EC/ASECS 2010 Conference

Conference Program

EC/ASECS 2010

Thursday, November 4

5:00–7:00 pm: Registration open, Conference Level Foyer

5:45–7:00 pm

1. Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History

Chair, Rodney Mader (West Chester U of PA)

Room A

Lacy Marschalk (Auburn U), Reading Eliza Fay: Reception, Restoration, and Recovery, 1817–2010
James May (Penn State DuBois), The Publication and Revision of Smollett’s Continuation of the Complete History of England, 1760–1766
Leah Orr (Penn State U), The Basis for Attribution in the Canon of Eliza Haywood

2. Recovering Nature

Chair, Linda Troost (Washington & Jefferson College)

Room C

Peter Perreten (Ursinus College), Recovery through Metaphor in Evelyn’s Sylva
Brian Glover (East Carolina U), Joseph and Thomas Warton and a Post-Natural Religion
Matthew Vickless (Duquesne U), Effusions of Nature: Sensibility and Visionary Poetics in Yearsley’s Poems on Various Subjects

7:00 pm: Opening Reception, Room B

8:00 pm: The Oral/Aural Experience

Organizer, Peter Staffel (West Liberty U)

Room A

Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787)

Friday, November 5

8:30–5:00 pm: Registration open, Conference Level Foyer

8:00–9:00 am: Continental Breakfast, Conference Level Foyer

9:00–noon, 1:00–4:45 pm

Book Exhibit, Room D

9:00–10:15 am

3. “The Disaffected”: King George’s “Good” Americans

Chair, Elizabeth Lambert (Gettysburg College)

Room A

James P. Myers, Jr (Gettysburg College), Homeland Security in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1777: The Example of the Rev. Mr. Daniel Batwelle, S.P.G.
Rodney Mader (West Chester U of PA), Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson and the Question of Loyalism
Doreen Saar (Drexel U), Crevecoeur and the Political Farmer
Scott Paul Gordon (Lehigh U), Collateral Damage: Pacifist Moravians Battle Charges of “Tory”

4. The Spectacle of Roguish Masculinity

Chair, Jason Vanfosson (Duquesne U)

Room B

Suzanne Cook (Duquesne U), Recovering the Rake in Arthur Murphy’s The Way to Keep Him
Melissa Wehler (Duquesne U), The Haunted Libertine: Edmund Kean’s American Tour
Suzanne Tartamella (Gettysburg College), Much Ado about Feminists and Rakes: Beatrice and Benedick in Aphra Behn’s The Rover
Clorinda Donato (California State U-Long Beach), The Spy, the Antiquarian, and the Flamboyant Rogue: Philip von Stosch in Grand Tour Italy

5. Authoring, Self-Fashioning, and National Identity

Chair, Thora Brylowe (U of Pittsburgh-Oakland)

Room C

Ashley Marshall (Johns Hopkins U), Did Defoe Write Moll Flanders and Roxana?
D. J. Schuldt (Carnegie-Mellon U), Authoring Dissent: Transmission and Appropriation of Religious Dissent and Republicanism
Barbara Benedict (Trinity College), Sloane’s Ranges: Sir Hans Sloane and the Reputation of Eighteenth-Century Collecting

10:15–10:45 am: Second Breakfast, Conference Level Foyer

10:45–noon

6. Visual Arts

Chair, Marie Wellington (U of Mary Washington)

Room A

Mark Magleby (Brigham Young U), The Mount of Diana at Stourhead
Sandro Jung (Ghent U), Thomas Stothard’s Visual Interpretation and the Cultural Consumption of Thomson’s The Seasons
Deborah Varat (Southern New Hampshire U), Family Life Writ Small: The Eighteenth-Century English Dollhouse
Raymond Tumbleson (Kutztown U of PA), Isabella Thorpe as Ophelia: Sexing up Northanger Abbey

7. Suspenseful Strategies Across Genres

Chair, Martha Koehler (U of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)

