NEASECS 2005

Conference Program

Friday, 30 September 2005:

8:30-9:45 Registration/Coffee

9:45-11:15 First Concurrent Session

I-I) Eighteenth-Century Cityscape I: Continental Cities — Carleton Room

Chair: Edward Larkin, University of New Hampshire

Richard Ruppel, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, "Zürich in the Eighteenth Century: From Sleepy Province to Enlightened Swiss Center
Paul Creamer, Columbia University, "The Tableau de Paris 2.0: A Clandestine Pamphleteer's Post-Revolutionary Reworking of Mercier's Pre-Revolutionary Cityscape"
Mira Morgernstern, City University of New York, "Rousseau and the City: Possibilities and Perplexities"

I-2) Sociable Pleasures — Hampstead Room

Chair: Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta

Brian Cowan, McGill University, "Coffeehouses and the Enlightenment Quotidian"
John Baird, University of Toronto, "'Cups That Cheer': Tea-Drinking and Literature in Eighteenth Century Britain"
William J. Dunning, Monroe Community College, "Revealing Place and Making Space: Playing Legerdemain with Hogarth's Smoking Pipe"

I-3) Religion and the Public Sphere in the Long Eighteenth Century I — Grand B

Chair: John O'Neill, Hamilton College

Jeremy Schmidt, University of King's College, "Politeness, Casuistry, and 'the Decay of the Dissenting Interest' in Early Eighteenth-Century England"
Larry Skillin, The Ohio State University, "'Your Book is gone abroad; ye should bring better Proofs than bare Assertions.': George Keith and the Transformation of American Print Culture"
Kenneth Shelton, Boston College, "'Take away Sam. Jenings the Magistrate, and where will Sam. Jenings the Quaker be?': George Keith and the Quaker politics of reputation"

I-4) Representative & Real: Material Practice in the 18th Century — Aberdeen Room

Chair: Randall Martin, University of New Brunswick

Patricia B. Craddock, University of Florida, "'The Slipshod Muse': Classic Forms for Mundane Content"
Chloe Wigston Smith, University of Virginia, "'Wholesale and Retail at Reasonable Rates': Eighteenth-Century Trade Cards, Clothing Markets, and Gendered Habits"
Patricia Bruckmann, University of Toronto, "Mrs Bennet's Dining Table and other Materiality in Jane Austen"

11:30-1:00 Second Concurrent Session

I-2) Scandalous Accounts — Carleton Room

Chair: Jane Magrath, University of Prince Edward Island

Jessica Crabill, University of Rochester, "The Coxcomb's Context"
Kasey D. Baker, University of Tennessee"'Severing her yet Smiling Face from that Delicate Body': Female Disfigurement and Colonial Reification"
Cheryl Nixon, University of Massachusetts at Boston, "Rewriting and Gendering Popular Trial Records: the Annesley and Muilman Cases"

II-2) Catholicism and Political Negotiation in the Long 18th Century — Hampstead Room

Chair: Gillian Thompson, University of New Brunswick

Anne Gardiner, John Jay College, "Lawyer Richard Langhorne and the Popish Plot: his writings, trial and execution"
Anjili Babbar, University of Michigan-Flint, "'The king or the pretender': Richard Savage's Use of the Jacobite Plot"
Janet Whatley, University of Vermont, "Anxieties of Cultivation: Isabelle de Charrière's Les Ruines de Yedburg"

II-3) Poetics of the Everyday — Grand B

Chair: Maria Zytaruk, University of Calgary

Trisha Kannan, University of Florida, "Everyday Subtleties: Ann Barbauld's 'Domestic' Poetry and the Resistance of Traditional Gender Roles"
John Burke, University of Alabama, "Beekeeping in The Georgics: John Dryden (1697) vs. David Ferry (2005)
Dawn Morgan, St. Thomas University, "Critique and Accomodation: Commodity and Eighteenth-Century Graveyard Poetry"

II-4) Contemporary representations of the South Sea Bubble & Public Credit — Aberdeen Room

