SCSECS 2018: “MIRTH, FUN, CONVIVIALITY”
The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies - Oxford MS, February 23-24
This year, SCSECS will dedicate its convention to one of its longest-serving and most beloved members, Professor Colby H. Kullman. Recognizing that Professor Kullman has dedicated his life to literary study and other forms of cultivated vivacity in and around “Ole Miss,” SCSECS will convene in no less than historic Oxford, Mississippi, a legendary “destination town” abounding in history, energized with an arts revival movement, and sauced up by a thriving culinary movement.
SCSECS conferees will lodge at bargain rates in an artistically designed boutique hotel, the innovative Graduate Oxford, located in the midst of the thriving historic town center.
SCSECS has commissioned a plenary address by distinguished professor and Bucknell University Press Director Greg Clingham, a leading light in the study of Samuel Johnson; of exploration, discovery, and diplomacy; of literary criticisms; and of publishing and the humanities.
Owing to the honoree’s widely heralded joviality, the theme for the conference will be “Mirth, Fun, Conviviality,” a theme that encourage the application of reason, imagination, curiosity, and all other mental faculties in the development of panels that combine innovation with broad appeal and that celebrate the joyous life of the mind.
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting
Conference Program
This is a draft program and may be subject to change.
Friday, February 23 2018 - Breakout Panels
9:00-10:30 a.m.
“Approaches to Overlooked Texts: 35th Edition of the Longest-Running Panel in SCSECS History.”
Chair: Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi
- Mimi Gladstein, University of Texas at El Paso, “Behn’s Beautiful Baddies”
- Christopher Hepburn, Texas Tech University, “An Entirely Different Idiom, or Nanshoku Okagami: The Great Mirror of Male Love”
- Marvin Lansverk, Montana State University, “William Blake's Missing Poems: Some Titles We've Never Heard Before”
- Gloria Eive, Independent Scholar, “Passatempi Romagnoli ’del ’700—Eighteenth-Century Romagnole Diversions for Long Summer Days”
“Conviviality and Clubbing: Social Networking in the Long Eighteenth Century,”
Chair: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
- J. Ereck Jarvis, Northwestern State University (Louisiana), “Another Clubbing of John Dryden: Association and Epistemology in the Rota Pamphlets”
- Charles Tita, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, “Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: Yorick as ‘Signifying’ Messenger”
Respondent: Joseph Rudman, Carnegie-Mellon University
“Players and Playing in Eighteenth-Century Drama.”
Chair: Ashley Bender, Texas Woman's University
- Seth Wilson, University of Georgia, “The Martial Arts: Soldiers as Players and Players as Soldiers in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
- Rasha Alabdullah, Georgia State University, “The Macaroni Fashion vs. the Bumpkin: Masculinity in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer”
“Ludere Cum Sacris: Sporting with the Sacred in the Long Eighteenth Century.”
Chair: Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University
- Katherine Playfair Quinsey, University of Windsor, “The Antichrist of Wit: Pope’s Sporting with the Sacred”
- Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University, “Sporting with the Methodists: Anti-Methodist Literature and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism in the Critical and Monthly Review”
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
“Diversions, Distractions, and Entertainments—Light and Dark—in the Long Eighteenth Century (Session I).”
Chair: Gloria Eive, Fine Arts Editor, ECCB: The Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography
- Linda L. Reesman, Queensborough Community College, “Morality in the Sentimental Comedies of Susanna Centlivre”
- James M. McGlathery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Wagner's Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdammerung in Relation to Their German Romantic Sources”
- Robert J. Malone, University of Notre Dame, “A Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Hoodoo Slavery, and Science in the Old Southwest”
“Seeking Pleasure Abroad.”
Chairs: Brijraj Singh and Frances Singh
- Samara Anne Cahill, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. “Ottoman Gardens, Indian Cabinets, and English Ladies: Pleasure at a Distance in Aubin, Barker, and Haywood”
- Brijraj Singh, Emeritus, Hostos Community College of CUNY. “How One Eighteenth-Century Scotsman Had Fun at Work in India”
- Frances Singh, Emeritus, Hostos Community College of CUNY. “‘Good sport in [the] making’? Illegitimacy, Sex and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century India”
“Speaking More than Naturally; Anything and Everything About Poetry or Verse.”
Chair: Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University
- Dr. Jonathan Callis, Oklahoma Baptist University, “The Landscape of Memory: Allegorically Undoing the Pastoral Idyll in James Thomson’s The Castle of Indolence”
- Andrew Black, Murray State University, “Jubilation Mediation: Christopher Smart’s Jubilato Agno and its Fantasies of Poetic Transmission”
- Theresa Neman, Oak Ridge High School, “The Joke’s On Us: Clarissa’s speech in The Rape of the Lock”
Friday, February 23 2018 - Plenary Luncheon
Keynote Speaker: Greg Clingham, Bucknell University Press, “The Wit and Wisdom of Lady Anne Barnard (1750-1825).”
