The conference sought to address the question of alterity and Romanticism, i.e., the others "within" and "without" what is called "Romanticism." We defined others and otherness in the broadest possible sense, and solicited work from various methodological and disciplinary perspectives.
The conference was organized to address the following kinds of questions:
David L.
Clark,
Chair, 1997 NASSR Conference Organizing Committee,
Department of
English, CNH 321,
McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario,
CANADA L8S 4L9
Complete details on land and air travel to Hamilton were sent to confereees via snail-mail, along with the conference schedule and other registration material. This material was also put up on the website.
Some helpful information:
1) The conference site is McMaster University, a short cab or city bus ride
from the conference hotel, the Hamilton Sheraton (which became fully booked--see alternative
hotel below).
The Sheraton can be reached at (905)
317-4505 or (905) 529-5515. The conference room rate is $92.00 CAN (approx.
$66 US) for single or double occupancy.
Other numbers for the Sheraton:
Website: www.sheraton.com
**When the Sheraton became fully booked, we arranged extra rooms at the
Royal Connaught Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel, which is a short walk from the
Sheraton. The Royal Connaught Hotel can be reached at the following numbers:
Phone: (905) 546-8111
FAX: (905) 546-8121
The rate for the Royal Connaught is $85 Canadian plus tax for single or double.
Colleagues reserving rooms identified themselves as registrants with the NASSR / Romanticism and its Others Conference. Those conference registrants who wished to share a room at the designated conference hotels were asked to contact the conference e-mail address (others@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca)
2) Here is the flight and travel information we posted prior to the
conference:By air, Hamilton is easily accessible either by the Hamilton Airport
or by Pearson International Airport (in Toronto). Canadian and U.S. service
to the Hamilton Airport can be limited, but it is certainly worth checking
with a travel agent about the possibility of landing there. Depending on
where you are coming from, it may be much easier to find cheaper and more
convenient flights to Toronto's Pearson Airport. This airport is approximately
one hour's drive from downtown Hamilton. From Pearson you can catch either
a Trentway Wager Bus to the Hamilton Sheraton for $16.70 CAN (approx. $12
US) one way, or an Airways Transit Van, for a conference rate price of $26
CAN (approx. $17 US). The Trentway Wager bus runs relatively infrequently;
for example, there are only two buses in the evenings: 6:30 and 11:59. The
Airways Transit Van, on the other hand, is pretty much ready to leave when
you arrive. However, it must be booked in advance of your arrival and departure.
More extensive details about how to book with Airways will be included in
the conference package. If you wish to contact them right away their number
is (905) 689-4460. The fax number is (905) 689-5556. E-mail: info@airwaystransit.com
Website: www.airwaystransit.ca
If you have any questions about travel and accommodations, please e-mail us at others@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca.
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Thursday, October 23 | |
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration and refreshments: lobby of Robinson Memorial Theatre, Togo Salmon Hall (TSH) (Registration continues all day.) |
| 9:00-10:30 | (1.1-1.3) Concurrent Sessions |
| 1.1: Inventing Romanticisms. | The New Space (TSH) |
| Special session organized by Robert J. Griffin (Tel Aviv U). 1) Alan Richardson (Boston C): "British Romanticism as a Cognitive Category." 2) Kevis Goodman (U of California, Berkeley): "Romanticism's Castaway: Periodization and the Case of William Cowper." 3) Charles Snodgrass (Texas A&M U): "Drawing the Tartan Curtain: The Invention of Scottish Romanticism." | |
| 1.2: Exhibitions and Commodities | Robinson Memorial Theatre (TSH) |
| Moderator: Daniel White (U of Pennsylvania). 1) Hadley J. Mozer (Baylor U): "Advertising in Don Juan." 2) Susan Rosenbaum (U of Michigan): "By Other Names: Sincerity, Disguise, and Romantic Authorship." 3) Eric Gidal (U of Iowa): "Babel's Curse and the Museum's Burden: Shelley, Rossetti, and the Exhibition of Alterity." | |
| 1.3: Teaching Otherwise: Romanticism and Digital Pedagogy | TSH-122 |
| Special session organized by Nelson Hilton (U of
Georgia). Moderator: Laura Mandell (Miami U of Ohio). 1) Marcel M. O'Gorman (U of Florida): "'The Eye altering, alters all': De-Othering the Picture in the Electronic Classroom." 2) Laura Mandell (Miami U of Ohio): "Teaching with The Romantic Chronology." 3) David S. Miall (U of Alberta): "The Resistance of Reading: Romantic Hypertexts and Pedagogy." | |
| 10:30-11:00 | |
| 11:00-12:30 |
| 2.1: The Subject in Question | Robinson Memorial Theatre (TSH) |
| Moderator: Forest Pyle (U of
Oregon) 1) Theresa M. Kelley (U of Texas at Austin): "Interiority and Romantic Otherness." 2) Joel Faflak (U of Western Ontario): "Analysis Interminable in the Other Wordsworth." 3) Scott Simpkins (U of North Texas): "`Troubled Manhood': The Male `Other' in Byron's Lara." | |
