SOUTH CENTRAL SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES
MARCH 1 – 3, 2001
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Thursday, March 1, 2001:
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Room 402:
TITLE: Humean Nature
CHAIRS: Eva M. Dadlez and James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
PANELISTS:
- James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma, "Hume and Pragmatism"
- Eva M. Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma, "Hume and Gendler on Imaginative Resistance"
- Darian Debolt, University of Oklahoma, "Hume, Nature, and the Ancient Schools"
Room 404:
TITLE: "Dietary Revolution: The Case for Vegetarianism in the Long Eighteenth Century"
CHAIR: Marguerite Regan, University of Arkansas
PANELISTS:
- Timothy Morton, University of Colorado-Boulder, "The Plantation of Wrath"
- Nigel Smith, Princeton University, "Burying the Festive: Food and Radicalism in the Early Modern World"
- Elizabeth Williams, Oklahoma State University, "Vegetables and Vapors: The Dietetic Therapeutics of Hysteria in French Enlightenment Medicine"
- Marguerite Regan, University of Arkansas, "Putting Down the Feminist Vegetarian Revolt: Women and Meat in William Beckford’s Vathek"
Room 405:
TITLE: "The Legacy of Eaves and Kimpel: Three (In)Formal Meditations on Biography and Richardson Studies"
PANEL CHAIR AND MODERATOR: Janet E. Aikins, University of New Hampshire
- This special panel will discuss such questions as why we write biographies, how readers use them, and what we can say about Samuel Richardson: A Biography by University of Arkansas Professors T.C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, since 2001 marks the thirteenth anniversary of its publication.
PANELISTS:
- Murray Brown, Georgia State University, "What Brought Eaves to Richardson’s Doorstep?"
- Catherine Parke, University of Missouri, "Authoritative, ‘impressive,’ ‘standard,’ and rather old fashioned’: Scholarly Biography on the Cusp of Critical Change"
- William H. Epstein, University of Arizona, "Eaves and Kimpel’s Samuel Richardson as Post-Modern Biography"
ROOM 407:
TITLE: "(Re)writing the 1688 Revolution"
CHAIR: Jeffrey Hopes, Université du Maine
PANELISTS:
- Elaine Anderson Phillips, Tennessee State University, "Creating Queen Mary: Textual Representations of Queen Mary II"
- Kathleen Holcomb, Angelo State University, "Dieu et mon droit vs. a Pittyful Turd: Jacobite and Anti-jacobite Poems of the 1688 Revolution"
- Robert Mayer, Oklahoma State University, "Gilbert Burnet and Popular Histories of 1688"
- Jeffrey Hopes, Université du Maine, Le Mans, "Political and Theatrical Legitimacy after the Glorious Revolution"
8:30am – 10:00am
ROOM 402:
TITLE: Approaches to Overlooked Texts I
CHAIR: Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi
PANELISTS:
- Elizabeth McIngvale, Rhodes College, "The Reformed Duke Vincentio of D’Avenant’s The Law Against Lovers"
- Mimi Gladstein, University of Texas at El Paso, "Aphra Behn’s Anachronistic Constructions of Gender:
- Steven Price, Mississippi College, "Edward Bysshe’s Art of English Poetry (1702) and Samuel Richardson’s Manipulation of ‘the Most Natural, Agreeable, and Sublime Thoughts’"
- Stephen A. Raynie, Louisiana State University, "Francis Hayman’s Visual Commentary on Women’s Issues in Moore and Brooke’s Fables for the Female Sex"
ROOM 404:
TITLE: The "Other" in the Religions of the Eighteenth Century
CHAIR: Dr. Irving N. Rothman, University of Houston, Houston TX
PANELISTS:
- Prof. Dr. Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann, Erfurt University/Erfurt College, "Ned Ward’s Polemic Against Dissent"
- Dr. Kathryn Duncan, Henderson State University, "The Ax Laid to Root: ‘Ridding the Church of the Malignancy of Methodism’"
- Dr. Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, "The ‘Other’ Brother: The Persecution of Friars within ‘the Church’ in Late 18th Century Mexico"
- Dr. Jose E. Santos, Rhodes College, "The ‘Other’ within Catholicism and the Spanish Englightenment"
ROOM 405:
TITLE: British Women Dramatists 1677 – 1850
CHAIR: LuAnn Venden Herrell, Walla Walla College
PANELISTS:
- Mary Sue Ply, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Mary Pix’s Ibrahim as an Oriental Tale"
- Margo E. Collins, Iona College, "’Revenge is God like all, and shows command’: Authority and Violence in the Plays of Mary Pix"
- Julie Aipperspach Anderson, Texas A&M University, "The Pen Shou’d Know No Distinction: Gender, Nationality, and Nature in the Paratexts of Delariver Manley’s Plays"
ROOM 407:
TITLE: "The Eighteenth Century On Line"
