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Session 1:Thursday, 26 July13:30-15:00
Room 1 / Waves of Revolution, Echoes of Revolution.
A Special Session sponsored by the European Romantic Review
Session Convenor: Frederick Burwick
1. Heike Grundmann (University of Munich) Orientalism and Irish Nationalism; Thomas Moore’s “Lalla Rookh” and Sydney Owenson’s “Missionary”
2. Anita O'Connell (University of Durham) Deep Rolling Chords of Revolution in De Quincey's "The Dream-Fugue"
3. Alexandra Böhm (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) “The crocodile does not change, but all things else do” Revolution and the acceleration of time in Thomas De Quincey’s English Mail Coach and Ernst Moritz Arndts’ Der Geist der Zeit
Room 2 / The Theatre of Freedom: Liberty and Emancipation on Stage (1750-1830) Panel I
Session Convenor: Diego Saglia
1. Giovanna Silvani (Università di Parma, Italia) Black and White Female Slaves on the Long Eighteenth-Century Stage
2. Carlotta Farese (Università di Bologna) August von Kotzebue in European Culture of the Romantic Period: Ideology, Reception and Biographical Myths
3. Annamaria Sportelli (Università di Bari, Italia) Liberating Naples: Masaniello and “the brutal populace of a great town”
Room 3 / Whose Freedom?
Session Convenor: Christoph Bode
1. Christoph Bode (LMU Munich) Whose Freedom? Kant's Anthropology and the Universality of the Enlightenment
2. Sebastian Domsch (LMU Munich)Language and the Edges of Humanity: Orangutans and Wild Girls in Monboddo and Peacock
3. Anthony Howell: (University of Swansea) "But I have no country” Does Freedom Extend to the Romantic Gypsy?
Room 4 / Taking Liberties: William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, William Godwin
1. Peter Allender (University of Bristol) "Culture Wars": Freedom of Expression and The Examiner
2. Stephen Cheeke (University of Bristol) Hazlitt and the Louvre
3. Tim Webb (University of Bristol) Assassins of Truth: William Godwin and the Hazards of Free Speech
Room 5 / Economics and Commerce
1. Angela Esterhammer (University of Zurich) Free to Improvise: The Economic Tactics of the Extemporizing Poet in European Fiction
2. Paul Keen (CarletonUniversity) "This Erudite Swine": The Learned Pig and the Reading Nation
3. Sharon Twigg (MarquetteUniversity) Freedom of Contract? Testing the Justice of Economic and Moral Obligations in T.R. Malthus and William Wordsworth
Room 6 / Europe
1.Marshall Brown (University of Washington)Libertinism and the End of Enlightenment: Don Giovanni with Hegel
2.Dennis Low (Independent Scholar) “A power so organized, so subtle, so complete”: Romanticism and the Invisible Hand of the Illuminati, 1787-1829
Room 7 / Race
1. Michael Bradshaw (ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity) Imagining Egypt: the Singularity of Landor’s Gebir
2. Jim Watt (University of York) Despotism and Liberty in the Novels of Robert Bage
3. Earnestine Jenkins (University of Memphis) John Northcote's Portrait, Head of a Negro in the Character of Othello: Painting “Race” in Early Nineteenth Century European Art
Room 8 / The South West
1.Dafydd Moore (University of Plymouth) Patriotism, Politics and Politeness in the South West of England, 1789-1800
2.Morton D Paley (University of California, Berkeley) Washington Allton’s Bristol Exhibition
3.Alan Vardy (City University of New York) Joseph Cottle’s “Recollections” and Coleridge’s Forgetfulness
Room 9 / Southey
- Benjamin Colbert (University of Wolverhampton) Romantic “Enfranchisement” and the Condition of Travel in Southey’s Letters from England (1807)
- Juan Sanchez (University of Notre Dame) Liberating Spain and Freeing Europe: Robert Southey and the Politics of an Iberian Poetics
- Zak Sitter (XavierUniversity) The Languages of Compulsion and Liberation in Southey’s The Curse of Kehama
Room 10 / Women and Education
1.Greg Kucich (University of Notre Dame) Charlotte Smith and the Political Uses of Women’s Educational History
