Daniel Gonzalez, Louisiana State University, "Of Pamphlets and Puritans: Bunyan's Badman and the Criminal Unreformed"
Andrea Adolph, Louisiana State University, "Trivial Women: John Gay's Prostitutes"
Robert Dryden, Louisiana State University, "John Gay's Black-faced Pirate: Disguising Revolution in the West Indies"

Kevin E. Dodson, Lamar University, "Dogmatism, Skepticism, and Criticism"
Richard Owsley, University of North Texas, "Herder's Critique of the Enlightenment Project"
Richard Buckman, University of Texas--Pan American, "Prejudices of the Enlightenment: Gadamer's Critique"
Michael Mathis, Lamar University, "The Concept of Enlightenment: Its Philosophical Origins and its Contemporary Dissolution"

David Paxman, Brigham Young University, "The Spiritual Cultures of Lancashire"
Elizabeth Kubek, Benedictine University, "Reading the Lewd Sign: The (Un)Holy Scopophilia of John Dunton, Citizen of London"
Chris Brooks, Wichita State University, "At Play, the Lords of the Field: Recreation in the Days of Ducking"

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 3:45-5:15

Eccentrics and Eccentricity, from Lovable Quirks and Strange Habits to Righteous Zeal and Even Furious Fanaticism
Pavilion I
Chair: Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University

Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi, "Boswell's and Johnson's Practical and Impractical Cures for Depression"
Megan Conway, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, "The Sometimes Irrational, Often Irascible, and Always Irritating Olympe de Gouges"
Daniel Singer, Wichita State University, "Slawkenbergius's Tale: Matters of Preference in the Appreciation of Laurence Sterne"
Laura Morrow, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, "How to Find All Sorts of Crazy Things about the Wacky Folks and Wild Times of the Enlightenment on the Internet"

Irving Rothman, University of Houston, "A Stylometric Study of the Variant Literary Styles of Daniel Defoe"
Steven Price, Louisiana State University, "'It is hoped that the Lady will not be displeased': Samuel Richardson's Manipulation of Elizabeth Carter's 'Ode to Wisdom'"
Sayre Greenfield, Pennsylvania, "Dispensing Spenser and Shaking Up Shakespeare: Editing Renaissance Texts in the Eighteenth Century"
Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University, "Problems with Attributions to the Canon of Daniel Defoe: Traditional and Non-Traditional Methodologies"

Catherine Hobbs, University of Oklahoma, "Rhetoric and the Threshold of Modernity"
Jackie Bacon, Southwestern University, "Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's Treatise on Yellow Fever: A Burkeian Analysis"
William Edinger, University of Maryland Baltimore County, "Rhetoric and Modernity: The 'New Rhetoricians' and the Scientific Approach to Taste"

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 5:20-8:00 Gala Reception James Smith Noel Collection Shuttles leave from the Holiday Inn beginning at 5:20 p.m. The reception begins at 6:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 8:45-10:25

The James Smith Noel Collection: A Panel Discussion about the History of and Some Items in the Noel Collection of Shreveport
Pavilion I
Panelists:

Jim Springer Borck, Louisiana State University
Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University
Barbara Fitzpatrick, University of New Orleans
Kathleen Kincade, Stephen F. Austin State University
Steve Raynie, Louisiana State University
Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma

Mary Rose Kasraie, "Left to 'affectionate posterity': The Letters of Judith Sargeant Murray"
J. Patrick Lee, Barry University, "The English Translation of Voltaire's Lettres anglaises: Voltaire or John Lockman?
Gary Gautier, Louisiana State University, Propriety in Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance

Rebecca Jordan, Emporia State University, "An Analysis of Joseph Bampfield's Apology"
Angela Langfitt, University of Alabama, "May I Credit This? Author and Character in The Emperor of the Moon"
Richard Frohock, Oklahoma State University, "Davenant's American Operas"
Kevin L. Cole, Baylor University, Indigence and Merriment: William King's Dialogues of the Dead

Cassandra Pauley, University of South Florida, "The Case of the Exaggerating Expositor"
Sara Burroughs, Northwestern State University, "Early Lives--Facts, Opinions, and Gossip: A Work in Progress"
Louise K. Barnett, Rutgers University, "Swift and Vanessa: A Feminist Approach"

Travel in Eighteenth-Century America
Embassy I
Chair: Susan L. Roberson, Auburn University

