SCSECS 2000 Program
March 9-12, 2000

Jim Borck, Louisiana State University, "Austen's Heroes and Heroines Unclothed"

Janet Aikens, University of New Hampshire, "Pride and Prejudice on and through the Screen of 1940"

Elena Khalturnia, Louisiana State University, "The Confidante as the Heroine in Jane Austen's Persuasion"

Heather Outhuse, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Cultural Conflict: Eighteenth-Century Orientalism in Penelope Aubin’s The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and His Family"

Lisa Moran, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Redefining Cultural Values through Turkish Women"

Mary Sue Ply, "Unlucky to be Turkish: Maria Edgeworth’s ‘Murad the Unlucky’"

Arthur S. Williams, Louisiana School for Math, Arts, and Sciences, "‘Alma’ and Matthew Prior’s Invention of Eighteenth-Century Poetry"

Robert C. Olson, Fredericksburg, Texas, "Colley Cibber Cribs Molière, Quotes Pope, and Slays the Slain"

Mark DiCicco, Angelo State University, "If not us, who? If not now, when? Latin in the Long Eighteenth Century"

Cindy Marlow McClenagan, Texas Tech University, "Kindred Economic Spirits: Defoe’s Roxana and Mitchell’s Scarlett"

Haralampos Kalpakidis, University of North Texas, "The Only Way is Up: The Subversion of Patriarchal Power Structures and Female Empowerment in Richardson’s Pamela"

José Lucas Saorin, University of Murcia (Spain), "Winckelmann: Empfindsamkeit y Utopia"

Judith Mesa-Pelly, University of Miami, "‘None Could Excel Her:’ Bearing the Burden of Nostalgia in Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield"

Gloria Eive, St. Mary's College of California, "Introduction: Musical Politics and the Politics of Music"

Patricia Craddock, University of Florida, "Female Anacreontics: The Impossible Commonplace"

Jane Stevens, University of California, San Diego, "Opera, Manners, and Bourgeois Revolt in Eighteenth-Century Opera: Mozart's and Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro"

Donal McQuillan, Cornell University, "The Politics of Religion: The Dialectics of Orthodoxy and Deism in Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France"

David Venturo, The College of New Jersey, "Bridoul and The School of the Eucharist"

Richard Rosengarten, University of Chicago, "Satiric Vision and Negative Theology: Voltaire and Swift"

Carlton Clark, Texas Woman's University, "Jonathan Swift, T. S. Eliot, and the Anti-Pastoral"

Suzanne Poor, Seton Hall University, "'The Progress of Beauty: Swift's Passionate Take on Women"

Louise K. Barnett, Rutgers University, "Swift's Women Subjects and Women Critics"

Walter Göbel, Universität Stuttgart

Arne Klawitter, Universität Rostock

Laurenz Volkmann, Universität Würzburg

Sonia Kane, CUNY Graduate Center, "‘I Was Born to Think’: Daughters, Fathers, and Defiance in Eliza Fenwick’s Secresy and Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story"

Nora Nachumi, Indiana State University, "Body Language: Distress and Authority in Elizabeth Inchbald’s Nature and Art"

Marika Krech, CUNY Graduate Center, "Gothic Secrets: Silence and Eroticism in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk

Barbara M. Benedict, Trinity College, "Jane Austen and the Circulating Novel"

Tamara S. Wagner, "Jane Austen's England Revisited: Picturesque Tourism, Landscaped Parklands, and the Aesthetics of Nostalgia"

Michael Wheeler, "Escaping the Theme Park: The Creation of the Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing at Chawton House Library, Hampshire"

Darryl Jones, "‘What a Naked Lap-Dancer Could Learn from a Jane Austen Heroine’: Jane Austen, Moral Panics and Critical Standards"

Jim Springer Borck, Louisiana State University, "Volumes in Preparation for the Newington Edition of The Works of Daniel Defoe"

Irving Rothman, University of Houston, "The Family Instructor, I and II"