Room B

Joshua Gass (The Ohio SU), Suspense and Trash Fiction
Martha Koehler (U of Pittsburgh-Greensburg), Suspense in Sir Charles Grandison
John Radner (George Mason U), “He never did anything that was beyond the limits of decency”: Revealing and Concealing, Recovering and Discovering, Guessing and Inventing Johnson’s Secret Sex Life

8. Roundtable: Recovering Families

Chair, Laura Engel (Duquesne U)

Room C

Marilyn Francus (West Virginia U); Scott Krawczyk (US Military Academy); Caroline Breashears (St Lawrence U); Nicole Wright (Yale U); Jeffrey Stoyanoff (Duquesne U)

12:00 noon: Buffet Lunch, Frick Room

12:40 pm: EC/ASECS Executive Board Meeting, Troost-Greenfield suite (see registration table for room number)

1:30–2:45 pm

9. Roundtable: Research in Progress

Chair, Jim May (Penn State U-DuBois)

Room A

Joseph Rudman (Carnegie-Mellon U), The Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Case for The Federalist Revisited
Jordan Howell (U of Delaware), Eighteenth-Century Abridgment and Robinson Crusoe
Katharine Kittredge (Ithaca College), Early Blossoms of Genius: Child Poets at the End of the Long Eighteenth Century
Theodore E. D. Braun (U of Delaware), A Letter to Voltaire Restored

10. Recovering Crime

Chair, Lisa Rosner (Stockton College)

Room B

Frank Parks (Frostburg SU), Interview and Invent: Crime Reporting of the 1720s
Joshua Gass (The Ohio SU), Generic Destabilization and Criminality in the Early English Novel
Nicole Wright (Yale U), “G—d, I have gude cause to remember her!”: Walter Scott’s Amnesiac Characters, Crime, and the Problem of Narrating the Forgotten

11. Recovering Reputations 1

Chair, Linda Troost (Washington & Jefferson College)

Room C

Michael DuPuis (U of Pittsburgh-Oakland), The Emergence of the American College President
Jack Fruchtman (Towson U), Recovering Aaron Burr: Rescuing the Reputation of a Villain
Madhuchhanda Ray Choudhury (Duquesne U), Heroic or Human: The Dilemma of Historical Recovery in Joanna Baillie’s Metrical Legends
Temma Berg (Gettysburg College), Taking The Baltick Merchant: At Sea through the Archives

2:45–3:15 pm: Refreshment Break, Conference Level Foyer

3:15–4:30 pm

12. Roundtable: Recovering the “Performed” Eighteenth Century

Chair, Emily Friedman (Auburn U)

Room A

Laura Engel (Duquesne U); Jeffrey M. Leichman (Sarah Lawrence College); Kristina Straub (Carnegie-Mellon U)

13. War and Recovery

Chair, Ildiko Csengei (Cambridge U)

Room B

Ildiko Csengei (Cambridge U), James Tilly Matthews and the War Machine
Timothy Ruppert (Slippery Rock U of PA), Louisa Stuart Costello and the Fall of Napoleon
Scott Krawczyk (US Military Academy), Messengers of Death: Broken Soldiers and Next-of-Kin Notification

14. Recovering Reputations 2

Chair, Linda Troost (Washington & Jefferson College)

Room C

Henry Fulton (Central Michigan U), The Reputation of Dr. John Moore (1729–1802): Reflections on Loss and Recovery
David Wallace Spielman (Penn State U), Ralph Cohen on Criticism and James Thomson
Corey Andrews (Youngstown State U), “The Honour of Our Isle?”: Women Poets on Robert Burns, 1792–1803
Anna Foy (U of Pennsylvania), “To flatter Knaves or lose his Pension”: Edward Young and the Limitations of Biographical Taxonomy

4:45–6:00 pm: Plenary Address

Chair, Sayre Greenfield (U of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)

Room A

David A. Brewer (The Ohio State University)

The Literary Uses of Authorial Names

6:00–8:00 pm: Reception, Frick Room

Saturday November 6

8:30–noon: Registration open, Conference Level Foyer

8:00–9:00 am: Continental Breakfast, Conference Level Foyer

9:00–noon, 1:30–4:45 pm: Book Exhibit, Conference Level Room D

9:00–10:15 am

15. The Gothic as Trauma and Recovery

Chair, Ellen Moody (George Mason U)

