: Negotiating Cosmopolitan Relations in Hemans, Williams, and Smith”

2. Kaitlin Gowan, Arizona State University: “The Poet: A Wandering Scholar: A Romantic Proto-Scientist in Percy Shelley’s Alastor: or The Spirit of Solitude”

3. Lisbeth Chapin, Gwynedd-Mercy College: “Shelley, Sex, and the City: London, Leghorn, and ‘Letter to Maria Gisborne’”

Session 5 C (Friday 1:30-2:45): Colonialism (Parlor C)

Chair: Kathleen Pfeiffer, Oakland University

1. Kemael Johnson, Wayne State University: “The Romantic Subversion of British Colonialism: John Thelwall’s New World Plays and Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince”

2. Lisa Plummer Crafton, University of West Georgia: “‘Strange alteration wrought on every side’: Place and Exile in Wordsworth”

3. Talissa Ford, Temple University: “Republican Ragamuffins: A. M. Falconbridge and the Globalization of Sierra Leone”

Session 5 D (Friday 1:30-2:45): Mary Shelley & Science (Parlor D)

Chair Jennifer Gower-Toms, Oakland University

1. Amy Mallory-Kani, SUNY Albany: “Mary Shelley’s The Last Man: Humanity, Immunity, and the ‘Magnificent Drama’ of Personhood”

2. Kisa Marie Lape, University of Maryland: “Dissecting History: Surgery and the Social Body”

3. Kent Linthicum, Arizona State University: “Extinction of the Future: The Last Man and Romantic Science”

Concurrent Sessions 6 A-D, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Royal Park Hotel

Session 6 A (Friday 3:00-4:30): Trans-Atlantic (Parlor A)

Chair: Seth Howes, Oakland University

1. Dana Ringuette, Eastern Illinois University: “‘Let us consider what obstructions impede the good era’: The Methods of Margaret Fuller and Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

2. Christopher Hanlon, Eastern Illinois University: “Whitman’s ‘Word out of the Sea’ and Atlantic Noise”

3. Laurel Hankins, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth: “Early Times in American Romanticism”

Session 6 B (Friday 3:00-4:30): Blake (Parlor B)

Chair: Doris Plantus, Oakland University

1. Roger Whitson, Washington State University: “Steampunk William Blake: Genealogies of Critical Making”

2. Brandee Easter, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “‘My fierce fires are better than thy snows’: Urizen as Printmaker”

3. Jennifer Davis Michael, Sewanee: The University of the South, “‘God becomes as we are’: Blake, Irenaeus, and the Perilous Paths of Orthodoxy”

4. David Baulch, University of West Florida: “’Living Form’: William Blake’s Gothic Relations”

Session 6 C (Friday 3:00-4:30): Mary Russell Mitford: Local, Global and Digital Relations (Parlor C)

Chair: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg

1. Kellie Donovan-Condron, Babson College: “‘In the various relations of life’: Female Relationships in Mitford’s Blanch”

2. Samantha Webb, University of Montevallo: “Mary Russell Mitford’s Romantic Collectivities: Social Relations and Cottage Politics in Our Village”

3. Lisa M. Wilson, SUNY Potsdam: “Authorial Relations: Mary Russell Mitford’s Recollections”

4. Elisa Beshero-Bondar, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg: “Launching a Digital Mary Russell Mitford: the MRMS Collaborative Project”

Session 6 D (Friday 3:00-4:30): Godwin Shelley Circle (Parlor D)

Chair: Robert Anderson, Oakland University

1. Norma Aceves, California State University-Northridge: “Romantic Necrophilia: Death and Desire in the Godwin-Shelley Circle”

2. Yasmin Solomonescu, University of Notre Dame: “‘What signifies prating”: Godwin’s Things as They Are and the Rhetorical Tradition”  

3. Suzie Asha Park, Eastern Illinois University: “‘With rocks and stones and trees’: Recessive Relations between Objects in Romantic Writing”

Second Plenary Session, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Parlor D)

Moderator: Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Oakland University

Presentation: Doris Kadish, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of French and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia

“French and Haitian Romanticisms”