C. D. Reverand, III, University of Wyoming, "A Journal of The Plague Year"

Alex Pettit, University of North Texas, "The Compleat English Gentleman"

Reverend Monsignor William L. Greene, Diocese of Baton Rouge, Retired Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, St. Francisville, and Judge, Diocesan Tribunal, "Catholics in Old Louisiana, Especially in the Felicianas"

Father John Panagiotou, Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Pittsburgh, "Liturgics, Semantics, and Theological Perspectives"

Brijraj Singh, CUNY/Hostos Community College, "Christian and Muslim in the Eighteenth Century: An Encounter at Tranquebar"

Tom McGeary, "The Civic Humanist Critique of Italian Opera in Britain"

Heather O’Connell, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Austen, Burney, and the Portrayal of Gentlemen"

Robert Gibson Robinson III, Louisiana State University, "The Great Georgeby: Washington in and as the National Romance"

Elizabeth Dill, "Desire in the Republic: Theories of Marriage and Seduction in Hanna Webster Foster’s The Coquette"

Conrad Donakowski, Michigan State University, "Religious Ritual: The Mass Medium of the Enlightenment"

Susan Nicassio, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, "Visions of Art, Love and Politics in Tosca's Rome"

Marilyn Robitaille, Tarleton State University, "Aphra Behn and the Popular Imagination"

Brenda Konvika, Tarleton State University, "Interior Voices: Delicacy and Strength in Anne Finch"

Elaine Anderson Phillips, Tennessee State University, "Ruled by Rage: Delarivier Manley's Satiric Programme"

Cynthia Manley, Austin College, "Louise Marie Madeleine Dupin: Eighteenth-Century Feminist"

Susan Mitchell Sommers, St. Vincent College, "Sir Gerard Vanneck Brings a New Meaning to Dutch Treat"

Kevin Dodson, Lamar University, "Rousseau and the Problem of Desire"

John P. Waters, Louisiana State University, "Civic Personality and Irish National Character: Theories of Social Change and the Rhetoric of Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Science"

Alice Tibbits, Loyola University, "Voices for the Voiceless: Prèvost's Heroines who Talk their Way out of Captivity"

Richard Cranford, Loyola University, "The Parody of Polemics: Jean-François Rameau and Jean Cazotte"

Megan Conway, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, "Olympe de Gouges: Revolutionary Writing"

Pamela Gay-White, Louisiana State University, "Rousseau as Reader, Reading Rousseau"

James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma, "Disputing about Tastes"

Eva M. Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma. "Immoral Art"

William C. Edinger, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, "Taste as Morality, Morality as Taste: Hume's Moral Theory and Its Implications for Literary Interpretation"

Peter S. Fosl, Transylvania University, "Morality, Sex, and Extraterrestrials: A Humean Perspective (an homage to Kevin Cope)"

Randy Jasmine, University of Mississippi, " The Life That is Devoted to Knowledge Passes Silently Away: So Why Teach Johnson and His Peers?"

Cathy Himmelwright, University of Mississippi, "Now and Then: Captive Students and Captivity Narratives"

Vince Brewton, University of Mississippi, "Loving Thy Neighbor: Winthrop's A Model of Christian Charity"

Christine Riley-Brown, University of Mississippi, "Toward Prosperity and Pride: Teaching Benjamin Franklin to First Year Literature Students"

Christopher Wheatley, Catholic University of America, "‘What, my little sentimental?’: Ireland, Colonialism, and Mary O'Brien's The Fallen Patriot"

Sarah McKibben, Cornell University, "‘Rule Brittania,’ Alfred, and the Ideology of Defensive Imperialism"

Moh'd Rawashdeh, Purdue University, "Lamented Nation[s]: The British Colonial Interest in the Levant"

James L. Thorson, University of New Mexico: "Oroonoko: Some Versions of the Myth by Aphra Behn, Thomas Southerne, and Biyi Bandele"