Room A

Ellen Moody (George Mason U), “People that marry can never part”: Real and Romantic Gothicism in Northanger Abbey
Ellen Malenas Ledoux (Rutgers U-Camden), A Castle of One’s Own: Gothic Space and Female Agency in Emmeline, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and Secresy
Jade Higa (Duquesne U), “Wallace Wight”: Unearthing Scottish Nationalism through the Gothic Ballad in Ballie’s Metrical Legends

16. Rethinking Literary History

Chair, Sayre Greenfield (U of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)

Room B

Peter M. Briggs (Bryn Mawr College), The Turn Toward Oral Sources for Poetry in the 1760s
Jonathan Pritchard (Penn State U), The Polite World of the Smithfield Muses
Robert D. Hume (Penn State U), The Print Culture Contexts of the English Novel, 1660–1750

17. Binaries and Pairings to Re-Cover Scottish National Identity in the Works of Defoe, Austen and Ferrier

Chair, Beverly Schneller (Millersville U of PA)

Room C

Ja Yun Choi (Rutgers U-New Brunswick), The Difficulties of Narrating a Unified Nation in Defoe’s Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain
Morgan Strawn (U of Wisconsin-Madison), “Zealous for their own Way of Worship”: Scotland and Religious Toleration in Daniel Defoe’s Memoirs of a Cavalier
Teri Doerksen (Mansfield U of PA), Out of Place: From Class to National Identity in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Susan Edmunstone Ferrier’s Marriage

10:15–10:45 am: Second Breakfast, Conference Level Foyer

10:45 am–noon

18. Recovery in the Writings of Daniel Defoe

Chair, Geoffrey Sill (Rutgers U-Camden)

Room A

John Richetti (U of Pennsylvania), Second (and Third) Chances for Defoe’s Fictional Protagonists: Recovery and Realism
Kate Levin (Barnard College), Putting Moll in a New Dress: Recovering Defoe’s Moll Flanders
Robert Griffin (Texas A&M), Did Defoe Write Roxana? Does it Matter?
Jesse Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan U), Atlas Maritimus & Commercialis: What it is, Why it’s by Defoe, and Why this Matters

19. Recovering Bodies in the Eighteenth Century

Chair, Loring Pfeiffer (U of Pittsburgh-Oakland)

Room B

Joanne Myers (Gettysburg College), Enlightenment Embodiment: Body in Astell and Berkeley
Kate Parker (Washington U-St Louis), The Heaving Bosoms of Thomson’s Spring
Julie Beaulieu (U of Pittsburgh-Oakland), A Fervent Endorsement of Sensibility: Cleland’s Fanny Hill and the Benefits of Sensible Pleasure
John Savarese (Rutgers U-New Brunswick), Macpherson’s Ossian and the Embodied Mind

20. Sympathy and Satire 1

Chair, Jean-Marc Kehres (Trinity College)

Room C

Patricia Gael (Penn State U), The Importance of Satire in William Congreve’s Comedies
Lorraine Eadie (Berry College), Recovering Religious Implications in The Spectator
Michael Genovese (U of Virginia), Bankruptcy and Plague: Recovering the Value of Sympathy in Defoe

12:00 noon: Business Lunch, Frick Room

Chair, Linda Merians, executive secretary

1:00 pm: EC/ASECS Presidential Address, Frick Room

Linda Troost (Washington & Jefferson College)

The Undead Eighteenth Century

2:00–3:00 pm

21. Roundtable: Teaching the Eighteenth Century without Technology

Chair, Sayre Greenfield (U of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)

Room B

Logan Connors (Bucknell U), Dramatic Criticism in Drama Courses
Jack Fruchtman (Towson U), What is a Constitution?
Sonia Kane (Hunter College-CUNY), In-Class Presentations Using the OED to Foster Close Readings