2.Jennifer Martin (Northeastern University) “To prepare, not to bring about revolutions:” Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Artistic and Literal Rearing of the Romantic Citizen, between Hymns in Prose for Children and “Sins of Government, Sins of a Nation; or a Discourse for the Fast, Appointed on April 19, 1793” (Barbauld);
3.Amy Culley (Queen Mary, University of London ) A revolutionary subject: Helen Maria Williams and the politics of collective memory
Session 2 Thursday, 26 July
15.30-17.00
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Room 2 / The Theatre of Freedom: Liberty and Emancipation on Stage (1750-1830) Panel II
Session Convenor: Diego Saglia
- Gioia Angeletti (Università di Parma, Italia) “To all those whose sympathetic tears can flow … Or who can laugh a fool or fop to scorn”: Staging Colonial Critique and Scottish Wit in Archibald Maclaren’s The Negro Slaves
- Thomas C. Crochunis (Shippensburg University, USA) Women Playwrights and Dramatic Spaces: Locating Historical Tragedy’s Venues and Politics
- Diego Saglia (Università di Parma, Italia) ‘“Patrician accusation and democratic triumph”: Virginius, Rome and Liberty on the 1820 Stage
Room 3 / Visual Freedoms
Session Convenor, Luisa Calè
1. Ian Haywood (Roehampton University, London), “Her name was Hope - but she looked more like Despair”: political violence, national crisis, and the iconography of female distress in Romantic popular culture.
2. Daniel O'Quinn (University of Guelph), Ficus indica: William Hodges and the Ghostly Face of Company Rule
3. David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University), Gillray at Covent Garden: Bonds without Judgment; or, The Loves of Bengal
Room 4 / William Blake: Gender, Sexuality and Non-violence
- Emily Bernhard-Jackson (University of Arkansas) Bloody Globes and Pregnant Nostrils: Freedom, Gender and the Body in William Blake’s The Four Zoas
- Glen Brewster (WestfieldState College) William Blake and Sexuality: Androgyny,Hermaphroditism, and the “Human Form Divine”
- Keri Davies (NottinghamTrentUniversity) “A tongue to drown the throat of war!”: Blake and non-violence
Room 5 / Popular Culture
- Mary Fairclough (University of York) “It is … not being answerable for one’s opinions one’s-self… that is the reason of the violence of mobs, the veniality of courts, and the corruption of all corporate bodies.” Free will and the crowd in Regency England.
- John Strachan (University of Sunderland) Neoclassicism in Romantic-Era Sporting Literature
- Abigail Lundelius (University of South Carolina) Felicia Hemans: Subversive Hymnist
Room 6 / Percy Bysshe Shelley – Emancipatory Politics
- Laura Jane Barlow (University of Liverpool) '”Impress as from a seal”: Politics, Culture and Print in Shelley's “Ode to Liberty”
- Brian Goldberg (University of Minnesota) Shelley, Priestley, and the Radical Afterlife
- Rieko Suzuki (ColumbiaUniversity) “The loathsome mask has fallen”: The Influence of Leigh Hunt’s Descent of Liberty on P. B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
Room 7 / Acts of Liberation: Warfare, Revolution and Romantic Modernity
1.Graciela Iglesias Rogers (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) Romantic Liberators: British Volunteers in the Spanish Army during the Peninsular War
2.Neil Ramsey (AustralianNationalUniversity) Wars of Liberation and the British Romantic Writer
3.Jonathan Sachs (ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal) Staging Rome: BetweenDemocracy and Empire
Room 8 / Race
- Hilary Fezzey (PurdueUniversity) The Biopolitics of Race in Edgeworth’s “Belinda” and Opie’s “Adeline Mowbray”
- Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia) Environmental Determinism and Aboriginal Agency in William Richardson’s The Indians, A Tragedy
- Paul Youngquist (PennStateUniversity) “The African Queen”
Room 9 / Periodicals 1
- Kim Wheatley (College of College of William and Mary) Hazlitt’s Attacks on William Gifford: Transcending the “Age of Personality.”