J. Karen Ray, Washburn University: "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: The Farcical Wizardry of Aphra Behn"

Jan Widmayer, Boise State University, "Dryden's King Arthur: Toward a Genealogy of The Beggar's Opera"

Matthew Davis, University of Virginia, "Christian Humanism and its Tensions: Johnson’s Conflicted Views on the Ancients"

Blanford Parker, Staten Island College and CUNY Graduate Center, "Disentangling Johnson"

J. T. Scanlan, Providence College, "‘Why will you vex me when it is too late?’: The Legal Cast of Johnson’s Writing and Conversation"

Steven Schweratzky, Merrimack College, "Oxford Oaths and Jacobite Toasts: Is there a Language for Johnson’s Politics?"

Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Millikin University, "Words and Things: Reading Radical Language in Horne Tooke and Godwin"

Daniel Gonzalez, Louisiana State University, "Gay's Beggar's Opera the Politics of Crime"

Kathryn Duncan, Henderson State University, "Disrupting Binaries in Daniel Defoe's General History of the Pyrates"

Sean Walsh, Wadham College, Oxford, "Exile on Gerrard Street: Dryden's Literary Empire in the 1690s"

Roy Flannagan, Ohio University, "Was Milton Dryden's Enemy in the Couplet Wars?"

Linda Merians, "John Dryden and Matthew Prior"

Christine Blouch, Bradley University, "Little Punctuations: Small Questions in Large Texts"

Margo Collins, University of North Texas, "Conducting Haywood: Editing The Wife and The Husband"

Kathryn R. King, University of Montevallo, "Editing The Female Spectator"

Terence Bowers, "Hogarth's Nationalism"

Michel Huysseune, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, "A Nation of Connoisseurs: Art Education and Patriotism in the Writings of Jonathan Richardson"

Michael Karounos, Vanderbilt University, "The Dynamic Erotic: Sublimity and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Art"

Rebecca Jordan, Washburn University, "‘A Woman of No Character’: Life of a Fallen Woman"

David Paxman, Brigham Young University, "John Collier’s View of the Lancashire Dialect (1746): A Dialog between a Country Clown and Lass in the Dialect of the Region"

Heather J. Huddleston, Georgia Institute of Technology, "The Dispute over Filial Loyalty: Hester Chapone and Samuel Richardson"

Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi, "Norm Figures in the Satiric World of William Hogarth’s Engravings"

Druann Domangue, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, "Expurgations in Hannah Cowley’s Works: Sex and Sentimentality Receive the Scalpel Treatment as Editions Enter the Nineteenth Century"

Sandro Jung, University of York, "Courtly Writing Culture and the Spleen: Anne Finch Countess of Winchilsea and the Countess of Hertford"

Heather Hicks, Texas Tech University, "Eliza Haywood and Mary Wollstonecraft and the Critique of Sensibility"

Sharon Harrow, University of Arizona and Ithaca, New York, "Sentimentality as Domesticity: Or, New Sentimental Journeys"

Mary Rose Kasraie, Georgia State University, "What art thou death?": Death, Dying and Old Age in the Works of Judith Sargent Murray"

Murray Brown, Georgia State University, "Dangerous Dreamers: Prophets and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain"

Jennifer Lewin, "‘Baxter's sprites my soul abuse’: Forgotten Dream Narratives in Painting and Poetry"

Thad Robey, Washington University, "The Fictional Critic: The Many Voices of Charles Brockden Brown's Literary Theory"

Eldon Turner, University of Florida, "Edward Taylor, Time, and Beauty"

Kevin Berland, Pennsylvania State University, Shenango, "Race, Extramural Opportunity, and Libertinism in William Byrd's Dividing Line"

Marcia Landau, University of New Mexico, "Multiple Forms of Regression in Lilliput, Gulliver, and Swift"

Todd C. Parker, DePaul University, "Swift's Sermonic Subject"

Clement Hawes, Southern Illinois University, "Swift and the Imperial Social Formation"

