NASSR 2000 Tentative Program

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Romanticism and the Physical

September 14 -17, 2000

Tentative Program Schedule

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Index
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Thursday, September 14

Friday, September 15

Saturday, September 16

Sunday, September 17

Thursday

1:00pm - 1:15pm

Conference Welcome

NASSR 2000 Co-Chairs:

Jerrold E. Hogle
University of Arizona

Mark Lussier
Arizona State University

Bryan Short
Northern Arizona University

1:15pm - 3:00pm

Romantic Opera and Musical Theater - (Special Session led by Anne Williams)
Sponsored by: ASU Department of Theater


Anne Williams University of Georgia	"The Mysteries of La Nonne Sanglante"
Diane Long Hoeveler Marquette University	"Oedipal Operatics: Amelia Opie's 'The Father and Daughter' (1801) and its Operatic Adaptation, 'Agnese' (1809)"
Kathryn Pratt Vanderbilt University	"Late Romanticism and the Melancholy Music of the Theater"

Romanticism and Organicism: New Approaches - (Special Session led by Willard Spiegelman)


Willard Spiegelman Southern Methodist University	Introductory Remarks
Annelise Francois UC Berkeley	"'Oh happy living things!', Frankenfoods, and Mimesis Without Sleep"
Charles Mahoney University of Connecticut	"Ironic Organicism/Organic Irony"
Eugene Stelzig SUNY Geneseo	"Goethe's Problematic Ideal in Poetry and Truth: Bildung without End"

Romantic Sciences: Physiognomy, Cartography, Ornithography, Chemistry - (Open Session led by William Hooton)


William Hooton Duquesne University	Introductory Remarks
Mary Lynn Johnson University of Iowa	"Lavater Contemplating a Bust of Chatham: Notes Toward a Physiognomy of National Character"
Ron Broglio School of Literature Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology	"From Land to Landscape: Science Informing Romantic Nationalism"
Susan B. Taylor University of Colorado, Colorado Springs	"Natural History and Subjectivity: Bewick's Vignettes of Romantic Ornithology"
Noah Heringman University of Missouri	"Humphry Davy and the Theater of Science"

P.B. Shelley and the Physicality of the Text - (Open Session led by Jay Ward)


Jay Ward Thiel College	Introductory Remarks
Tristanne Connolly Auburn University	"The Vegetative Bodies of Blake and Shelley"
Kathleen McConnell Dalhousie University	"Coporeal Immortality: Text as Veil in Percy Bysshe Shelley"
Brian Goldberg University of Minnesota	"Ekphrastic Melancholy in Julian and Maddalo and 'Ode to the West Wind'"

3:15pm - 5:00pm
(Thurs)

Romanticism and Speech - (Special Session led by Judith Thompson)


Judith Thompson Dalhousie University	"Resounding and Rebounding; or Biographia Logopaedia: John Thelwell, Speech Theory and Speech Therapy"
Brennan O'Donnell Loyola College	"Texts into Speech: Romantic Versification and the Elocutionists"
Sarah M. Zimmerman Fordham University	"Educating Coleridge: The Public Speaker"
Michele Sharp East Carolina University	"Strangeness and Awkwardness: Wordsworth's Poetics of Speech in Lyrical Ballads and Second Language Acquisition"

After Wordsworth - (Special Session led by Guinn Batten)


Guinn Batten Washington University	"'Something Mourns': Wordsworth and Contemporary Irish Poetry"
Jeff Ritchie Oklahoma State University	"Romantic Physicality: Wordsworth's Aesthetics and Natural History"
Jed W. Mayer Washington University	"Domesticating Language: The Curious Legacy of Wordsworth's Preface"

P.B. Shelley and the Insistence of the Physical World - (Open Session led by Christopher Hitt)


Christopher Hitt University of Oregon	Introductory Remarks
Patrick Vincent UC Davis	"What the Mountain Should Have Said: Shelley's 'Mont Blanc,' Politics and Glaciology"
Mark Canuel University of Illinois, Chicago	"Shelley and the Aesthetics of Correction"
Linda Brigham Kansas State University	"What is Ecological Understanding?: Shelley's 'Sensitive Plant'"
Spencer Hall Rhode Island College	"Shelley's Dead Poets' Society: Dissolutions and Incarnations"

Special NASSR Seminar: The State of Scholarship in Romantic Theatre and Drama

This seminar is designed to continue discussions begun at the special seminar on Romantic drama at Boston's 1996 NASSR conference and is open to any interested NASSR participants.