- Kathryn Ready (University of Winnipeg) The Aikin Family and the Legacy of Rational Dissenting Sociability in Romantic Periodical Culture
Room 10 / Aesthetics, Influence and Tragedy in Mary Shelley and P. B. Shelley
1.Allison Dussane (DukeUniversity) P.B. Shelley’s Developmental Aesthetic: Organicism, Agency and Freedom in Queen Mab and The Triumph of Life
2.Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Universite de Montreal) The Influence of Staël on Mary Shelley, or the Rise of the ‘Romantic’ Hero
3.Dana Van Kooy (University of Colorado) Acting Out the Unspeakable: Shelley’s Cenci and the Play for Legitimacy
Session 3 Friday, 27 July
9:30-11:00
Room 1 / Religion and Censorship
Convenor: Murray Pittock
1. Murray Pittock (University of Manchester)Popery and Slavery: the discourse of slavery in 1745 and 1798
2. Alan Rawes (University of Manchester) The uneradicable taint of sin': Byron, Scottish Calvinism and Freedom
3. Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford) Freedom in Obscurity?
Room 2 / Bristol’s Robert Southey I
Session Convenor:Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Chair: Lynda Pratt
1. Elisa Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh) Between Bristol and Lisbon: Southey’s Foreign Travels and Border Crossings in Thalaba the Destroyer
2. Dan White (University of Toronto) Robert Southey’s The Curse of Kehama and the Museum of the Bristol Baptist Academy
3. Rania Chatsiou (University of Wales, Swansea) Liberation vs. Containment of the Romantic Sublime in Robert Southey’s The Curse of Kehama (1810)
Room 3 / Free Blake: Creation and Constraint
Session Convenor: Angela Esterhammer
1. Erin M. Goss (Loyola College in Maryland) Circumscribing Freedom in Blake’s Book of Urizen
2. Chris Bundock (Western Ontario) “Free to fall”: Creation, Freedom, and God’s Suffering in Schelling and “The Book of Urizen”
3. Peter J. Otto (Melbourne), “Reasonings like vast Serpents / Infold around my limbs”: Reason, Passion, Imagination and the Body of Freedom
Room 4 / Lamb
1. David Higgins (University of Leeds) Charles Lamb, Freedom, and Romantic Exoticism
2. Simon Hull (University of Bristol) Lameness, Enclosure, and the Domesticated Flâneur: Charles Lamb and the Self-emancipating Self
3. Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London) Liberties in the Library: The Lambs Deranging the Books
Room 5 / Waves of Revolution, Echoes of Revolution. Panel 2
A Special Session sponsored by the European Romantic Review
Session Convenor: Frederick Burwick
1. Noel Jackson (MIT) Reason to Lament: Revolution, Romanticism, and “Left-Wing Melancholy”
2. Elizabeth Raisanen (UCLA) Post-Napoleonic liberal discourse in Mary Mitford's Rienzi
3. Deborah Elise White (EmoryUniversity) Revolution and Romantic Irony: Marx, Engels and The Great Men of the Exile
Room 6 / Emancipatory modes in Edmund Burke and William Godwin
- Helena Bergmann (UniversityCollege of Borås) Emancipated “Lions in the Den”: William Godwin and the Other Mary
- Claire Connolly (Cardiff University) Edmund Burke and Irish Romanticism: Aesthetics and Emancipation
- Sue Chaplin (LeedsMetropolitanUniversity )A Supplement: William Godwin’s Case for Justice
Room 7 / Gothic 1
- Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia) “Time presses”: Radcliffe, feeling, mediation
- Jeffrey Cass (University ofLouisiana Monroe)Karl Kahlert’s “Horrid” Homosociety: The Necromancer and the Queer Gothic
- Mike Goode (SyracuseUniversity) Northanger Abbey and the Interest of Boredom
Room 8 / The Caribbean
- Fran Botkin (TowsonUniversity) Liberating the "Terror of Jamaica"
- Josh Brewer (PurdueUniversity) Caribbean Romanticism: Liberating the Meta-Archipelago
- Peter Kitson (University of Dundee) Fictions of Slave Revolt
Room 9 / Aboliton
- Kerri Andrews (University of Leeds) ‘“More’s polish’d muse, […] Yearsley’s muse of fire”: bitter enemies write the abolition movement’
- Rona Brown (University of Glasgow) “Why feels not man for man?”: Slavery and Abolition in the Work of William Roscoe and James Currie