Kathy Strong, University of Texas, "Eliza Haywood, Voodoo Queen: The Supernatural in Reflections on the Various Effects of Love

Becky Hanson, University of North Texas, "Share the Joy and Bear the Grief: Haywood's Pragmatics"

Jane Gardner, Brigham Young University, "‘Two Babes of Love’: The Legitimacy of Women's Work in The Fortunate Foundlings"

Bettina Gockel, Universität Tübingen, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Tübingen, "The Practice of Representation: Music, Theatre and the Art of Gainsborough"

Susan Harvey, Stanford University, "Revival, Memory, Authority and Parisian Parody"

Arlequin Thétis, parodie de l'opéra de Thétis et Pélée, by Colasse et Fontenelle, Pièce en écriteaux by Alain-René Lesage (First performance: Foire Saint Laurent, Paris, 1713).

Description: Reconstruction of a Parisian fair theatre entertainment from the period when the Comédie Français and the Académie Royale de Musique imposed the most severe restrictions on all other theatres, forbidding them to speak or sing on stage. In a fine display of creative resistance to political and artistic oppression, the fringe theatres devised a system whereby dramatic events were mimed by silent actors as their lines were presented on large posters, called Écriteaux. The musical portions of the text were sung by the audience to popular tunes, called vaudevilles. Arlequin Thétis is not only a pièce en écriteaux, but is also a parody of a revival of a serious opera presented the same season by the Académie Royale de Musique. In the parody, the mythical characters from the opera, such as the goddess Thétis, the gods Jupin, Neptune, and Mercure, are played by masked characters from the Italian Commedia dell'Arte: Arlequin, Mezzetin, Pierrot, and le Docteur.

Debra Leissner, Louisiana Tech University, "In His Own Image: Defoe's Man Friday and Smollett's Humphrey Clinker"

Heather J. Huddleston, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "The Husbanding of Pamela: Richardson's Writing of Woman"

Elaine A. Phillips, Tennessee State University, "Author of Her Being: Frances Burney's Coming to Terms"

Susan Goulding, Monmouth University, "True Stories: Biography and the Reception History of Eighteenth-Century Women Novelists"

Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock, Universität Göttingen, "Introduction"

Dr. F. W. Neumann, Universität Erfurt, "The Idea of Politics as Understood in Pamphlet Literature"

B. Schmidthorst, Universität Göttingen, "The Concept of the Public in Political Discourse"

B. Czennia, Universität Göttingen, "The Formation of National Identity in Whig and Tory Writings, with Special Reference to Poetry"

J. Metzdorf, Münster, "Francis Hare as a Whig Journalist"

Linda Lang-Peralta, Metropolitan State College of Denver, "Ourika, Duras’s Senegalese Cypher"

Karen A. Weyler, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black"

Eleanor Ty, Wilfred Laurier University, "‘I refused the temptation’: The Other in The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano"

Miriam Shillingsburg, University of North Texas, "Slavery, Freedom, and North Africa in American Fiction"

Richard Serrrano, Columbia University, "Lots of Scots in Love: Handel’s Ariodante"

Salita Bryant, University of Mississippi, "The Blunders of the Sisterhood: The Miscarriage of Midwifery in Tristram Shandy and Frankenstein"

Peter Wagner, Universität Koblenz-Landau, "Entering and Breaking the Frame: Hogarth’s The Gate of Calais"

Gloria Eive, St. Mary’s College of California, ‘Music, Spectacle, and Performance Art: Improvisations in Tradition and Ritual"

Nancy Durbin, Pittsburgh State University, "Desire and Subject Identity within the Cloister"

Susan H. Wood, Louisiana State University "The Reign of the Magic Queen: Poetry of Sensibility in Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance"

Charles G. Davis, Boise State University, "Sites of Fear and Longing in Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer"

Leslie Richardson, Tulane University, "‘She was Undone’: Rape, Reputation and Identity in Haywood's Fantomina"