Chair: Emerson Baker, Salem State College

Christopher Fauske, Salem State College, "A writer's credit: Jonathan Swift and the fear of the debtor society"
Rick Kleer, University of Regina, "'How easily the people are bubbled by deceivers': representations of public credit after the South Sea debacle"
David McNeil, Dalhousie University, "Thomas Bowles' Commemorative Prints and Playing-Cards: Popular Art and the South Sea Bubble"

II-5) Performing the Everyday I — Grand A

Chair: Denise Amy Baxter, University of North Texas

Denise Amy Baxter, University of North Texas, "Fashions of Sociability in Jean-François de Troy's Tableaux de mode, 1725-38: Defining a Fashionable Genre in Eighteenth-Century France"
Melissa Bloom, City University of New York Graduate Center, "The Politics of Roast Beef; or, Print and Nationalism in Henry Fielding's Grub Street Opera"
Susan Libby, Rollins College, "A man of nature, rescued by the wisdom and principles of the French Nation: Science and Politics in Girodet's Portrait of Belley"

1:00-2:00 Lunch/NEASECS Executive Meeting — Grand A
NEASECS Executive Meeting Location TBA

2:00-3:30 Third Concurrent Session

III-1) Performing the Everyday II — Aberdeen Room

Chair: Joanne Wright, University of New Brunswick

Caroline Walker, University of Birmingham, "Private Remembrance and Public Politics in Anne Mee's Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire"
Mark John Raymond, New York University, "When the Short Marble but Preserves a Name": Thomas Gray's "Epitaph on Mrs Clerke" and the Commonplaces of Mourning"
Jennifer Thorn, Colby College, "'All beautiful in woe': Phillis Wheatley's 'Niobe,' grief, and gender"
Amy Sande Friedman, Bard Graduate Center, "The Death of Cook Textile:an Artifact of the Eighteenth-Century Culture of Death"

III-2) Representing Womanhood — Grand A

Chair: Patricia Bruckmann, University of Toronto

Rebecca Tierney-Hynes, University of Toronto, "Reforming Romance: Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless: or, the Value of Quotidian Thinking"
Gretchen Holtzapple Bender, University of Pittsburgh, "The Woman at the Window: Caspar David Fredrich's Anti-domestic Interior"
Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky, "Illegitimacy and Gender in the Enlightenment"

III-3) The Claims of Beauty — Grand B

Chair: Christine Horne, University of New Brunswick

Li-Ching Chen, National University of Kaohsiung, "'The Despotism of Fashion': Conspicuous Consumption in Frances Burney's Cecilia"
Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick, "'Awful Beauty Puts on all its Arms': Aphra Behn on Appearances"

III-4) Eighteenth-Century Captivity Narratives — Grand B

Chair: Zabelle Stodola, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

James Levernier, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "'So Many Ravenous Wolves': Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century Indian Captivity Narratives"
Lorrayne Carroll, University of Southern Maine, "Composing Captivity"
Corey Slumkoski, University of New Brunswick, "Mi'kmaq Captivity Narratives, 1744-1760"

III-5) Politics of Childhood — Hampstead Room

Chair: Irene Fizer, Hofstra University

Adriana S. Benzaquén, Mount Saint Vincent University, "French Philosphical Medicine and the 'Physical Education' of Children after the Revolution"
Alice Taylor, University of Western Ontario, "'Buy me if you will for I am not your fellow creature': Children, abolition and consumer culture at the Boston Anti-Slavery Fair"
David Jury, State University of New York at Albany, "Narrative as Everyday Practice in Sarah Fielding's The Governess"

3:30-4:00 Nutrition Break/Coffee

4:00-5:00 Welcome & Keynote Speaker — Grand A
Laurel Ulrich, "Fictions in the Kitchen"

6:00-7:00 Reception — Victoria Room

Evening Free

Saturday 1 October 2005

9:00-9:30 Coffee/Registration

9:30-11:00 Fourth Concurrent Session

IV-1) Electronic Resources and the 18th Century: A New Vision — Aberdeen Room

Chair: David Gants, University of New Brunswick

Margaret Conrad, University of New Brunswick, "The Winslow Papers and Electronic Texts: Representing the Loyalists on the Web"
John Bonnett, Brock University, "The Historian-as-Film-Director: Augmented Reality and Historical Research"
Miriam Jones, University of New Brunswick Saint John, "The Eighteenth-Century Online: commonplace book or coffeehouse?"