22. On the Road

Chair, Laura Kennelly (Baldwin-Wallace College/ Riemenschneider Bach Institute)

Room C

Brijraj Singh (Hostos CC-CUNY), Two Eighteenth-Century South Indian Priests Go to Europe
Norbert Puszkar (Austin Peay State U), Seume’s Walk to Syracuse in the Year 1802: Recovery and Coverage of History

3:00–3:15 pm: Break

3:15–4:30 pm

23. Theatrical Influences: Narrative Performances and Performativity

Chair, Terra Caputo (Allegheny College)

Room A

Logan Connors (Bucknell U), Anecdotes, Mistakes, and Performances: Defining Dramatic Criticism in Pre-Revolutionary France
Terra Caputo (Allegheny College), Performative Narrativity: Restoration Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Novel
Katharine Kittredge (Ithaca College), Dragging from Stage to Page: The Infant Craze and the Child Poet Boom in the Late Eighteenth Century
Emily Friedman (Auburn U), Text, Playtext, Promptbook: The Intersecting Lives of Scott’s Guy Mannering

24. Jonathan Swift

Chair, Donald Mell (U of Delaware)

Room B

Gene Hammond (SUNY-Stony Brook), Using Swift’s Examiner Essays to Solve Key Interpretive Questions
Kelly Centrelli (Queens College-CUNY), “But to Return to Madness”: The Rhetoric of Madness in Swift’s Tale of a Tub
Patrice Smith (Harrisburg Area CC-Gettysburg Campus/ McDaniel College), The Swift-Ecclin “Cantata”

25. Theory and Textual Practice

Chair, Elisa Beshero-Bondar (U of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)

Room C

Jan Stahl (Borough of Manhattan CC-CUNY), “I am watched very narrowly”: Writing and the Power of the Gaze in Richardson’s Pamela
Jason Vanfosson (Duquesne U), “I know resentment may to love be turn’d”: Uncovering Terrorism and Recovering Queerness in Baillie’s De Monfort
Maureen Gallagher (Duquesne U), The Temptation to Look Away: The Textual Erasure of the Traumatized Fallen Woman in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

4:30–4:45 pm: Break

4:45–6:00 pm

26. Consumption and Commodification

Chair, Elisa Beshero-Bondar (U of Pittsburgh-Greensburg)

Room A

Lin A. Nulman (U of New Hampshire), “Let this present shew who ’tis that Reigns Triumphant”: Women and Objects in Cibber and Centlivre
Nicole Reynolds (Ohio U) The Commodification of Suicide in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Devjani Roy (U of Kentucky), “Thou Proteus!”: The Performance of Forgery in Georgiana Cavendish’s The Sylph
Lisa M. Wilson (SUNY-Potsdam), Joshua Reynolds’s Portraits of Mary Robinson: Production, Circulation, Reception

27. Sympathy and Satire 2

Chair, Jean-Marc Kehres (Trinity College)

Room B

Mark Malin (Randolph-Macon College), Passion, Virtue, and Subversion in the Anonymous Epistolary Novel Rodrigo y Paulina
Julian Fung (Penn State U), Frances Burney as Satirist
Thomas Kinnahan (Duquesne U), War and the Recovery of Puritan Virtue in Timothy Dwight’s Greenfield Hill
Sonia Kane (Hunter College-CUNY), “His Heart was not susceptible”: Unfeeling Husbands in Scott’s Millenium Hall

28. Roundtable: Reading/Reciting Eighteenth-Century Verse: The Pedagogical and Interpretive Value of Performing—Reading Aloud or Reciting from Memory—English Poetry

Chair, John Richetti (University of Pennsylvania)

Room C

Brijraj Singh (Hostos CC-CUNY); Patrice Smith (Harrisburg Area CC-Gettysburg Campus/McDaniel College); Rivka Swenson (Virginia Commonweath U); John Richetti (U of Pennsylvania)

6:15 pm: Graduate Student Get-Together

Organizer: Kate Parker (Washington U-St Louis)

Meet in the Conference Level Foyer (own expense)

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