Convenors:

Catherine Burroughs
Wells College

Reeve Parker
Cornell University

5:30pm
(Thurs)

Conference Reception

University Club, Arizona State University

(Walking escorts from the Mission Palms Hotel lobby begin at 5:20pm)

..... cash bar; hearty hors d'ouvres

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Host: Dr. Lattie Coor

President, ASU

7:30pm
(Thurs)

Obi; or Three-Fingered Jack(1800-1830):
Selections with Commentary

Neeb Hall, Architecture Building, Arizona State University
Sponsored by the Humanities Foundation, Boston University

Plenary Session Chaired and Narrated by Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona
Panelists:

Charles Rzepka
Boston University "Why Obi?"

Jeffrey Cox
University of Colorado, Boulder "Obi and Social Change on the English Stage"

Robert Hoskins
Massey University, New Zealand “Savage Boundaries: Reading Samuel Arnold’s Score”

Peter Buckley
Cooper Union, New York "Obi in New York: Ira Alridge and the African Grove"

Debbie Lee
Washington State University "Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Alridge Worked his Charms"

Performers:

Students from the University of Arizona School of Music and Department of Theater Arts

Technical Director and Advisor:

Professor Jeffrey Warburton, Department of Theater Arts, University of Arizona

Friday

8:30am - 10:15am

New Maladies of the Soul - (Special Session led by Tilottama Rajan)


Tilottama Rajan Western Ontario University	"The Illness of History: Dialectic and Disease in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature"
David L. Clark McMaster University	"Junk Philosophy: Kant on Drugs"
David Farrell Krell DePaul University	"Trauma, Repression, and Narrative in F.W.J. Schelling's 'Ages of the World'"

Sexuality and Romanticism I - (Special Session led by Richard Sha)
Sponsored by: ASU Department of Biology


Richard Sha American University	"Sexuality as a Form of Knowledge in Romanticism"
Vivien Jones University of Leeds	"Sexuality and Knowledge: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Physical"
Peter Otto University of Melbourne	"Sexuality, Sublimation and the Divine: Blake's Critique of the Sublime in The Four Zoas"
Geraldine Friedman Purdue University	"School for Scandal: Sexuality, Race, and Class in Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon"

Romanticism and the American West - (Special Session led by Bryan Short)


Bryan Short Northern Arizona University	Introductory Remarks
Susan Roberson Alabama State University	"Testing the Borders: Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes"
Kelli Olson Piedmont Virginia CC	"A Picturesque Wilderness: The Magazine Editor's Presentation of Thoreau's 'Ktaadn'"
James McKusick University of Maryland, Baltimore County	"Sacred Mountains: Mary Austin and the Romantic Tradition of Nature Writing"
Morag Harris Universita degli Studi di Bologna, via Cartoleria	"'Graphic Transactions': Dickinson, Coleridge, Schiller, and Goethe"

The Ecological Wordsworth - (Open Session led by Sara Guyer)


Sara Guyer University of California at Berkeley	Introductory Remarks
Brooke Hopkins University of Utah	"Laying Waste the Groves That Should Shelter Us: Wordsworth and the Ecological Vision"
Louise Economides Indiana University	"Something Far More Deeply Interfused: Systems Theory and Romantic Ecology"
Sarah Moss Linacre College, Oxford University	"Decomposing Wordsworth: Organic Textuality in 'The Excursion'" Note: Withdrew
James McGavran University of North Carolina, Charlotte	"Wordsworth and 'Daddy Nature'"

10:30am - 12:15pm
(Fri.)