IV-2) Memory & Representation: Memoirs of Lives Lived — Victoria Room

Chair: Gail Campbell, University of New Brunswick

Evelyn A. Kassouf Spratt, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, "Being French in America: The Memoirs of Josephine du Pont, 1795-1837"
Mika Suzuki, Shizuoka University, "Self-discipline and Care: Georgiana, Countess Spencer"
Robin Craig, University of Western Ontario, "The Quotidian in Confinement"

IV-3) Race and Empire — Hampstead Room

Chair: Paul Johnston, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

Katrin Fischer, Harvard University, "The Mystery of Regina: An 18th Century German American Captivity Story and Its Transatlantic Fate"
Katherine Quinsey, University of Windsor, "Everyday Martyrs: race, religion, and gender in Dryden's heroic drama"
Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University, "William Campbell's 'Annals of Tryon County': Settler memory and white-Mohawk relations in northeastern North America in the aftermath of the American Revolution"

IV-4) Rivalries — Carleton Room

Chair: Adriana Benzaquén, Mount Saint Vincent University

Elizabeth Blood, Salem State College, "Theatrical Rivalries and Authorial Identities: Goldoni, Chiari and Literary Adaptation"
Jeanne Hageman, North Dakota State University, "'La guerre civile au sien de la Comedie-Française': The Rivalry Between Actresses Mlle Sainval and Mme Vestris"
Veronique Olivier, Penn State University, "Feminine Authority in the Salon"

IV-5) Culture, Place and Society — Governor's Ballroom

Chair: Allan Reid, University of New Brunswick

Chris Roulston, University of Western Ontario, "Class Tensions and the Aestheticization of the Everyday in the French Eighteenth Century"
Colum Leckey, Bridgewater College, "At the Edge of Enlightenment: Provincial Intellectuals and the Material Culture of the Russian Country Estate, 1750-1800"

11:00-11:15 Coffee

11:15-12:45: Fifth Concurrent Session

V-1) Gender, Practice and the Law in 18th-Century England — Hampstead Room

Chair: Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta

Karen Pearlston, University of New Brunswick, "Common Law and Women in Trade: The Practice and Politics"
Trevor Ross, Dalhousie University, "Everyday Intrusions, or What Did the English Public Have a Right to Know about Private Lives?"
Tammy Moore, University of New Brunswick, "Middling Ground: Marital Separation by Contract in Eighteenth Century England"

V-2) SCHILLER I — Governor's Ballroom

Chair: Charlotte Craig, Rutgers University

Jeffrey L. High, California State University at Long Beach, "Familiarity with the External World: Schiller and the Sources of his Literary Prose"
Steven D. Martinson, University of Arizona, "Schiller in America: 1790-1800, with a Note of Schiller Today"
David Pugh, Queen's University, "The Beautiful and the Sublime"

V-3) Eighteenth-Century Cityscape II: Cities of Italy and the New World — Victoria Room

Chair: Edward Larkin, University of New Hampshire

Denise Sepulveda, Lafayette College, "Worth its Weight in Silver: Potosi as Problematic Patria"
Marc Harris, Penn State University, "Political Capital: Philadelphia in the 1790s"
Mary Jane Cryan, Independent Scholar, "Travels in Tuscany: Florence, Bologna and other Tuscan cities in the 1770s"

V-4) Temporal Transformations — Aberdeen Room

Chair: Lissa Beauchamp, St. Francis Xavier University

Gefen Bar-On, McGill University, "The genius of the everyday: Shakespeare, Newton and useful knowledge"
Shawna Geissler, University of Regina, "The Novel Advancement of Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England: Sarah Scott's Conservative Strategy in Millenium Hall"