Robert Battistini, Columbia University, "Yearning for a 'New and Experimentall Discoverie': Travel in Real and Imaginary America in The Algerine Captive"
Ann Mikkelsen, University of California, Irvine, "Bartram's Eye': Joseph Breintnal's Lyric Explorations of Early America"
Deborah Allen, Rutgers University, "Observation and Appropriate: William Byrd II and the Geography of the 'Personal'"
Susan Roberson, Auburn University, "Travel's Travails: An Ordinary Woman's Adventures on the River Road"

Marilyn Robitaille, Tarleton State University, Aphra Behn's Miranda: A Destroyer of Males
LuAnn Venden Herrell, University of North Texas, 'Luck be a Lady Tonight,' Or at Least, Make me a Gentleman: Economic Anxiety in Centlivre's Gambling Plays
Sara Gadeken, Texas Tech University, Sarah Fielding and Commodification of Female Virtue

Kyle Dickson, Baylor University, "Gay's Descent into the City: The Epic Journey of Walking Across the Street"
Albrecht Strauss, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, "An Unlikely Pair: Thomas Wolfe and Samuel Johnson"
Dennis Welch, University of Vermont, "Mental Travel Versus 'the same dull round': Blake's 'Mental Traveller' and the Rat Race"
David Paxman, Brigham Young University, "Tom Jones and the Paradox of Moral Purpose"

 LUNCH

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1:35-3:15

Speculations on the Energies and Economies of Empire
Embassy I
Chair: Kathleen Holcomb, Angelo State University

Jessica Richard, Princeton University, "Eighteenth-Century Gambling and Speculative Finance: The Case of Burney's Cecilia"
Philip Woodfine, University of Huddersfield, "St. James's or Westminster? Patronage, Court, and Parliament in the Robinocracy"
Mark Wildermuth, University of Texas, Permian Basin, "'Order from Confusion Sprung': Pope, Swift, and the Scriblerian Dialogue on Order and Chaos"

Thomas R. Preston, University of North Texas, "The Incompetent Pilgrim; Or, The Wakefield Bungler. A Tale"
Debra Leissner, Louisiana Tech University, "Can Smollett Go Home Again? Displacement and Assimilation in Humphry Clinker"
Jim Borck, Louisiana State University, "Washes of All Kinds, Weather-Beaten Faces, and Dark Skins in Goldsmith, Austen, and Blake"

Christopher J. Lamping, Columbia University, "To Wake the Devil from his Dream: Maleficium, Subversive Mimesis, and the Social Imaginary of Public Executions in Eighteenth-Century England"
Linda Veronika Troost, Washington and Jefferson College, "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding through the Enlightenment"
Richard Serrano, Rutgers University, "Could Pompeii Sing his Way out of a Hatbox? Handel's Giulio Cesare in the '90s

Richardson and his Readers: Fanzines and Hostile Reviewers
Pavilion I
Chair: Jim Borck, Louisiana State University

Janet Aikins, The University of New Hampshire, "'Who Can Fail to Profit?': Pamela's Life in California"
Bond Love, University of California, Irvine, "Surprised by Love: Pamela's Marriage"
Steve Raynie, Louisiana State University, "Pamela's More Perceptive Readers: Hayman and Gravelot's Anti-Pamela Commentary in their Designs for the 1742 Octavo Edition of Pamela

Lu Ann Marrs, Houston Baptist University, "Contrasting Remarks in Hester Thrale Piozzi's Observations and Reflections and the Thraliana"
Eve Tabor Bannet, University of Oklahoma, "Mary Shelley's 'The Last Man'"
Shannon Landry, Louisiana State University, "Frances Burney's 'Anxiety of Authorship': Agency and the Unconscious in the Early Journals"

William A. Cook, University of La Verne, "Satire through Style: A Reading of Swift's Tale of a Tub"
Ann H. Guess, University of Houston, "'The Taste of Every Guest to Hit': Commercialization of Art in Samuel Foote's Taste and The Author"
Kathleen Holcomb, Angelo State University, "Dryden's Satire"

Joyce Palmer, Texas Women's University, "O Those Aggressive Women! A Sample of Viragoes in Pope, Fielding, Smollett, and Mary Hays"
Brett McInelly, University of Cincinnati, "Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Imperialism, the Novel, and Robinson Crusoe"
Katherine B. Fromm, Iowa State University, "Hannah Snell: Crossdressing Female Warrior"
Philippe Seminet, University of Texas at Austin, "Outbursts of Flights of Fancy: Rules to Be Broken in Sade's Aesthetics of Prose Fiction"