Psychophysiologies of Idealism - (Special Session led by Tilottama Rajan)
Sponsored by: ASU Department of Languages and Literatures


Tilottama Rajan Western Ontario University	Introductory Remarks
Joel Faflak Wilfrid Laurier University/CUNY Graduate Centre	"The Telling Body of Philosophy in Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation"
Jan Plug University of Wisconsin, Madison	"Body Talk"
Marc Redfield Claremont Graduate University	"Radio-Nation: Fichte and the Body of Germany"
Martin Wallen Ohio State University	"Schelling and the Magnetic Fluid"

Sexuality and Romanticism II - (Special Session led by Richard Sha)


Richard Sha American University	Introductory Remarks
Catherine Burroughs Wells College/Cornell University	"British Women Playwrights and the Staging of Female Sexual Initiation"
Karen Weisman University of Toronto	"Form, Loss, and the Feminine in Smith's Elegiac Sonnets"
Bradford Mudge University of Colorado at Denver	"Material Girls: Thomas Rowlandson's Obscene Satire"
Christopher Moylan New York Institute of Technology	"'Oh Wonderful Love': Romantic Technologies of Sex"

The Scourge of Satire - (Special Session led by Steven Jones)


Steven Jones Loyola University, Chicago	Introductory Remarks
Michael Gamer University of Pennsylvania	"Authorizing 'The Baviad': William Gifford and 'The Satires of Juvenal'"
Kyle Grimes University of Alabama, Birmingham	"Verbal Jujitsu: The Tactics of Satirical Conflict"
Donelle Ruwe Fitchburg State College	"The Council of Dogs and The Lobster's Voyage to the Brazils, or How to Become a Political Animal"
Marilyn Gaull New York University	"Harlequin Science, or The Candle in the Sun"

Wordsworth and Physical Memory - (Open Session led by Lilach Lachman)


Lilach Lachman Tel-Aviv University	Introductory Remarks
Beth Lau California State, Long Beach	"Wordsworth and Self-Defining Memories"
Brad Sullivan Florida Gulf Coast University	"Re-constructing Knowledge: Wordsworth's Struggle with 'Systems' in the 'Essay on Morals'"
Sarah Ferguson-Wagstaffe Cornell University	"Physical Resistance and Spectral Recognition in Wordsworth's Adventures on Salisbury Plain"
Dewey Hall UC Riverside	"Signs of the Dead: Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and the Discourse of the Self"

2:00pm - 3:45pm
(Fri)

Romantic Labor/Romantic Leisure I - (Special Session led by Robert Anderson)


Robert Anderson Oakland University	"'Ripe Was the Drowsy Hour': Keats, Godwin, and Productive Leisure"
Bridget Keegan Creighton University	"Green Play: Romantic Laboring-Class Poetry and the Ecology of Leisure"
Mark Merrit University of Oregon	"Poetic Leisure, Poetic Labor, and (Re)fashioning Romantic Authority: Keats at Margate"
Ted Underwood Colby College	"Apollo, Middle-Class God of Work"

Law, Romanticism and the Body - (Special Session led by Victoria Myers)
Sponsored by: ASU Department of History


Victoria Myers Pepperdine University	"Romantic Ordeals"
Michael Macovski Fordham University	"Romantic Physicality and the Ontologic Body: Legal Histories of the Labor Theory of Property"
Michael Kohler SUNY Binghamton	"'Unjust Tribunals' and Social Reproduction"
Greg Kucich University of Notre Dame	"Women's Historiography and the (dis)Embodiment of Law: Ann Yearsley, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Benger"

The Linkage of England and America in Romantic Writing - (Open Session led by Gary Dyer)


Gary Dyer Cleveland State University	Introductory Remarks
Anne E. Zanzucchi University of Rochester	"America Linking Nature and Philosophy: Charlotte Smith's The Young Philosopher"
Joselyn M. Almeida Boston College	"'To Some Undiscovered Shore': Southey's Madoc, The Americas, and Romanticism"
Lance Newman State University of West Georgia	"Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes and Thomas Carlyle's 'Condition of England' Question"
Mary Anne Lutz Frostburg State University	"Haunted Landscapes: The Picturesque in the United States"

Writing the Other in Romantic England - (Open Session led by Courtney Wennerstrom)
Sponsored by: ASU Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies


Courtney Wennerstrom University of Colorado, Boulder	Introductory Remarks
Timothy Fulford Nottingham Trent University	"Britain's Little Black Boys: Science, Slaves and Chimney Sweeps"
Mary Kelly Persyn Menlo School	"Written Upon the African Body: Ways of Seeing Black Caribbeans at the Moment of Independence"
John Bury University of Tulsa	"Neither Here Nor There: Wordsworth's The Convention of Cintra, Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred Eleven, a Poem, and the Birth of Romantic Diplomacy"
Daniel E. White University of Puget Sound	"Southey's Thalaba: Early Romantic Orientalism and the Physicality of Faith"

4:00pm - 5:45pm
(Fri.)