V-5) Public Print (or Daily Politics) — Carleton Room

Chair: Sue Brown, University of Prince Edward Island

Sean Goodlett, Fitchburg State College, "The Workday Public Sphere: Rousseau in Newsprint, 1736-1753"
Michael Wells, University of British Columbia, "Portable Public Spheres: Mr. Spectator, Clarissa and the Cognitive Power of the Imagination"
Marcia Nichols, University of South Carolina, "The Aesthetic as Escape Hatch: Addison's 'Pleasures of Imagination'"

12:45-2:00 Lunch/NEASECS Annual General Meeting — Governor's Ballroom

2:00-3:30: Sixth Concurrent Session

VI-1) Commercial Metaphors and Financial Practice — Carleton Room

Chair: Karen Pearlston, University of New Brunswick

Sara Mendelson, McMaster University, "'I have cast up my account...': bookkeeping metaphors in the life and letters of Anne Dormer"
Miruna Stanica, Stanford University, "Inventories and Invention: Everyday Goods and the Generation of Plot in the Eighteenth Century English Novel"
Anne Laurence, The Open University, "Finance and Family Networks: Women's Experiences as Bank Customers in the Early Eighteenth Century"

VI-2) Objects and Meanings — Victoria Room

Chair: Irene Fizer, Hofstra University

Adrienne Hood, University of Toronto, "Comfort, Culture and Identity: Making Beds in the Atlantic World"
Ellen Kennedy Johnson, Arizona State University, "Trans-coding Nationalism: Subjectivity and Military Themes in Regency Women's Dress"
Maria Zytaruk, University of Calgary, "Material Translations: The Botanical Productions of Mary Delany and Commercial Discourse"

VI-3) SCHILLER II — Governor's Ballroom

Chair: Chris Lorey, University of New Brunswick

Charlotte Craig, Rutgers University, "Language and the Gesture of Exertion and Inertia in Schiller's Dramatic Production"
James M van der Laan, Illinois State University, "Schiller and Nietzsche on the Use of History"

VI-4) Life and the Stage — Hampstead Room

Chair: Jane Magrath, University of Prince Edward Island

Annibel Jenkins, Georgia Tech, "Elizabeth Inchbald's life at home and in the green room at Covent Garden"
Susan Brown, University of Prince Edward Island "Retiring from the Stage: Provisions for Age and Illness among London's Actors and Actresses"
Dani Phillipson, University of Regina, "When Everyday is Extraordinary: a Star's Life on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage"

VI-5) Eighteenth-Century Cityscape III: British Cities — Aberdeen Room

Chair: Jocelyn Harris, University of Otago

Anna Battagelli, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, "John Dryden's Annus Mirabilis (1666) and the City of London"
Benjamin Pauley, Eastern Connecticut State University, "This monster city: Making sense of London in Defoe's A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain"
Sara Landreth, New York University, "Hogarth and the Aesthetics of Urban Travel"

4:30-5:30 King's Landing

6:00- Dinner at King's Landing Historical Settlement

Sunday 2 October 2005

9:00-10:30: Seventh Concurrent Session

VII-1) Re-membering the Eighteenth-Century Body — Governor's Ballroom A

Chair: Lianne McTavish, University of New Brunswick

Jane Magrath, University of Prince Edward Island, "'Has the cardinal made you a visit lately?': Exploring the female body in Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence"
Heather Meek, Dalhousie University, "Eighteenth-Century Female Spleen: The Woman Writer as Diagnostician"
Kirsten T. Saxton, Mills College, "Bodies of Evidence: Narrative Authority in the Caseof Mary Blandy"

VII-2) Religion and the Public Sphere in the Long 18th Century II — Governor's Ballroom B

Chair: Dawn Morgan, St. Thomas University

Alexis Antracoli, Brandeis University, "Awakening and Authority: Re-Imagining the Bibles Place in Public Worship"
Laura Henigman, James Madison University, "'Reap a Double Crop': Women's Epistolarity and the Public Sphere"
Hannah Lane, University of New Brunswick, "From 'repulsive looking grave-yards' to the 'City of the Dead': the rural cemetery movement in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine"