Dinner: 6:00 PM – on your own in Downtown Rochester (please refer to the list of downtown Rochester Restaurants)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2013 Registration, 8 AM-5 PM, Royal Park Hotel

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: Breakfast, Royal Park Hotel (Gallery South)

Concurrent Sessions 7 A-D, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM, Royal Park Hotel

Session 7 A (Saturday 8:30-9:45): Creative Relations (Parlor A)

Chair: David S. Hogsette, New York Institute of Technology

1. David S. Hogsette, New York Institute of Technology: “Romanticism in Victorian Mythopoeic Fantasy: The Relationship between Coleridge’s Cognitive Theory and George MacDonald’s Redemptive Imagination”

2. Daniel R. Mangiavellano, Tulane University: “Habit, Creativity, and the Blue-Coat Boys of Christ Hospital”

3. Elizabeth Neiman, University of Maine: “Romantic Discourse about Authorship: Poetic Genius and its Relations to the Novel Reader-turned-Writer”

Session 7 B (Saturday 8:30-9:45):  Looking East: Asia-European Relations (Parlor B)

Chair: L. Bailey McDaniel, Oakland University

1. Stephen Filler, Oakland University: “Romanticism and Nationalism in the Poetry and Essays of Kitamura Tökoku”

2. Seigo Nakao, Oakland University: “Realization of Male Fantasy: Pierre Loti in Nagasaki and Tokyo”

Session 7 C (Saturday 8:30-9:45):  Painting, Sculpture, and Visual Arts (Parlor C)

Chair: Stacey Hahn, Oakland University

1. Sarah Lippert, University of Michigan-Flint: “Unity and Androgyny: Intersections of Masculinity and Femininity in the Art of Early Nineteenth-Century France”

2. Joseph Rockelmann, Purdue University: “Ludwig Tieck’s Artful Use of Hallucinations and the Pygmalion Effect in Die Gemälde”

Session 7 D (Saturday 8:30-9:45):  Wordsworth in the Woods (Parlor D)

Chair: Rob Anderson, Oakland University

1. Frank Mabee, Fichtburg State University: “Mutiny in the Woods: Maritime Radicalism in Wordsworth’s The Borderers”

2 Matthew Rowney, CUNY Graduate Center: Broken Arbour: The Ruined Cottage and Deforestation”

3. Amelia Greene, CUNY Graduate Center: “Speaking for a Place: Relational Landscapes in Clare and Wordsworth”

Concurrent Sessions 8 A-D, 10:00 AM – 11:15AM, Royal Park Hotel

Session 8 A (Saturday 10:00-11:15):  Ecological Relations (Parlor A)

Chair: Josh Wilner, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

1. Gabrielle Kappes, Graduate Center, CUNY: “Spinozistic Relations: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Ecological Ontology”

2. Michael R. Page, University of Nebraska, Lincoln: “The Loudons and the Agricultural Imagination”

3. Courtney Maren Hilden, University of New Orleans: “William Apess the Romantic”

Session 8 B (Saturday 10:00-11:15):  Versions of Romantic Love (Parlor B)

Chair: Eugene Stelzig, SUNY Geneseo

1. Andrew Kay, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “Keats’s Death-Centered Poetics and the Allegory of Reading”

2. William Porter, Harvard University: “The Single Life: Love at Walden Pond”

3. Elizabeth Weybright, The Graduate Center, CUNY: “Byron’s Hebrew Melodies: Romanticizing an Old Testament Tradition of Love”

Session 8 C (Saturday 10:00-11:15):  Body Relations: Sex and Text (Parlor C)

Chair: Stephen Filler, Oakland University

1. Christopher Nagle, Western Michigan University, and Courtney Wennerstrom, University of Indiana: “Sade’s Last Laugh: Gothic Tales and the End(s) of Narrative”

2. Mark Diachyshyn, Dalhousie University: “‘Lady Wits, Male Coquettes and Bards of Gender Epicene’: Performance and Print Culture in John Thelwall’s Musalogia or the Paths of Poesy (1825-1827)”

Session 8 D (Saturday 10:00-11:15):  De Quincey (Parlor D)