PRESENTER: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
ROOM 409:
TITLE: "Slouching towards Wordsworth:
Non-Classical Attitudes in the Late Eighteenth Century"
CHAIR: Kathleen Holcomb, Angelo State University
PANELISTS:
- Charles Stewart-Robertson, University of New Brunswick at Saint John, "The Quieter Revolution: ancient solitudes and inner discourses"
- James Kilfoyle, Southwestern University, "Revolution in Taste, or Some Cold Sheep’s Head for Breakfast"
- Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, "Slouching Toward Cherry Trees: The Romantic George Washington"
Friday, March 2, 2001:
10:15am – 11:45am
ROOM 402:
TITLE: Approaches to Overlooked Texts II
CHAIR: Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi
PANELISTS:
- Rebecca Jordan, Washburn University, "The Peripatetic Celia Finnes"
- Karen V. Zagrodnik, Stephen F. Ausen State University, "A Journey to the Beginning: Early Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives and the Origins of the English Novel"
- Deborah Needleman Armintor, Rice University, "’Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of Ladies’: An Early Instance of Feminist Milton Criticism"
- James G. Buickerood, Washington University, "Self as Consciousness, Self as Sui Generis: John Locke and Charles Mein on the Nature of Selves"
ROOM 404:
TITLE: "Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution"
CHAIR: Irving Rothman, University of Houston
PANELISTS:
- Dr. Will Rogers, Austin TX, "The Privatization of Virtue: The Jacobin Novel of the Middle-Class Notion of Virtue in Late Eighteenth-Century England"
- Irving Rothman, University of Houston, "Inheriting the 18th-Century Shop: Family Conflicts in The Family Instructor"
- Tami Slankard, University of Tulsa, "'Strange Fits of Passion Have
I Known': Revisiting the Wollstonecraft Debate in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
ROOM 405:
TITLE: The London Theatre World
CHAIR: Rima Abunassar, University of North Texas
PANELISTS:
- Paul McCallum, Pittsburg State University, "’Tis your business to be couz’ned here: Prologues, Epilogues, and Poetic Authority In Restoration England"
- LuAnn Venden Herrell, Walla Walla College, "Theatre Revolution: The Patentees vs. the Rival Company"
- Jay Oney, Furman University, "Politics, Patronage, and Publication: How Susanna Centlivre Earned a Living Writing Plays"
ROOM 407:
TITLE: Genres Undone: Formal Innovations in 18th Century British Fiction, Autobiography and Performance
CHAIR: Margaret George, City University of New York Graduate Center
PANELISTS:
- Melissa Bloom, City University of New York Graduate Center, "’Dying Half a Maid’: The Political, the Sensational, and the Grub Street Opera"
- Margaret George, City University of New York Graduate Center, "Secrets and Lies: Mary Hay’s Emma Courtney and the Discourse of Sexual Sincerity"
- Elizabeth Hollow, City University of New York Graduate Center, "’Yet Must I Resolve Again’: Chronic Writing and Serial Suffering in Boswell and Johnson"
- Jennifer Gentry, University of Maryland College Park, "Jane Austen as a Political Novelist"
ROOM 409:
TITLE: Moral Economics: The Unstable Union of Finance and Faith in Eighteenth-Century Britain
CHAIR: Michael Berglund, University of Tulsa
PANELISTS:
- Rosary Fazende, University of Tulsa, "’Advertising the Perfect Wife’: Conduct Manuels and the Marriage Market in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
- Althea Tait, University of Tulsa, "My Own Mistress or Death"
- Matthew Perry, University of Tulsa, "Morality, Power, and Prestige in Tom Jones"
- Olivia C. Martin, University of Tulsa, "Pious Capital: Morals and the Middle Class In Moll Flanders and Clarissa"
Friday, March 2, 2001:
1:45pm – 3:15pm
ROOM 402:
TITLE: Captivity, Liberty, and Self Promotion in Early American Print Culture
CHAIR: Dan Williams, University of Mississippi
PANELISTS:
- Salita Bryant, University of Mississippi, "Good for the Soul: Confessions in Criminal Narratives"
- Christina Riley Brown, University of Mississippi, "To Redeem the Enslaved, And Shiver in Pieces the Rod of Oppression: Struggles for Liberty in James Riley’s Authentic Narratives"
- Dan Williams, University of Mississippi, "Where Liberty Dwells, There is My Country: The Narratives of Three American Sailors Impressed into British Men-of-War"
ROOM 404:
TITLE: "ENVISIONING BLAKE: Interconnections of Blake’s Prophetic Voice"
CHAIR: Joann Allen, University of Tulsa
PANELISTS:
- Ben Robertson, University of Tulsa, "William Blake’s Sublime, Sexy, Serpentine Lines; or Just How Do We Read This Stuff?"