Romantic Labor/Romantic Leisure II - (Special Session led by Robert Anderson)


Robert Anderson Oakland University	Introductory Remarks
Karen Hadley University of Louisville	"Wordsworth, Poetic Labor, and the Commodification of Time"
Daniel S. Malachuk Daniel Webster College	"'Writ(ing) Sonnets Whilst Following the Plow': Coleridge's and Wordsworth's Yeoman in the 1790s"
Daniel Peddie University of Colorado	"Pantisocratic Poetics: Coleridge's 'Susquehanna of the Mind'"
Lora Deahl Texas Tech University	"Robert Schumann's Album for the Young: A Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy"

Idealism, Intelligibility, and Matters of the Flesh - (Special Session led by David Farrell Krell)
Sponsored by: ASU Department of Religious Studies


David Farrell Krell DePaul University	Introductory Remarks
Anna Vaughn Clissold DePaul University	"Matters of Necessity: F.W.J. Schelling's Timaeus-Commentary and the Relation of Platonic chora to the Intelligible"
Angelica Nuzzo DePaul University	"Bodies in Space: Identifying One's Own Body in Kant's Doctrine of Space"
Kelly Coble American University, Cairo	"From Intelligible Deed to Incomprehensible Basis: Schelling's Overcoming of the Moral Standpoint on the Support of Kant's Moral Insight into Evil"
Jack DeRochi University of South Carolina	"Body and Mind: William Godwin and Cartesian Dualism"

Mary Shelley and the Many Domains of the Physical - (Open Session led by Nancy Moore Goslee)


Nancy Moore Goslee University of Tennessee	Introductory Remarks
John Greenway University of Kentucky	"'It's Alive!': The Revival of the Dead in Romantic Medicine"
Ranita Chatterjee Vassar College	"'Homogenesis': Fathering Desire in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
Denee Pescarmona UC Santa Barbara	"'He feels me now': The Politics of Friendship and the Brotherhood of Death in Mary Shelley's The Last Man"
Tilar J. Mazzeo University of Washington	"'Acting a novel, being an incarnate romance': Mary Shelley, Travel Writing, and Romance"

Special Session: Writing for Publication - A Discussion on Editing - (Led by Marilyn Gaull, with panelists)


Fred Burwick UCLA	European Romantic Review
Michael Eberle-Sinatra University of Toronto	Romanticism on the Net
Marilyn Gaull New York University	The Wordsworth Circle
Steve Jones Loyola University, Chicago	Keats-Shelley Journal
Greg Kucich University of Notre Dame	Nineteenth Century Contexts
Morton Paley UC Berkeley	Blake Illustrated Quarterly
Nicholas Roe University of St. Andrews	Romanticism

7:30pm

Plenary Session
Led by Mark Lussier, Arizona State University
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W. J. T. Mitchell
University of Chicago
Editor, Critical Inquiry
"Romanticism and the Life of Things: Fossils, Totems, and Images"

Saturday

8:30am - 10:15am

Corporeal Minds/Nervous Bodies: Romantic Anti-Dualisms I - (Special Session led by Alan Richardson)


Alan Richardson Boston College	Introduction: "Some Priestley Remarks"
Nancy Moore Goslee University of Tennessee	"'Soul' in Blake: Words Made Spiritual Body"
Nancy Easterlin University of New Orleans	"Binary Construction and Ambivalence in Wordworth's Lucy Poems"
Jenna R. Drexler University of Colorado, Boulder	"'Many a Flower is Born to Blush (Un)seen': Romantic Anti-Dualism and the Blush in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey"

Jane Austen and the Physical - (Special Session led by Vivien Jones)