Chair: Amanda Klinger, University of Oklahoma

1. Katie Homar, University of Pittsburgh, “‘Grand and Transcendent Themes’: Classical Rhetoric in De Quincey's ‘Literature of Power’”

2. Amanda Klinger, University of Oklahoma: “Urban Sensibility and Commodity Culture in

De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater”

3. James Nicholson, York University: “‘This mode of oblique research’ - De Quincey’s speculative essays”

Lunch: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Royal Park Hotel (Parlor F)

Concurrent Sessions 9 A-D, 12:45 PM – 2:15PM

Session 9 A (Saturday 12:45-2:15):  Hemans (Parlor A)

Chair: Daniel Lorca, Oakland University

1. Barbara Rieben, University of West Florida, “Dying to Speak: Locating Agency in the Tombs of Felicia Hemans’ Records of Woman”

2. Lisa Kirch, University of Maryland: Felicia Hemans’s Records of Woman and Mother-Child Relations: Murderous Mothers, Impartial Spectators, and Something in-between”

3. Seth Reno, Auburn University-Montgomery: “Hemans and the Affections”

Session 9 B (Saturday 12:45-2:15):  Scottish Relations: Scott, Porter

Chair: Nancy Moore Goslee, University of Tennessee

1. Shawna Lichtenwalner, East Tennessee State University, “Of Mice and Mendicants: Communal Support in Scottish Literature”

2. Nancy Moore Goslee, University of Tennessee: “Female Desire, National Melancholia, and the Making of Fiction”

3. Fiona Robertson, St. Mary’s University College, “‘Literary Estates: Walter Scott, J. B. S. Morritt, and Romanticism’s Delusive Architecture”

4. Jeffrey D. Cass, University of Houston-Victoria, “John Galt, Provost: The “Cloven-hoof of Self Interest”

Session 9 C (Saturday 12:45-2:15):  Illustrations (Parlor C)

Chair: Sarah Lippert, University of Michigan-Flint

1. Kasturi Ghosh, Salesian College: “Visions of Light and of Darkness: In William Blake’s Book of Job and Francisco de Goya’s Black Paintings”

2. Jacob Leveton, Northwestern University: “The Visual Technology of William Blake’s All Religions are One”

3. Theresa Nguyen, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Illuminated Distraction: Visual and Verbal Relations in Blake”

4. Christina Smylitopoulos, University of Guelph: “To Look Once Again: Tegg’s Regency Satire”

Session 9 D (Saturday 12:45-2:15):  Romantic Science (Parlor D)

Chair: Jeffrey Insko, Oakland University

1. Kristin Shimmin, Carnegie Mellon University: “Igniting Perceptions of Scientific Intervention: Humphry Davy’s Safety Lamp and the Changes in Circulating Perceptions of Science’s Applications”

2. Jonathan Ewell, San Diego State University: “Coleridge’s Opticks: Newton, Geometry, and Figuration in The Friend”

3. Claire Van der Broek, Indiana University: “Conceptualizing Trauma in Romanticism: Literary Responses to the Psychiatric Revolution”

Concurrent Sessions 10 A-D, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Session 10 A (Saturday 2:30-4:00):  Political Relations (Parlor A)

Chair: Jeffrey Cass, University of Houston-Victoria

1. Peggy Dunn Bailey, Henderson State University: “‘[R]elations in the Unseen’: Oracular Romanticism and ‘The Cry of the Children’”

2. Michael Demson, Sam Houston State University: “‘Torn from every tie of relationship’: John Cahauc, a Casualty of Post-Peterloo Repression”

3. Maria Cecilia Saenz-Roby, Oakland University: “The Phantasmagoric Figures of the Nineteenth-Century in the Contemporary Novel The Passion of the Nomads”

Session 10 B (Saturday 2:30-4:00):  Sensorial Relations (Parlor B)

Chair: Seth Reno, Auburn University-Montgomery

1. Drew MacDonald, Queen’s University, “Hallucination on the Mail: Cowper, De Quincey, and Mediated War”

2. Julian Whitney, Emory University: “The Death of Music: A Muted Voice and the Quest for Tonal Recovery in Shelley’s ‘Adonais’”

