THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1:30–3:10 PM

PANEL 1: “Novel Women, Women in the Novel”

Chair: Elson Bond, Fordham University
Rebecca Hanson, University of North Texas, “Unstitching Jane Barker from Galesia”
John Bruce, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, “Captivated by the Convent: Austen’s Fascination with the Alluring Abbey and Her Ultimate Repudiation of Monastic Withdrawal”
Kathryn Strong, University of Southern California, “Clothes Make the Woman: The Possibilities of Dress in Defoe’s Moll Flanders
Sheila Hwang, Webster University, “Jane Austen and Advertising”

PANEL 2: “The Exotic, the Natural, and the Preternatural in Poetry, Prose, and Travel”

Chair: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
Heather Sullivan, Trinity University, “The Environmental Goethe: Ruptured Body and Monologue in Werther”
Amanda Bates, Texas A & M University, “Form and Function: Sylphs, Gnomes, and Nymphs in the 1714 ‘Rape of the Lock’”
Richard Serrano, Rutgers University, Sheathing Effulgence: Sun Yunfeung’s Travel Poetry”
Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma, “Lâle Devri: Tulipmania in the Ottoman Empire.”

PANEL 3: “The Space Within and Between Us: Exploring the Eighteenth-Century Psyche”

Chair: Peter Marbais, Hutchinson Community College
Peter Marbais, Hutchinson Community College, “The Persistence of Sadomasochistic Ties in Defoe’s Roxana: An Intersubjective Answer to ‘What am I a Whore for Now?’”
Margo Collins, Jacksonville State University, “The Failure of Identity Construction in Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela”
Amy Moreno, Franklin and Marshall College, “Fighting Against the Text in May Wollstonecraft’s Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman”
Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky, “Rewriting Bastardy: Illegitimacy in the cultural Imagination of the Enlightenment”

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 3:25–5:05 PM

PANEL 4: “Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights”

Chairs: Margo Collins, Jacksonville State University, and Kit Kincade, Indiana State University
Al Coppola, Fordham University, “The State of Nature and the Nature of State: Harlequinade, New Science, and The Emperor of the Moon”
Jay Oney, Furman University, “What’s Still Stageworthy from Fielding’s Version of Molière’s The Miser”
Ginger Anderson, Indiana State University, “The Importance of Being Angellica”
J. Karen Ray., Washburn University, “Manley, Pix, and Trotter: The Heroic or the Hysteric Fit?”

PANEL 5: “How Not to Write a Scholarly Article: Journal Editors Speak” (presentations with roundtable discussion)

Chair: Cedric Reverand, University of Wyoming
Cedric Reverand, University of Wyoming
Robert Markley, University of Illinois
Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University

PANEL 6: “Approaches to Overlooked Texts, Part I”

Chair: Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi
Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University, “Methodists on the Move: Religious Wanderings in the Spiritual Quixote”
Todd Parker, DePaul University, “Christopher Smart and Evangelical Opera”
Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi, William Hogarth’s Excremental Vision”
Martha Lawler, The Noel Collection of Louisiana State University in Shreveport, “The Noel Collection: A Treasure Chest of Overlooked Texts”

PANEL 7: “Texts and Attribution.”

Chair: TBA
J. Patrick Lee, Barry University, “Bull Fights” Bentham Translates Voltaire”
Peter Sabor, McGill University, Jane Austen’s First Publication (?): Sophia Sentiment Revisited”
Gail Shivel, Wolf Den Books Company, “Publishing Samuel Johnson’s Lives”
Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University, “Furbank & Owens: Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution and the Search for Daniel Defoe”

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 5:20–6:30 PM: SPECIAL EVENT

A plenary celebration of the career, contributions, and collegiality of J. A. Leo Lemay. Hosts and Emcees: Robert C. Leitz, III (Louisiana State University in Shreveport) and Brycchan Carey (Kingston University). Honorary Hostess and Emcee in absentia: Laura Stevens.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 6:35–8:00 PM: SPECIAL EVENT

SCSECS Presidential Reception in Honor of J. A. Leo Lemay.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 9:00–10:40 AM

PANEL 8: “Law, Economy, Morality”

Chair: TBA
Christopher N. Fritsch, Oxford University, “From Chancery Lane to Reading, Pennsylvania: English Common Law Practice on the Fringes of the British Empire of the Eighteenth Century”
Raymond D. Tumbleson, Kutztown University, “Morality and Economy: Austen’s Debts”
Sarah Spence, Southeastern Louisiana University, “Cecilia, the Law, and Patriarchy”

PANEL 9: “Visualizing Fiction: Or, The Wondrous, the Colossal, the Reactive, and the Spectatorial.”