Vivien Jones University of Leeds	Introductory Remarks
Jill Heydt-Stevenson University of Colorado, Boulder	"Fanny Price, or the Price of the Body: Prostitution in Mansfield Park"
Margaret (Meg) Russett University of Southern California	"'No Visible Wound': Sensation and Spectacle in Persuasion"
William John Hamilton University of Oregon	"'To Make Those Feelings What He Wished...': Feminist/Ecrocritical Potentials in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park"
Kristin Flieger Samuelian George Mason University	"Figures of Representation: Understanding Bodies in Emma"

Writing the Nation - (Open Session led by Rhonda Kercsmar)


Rhonda Kercsmar East Stroudsburg University	Introductory Remarks: "Writing, Revising, and Censoring the Nation"
James M. Garrett Occidental College	"Surveying and Writing the Nation: The Revelation Infinite and Darkness Infinite of Black Comb"
Alex Benchimol University of Glasgow	"Intellectual Subjectivity and Cultural Conflict in the Early Nineteenth Century British Public Sphere: A Comparative Assessment of the Aesthetics of Social Representation in Carlyle and Cobbett"
Filiz Turhan New York University	"Figuring the End of Empire in the City of Constantinople"
Erik Simpson University of Pennsylvania	"Improvisation, Gender, and Nationalism"

10:30am - 12:15pm
(Sat.)

Corporeal Minds/Nervous Bodies: Romantic Anti-Dualisms II - (Special Session led by Alan Richardson)


Alan Richardson Boston College	Introductory Remarks
Noel Jackson University of Chicago	"Coleridge, Literary Experiment, and the Embodied Subject of Romantic Aesthetics"
Clifford Marks University of Wyoming	"Percy Shelley's Romantic Anti-Dualism: The Case of 'The Senstitive Plant'"
John Whale University of Leeds	"'The Bleeding Heart': Hazlitt's Corporeal Aesthetics"
Clare A. Simmons Ohio State University	"After Darwin: The Human(e) Animal in English Romantic Thought"

Gender and the Resistance to Nationalism - (Special Session led by Andrew Elfenbein)


Andrew Elfenbein University of Minnesota	Introductory Remarks
Catherine McClenahan Indiana University of Pennsylvania	"Blake's Erin, the United Irish and 'Sexual Machines'"
Anne Mellor UCLA	"Materializing the English Nation: The Triumph of Britannia"
Jonathan David Gross DePaul University	"Erotic Liberalism in Treatise on the Influence of the Passions and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Danny O'Quinn Guelph University	"Foppish French Furniture/Sexual Sofas: Political Allegory and the Physical Properties of the Stage in Hannah Cowley's A Day in Turkey"

The Consumptions of the Body in Romantic Non-Fiction - (Open Session led by Nicholas Roe)


Nicholas Roe University of St. Andrews	Introductory Remarks
James Robert Allard University of Waterloo	"'Great Vital Organs': Thelwell's Radical Materialism"
Samantha Webb University of Montevallo	"Martha Stewart Meets Hannah More: Recipes and the Politics of Cooking in the Cheap Repository Tracts"
Robert Mitchell University of Washington	"The Nervous Body of the English Nation: Thomas Trotter on Coffee in A View of the Nervous Temperment"
Timothy Ziegenhagen Southern Illinois University/ Grand Valley State University	"Germs and Thrillings: Two Models of Disease in De Quincey's The English Mail-Coach"

12:30pm - 1:45pm
(Sat.)

NASSR Business Meeting

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Executive Committee, Advisory Board, General Members
Greg Kucich, chair

2:00pm - 3:45pm
(Sat.)

New Perspectives on the Picturesque: Ecology, Travel, Space I - Women Tourists: Dirt, Displacement, and Disorder - (Special Session led by Gary Harrison/Jill Heydt-Stevenson)
Sponsored by: ASU School of Architecture


Gary Harrison/Jill Heydt-Stevenson University of New Mexico/University of Colorado, Boulder	Introductory Remarks
Jeanne Moskal University of North Carolina	"Cleanliness, Dirt, and Nationalism in Ann Radcliffe's Dutch Travels"
Jane Stabler University of Dundee, Scotland	"Figuring Disorder: Women's Travel Writing About Italy 1789-1848"
Anne Wallace University of Southern Mississippi	"The Minute Sublime: Fossils and the Picturesque in Smith's Beachy Head"