3. Julia Susana Gomez, University of Oregon, “Susan Howe’s Sublime: Romantic-Postmodern Ethics in ‘Articulation of Sound Forms in Time’”

Session 10 C (Saturday 2:30-4:00):  The Stage (Parlor C)

Chair: Frederick Burwick, UCLA

1. Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Oakland University, & Ashley Shams, University of St.Thomas: “Liminality, Deception, and Identity: Albrecht’s Self-Discovery in Giselle”

2. Carol Padgham Albrecht, University of Idaho: “Romance and Real Estate: The Public and Private Worlds of Opera Diva Irene Tomeoni”

3. Kathleen Béres Rogers, The College of Charleston: “‘Bearing Scorpion Stings’: The Problem of Obsession in Joanna Baillie’s Basil: A Tragedy”

4. Lissette López Szwydky, University of Arkansas: “Birth of an Adaptation Industry: Page and Stage Relations in the Romantic Period”

Session 10 D (Saturday 2:30-4:00):  Material Culture: Bodies and Things (Parlor D)

Chair: Chris Hanlon, Eastern Illinois University

1. CC Wharram, Eastern Illinois University: “‘Media of Varying Densities’: Of Touching Relations in Enrst Chladni and Walter Benjamin”

2. Kathryn McEwen, Michigan State University “The Hand and the Letter: Bodily Relations in the Correspondences of Rahel Levin Varnhagen”

3. Paige Ellisor-Catoe, Anderson University: “A Textual Relationship: The Gothic Heroine and Editorial Power”

4. Ian Newman, UCLA: “Sandman Joe and the Convivial Relations of Flash Ballads”

4-6 PM FREE TIME

Third Plenary Session, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Park Pavilion)

Moderator: Robert Anderson, Oakland University

Presentation: Ron Broglio, Associate Professor of English and Senior Scholar at the Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University.

“Sheeps, Fairies, and Hogg: Biopolitics of the Ettrick Shepherd”

Banquet Buffet “Under the Stars” 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (Park Pavilion)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

8 AM – 9 AM: Breakfast, Royal Park Hotel (Gallery South)

Concurrent Sessions 11 A-D, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM, Royal Park Hotel

Session 11 A (Sunday 9:00-10:15):  Readers and Writers (Parlor A)

Chair: Julie Kipp, Hope College

1. Traynor Hansen III, University of Washington: “Contempt Breeds Familiarity: Hazlitt’s Familiar Essay in the Literary Field”

2. Eric Hood, University of Kansas: “The Making of the Writing ‘Class’: Relations of Class in Southey’s Joan of Arc”

3.  Julie Kipp, Hope College, “Domestic Economy and Scot-Irish Alliances in Maria Edgeworth’s ‘The Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock’”

Session 11 B (Sunday 9:00-10:15): England’s Others (Parlor B)

Chair: Julie M. Barst, Siene Heights University

1. Jacqueline George, SUNY New Paltz, “’Every one now writes’: The Ironic Intimacy of Lady Blessington’s Fictional Confessions”

2. Chimi Woo, Cedarville University, “Cross-Cultural Encounter and Colonial Relations: The Irish National Tale and Irish National Character in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl”

3. Julie M. Barst, Siena Heights University, “Colonial Landscaping: The Picturesque in Britain and Australia”

Session 11 C (Sunday 9:00-10:15): Romantic Science and Self-Relationality (Parlor C)

Chair: Emily Stanback, Beckman Center, Chemical Heritage Foundation

1. Mary Fairclough, University of York (UK), “Richard Carlile, Electricity and Self-Determination”

2. Emily Stanback, Beckman Center, Chemical Heritage Foundation, “Medical Self-Experimentation and The English Opium-Eater”

3. Elizabeth Oldfather, Rutgers University, “‘Negative Capability’ and the Neuroscience of Mental Travel”

Session 11 D (Sunday 9:00-10:15): Addictive Relationships (Parlor D)

Chair: Michael Demson, Sam Houston State University

1. Corey Goergen, Emory University: “’Bowsing’ and ‘Drows[ing]’: John Keats, Addiction, and Self-Medication”

2. Jacob Hughes, Penn State University, “The Factitious Air: A Romantic Metaphor”

3. Tom Schmid, University of Texas-El Paso, “‘An Alien’s Restless Mood’: Coleridge’s [Addictive] Social World”

Concurrent Sessions 12 A-D, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM, Royal Park Hotel