Lady Anne Barnard was a Scottish travel writer, artist, and socialite whose clever tongue and acute observation was celebrated from the drawing rooms of Edinburgh and London to the ballrooms and parlors of Cape Town, where she presided over South Africa's intellectual and political circles for five years. Her range of acquaintance reads like a virtual "who's who" of the eighteenth century and Regency period. Learn more about this extraordinary woman!
Friday, February 23 2018 - Breakout Panels
2:20-3:55 p.m.
“Undergraduate Research on the Enlightenment.”
Chair: David Eick, Grand Valley State University
- Jesse Dubridge, Grand Valley State University, “Join the First Estate or Emigrate: The Nobility’s Diverse Reactions to the French Revolution”
- Cayla Dwyer, Grand Valley State University, “The Counter and Catholic Enlightenments and the Thing About Labels”
- Andrew Newton, Grand Valley State University, “Diderot’s (Pseudo-/Proto-) Feminist Contrarieties”
- Alex Walsh, Grand Valley State University, “The Professor’s Creed: Using a Video Game to Teach the French Revolution”
“Southern Roots: Botanical Exchange and the Global South in the Eighteenth Century.”
Chair: Tom Bullington, Mercer University
- Nicolle Jordan, University of Southern Mississippi, “Botanical Knowledge and Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824)”
- Samara Cahill, Nanyang Technological University, “Lost in Aubin: Mexican Plants and the Problem of the Cartographic Imagination”
“‘He Laughs Like a Rhinoceros’: Wit, Humor, Comedy, Satire, and Laughter in the Happy World of Johnson and Boswell.”
Chair: John Scanlan, Providence College
- Lance Wilcox, Elmhurst College, “Hack and the Dilettante: Johnson’s Satire of Richard Savage”
- John J. Burke, University of Alabama, “Swift's A Tale of a Tub: The Best/Worst Satire Ever”
- David Paxman, Brigham Young University, “Sacrificing the Graces: A Review of Thoughts on Humor and Laughter in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England”
“Madness and Medicine in the Long Eighteenth Century.”
Chair: Judith Broome, William Paterson University
- E. Allen Driggers, Tennessee Technical University, “Sprawling Hypochondriasis”
- Christine S. Hill, Lehigh University, “‘Wicked Imagination’: Distempered Minds and the Power of Imagination”
- Ross W. Beales, College of the Holy Cross, “‘Either insane, enthusiastical, or in Liquor’: An Eighteenth-Century Minister's Response to Mental Illnesses”
- Judith Broome, William Paterson University, “Creolizing Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean”
4:15-5:55 p.m.
“Outdoor Frolics: Garden Parties, Picnics, and Other Celebrations of Life Beyond the Drawing-Room.”
Chair: Bärbel Czennia, McNeese State University
- Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University, “A Little Way Out of Doors and within View from the Window: The Parks of London and the Condensing of Convivial Empires”
- Bärbel Czennia, McNeese State University, “Under Eastern Eyes: Indian Visitors on English Gardens”
“Enlightened Censorship (with Tongue Firmly Planted in Cheek) or Censorship in the Enlightenment.”
Chair: Theodore E. D. Braun, University of Delaware
- Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, “The Censor Satirized: Santos Díez González's Conveniently Fluctuating Opinions on Satire and the Madrid Stage”
- Theodore E. D Braun, University of Delaware, “Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde ou les Empires et Etats de la Lune Censored”
“Diversions, Distractions, and Entertainments—Light and Dark—in the Long Eighteenth Century (Session II).”
Chair: Linda L. Reesman, Queensbury Community College
- Stacey Jocoy, Texas Tech University, “The Uncertain Demise of Jeremiah Clarke, a Murderous, Musical Mystery”
- Francien Markx, George Mason University, “Comedy of Masks: E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Commedia dell'Arte”
- Gloria Eive, Fine Arts Editor, ECCB: The Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography, “Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona to Mozart's Figaro: The Intermezzo and Commedia dell'Arte in Fancy Dress”
“Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature to Twenty-First-Century Students A Roundtable Discussion Characterized by Delightful Vigorous Conversation.”
Chair: Kristen Hague, Colorado Mesa University
- Kristen L. Hague, Colorado Mesa University, “An English Major, a Business Student, and a Chemistry Whiz Walk into a Literature Survey…”
- Randy Phillis, Colorado Mesa University, “Fake News! and the Sedition Act: Helping Students Understand the Early American Novel”
Saturday, February 24 2018 - Breakout Panels
9:00-10:30 a.m.
“Earlier Pope versus Later Pope.”
Chair: C. Earl Ramsey, University of Arkansas Little Rock
- Chuck Gobin, Asbury University, “The Rape of the Dunciad: the Division of Pope’s Satiric Self”
- Don Bourne, University of Windsor, “Changes in Annotation: Alexander Pope’s Footnotes in His Early and Late Career”
- C. Earl Ramsey, University of Arkansas Little Rock, “Stooping to Truth: Earlier Pope versus Later Pope, from Virtuosity to Authenticity”
“Micro-Game Demo of RTTP* Pedagogy.”