Alexander Pettit, University of North Texas, "Pornography on the Move: Jean Barrin's Venus dans le cloitre in England"

Luann Herrell, Walla Walla College, "‘I own my self oblig'd to the French’: Susanna Centlivre's Uses and Abuses of Molière"

David Alvarez, Cornell University, "New French Thought and Eighteenth Century Studies"

Elaine Smyth, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University

Robert C. Leitz III, The Noel Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport

Deborah J. Leslie, The Folger Shakespeare Library

Mary Ellen Brooks, Director, Hargrett Rare Book Room, University of Georgia

Richard Oram, Librarian, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas

Chloe Chard, London, England, "Sights and Wonders: the Grand Tour, Intensity, and the Jocularity of the Tourist"

David Evans, Cornell College, "Material Conditions and Political Positions: Experiencing Dirt on the Early Grand Tour"

Caroline Castiglione, University of Texas at Austin, "Talking Back to the Grand Tour: An ‘Italian’ Responds to English Ideas about Italy during the 1760s"

Carolyn Podruchny, University of Winnipeg, "Songlines of Adventure and Adversity: French Canadian Voyageurs Travelling in Rupert’s Land"

Elizabeth Latshaw, Auburn University, "Encounters in Baja: Jesuits Missions in California"

Sandra Sherman, University of Arkansas, "Count Rumford and the Kitchen"

Hazelle Jackson, "Grottos at the Turning Point of an Age: A Personal Perspective on the Symbolic Role of the Grotto in the Development of Modern Science"

Brigitte Glaser, Universität Eichstätt, "The Question of Democracy: Reconfiguring Eighteenth-Century Science for the New Millennium"

Peter Shillingsburg, University of North Texas, "W. M. Thackeray’s Eighteenth Century"

Linda White, Stephen F. Austin State University, "Love and Friendship: Austen in Cyberspace"

Sue Parrill, University of Louisiana in Hammond, ""In Service with Jane Austen"

Leslie Richardson, Tulane University, "Learning to Laugh: Austen and the Novel"

James Steintrager, University of California at Irvine, "Forgotten Knowledge: Literature and the Semantics of Pleasure"

Barbara Whitehead, DePauw University, "The Marquis du Chatelet and the Happiness of the Genders"

Jenny H. Batlay, Columbia University, "An Educator’s Utopia: Emile and his Tutor"

J. Patrick Lee, Barry University, "Anthologizing the Enlightenment: Voltaire’s Clandestine Collections of Philosophical Tracts"

Linda Troost, Washington and Jefferson College, and Sayre Greenfield, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, "Jane Austen Sells: An Austen-Power-Point Presentation"

Elvira Casal, Middle Tennessee State University, "Communities of Fans: Janeites Online"

Rebecca Grunnell, "Darcy and Eliza for the 90s: The 1995 Version of Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary"

James Buickerood, "Damaris Cudworth, Her Father’s ‘True Intellectual System,’ and the Development of Locke’s Conception of the Identity of Persons in the 1680s"

Charles Stewart-Robinson, University of New Brunswick, "The Mylne and the Ph[l]los; or, Stretching Truth, Stretching Imagination, Stretching all the [Scottish] World"

Karina Williamson McIntosh, "Class, Gender, and Ethnic Identity: The Case of Jean Adam"

Jennifer Boots, "Clashing Ideologies: Enlightenment Medicine, Science, and Society in George Eliot’s Middlemarch"

Larry Whitfill, Texas A&M University, "The Politics of Love and Money in the Dramas of Mary Davys"

Julie N. Aipperspach, Texas A&M University, "An Apology for Writing: A Brief Examination of Catherine Trotter's, Mary Pix's, and Delariviere Manley's Plays"

Rebecca Sayers Hanson, University of North Texas, "Mind Your Own Business: The Commerce of Secrecy in Burney's A Busy Day"

Jay Oney, Furman University, "Failing Upward: Mary Pix at the Lincoln's Inn Fields and Haymarket Theatres"