- Michael Berglund, University of Tulsa, "Bodies in Conflict: The Slippery Hermaphrodite in Blake’s Milton"
- Joann Furlow Allen, University of Tulsa, "A Voice that Cried Alone in the Wilderness: Blake as True Visionary in the Time of the False Prophets, Fin de Siecle 1790’s"
- Jeffrey Longacre, University of Tulsa, "An Embryology of Form: Blake, Birth and the Labor of Creation"
ROOM 407:
TITLE: "The Fruits of the Noel Foundation Fellowships: A Panel Discussion"
CHAIR: Robert C. Leitz III, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
PANELISTS:
- Kathryn Duncan, Henderson State University
- Alexander Pettit, University of North Texas
- Stephen Raynie, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge
Friday, March 2, 2001:
3:30pm – 5:00pm
ROOM 402:
TITLE: New Directions in Early American Print Culture
CHAIR: Christina Riley Brown, University of Mississippi
PANELISTS:
- Cheryl Hall, University of Mississippi, "The Citizen is the State: The Use of Personal Narratives in Nation Building"
- Dixon Bynum, University of Mississippi, "Discovery and Loss in Early American Mississippi River Narratives"
- Frank Ridgeway, University of Mississippi, "William Bartram and the Development of Utopian Thought"
ROOM 404:
TITLE: Colloquium with Daniel Garber
- Sponsored by the Philosophy Department of the University of Arkansas
ROOM 405:
TITLE: "Enlightened Religion"
CHAIR: Kevin Dodson, Lamar University
PANELISTS:
- Kenneth Buckman, University of Texas-Pan American, "Hume’s Fideism"
- Michael Matthis, Lamar University, "Kant and the Possibility of God"
- Kevin Dodson, Lamar University, "Moral Faith and Religious Pluralism"
- Richard Owsley, University of North Texas, "Immanuel Kant and Rudolf Otto: Noumenon and Numinous"
ROOM 407:
TITLE: "Revolutions in Print Culture: The Popular Press and Innovations in Book Publishing"
CHAIR: Kathryn Duncan, Henderson State University
PANELISTS:
- Daniel Gonzalez, Louisiana State University, "Abandoned to Dissipation: The Criminal Biography and the Culture of Crime"
- Sean C. Goodlett, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, "The Many Deaths of Rousseau, 1776-1778"
- Grant Campbell, University of Western Ontario, "Global-Local Processing and Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century"
8:30am – 10:00am
ROOM 402:
TITLE: "Heroic Figures, Great Leaders, and Other Examples of Dynamic Individuality or Personal
Ambition, from Charles Stuart and Louis Bourbon to George Washington and Frederick II, in
Literature and Art as well as in Politics"
CHAIR: Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University
PANELISTS:
- Michael Schwartz, New York University, "How Goldsmith ‘Trace (s Truths) through the Prospect as it Lies’ with an Addisonian Eye, and Why He Does So Repeatedly"
- Gail Shivel, University of Miami, "The Invention of Journalistic Criticism: Joseph Addison’s Periodicals"
- Megan Conway, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, "Rockets in her Head: The Dynamic Singularity of Olympe de Gouges"
- Suzanne Poor, Seton Hall University, "The Revolutionary Role of Venus, Athena, and other Goddesses in Swift’s ‘Cadenus and Venessa’"
- Barbara Anderman, Rutgers University, "Greuze's Academy Reception of 1769 and the Case for Genre Painting"
ROOM 404:
TITLE: British Comedy
CHAIR: Jacqueline Vanhoutte, University of North Texas
PANELISTS:
- Marjorie Hayes, University of North Texas, "The Performance of Language in the Country Wife"
- Denara Hill, University of North Texas, "Resisting Construction: The Changing Woman in the Restoration Comedies of Etherege and Behn"
- Debra Leissner, Louisiana Tech, "MacHeath Tamed: Alliance and Filiation in Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera"
ROOM 405:
TITLE: Eliza Haywood
CHAIR: Becky Hanson, University of North Texas
PANELISTS:
- Anna Patchias, University of Virginia, "Eliza Haywood’s Conduct Literature: Betsy Thoughtless Meets The Wife"
- Kathryn R. King, University of Montevallo, "Eliza Unplugged"
- Margaret Case Croskery, Ohio Northern University, "Author-izing Dunces: Eliza Haywood’s A Spy upon the Conjuror"
- Alex Pettit, University of North Texas, "Uncooked Meat and Other Mixed Messages"
ROOM 407:
TITLE: "Engendering the Empire: Agency, Gender, and Society in 18th Century (Con)texts"
CHAIR: Olivia Martin, University of Tulsa
PANELISTS:
- Kara Ryan-Johnson, University of Tulsa, "Trouser-Clad Women Waving Guns: Or, Maria Edgeworth Decolonizes the Novel"
- Marilyn Dallman Seymour, University of Tulsa, "Arabella’s Narrow Escape: Reading and Madness in The Female Quixote"
- Lisa Wellinghoff, University of Tulsa, "Breaking the Silence: Agency and Autonomy in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s ‘Wednesday: The Tete a Tete’"
- Allen Bauman, University of Tulsa, "Professional Men, Professing Men: Masculinity and Profession in Mansfield Park"
ROOM 409:
TITLE: "It is a Truth Universally Acknowledged": Perspectives, Lenses, and Filters in (and used on) Jane Austen’s Novels
CHAIR: Kit Kincade, Stephen F. Austen University
PANELISTS:
- Sue Parrill, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Through a Glass Darkly: Slavery in the Film Mansfield Park"
- Ernelle Fife, State University of New York at New Paltz, "Filming Jane Austen’s Ironic Narrator"
- Stephanie Oppenheim, City University of New York Graduate Center, " ‘Just Nothing at All’: Emma’s Spinster Narrative"
- Sonia Kane, City University of New York Graduate Center, "Suppressed Sorrow and Contagious Feelings: Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Brunton’s Self-Control"
Saturday, March 3, 2001:
10:30am – 12:00pm
ROOM 402:
TITLE: "Unfamiliar Enticing Habitats: Representations and Evaluations of Expectations and Experiences in the Air, Under the Sea, Out in Space, or Anywhere other than on Campus"
CHAIR: Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University
PANELISTS:
- Roseanne Carrara, University of Toronto, "Resigned to the Tyranny of the Climate: John Gay’s Trivia"
- Patrick Brady, University of Tennessee, "Rococo at the Millennium: The Present State of Studies"
- Shannon McCabe, University of New Mexico, "All the News That’s (Not) Fit to Print: Alexander Exquemelin, William Dampier, and the Buccaneer Narrative"
- Peter H. Pawlowicz, East Tennessee State University, "Erotic Architecture and the Urban Pastoral"
ROOM 404:
TITLE: British Comedy II
CHAIR: Jacqueline Vanhoutte, University of North Texas
PANELISTS:
- Becky Hanson, University of North Texas, "Educating away Agency: The Shift from Empowering Informal Education to Stifling Formal Education in Epicoene, The Country Wife, and The Rivals"
- Elizabeth Martinez, University of North Texas, "Non-Negotiable Funds?: Reconfiguring Gender in The Roaring Girl and The Way of the World"
- Karen Ray, "The Multicultural Mosaic of Aphra Behn’s Continental Comedies"
ROOM 405:
TITLE: "Superstition in the Age of Reason: How ‘Reasonable’ Were the Georgians?"
CHAIR: Christopher Brooks, Wichita State University
PANELISTS:
- Philippe Seminet, Texas A&M University, "A Microcosm of the Sadean Universe"
- William Buchhorn, Wichita State University, " ‘From Reverie to Rest’: Reason and Superstition in Swift’s Day of Judgment"
- Christopher Brooks, Wichita State University, "Things Indifferent: How Reasonable Was the Age of Reason?"
ROOM 407:
TITLE: Editing the Eighteenth Century
CHAIR: Jim S. Borck, Louisiana State University
PANELISTS:
- Jim S. Borck, Louisiana State University, "Editing the Eighteenth Century"
- James G. Buickerood, Washington University, "An Argument for Editorial Intrusion in an Otherwise Unproblematic Clear Text Annotated Edition of an Obscure Eighteenth-Century Philosophical Work; or, Why Charles Mein’s Two Dissertations Concerning Sense, and the
Imagination; with an Essay on Consciousness (1728) Requires Organizational Intervention"
- Kathleen Kincade, Stephen F. Austen State University, "Apparitions in Defoe’s History
of Apparitions"
- Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, "The Mexican Inquisition and the French Revolution: Where are the Archives?"
- Dr. Karen V. Zagrodnik, Stephen F. Austen State University, "Editing Penelope Aubin and ‘The Life of Charlotta du Pont"
ROOM 409:
TITLE: Anne Finch and the Voice of the Woman Poet
CHAIR: Mary Sue Ply, Southeastern Louisiana University
PANELISTS:
- Joyce Cornette Palmer, Texas Women’s University, "Anne Finch Surveys Womankind"
- Aimee Jenkins, Southeastern Louisiana University, " ‘Reverie’ According to Anne Finch and Joanna Baillie"
- Amy Clifton, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Reading Lessons: Anne Finch’s Fables in Miscellany Poems"
- Mark Wildermuth, University of Texas-Permian Basin, "Emergent Order and Voice in the Chaotic Matrix of Anne Finch’s Poetics"