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 8:25-8:55

Business Meeting, Embassy I

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 9:00-10:30

The Very Large Edition: Editors, Supereditors, Editions, and Perspectives
Pavilion I
Chair: Jim Borck, Louisiana State Univeristy

Jim Borck, Louisiana State University, "The Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition, In and Out of the Canon: Defoe and some Attributions Perhaps"
Alexander Pettit, University of North Texas, "The Complete Works of Tobias Smollett, Editing Smollett and Smollett's Editors: An Improbable Argument for Populist Editing?"
Peter Shillingsburg, Lamar University, "The Novels of William M. Thackeray, Observations about Traditional and Non-Traditional Editorial Practices"
O. M. Brack, Arizona State University, "No Dull Duty; Or, How the Single Scholiast Avoids a Refrigerated Mind: Editing Samuel Johnson"

Phyllis Ann Thompson, Louisiana State University, "'Tis certain they have neither the Spleen nor the Vapours!': Discursive Strategies and Representations of Embodiment in Delariviere Manley's Secret Memoirs"
Abigail Coykendall, State University of New York at Buffalo, "Transplanting Gothic Real Estate: Adaptations of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto by Late Eighteenth-Century British Women Novelists"
Glen McClish, Southwestern University, "The Female Quixote, Rhetoric, and Logic"

Todd C. Parker, DePaul University, "Analogy as Knowledge in Swift's 'A Panegyrick on the Dean'"
Shannon McCabe, University of New Mexico, "Language and Self-Identity in the Fourth Bood of Gulliver's Travels"
Mary A. Rooks, University of New Mexico, "Is This 'Other' Me? Reader Entrapment and Colonial Discourse in Gulliver's Travels"

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2:45-4:15

Twentieth-Century Scribblers: Eighteenth-Century Scholars Read their own Literary Works
Embassy I
Chair: Herman Asarnow, University of Portland

Pamela Washington, University of Central Oklahoma, reading selections from her poetic oeuvre
William Donoghue, Emerson College, reading his story "Letters to Skulnikov"
William A. Cook, University of La Verne, reading his essay "Rush to the Left"
Herman Asarnow, University of Portland, reading selections from his poetic oeuvre

Kathy Strong, University of North Texas, "Give Credit Where It's Due: The Instability of Credit and Falsehood in Elizabeth Inchbald's Such Things Are"
LuAnn Venden Herrell, University of North Texas, "Staging Problems in Centlivre's The Basset-Table: Not Much of a Response to Collier"
Alex Pitofsky, University of Virginia, "'Little as I Like those Negro Places': (Mis)Repre-sentations of India in Frances Burney's A Busy Day

Participating Pillars:

Henry Snyder, University of California, Riverside
O. M. Brack, Arizona State University
Robert C. Leitz III, Louisiana State University in Shreveport

Hume: One Word Says it All
Embassy I
Chair: Eva M. Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma of Hume's Ethics and Kant's Aesthetics
James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma, Hume and Standards of Taste

Triangles of Discourse: England and Points Beyond
Embassy II
Chair: Karen Zagrodnik, Stephen F. Austin State University

Beth Donaldson, Stephen F. Austin State University, Triangles of Desire: Labor and Love in Olaudah Equiano's Life
Elizabeth Russell, Auburn University, "Race, Desire, and Ideology"
Michael Stapleton, Stephen F. Austin State University, "Restoration Drama, Poetry by Women, and Ovid"
Karen Zagrodnik, Stephen F. Austin State University, "From England to the Seraglio and Home Again"

Heather Huddleston, Georgia Institute of Technology, "The Thing without a Name: The Homosexual Subject in Eighteenth-Century Pornography"
Leslie Richardson, Tulane University, "Bodies of Evidence: Rape, Pregnancy, and Appetite in Davys and Richardson"
Georgette Bisson, Tulane University, "'Oh dear resemblance of thy murdered mother!' Absent Mothers, Frantic Daughters, and the Price of Beauty in Evelina"

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 9:00 a.m. Annual Breakfast Symposium of the International Educators' Association for Transdisciplinarity (I-EAT). Topic for 1999: "Crossing the Borders: Multidisciplinarity in Research, in Curricula, and above all in the Classroom." Event Chair: Alex Pettit, University of North Texas. Please contact Professor Pettit for venue information.