Chair: Rebecca Conor, Wesleyan University
Bruce H. Mayer, Lynchburg College, “Ulysses in Fénelon’s Dialogues des Morts and Fontainebleau’s Galerie d’Ulysse (Ulysse dans les coulisses)”
Gillian Pierce, Boston University, “‘J’étais devenus spectateur d’une multitude d’incidents…’: Reading, Participation, and Visual Imagination in Diderot’s ‘Eloge de Richardson’”
Rebecca Conor, Hunter College, “The Blush, from Behn to Burney”
C. Earl Ramsey and Denies A. Gaskins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “Still ’Tis ‘No Extravagant Arithmetic’: Walter Shandy’s Tristra-paedia, Montaigne, and the White Bear Phenomenon”

PANEL 10: “The ECCB: An Open Forum”

Chair: Robert C. Leitz, III
An open discussion of the ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, with the goal of eliciting ideas for the advancement, enhancement, and improvement of this long-running research and review publication.

PANEL 11: “Voyages Real and Imagined: Musical Flights of Fancy in the Eighteenth Century, Part I.”

Chair: Gloria Eive
Jim McGlathery, University of Illinois—Urbana Champaign, “E. T. A. Hoffman’s Mermaid Opera and Its Source”
Linda Reesman, CUNY/Hofstra University, “The French Revolution, Jacobins, and Theatre: Masks, Deception, and Truth”
Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, “Musical Curiosities in Late Colonial Mexico”
Gloria Eive, St. Mary’s College of California, “Idylls and Escapes—Musica Starships to the Moon and Beyond”

PANEL 12: “The English Landscape Garden of the Eighteenth Century and the Role of Literature.”
A celebratory presentation by Prof. Heinz-Joachim Muellenbrock, emeritus professor of the University of Göttingen and internationally renowned specialist in the area of landscape gardening, in culmination of a distinguished career of research in garden culture.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 10:55 AM–12:30 PM

PANEL 13: “The Commercial Gaze in the Eighteenth Century, Part I.”

Chair: Mariah Adin, Fordham University
Brian D. Reed, Mercyhurst College, “The Commerce of Gazing and Grazing: The Consuming Nature of Smollett’s Men”
Rima Abunasser, University of North Texas, “Imaginative Geographies and the Commercial Gaze: Rasselas and the Dystopia of Travel”
Tara E. Czechowski, Fordham University, “Correcting a Merchant's Myopia: The Sentimental Lens in Colman's Inkle and Yarico: An Opera”
Ginger Hill., University of California—Irvine, “Unfetterd Faces: Male Portraiture in Britain, 1740–1790”

PANEL 14: “Religion (Along with Para-Religious Activivity) in All Its Forms, Applications, and Genres.”

Chair: Father John Panagiotou, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Charleston, South Carolina and Emeritus Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh
Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, “Female, French, and Alone: Luisa Dufresi and the Mexican Inquisition”
Peter Odom, Austin College, “Petitions Yet Remain: Samuel Johnson’s Use of the Future”
Judith Mueller, Franklin and Marshall College, “God’s Place and the Condition of Nature in Blake and the Long Eighteenth Century”
John Panagiotou, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church of Charleston, “God as Found in the Thought of the Eighteenth-Century Divines”

PANEL 15: “Social History, Cultural Norms, and Novel Transgressions”

Chair: David M. Robinson
David M. Robinson, Oregon State University, “The Context and Evolution of Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice”
Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann, Universität Erfurt, “Success of Failure of the Societies for the Reformation of Manners: Sermons and Reality”
Mary Ann Rooks, Kent State University, “Lovelace at the Garden Gate: Spatial Incursions and Clarissa’s ‘Escape’”

PANEL 16: “New Spaces, New Worlds: Eighteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Encounters in the South-Pacific.”