- Brycchan Carey (KingstonUniversity) Thomas Clarkson’s Curious Map of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade
Room 10 / Landscape
1. Julie Barst (PurdueUniversity) Transporting the Picturesque: National and Imperial Subjectivity Through the Claude Lorraine Glass
2. Julia Carlson (University of Cincinnati) Blank-Verse Technology and the Freeing of Topographical Vision
3. Julia Wright (DalhousieUniversity) “This Vale of Tears”: Drennan’s “Glendalloch” and Gothic Landscape
Session 4 Friday, 27 July
11.30-13.00
Room 1 / "Transatlantic Agitation" – Panel One
Session Convenors: Robert Anderson and Jeffrey Insko
1. Robert Anderson & Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University) “The hourglass contemned”: Time and Labor in Blake and Whitman
2. Harriet Kramer Linkin (New Mexico State University) William Blake and Lucy Hooper: the Rights of Women Poets
3. Daniel Block (Brown University) Transatlantic Liberation from Bad Taste: Gifford, Cobbett and the Della Cruscans
Room 2 / Bristol’s Robert Southey II
Session Convenor:Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Chair: Elisa Beshero-Bondar
1. Carol Bolton (University of Nottingham) Robert Southey: Writing the Empire
2.Asya Rogova (St. Petersburg State University) Craving for Emancipation and Freedom: Russian Themes in Robert Southey’s Poems and Letters and Perception of His Works in Russia
3. Michael V. di Massa, (Yale University LSF) Robert Southey and T. B. Macaulay: Historical Perspectives, Paradigms of Progress, and Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
4. Bill Speck (University of Nottingham) Southey’s Letters
Room 3 / Liberating Medicine I: Medical Tropes
Session Convenor: Tristanne Connolly
1. Hisao Ishizuka (Japan Women's University and Seikei University) Under Urizen’s Web: William Blake and Enlightenment Nervous Medicine
2. Kimiyo Ogawa (Sophia University) An Organic Body Politic: Wollstonecraft's Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and John Brown's Idea of Health
3. Clark Lawlor (University of Northumbria at Newcastle) Liberation and Consumption: Disease, imperialism, and the conversion of the heathen in Felicia Hemans' "Edith. A Tale of the Woods"
Room 4 / Romanticism and Liberalism:Theory
Session Convenor: Alex Dick
1. Alex J. Dick (University of British Columbia) Romanticism, Liberalism, Criticism: An Introduction
2. Chris Jones (University of Wales, Bangor) Godwin and Barbauld, Habermas and Bakhtin: Hard and Soft Liberalism
3. Clifford Siskin (New York University) Liberalism, Gender, and The System: Freeing the Political from Romanticism
Room 5 / Free Blake: The Language of Justice and Freedom
1. Mark L. Barr (Vanderbilt) Trial by Aphorism: Justice and Freedom in Blake's Proverbs of Hell
2. Annalisa Volpone (Perugia) Freedom vs Liberty: Blake’s emancipation(s) in Jerusalem
3. Julie Joosten (Cornell) Jerusalem and the Minute Particulars of Vision
Room 6 / Authority
1.Michael Halley, Breaking the Law in America
2.Katey Castellano (JamesMadisonUniversity) Romantic Prophecy and Reactionary Delineations of the Sacred
3.Alastair Hunt (University of Wisconsin—Madison) Declarations of Rightlessness
Room 7 / Wordsworth
1.Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol) Wordsworth’s Literary Ignorance
2.Sarah Graham (RiceUniversity) Liberating the ideologically inscribed adult: Wordsworth, Emerson and the figure of the child
3.Robin Jarvis (University of the West of England) “Something without place or bound”: The Meaning of “Stepping Westward”
Room 8 / Aboliton
- Janina Nordius (GoteburgUniversity) Being “a party in oppression”: Slavery in Charlotte Smith’s The Story of Henrietta
- Kerry Sinanan (University of the West of England) “Now I’ll bless my cruel capture”: Reading Voice in Women’s Abolitionist Poetry
- Margaret Sloan (University of California, Santa Barbara) Feel Free to Thank Me: Gratitude, Freedom, and Abolition in Maria Edgeworth’s Oeuvre
Room 9 / Gender
- Elaine Bailey (Queen's University in Kingston) Prettiness, Empowerment and the "Poetess"