New Perspectives on European Romanticism - (Special Session led by Michael Eberle-Sinatra)


Michael Eberle-Sinatra University of Toronto	"Hazlitt and Stendhal in Love"
Angela Esterhammer University of Western Ontario	"Nationality and Performance: A New Perspective on European Cultural Relations"
John Claire Isbell Indiana University	"The Thinking Atom: Concerning the Shape of British and European Romanticism"
Thomas Pfau Duke University	"The Corrupt Body of the Later Romantic Lyric: Melancholy, Jewishness, and Nietzschean Resentment in Heinrich Heines' 'Buch der Lieder'"

Gender and the Resolution of Conflict in Romantic Writing - (Open Session led by Anthony Harding)


Anthony Harding University of Saskatchewan	Introductory Remarks
Stephen C. Behrendt University of Nebraska, Lincoln	"'A Few Harmless Numbers': British Women Poets and the Climate of War, 1793-1815"
Ina Ferris University of Ottawa	"Pastry and Popery: Rewriting Confraternity in Morgan's National Tale"
Donna Coffey Reinhardt College	"Protecting the Botanic Garden: Seward, Darwin and the Industrial Revolution"
Kari Lokke University of California, Davis	"History as 'Geisterumgang' in Bettine von Arnim's Die Gunderode"

4:00pm - 5:45pm
(Sat.)

New Perspectives on the Picturesque: Ecology, Travel, Space II - "The Swelling Canvas": Healing Prospects, Hope and Mobility in the Picturesque - (Special Session led by Gary Harrison/Jill Heydt-Stevenson)
Sponsored by: ASU School of Art


Gary Harrison/Jill Heydt-Stevenson University of New Mexico/University of Colorado, Boulder	Introduction: "The Practice of Landscape: Some Versions of the Picturesque"
Benjamin Colbert University of Wolverhampton	"Aesthetics of Enclosure: Agricultural Tourism and the Place of the Picturesque"
Beth Dolan Kautz University of Missouri, Kansas City	"Mary Wollstonecraft's Salutary Picturesque: Curing Melancholia in the Landscape"
Thomas Hothem University of Rochester	"The Picturesque and the Production of Space: Cultivating the Suburban Ideology in Emma"
Bruce Graver Providence College	"Discord at Pennacook: Whittier and the Problem of American Picturesque"

The Materiality of Romantic Texts - (Special Session led by Neil Fraistat)
Sponsored by: ASU Department of English


Neil Fraistat University of Maryland	"The Material Shelley: Who Gets the Finger in 'Queen Mab'?"
Clifford Siskin University of Glasgow	"VR Machine: Romanticism and the Physical"
Peter Manning USC	"Scott's Book of the Last Minstrel"
Morton D. Paley UC Berkeley	"Coleridge's 'Hymn Before Sun-Rise in the Vale of Chamouni'"

Revaluing the Physical in Coleridge - (Open Session led by William Davis)


William Davis Colorado College	Introductory Remarks
Mike Wiley University of North Florida	"Forging Radicalism: Coleridge and the Appropriation of Authorial Identity"
Mark Minster Indiana University	"Hoping to See: Visual Perception in 'Frost at Midnight'"
David S. Hogsette New York Institute of Technology	"Coleridge's Conversational Tapestry: Revaluing the Physical Structure of Biographia Literaria"

6:30pm

Conference Banquet

Presentation of graduate student competition winners
Sponsored by the Graduate College, Arizona State University

8:00pm

Plenary Session
Led by Bryan Short, Northern Arizona University
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N. Katherine Hayles
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

"Romantic Bits: Embedded in Media"

Sunday

8:30am - 10:15am

Materialism, Theory, and the Social Body - (Special Session led by John Rieder)


John Rieder University of Hawaii at Manoa	Introductory Remarks
Philip Connell St. John's College, Cambridge University	"Wordsworth and Malthus: A Deeper Nature"
Alex Dick University of Toronto	"Citizen Khan"
Dino Felluga Purdue University	"Incorporating the Metaphysical: Byron's Spectropoetics, Commodity Culture and Revolution"
Mark Schoenfield Vanderbilt University	"Economics as a Physical Science: Horner, Thornton, and the Discourse of Money"