Chair: Bärbel Czennia, Universität Göttingen
Dale Katherine Ireland, California State University—Hayward, “How Peru Comes to Signify in English Eighteenth-Century Print:
John Malden, Paxton House, “Byron and the Blonde: Encounters in the South Pacific”
Bärbel Czennia, Universität Göttingen, “Crossing the Lone: Alexander Pope, James Thomson, and Robert Burns in the South Pacific”

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 12:30–2:00 PM: LUNCH

Lunch Break.
[ECCB Working Lunch–ECCB Staff Only.]

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2:05–3:45 PM

Panel 17: “The Other Americans: Indian Peoples in the Long Eighteenth Century”

Chair: Mariah Adin, Fordham University
Andrew Lipman, University of Pennsylvania, “Heads Changing Hands: The Exchange of Trophies in the Anglo-Pequot War”
Laura Keenan, University of Pennsylvania, “‘We have always been the Frontier’: Locating the Shawnees from 1500 to the Present”
Mariah Adin, Fordham University, “‘Saints’ and ‘Savages’: Mary Rowlandson and Defining the Boundary Between Puritan and Indian”

Panel 18: “David Hume, Part I”

Chairs: Eva Dadlez and James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
Kenneth Buckman, University of Texas—Pan American, “Hume and Intelligent Design”
Michael F. Patton, Jr., University of Montevallo, “The Miracle of Constant Conjunction:
Marc Hanvelt, University of Toronto, “Stealing Their Thunder: Hume’s Philosophy of Rhetoric”

Panel 19: “To Infinity and Beyond: The Wide World of Eighteenth-Century Literature.”

Chair: Kathryn Strong, University of Southern California
Elson Bond, Fordham University, “Sentimental Firsts: The Place of The Coquette in the Eighteenth-Century World”
Deb Gerling Christie, Fordham University, “Who’s Afraid of Clara Wieland?: Transgressions of Space and Identity in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, or The Transformation”
Ken Monteith, Fordham University, “Passionate Words / Global Desires: The Travels of Dean Mohamet”
Anna Mae Duane, Fordham University, “Transatlantic Metaphors: Race and the Revolutionary Child”

PANEL 20: “Jocularity: Funny, Comic, Hilarious, or Otherwise Jolly Moments, Passages, Elements, or Representations in Long-Eighteenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, Art, Music, Criticism, or Anything Else, Part I.”

Chair: Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University
Remy Hildenborough, Savannah College of Art and Design, “Humor in the Music of Haydn (1732–1809)
Joyce Palmer, Texas Woman’s University, “The ‘Curtain’ and the Screen: Laughable and Laughing Scenes in Tom Jones and The School for Scandal”
Chad Loewen-Smith, Rutgers University, “Hunting Human Jack Hares: Pity, Parody, and Parson Adams”
Diana Solomon, Duke University, “Ass Epilogues”

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 3:45–5:00 PM: INTERMISSION
Swimming, shopping, coffee, cake, or sleeping break.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 5:00 PM ONWARD: LINDA TROOST PLENARY
Assemble at the hotel entrance for bus transportation to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex for dinner and an intergalactic-level plenary address by Linda Veronika Troost.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 9:30–11:30 PM: AMS PRESS RECEPTION
AMS Press Reception. All conferees are invited!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 8:00–9:00 AM: BUSINESS MEETING
SCSECS Business Meeting.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 9:00–10:30 AM

Panel 21: “David Hume, Part II.”