VII-3) Everyday Narratives — Carleton Room

Chair: Russ Hunt, St. Thomas University

Megan Woodworth, University of New Brunswick, "'A neighbourhood of voluntary spies': Gossip, Scandal, and Marriage in Women's Novels"
Amy Robinson, University of Florida, "Who Needs Prince Charming Anyway?: A Different Kind of Happily-Ever-After in Johnson's The Fountains: A Fairy Tale"

VII-4) Natural and Unnatural — Aberdeen Room

Chair: Jonathan Edwards, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

Terri Nickel, University of Southern Maine, "Girls and Their Squirrels: Women, Domestic Pet-keeping, and the Discourses of Liberty"
Jo Dahn, Bath Spa University, "Women and natural history in the writing of Katherine Plymley (1758-1829)"
Irene Fizer, Hofstra University, "The Value of Waste: Transformations of Abject Matter and Domestic Filth in Pride and Prejudice"

VII-5) Enlightenment Values and the Regulation of Lives — Hampstead Room

Chair: Dennis F. Mahoney, University of Vermont

Paola Mayer, University of Guelph, "E.T.A. Hoffman's Uncanny Everyday"
Arnd Bohm, Carleton University, "Common Sociability in Goethe's Faust"
Dennis F. Mahoney, University of Vermont, "Romanticizing the Eighteenth-Century Everyday: Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower"

10:30-11:00 Nutrition Break/Coffee

11:00-12:30: Eighth Concurrent Session

VIII-1) Salem and the East: Everyday Encounters and Hidden Histories — Carleton Room

Chair: Susan Case, Salem State College

Kimberley Alexander, Salem State College, "'Precious and Longed-for Treasures': Sentimentalizing Portraiture for American Families Abroad"
Patricia Johnston, Salem State College, "History Painting and the Decorative Arts: M.F. Corne's Painted Fireboards for the East India Marine Society"
Dane Morrison, Salem State College, "Taming the Eastern Frontier: the Domesticating Power of Small Things in Early America"
Commentator: Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Director, Teaching American History/Salem in History

VIII-2) Eighteenth-Century Cityscape IV: Women & The City — Hampstead Room

Chair: Kathleen McConnell, St. Thomas University

Martha Musgrave, University of Ottawa, "Women, Space and the Late Eighteenth-Century City"
Jocelyn Harris, University of Otago, "Anne Elliot's Determined Disinclination for Bath"
Margaret Enright Wye, Rockhurst University, "Georgian Architecture & Jane Austen in the Long Eighteenth Century"

VIII-3) Shame, Waste and Modesty — Governor's Ballroom A has been cancelled. Irene Fizer's talk has been moved to VII-4.

VIII-4) Gaming: Culture, Practice and Representation — Aberdeen Room

Chair: Brian Cowan, McGill University

Janet E. Mullin, University of New Brunswick, "The Lady Stak'd: Women in Eighteenth-Century Gaming Satire"
Edward T. Potter, Mississippi State University, "Raffling off the Perfect Marriage: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert's The Lottery Ticket"

VIII-5) Creative Expressions: Image, Sound and Text — Victoria Room

Chair: R. Steven Turner, University of New Brunswick

Emily I. Dolan, Cornell University, "Paint Splatters and Ocular Harpsichords: the Metaphor of Color in Musical Discourse"
Robert B. Craig, Independent Scholar, "The Glass Armonica: Benjamin Franklin and his 'Most Successful Invention'"

VIII-6) Imaginative Pleasure & Real Delights — Governor's Ballroom B

Chair: Dennis Desroches, St. Thomas University

Charles A. Grair, Texas Tech University, "Breakfast in Paradise"
David Clemis, Mount Royal College, "'God's Rational Offspring... Become a Brute' Conceptions of Alcohol Intoxication in England, 1660-1830"

2:00: A visit to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to discuss its internationally renowned collection of eighteenth-century British painting, including works by Reynolds, Hogarth, Ramsay, Gainsborough, and many others.

The visit will be guided by Lianne McTavish, Art historian at the University of New Brunswick, and Associate Curator at the BAG.