Session 12 A (Sunday 10:30-11:45):  Fairy Tales (Parlor A)

Chair: Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University

1. Julie Koehler, Wayne State University: “Evil Compared to Whom?: Stepsister Rivalry in the Anonymous ‘The Bounty Rewarded or the Luck of the Beautiful Klara’”

2. Shandi Lynne Wagner, Wayne State University: “Mary Shelley, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and the Literary Annual Fairy Tale”

3. Christina Weiler, Purdue University / University of Freiburg: “A Popular Classic and Its Relation to World Literature – Rediscovering Grimms’ Fairy Tales”

Session 12 B (Sunday 10:30-11:45):  Captives and Freedom (Parlor B)

Chair: Hyson Cooper, Temple University

1. Dashielle Horn, Lehigh University: ‘Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?’: Layers of Imprisonment in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria”

2. Mariam Wassif, Cornell University: “The Discomforts of Home: Domestic Relations in Mansfield Park and Adventures on Salisbury Plain”

3. Hyson Cooper, Temple University: “‘An Inferior and an Infidel’: Humor and Humiliation in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya”

Session 12 C (Sunday 10:30-11:45):  Religious Relations (Parlor C)

Chair: AnaMaria Seglie, Rice University

1. Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia, “Two Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

2. AnaMaria Seglie, Rice University: “Reforming the Empire: Anti-Catholicism and U.S. Imperialism in Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures and George Lippard’s New York”

Session 12 D (Sunday 10:30-11:45): Austen (Parlor D)

Chair: Rob Anderson, Oakland University

1. Trevor McMichael, University of Oklahoma, “Men, Desire, and Commodity Culture in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility”

2. Reema Barlaskar, Wayne State University, “Negotiating Women’s Agency through Reading Practices in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, Ann Radcliffe’s Romance of the Forest, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey”

Index

Aceves,  Norma   6D  Albrecht,  Carol  Padgham   10C  Anderson,  Rob   3D,  6D,  7D,  12D  Andreacchi,  Bart   1D  Bailey,  Peggy  Dunn   10A  Bannon,  Brad   3C  Barlaskar,  Reema   12D  Barst,  Julie  M   11B  Baulch,  Daivd   6B  Berenato,  Thomas   12C  Behrendt,  Stephen   Pres.  Address  Beshero-­‐Bondar,  Elisa   6C  Bishop,  Elizabeth   1D  Bohn,  Allison   1C  Broglio,  Ron   Plenary  3  Brylowe,  Thora   4C  Burwick,  Frederick   Plenary  1,  10C  Busby,  Carrie   3B  Campoy-­‐Cubillo  Adolfo   1D  Cass,  Jeffrey  D.   9B,  10A  Chapin,  Lisbeth   5B  Chapman,  Jeff   1A  Cooper,  Hyson   12B  Clason,  Chris   1B,  12A  Cooley,  Shannon   1C  Davis,  William   2A,  3A  Demson,  Michael   10A,  11D  Desjardins,  Molly   2B  Diachyshyn,  Mark   8C  Dolive,  Emily   2D  Donovan-­‐Condron,  Kellie   6C  Easter,  Brandee   6B  Ellisor-­‐Catoe,  Paige   10D  Ewell,  Jonathan   9D  Filler,  Stephen   7B,  8C  Finlayson,  Neil   1A  Ford,  Talissa   5C  Friedman,  Geraldine   3B  Fulk,  Mark   3C,  5B  Gates,  Amy   3B,  4A  George,  Jacqueline   11B  George,  Laura   1B  Ghosh,  Kasturi   9C  Goergen,  Corey   11D  