Co-Chairs: Eva Dadlez and James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma, “Hume’s Aesthetic Thought”
Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma, “‘Lovers,’ ‘Friends,’ and Other Enduring Appellations: David Hume and Jane Austen on Marriage”
Peter H. Pawlowicz, East Tennessee State University, “‘Adjusting our Sentiments’: Hume, Painting, and Point of View”

Panel 22: “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century, Part I”

Co-Chairs: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University, and Mike Stasio, University of Tampa
Ernelle Fife, State University of New York—New Paltz, “Life as Story”
Jericho Williams, University of Alaska—Fairbanks, High on Grief: Johnson’s Rasselas as a Representation of Addiction?”
Martine Watson Brownley, Emory University, “History, Fiction, and Gilbert Burnet”

Panel 23: “The Gothic: Everything About It and All Approaches to It”

Chair: Fred Frank
James D. Jenkins, University of Chicago and Proprietor of Valancourt Books, “Let’s Talk of Graves, of Worms, and of Epi(gr)aphs: Epigraphs and Literary Citations in Minor Gothic Novels”
Franz Potter, National University (Camarillo, California), and Proprietor of Zittaw Press, “Making the Terrifying Horrific: Adapting the Gothic Novel into Chapbooks”
Melissa Edmundson, University of South Carolina, “Avenging Angels: Female Ghosts in the Poems of Anne Bannerman and Charlotte Dacre”

Panel 24: “French Characters in English Novels of the Eighteenth Century.”

Chair: Murray Brown, Georgia State University
Liz Trasker, Georgia State University, “Arabella and the ‘Illustrious Scudéry’: Carlotte Lennox’s Critique of Salon Rhetoric”
Sabrina Abid, Georgia State University, “The French are Different from You and Me: Frances Bruney’s Representation of the French Personality”

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 10:45 AM–12:25 PM

Panel 25: “A New Look at the Popish Plot or Exclusion Crisis of 1679–82: Its Place in History, Literature, Music, or Art”

Chair: Anne Barbeau Gardiner, John Jay College of the Ciy University of New York
Jerry Donnelly, University of Central Floria, “Marvell and the Popish Plot”
Katherine Quinsey, University of Windsor, “Dryden: Publishing, Piety, and the Popish Plot”
David Haley, University of Minnesota, “‘Well-hung Balaam’ and the Popish Plot”
Wight Martindale, Lehigh University, “Portrait of a Patron: Dryden and Hyde in the Exclusion Crisis”

Panel 26: “Approaches to Overlooked Texts, Part II”

Chair: Colby H. Kullman. University of Mississippi
Mimi Gladstein, University of Texas at El Paso, “A Dangerous District for Damsels: Behn’s Little-Known Plays”
Janet Wolf, State University of New York—Cortland, “Jane Austen’s Debt to Restoration Drama”
Marilyn Robitaille, Tarleton State University, “Beauty in a Bottle: A Recipe Book for Ladies’ Cosmetics”
Beatrice Arduini, Indiana University, “Saül and Saul: A Comparison Between Nadal and Alfieri”

Panel 27: “‘Monsters of Inhumanity’: Mothers, Cruel and Unusual.”

Chair: Judith Broome, Austin Peay State University
Amy Qualls, Auburn University, “Mothering on the Margins: Single Motherhood in Eighteenth-Century America”
Amy C. Branam, Carroll College, “The Sins of the Mother: Wollstonecraft’s Maria and Lewis’s Evelina”
Judith Broome, Austin Peay State University, “‘She laid her left hand upon its face and chin, and with the other cut her throat at one stroke’: Mothers, Melancholy, and Murder”

Panel 28: “Outer Space in the Long Eighteenth Century: Moon-Travels, Encounters with Extra-Terrestrials and the Imagination of Places beyond the Troposphere”
Chair: Bärbel Czennia, Universität Göttingen
Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, “New Worlds: Voyaging the Cislunar and Transatlantic Spaces of the Mind”
Theodore E. D. Braun, University of Delaware, “The Eternal Silence of Infinite Space”
Steven Minuk, Oxford University, “Seventeenth-Century Magic Kingdoms: The New Atlantis and Blazing World”
Diane Boyd, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, “ ”

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 12:25–1:45 PM: LUNCH
Lunch Break.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2:00–3:45 PM

Panel 29: “The Sublime, The Beautiful, and the Grotesque”
Chair: Kevin E. Dodson, Lamar University
Kenneth Bruckman, University of Texas—Pan American, “Kant and the Judgment of Taste Disinterested”
Kevin E. Dodson, Lamar University, “The Aesthetics of Morality and the Morality of Aesthetics”
Michael J. Matthis, Lamar University, “Kant and the Beauty of It All”