Chair: David Eick, Grand Valley State University
- Jesse Dubridge, Grand Valley State University
- Cayla Dwyer, Grand Valley State University
- Andrew Newton, Grand Valley State University
- Alex Walsh, Grand Valley State University
*Reacting to the Past
“Mapping Merriment: Process, Poetics, and Perspective.”
Chair: TBA
- Lorna J. Clark, Carleton University, “The Fun of Reading: an eighteenth-century child-centred text”
- Victoria Warren, Binghamton University, “Nuances of Mirth in Miscellaneous Poems (1788) by Helen Leigh”
- Phyllis Thompson, East Tennessee State University, “All the World knew that there was not upon earth so vile a Woman’: The Darker Side of Delight in The Duchess’ Green Book”
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10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
“Snipping a Full Life from Part of the Book: Emergent Lifestyles, Helpfully Fragmented Relationships, Piecemeal Compositions.”
Chair: David Paxman, Brigham Young University
- Jennifer Frangos, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Making the Best of Things: Spinsters in the Long Eighteenth Century”
- Anaclara Castro, National Autonomous University of Mexico, “Mrs. Booth and her Careless Husband: Henry Fielding's Last Bow at Colley Cibber”
- Ashley Bender, Texas Woman's University, “The Problems of Pamela Revisited”
“Tropical Aesthetics? The South, Southeast Asia, and the Global South in the Geographic Imaginary.”
Chair: Samara Cahill, Nanyang Technological University
- Dallin Lewis, Southern Virginia University, “The Fraternal Plantation: Gender and the Abolitionist Politics of She-Tragedy”
- Thomas Bullington, Mercer University, “Romancers of the Landscape: Sharawadgi and the Ecology of Romance in Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote”
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“Graduate Studies in the Georgics.”
Chair: Mellissa Black, University of Mississippi
- Alicia Venchuk, University of Mississippi, “‘Worms Lurk in All’: James Grainger’s Quest to Expose and Deworm British Imperiality”
- Cullen Brown, University of Mississippi, “The Networked Plantation: Reading James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane Alongside Bruno Latour”
- Savannah Digregorio, University of Mississippi, “‘Hearts of Oak:’ Conversing with Trees in Evelyn’s Sylva”
- Andrew Freiman, University of Mississippi, “John Dyer and the Mechanized Swain”
Respondent: Anna Foy, University of Alabama in Huntsville
LUNCH BREAK AND SCSECS BUSINESS MEETING
12:15-2:15 P.M.
Saturday, February 24 2018 - Breakout Panels
2:15-3:50 p.m.
“Adventures in Opera: Mozart’s Don Giovanni: Reprobate and Anti-Hero in the Age of Enlightenment.”
Chair: Gloria Eive, Fine Arts Editor, ECCB: The Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography
- Stacey Jocoy, Texas Tech University
- Francien Markx, George Mason University
“The Sharp, the Pointed, the Provocative, and the Satisfying: The Joys of Startling and Robust Style in the Wittily Long Eighteenth Century.”
Chair: John Burke, University of Alabama
- Hilary Donatini, Ashland University: “Sir Roger’s Wink: The Justice of the Peace in Spectator 117”
- David Eick, Grand Valley State University: “Dictionary Wars During the French Revolution”
- Mary Rooks, Kent State University at Stark: “Unnatural, Ungodly, Unmanly: On Raillery and Ridicule in the Eighteenth Century”
“Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century.”
Chair: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University
- Joseph Rudman, Carnegie-Mellon University, “A Look at Defoe’s Contribution to Robert Drury's Journal: A Stylometric Analysis” by Irving Rothman et al.: Are the Results Valid?”
- Elisabeth Linn, University of Nevada Reno, “The Reader Less Traveled in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews and Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon: Intersections between the Novel, Travel Writing and the Role of the Reader in the Long Eighteenth Century”
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4:05-5:40 p.m.
“Fun in the Archives.”
Chair: Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Georgia State University
- Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Georgia State University, “Artifacts, Ephemera, and Serendipity in the Archives”
- Elizabeth Battles, Texas Wesleyan University, “Struggling With Categories: Playbills, Genres, Authors, and Audience”
- Marta Hess, Georgia State University, “From the Nathaniel Russell House to the Fort Pitt Blockhouse: Constructing Archival Spaces”
“Fun and Games with Jane Austen: A Participatory Demonstration and Event.”
Co-Chair: Kit Kincade, Indiana State University
Co-Chair: Sheila Hwang, Webster University
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“The Long Reach of the Long Eighteenth Century: Long Eighteenth-Century Influences on Later Literature.”
Chair: Janet Wolf, SUNY Cortland
- Elizabeth T. Hayes, Le Moyne College, “Milton and Morrison: A Mercy's Lost Paradise”
- Julia K. Callander, Appalachian State University, “‘Some Little Language’: Woolf on Swift and Stella”
- Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University, “Harry Potter and the Magic of Early British Literature”
Saturday, February 24 2018 - Social, Musical, and Culinary Event!
6:00–8:00 PM at the Burns-Belfry Museum
Featuring Lively Tunes by the Reformed Ramblers of Oxford
So long, and see you next year!
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