The Romantic Episteme - (Special Session led by Elizabeth Fay)


Elizabeth Fay University of Massachusetts at Boston	"Falling into History: Egyptology and the Apocalyptic Imagination"
Nicholas Halmi McMaster University	"Mind as Micrcosm"
Orrin Wang University of Maryland, College Park	"The Catachresis of Genius: Kant and the Romantic Subject"
David Baulch University of West Florida	"Blake's Sublime Aesthetic and Kant's Critique of Judgment"

Blake I: The Power of Physicality - (Open Session led by Angela Esterhammer)


Angela Esterhammer University of Western Ontario	Introductory Remarks
Dennis M. Welch Virginia Tech	"Apocalyptic Reply: Blake and the Web of Interest and Sensibility"
Stefani Engelstein University of Chicago	"Human Polyps, Automata and Other Monsters of Materialism"
John E. Grant University of Iowa	"The Physicality of 'Friendship' in Blake's Night Thoughts"
Joshua David Gonsalves New York University	"William Blake's Geographical Negotiation of Nationalism: 'he labours and he mourns!'"

Romanticism and the Physical in Retrospect - (Open Session led by N. K. Leacock)


N. K. Leacock University of California at Irvine	Introductory Remarks
Kate Rigby Monash University, Australia	"The Rediscovery of (the Other) Place in European Romanticism"
Karen Swann Williams College	"Shelley's Bones"
Haley Bordo University of Western Ontario	"Eating Keats: The Pre-Raphaelite Brothers and Their Addiction to 'Tropium'"
Robert Kaufman Stanford University	"What's New, What's Critical?: The Work of 'Romanticism' in the Age of Mechanical Post-Modernism"

10:30am - 12:15pm
(Sun.)

The Romantic and the Everyday - (Special Session led by Mary Favret and Adela Pinch)


Adela Pinch University of Michigan	Moderator and Respondent
Mary Favret Indiana University	"Everyday War"
Sonia Hofkosh Tufts University	"Byron's Screen"
Deidre Lynch SUNY Buffalo	"English Literature for Everyday Use: Austen and Mitford Write Home"
Jonathan Mulrooney Boston University	"Signs of The Times: Reading the Romantic-period Daily Newspaper"

Eating Romanticism - (Special Session led by Denise Gigante)


Denise Gigante Stanford University	"Keat's Nausea"
Peter Melville McMaster University	"A 'friendship of taste': The Aesthetics of Eating Well in Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View"
Timothy Morton University of Colorado, Boulder	"Aftertaste"
Paul Youngquist Pennsylvania State University	"Romantic Dietetics! or, Eating Your Way to a New You!"

Blake II: The Physical Force of Language - (Open Session led by Mark Lussier)


Mark Lussier Arizona State University	Introductory Remarks
Julia M. Wright University of Waterloo	"Battling Infection in the Body Politic: Blake's America and Jerusalem"
R. Paul Yoder University of Arkansas, Little Rock	"Organ-ized and Bonified: Soft Tissues and Hard in Blake's Jerusalem"
John H. Jones Jacksonville State University	"Satan's 'Incomparable Mildness': The Duplicitous Speech Plan and Coerced Listeners in the Bard's Song of Blake's Milton"
Jennifer Davis Michael University of the South, Sewanee	"Blake's Feet: Toward a Poetics of Incarnation"

Romantic Theatricality - (Open Session led by Thomas Crochunis)


Thomas Crochunis Brown University	Introductory Remarks: "Romanticism's Gestural Epistemology: Act like you Know"
Marjean D. Purinton Texas Tech University	"Staging the Physical: Romantic Science Theatricalized"
Janet Ruth Heller Western Michigan University	"Byron and the Theater"
Lynda Nuss University of Texas, Austin	"'The Gory Head Rolls Down the Giants' Steps': The Return of the Physical in Byron's Marino Faliero"
Michael T. Williamson University of Pennsylvania	"Gestures of Betrayal: The Auditor's Body in Felicia Heman's Dramatic Monologues"

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