PANEL30: “Gendered Spaces in Eighteenth-Century Fiction”

Chair: Robi Rhodes, Ohio State University
Mary Crone-Romanovski, Ohio State University, “Navigating the Domestic Labyrinth: The Private Garden in Frances Burney’s Evelina”
Robi Rhodes, Ohio State University, “Medico-legal Marionettes: Women and the Production of Sensibility in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman”
Miranda S. Miller, Ohio State University, “The Public and Private Sphere in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda: Empowerment through Conflation”

PANEL 31: “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century, Part II”

Co-Chairs: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University, and Mike Stasio, University of Tampa
Beccie Puneet Randhawa, Vanderbilt University, “Failed Hostesses, Penitent Creoles, and the Impossibility of Home in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”
Anne Barbeau Gardiner, John Jay College of the City University of New York, “Pierre Bayle Versus David Durand: Was Vanini, the Grand patriarch of Atheists, a Sincere Martyr or a Lying Scoundrel?”
Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University, and Michael Stasio, University of Tampa, “Rogues and Reciprocity: Evolutionary Psychology and Eighteenth-Century British Pirates”
Julie Chun Kim, University of Florida, “Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Cannibalism, and Reflexive Anthropology”

PANEL 32: “Approaches to Overlooked Texts, Part III”

Chair: Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi
Kelly Malone, University of the South, “‘Sailing Pines’ and Trade in Colonel Jack”
Rebecca Jordan, Washburn University, “From Larkrise to Candleford: A Twentieth-Century Novel for the Eighteenth Century”
Robert Steensma, University of Utah, “Sage Counsels and Brief Folly: The Adventures of Jonathan Corncob, Loyal American Refugee (1787)”

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 3:55–5:35 PM

PANEL 33: “Jocularity: Funny, Comic, Hilarious, or Otherwise Jolly Moments, Passages, Elements, or Representations in Long-Eighteenth-Century Literature, Philosophy, Art, Music, Criticism, or Anything Else, Part II.”

Chair: Kevin L. Cope. Louisiana State University
Louise K. Barnett, Rutgers University, “The Risible in Jonathan Swift”
Dale Katherine Ireland, California State University—Hayward, “Samuel Johnson’s Litotic Humor: The Not Unfunny”
David Nunnery, University of Wisconsin, “The Comedy of The Lives of the Poets”
Suzanne Poor, Seton Hall University, “Jonathan Swift, The Scatological Sage”

PANEL 34: “Milton in the Eighteenth Century”

Chair: John J. Burke, University of Alabama
David Venturo, The College of New Jersey, “Politics and Poetry: The Conflicted miltons of Dryden and Johnson”
John J. Burke, The University of Alabama, “Fielding vs. Milton: The Real Epic Combat in Tom Jones”
John T. Scanlan, Providence College, “Too Many Honeysuckle Lives of Milton: Johnson and the ‘Spirit of Contradiction’ in Literary Biography”

PANEL 35: “The Commercial Gaze in the Eighteenth Century, Part II”
Chair: Tara E. Czechowski, Fordham University
Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, New Jersey City University, “Poetic Prospects, Peace, and the Commercial World”
John Savage, Fordham University, Commercialism and the Environment in The Indian Emperour and ‘Windsor Forest’”
Amir Marmor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Dream that Shapes Reality: Art and Consumption in Werther’s Age”
Kathleen Urda, Fordham University, “Consuming and Consumed: Tom Rakewell in Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress”

PANEL 36: “Objects and Things: Furnishing the Long Eighteenth Century”

Chair: Eurgenia Zuroski, Haverford College
Ann Louise Kibbie, Bowdoin College, “Circulating Anti-Semitism”
John Malden, Paxton House, “The Furnishing of Paxton house”
Eugenia Zuroski, Haverford College, “Defoe’s Trinkets”

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 6:00–7:00 PM: PLENARY ADDRESS BY PATRICIA BRUCKMANN.
Patricia Bruckmann’s Plenary Address.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7:00 PM – ?: CLIMACTIC DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENT EVENT (A SURPRISE—TBA).

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, TIME TBA: SAYRE GREENFIELD’S BIRDING EXCURSION.