- Lisa Kasmer (ClarkUniversity ) “The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best men”: Lucy Aikin’s Epistles on Women
- James Masland (UCLA) Robert Wedderburn: Creole Masculinity in the Trans-Atlantic Scene
Room 10 / Gothic Spectacle
- Luisa Calè (Birkbeck, University of London) “Black it stood as Night”: Visualising Milton’s Death and Anxieties of Miscegenation
- Anne McCarthy (City University of New York) Sublime Humiliations: Coleridge’s Christabel
- Deidre Gilbert (Cornell College) Fuseli and Baillie: A Nightmare for Both
Session 5 Saturday, 28 July
09.30-11.00
Room 1 / Liberating music
Session Convenor: Marshall Brown (Professor, University of Washington
1. Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton) The Crisis of Musical Cognition and the (Temporary) Triumph of Performance
2. Keith Chapin (Fordham University) From Absolute Music to Music of the Absolute: The Aspiration of Music to Language
3. John T. Hamilton (Harvard University) “Nach tiefern Meolodien”: The Emancipation of Music in Eichendorff’s Das Marmorbild
Room 2 / Liberating Medicine II: Madness
1.Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow) James Hogg’s The Shepherd’s Calendar and the Middle-ground of Madness
2. Michelle Faubert (University of Manitoba) Thomas Bakewell: Liberating Psychology Through Poetry
3. Molly Desjardins (University of California, Irvine) Emancipating Idiots / Emancipatory Idiocy
Room 3 / Free Blake: Visual and Performative Dimensions
Session Convenor: Angela Esterhammer
1. Mei-Ying Sung (Houghton Library, Harvard University/Nottingham Trent University)
Liberated from Rossetti: Re-titling Blake’s “Hecate”
2. Diane Piccitto (Western Ontario) Blake and Drama: Freeing the “Visionary forms dramatic”
3. Jason Whittaker (Falmouth), England’s Other Anthem: The Fight for “Jerusalem”
Room 4 / The Crisis of Phenomenology
Session Convenor: Tilottama Rajan
1. David Clark (McMaster University) Schelling's Wartime
2. David Ferris (University of Colorado-Boulder) Unpresenting Law: Aesthetic Crisis in Schiller's Politics
3. Josh Lambier (University of Western Ontario) The Organismic State Against Itself: Schelling, Hegel and the Life of Right
Room 5 / Patronage, politics and agency in labouring-class poetry
Session Convenor: John Goodridge
1. Scott McEathron (South Illinois UniversityCarbondale) Robert Millhouse and the Royal Literary Fund: Vocational Freedom and Labouring-Class Patronage
2. Bridget Keegan (CreightonUniversity) Garden Plotting: Faith, Gender and Patronage in James Woodhouse's Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus
3. Jon Goodridge (NottinghamTrentUniversity) Patronage, politics and agency in labouring-class poetry
Room 6 / Coleridge and Emancipatory Thinking
- Quentin Bailey (San DiegoStateUniversity ) ‘Anarchy, confusion, and bloodshed’: Coleridge, Francklyn, and the Abolitionist Movement
- Murray Evans (University of Winnipeg) Coleridge’s Logic and the Opus Maximum: Emancipatory Thinking?
- Kiran Toor (Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London) Coleridge’s (Play)giarisms, the Rhetoric of Slavery, and the Failure of Aesthetic Autonomy
Room 7 / Seward, Austen, Baillie
- Thomas McClean (University of Otago, New Zealand) Joanna Baillie: New Letters, New Chronologies
- Adam Rounce (University of Keele) Anna Seward’s Critical Raptures
- Claire Lamont (University of Newcastle) Jane Austen and the Monasteries
Room 8 / Mary Shelley
- Caroline Franklin (University of Wales Swansea) Mary Shelley and free love
- Peter Melville (University of Winnipeg ) Monstrous Ingratitude: Mary Shelley’s Fugitive Turk
- Lisa Vargo (University of Saskatchewan) Mary Shelley, Corinne, and “the mantle of enthusiasm”
Room 9 / Europe
- Monika Coghen (JagiellonianUniversity, Krakó) “The Tree of Freedom is not the Tree of Life”: Britain in the Polish Eyes between 1815 and 1863
- Mary Orr (University of Southampton) Madame de Staël’s ethnographies in the feminine: cosmopolitan “femmes de génie” and transnational character
- Beyke Maas (University of Amsterdam) Nationalist discourse as a site of struggle: young authors in the Netherlands 1820-1840