Gomez,  Julia  Susana   10B  Goslee,  Nancy  Moore   9B  Gowan,  Kaitlin   5B  Gower-­‐Toms,  Jennifer   5D  Greene,  Amelia   7D  Hahn,  Stacey   2A,  7C    Hankins,  Laurel   6A  Hanlon,  Chris   6A  Hansen  III,  Traynor   11A  Harder,  Hollie   2A,  3C  Harris,  Renee   3D  Hawkes,  DeLisa   2C  Hilden,  Courtney  Marie   8A  Hogsette,  David   7A  Holmstrom,  Neil   4C  Homar,  Katie   8D  Hood,  Eric   11A  Horn,  Dashielle   12B  Howes,  Seth   5A,  6A  Hughes,  Jacob   11D  Insko,  Jeffrey   9D  Joffe,  Sharon  Lynne   4D  Johnson,  Kemael   5C  Kaczmar,  Dawn   4A  Kadish,  Doris   Plenary  2  Kappes,  Gabrielle   8A  Kay,  Andrew   8B  Kelleher,  Christopher   2A  Kip,  Julie   11A  Kirch,  Lisa   9A  Klinger,  Amanda   8D  Knesevich,  Ruth   2C  Koehler,  Julie   12A  Koenig-­‐Woodyard   4A  Lape,  Kisa  Marie   5D  Law-­‐Sullivan,  Jennifer   2D,  10C  Leveton,  Jacob   9C  Lichtenwalner,  Shawna   9B  Linthicum,  Kent   5D  Lippert,  Sarah   7C,  9C  Lorca,  Daniel   4B,  8A  Lounibos,  Mark   1A  Mabee,  Frank   7D  MacDonald,  Drew   10B  

Mallory-­‐Kani,  Amy   5D  Mangeiavellano,  Daniel   7A  Markley,  Hannah   5A  McKendry,  Andrew   2C  McCoul,  Melissa   4D  McLean,  Thomas   3A  McEwan,  Kathryn   3B  McEwen,  Kathryn   3B,  10D  McMichael,  Trevor   12D  Michael,  Jennifer  Davis   6B  Nagle,  Christopher   8C  Nakao,  Seigo   7B  Neiman,  Elizabeth   7A  Nesvet,  Rebecca   5A  Newman,  Ian   10D  Nguyen,  Theresa   9C  Nicholson,  James   8D  Noble,  Shalon   1D  Oldfather,  Elizabeth   11C  Page,  Michael   8A  Park,  Suzie  Asha   6D  Pfeiffer,  Kathleen   5C  Plantus,  Doris   6B  Plummer,  Lisa   5C  Porter,  William   8B  Purinton,  Marjean   1B,  2C  Reiber,  Nathan   1C  Reno,  Seth   9A  Rieben,  Barbara   9A  Ringuette,  Dana   6A  Roberson,  Jessica   5B  Robertson,  Fiona   9B  Rockelmann,  Joseph   7C  Rogers,  Kathleen,  Béres 10C  Rowney,  Matthew   7D  Ruzi,  Flavia   4C  Saenz-­‐Roby,  Maria  Cecilia10A  Schmid,  Tom   4B,  11D  Scrivener,  Michael   2B  Seglie,  AnaMaria   12C  Shams,  Ashley   10C  Shimmin,  Kristin   9D  Sigler,  David   3A,  4A  Smydra,  Rachel   1C  Smylitopoulos,  Christina   9C  Solomonescu,  Yasmin   2B,  6D  

Stanback,  Emily   11C  Stelzig,  Gene   8B  Storms,  Jason   1C  Sütterlin, Nicole 4B  Szwydky,  Lissette  Lopez   10C  Talley,  Catherine   3C  Tedeschi,  Steve   3D,  4D  Thomas,  Christopher   3A  Thompson,  Judith   2B  Van  der  Broek,  Claire   9D  Warram,  CC   10D  Wagner,  Shandi  Lynne   12A  Wassif,  Mariam   12B  Webb,  Samantha   6C  Weiler,  Christina   12A  Wennerstrom,  Courtney   8C  Weybright,  Elizabeth   8B  Whitney,  Julian   10B  Whitson,  Roger   5A,  6B  Wilcox,  Timothy   3D  Wilner,  Joshua   4B,  8A  Wilson,  Lisa   6C  Woo,  Chimi   11B  Zarka,  Emily   1A  Zino,  Dominique   2D        

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