| 2.2: Bodies | The New Space (TSH) |
| Moderator: Nancy Goslee (U of Tennessee). 1) Paul Youngquist (Penn State U): "De Quincey's 'Crazy Body.'" 2) James Najarian (Davidson C): "The Risen Keats: Remembering the Body of the Poet." 3) Mary-Kelly Persyn (U of Washington): "Which Bodies Matter? Cyclical Embodiment, Materialism, and Subjection in The Four Zoas." | |
| 2.3: Romantic Plebian Poets and the Question of Class | TSH-122 |
| Special session organized by Bridget Keegan (Creighton
U). 1) Scott McEathron (Southern Illinois U at Carbondale): "Wordsworth and the Problem of Peasant Poetry." 2) Alan Vardy (Simon Fraser U): "The Construction of John Clare's Class(es)." 3) Gary Harrison (U of New Mexico): " Despair and Desire in the Work of John Clare." | |
| 12:30-2:00 | |
| 2:00-3:30 |
| 3.1: Romantic Love: That Obscure Other of Desire | TSH-122 |
| Moderator: Janet Ruth Heller (Grand Valley State U). 1) Ross Hamilton (Barnard C, Columbia U): "Learning to Love." 2) Charles Mahoney (U of Connecticut): "The Other Man and the Figure of the Coquet." 3) Adela Pinch (Rutgers): "Thinking about the Other in Romantic Love." (Paper to be read by Karen Swann [Williams C]) | |
| 3.2: The Forms of Aesthetics | Robinson Memorial Theatre (TSH) |
| Moderator: Julie Costello (U of Notre Dame). 1) Thomas Pfau (Duke U): "The Pleasure of Form: 'Unknowing' from Immanuel Kant to Eduard Hanslick." 2) Tilottama Rajan (U of Western Ontario): "Neither Form nor Outline: Negativity and Potentiality in Hegel's Aesthetics." 3) Arkady Plotnitsky (Duke U): "A Dancing Arch: Formalism and Singularity in Kleist, Shelley, and de Man." | |
| 3.3: Mary Shelley's Imaginings of the Outsider | The New Space (TSH) |
| Special session organized by Anne K. Mellor (U of
California,
Los Angeles). 1) Jeanne Moskal (U of North Carolina): "Mary Shelley and the Outsider in History of Six-Weeks Tour." 2) Gary Dyer (Brandeis U): "Victor Frankenstein in the Footsteps of Edgar Huntly: Defending the Innocent from Vengeful Savages." 3) Anne K. Mellor (UCLA): "Frankenstein, Racial Science and the Yellow Peril." | |
| 3:30-4:00 | Refreshments (lobby of Robinson Memorial Theatre) |
| 4:00-5:30 | (4.1-4.3) Concurrent Sessions |
| 4.1: Romantic Ideologies and their Others | TSH-122 |
| Special session organized by Chris Foss (Texas Christian U). 1) Sarah M. Zimmerman (U of Wisconsin-Madison) and Chad Edgar (Edgewood C): "Charlotte Smith, Byron, and the Production of the Popular Romantic Text." 2) Bruce Boeckel (Northwestern C): "Striking a Revolutionary Pose: The Ideological Interface of Alpine Vistas, Private Passions, and Public Spaces." 3) Robert Kaufman (Stanford U): "The Other of Ideology-Critique: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Experiment in Romanticism, Modernism, and After." | |
| 4.2: Writing with Others: Romantic Collaboration | Robinson Memorial Theatre (TSH) |
| Special session organized by Alison Hickey (Wellesley
C). 1) Victoria Myers (Pepperdine U): "Collaboration/Expropriation: The Fall of Robespierre." 2) Susan Murley (U of Toronto): "The Use of Marginalia in Coleridge's Aids to Reflection: Collaboration as Supplementation." 3) Andrew Franta (Johns Hopkins U): "Keats and Review Culture." | |
| 4.3: The Containment of English India | The New Space (TSH) |
| Special session organized by Daniel O'Quinn (U of
Guelph). 1) Balachandra Rajan (U of Western Ontario): "Monstrous Pathologies: Southey and The Curse of Kehama." 2) Marjean D. Purinton (Texas Tech U): "Mariana Starke's The Sword of Peace: Staging the Myths of British Cultural Politics in India." 3) Rajani Sudan (U of Texas, Arlington): "East Feeds West." | |
| 5:30-7:00 | Dinner (on your own) |
| 7:00-8:45 |
|
Robinson Memorial Theater (TSH) |
Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto Harry Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University |
| |
| 8:00-8:30 | |
| 8:30-10:00 | |
| 5.1: Excess and Subjection | Robinson Memorial Theatre (TSH) |
| Moderator: Roxanne Eberle (U of
Georgia) 1) Toby R. Benis (Saint Louis U): "Critical Conditions: Homelessness, Exile and the Law's Assault on Mobility in the 1790's." 2) Sophie Thomas (U of Toronto): "Minding the Gap: `Christabel,' The Fragmentary, and the Uncanny." 3) Denise Gigante (Princeton U): "Ugliness in Frankenstein: The Other Aesthetic Discourse." | |
| 5.2: Other Histories | The New Space (TSH) |
| Moderator: Debbie Lee (U of Arizona). 1) Martin Wallen (Oklahoma State U): "Other Histories in Coleridgean Criticism." 2) Michael Gamer (U of Pennsylvania): "Rematerializing Gothic in the Romantic Period." 3) Tom Crochunis: "Romantic Studies and the Resistance to Theatre." | |
| 5.3: Rethinking German Romanticism | TSH-122 |
| Moderator: Jean Wilson (McMaster University). 1) Kari Lokke (U of California, Davis): "`An Ideal Relation Realized': Bettine Von Arnim's Die Günderode and German Romanticism." 2) Angela Esterhammer (U of Western Ontario): "I am / You are: Otherness and Identity in the Language of Hölderlin." 3) Jan Plug (Université Paris 7): "An Other Theory: Romanticism and the Invention of Literature." | |
| 10:00-10:30 | |
| 10:30-12:00 | (6.1-6.3) Concurrent Sessions |
| 6.1: Spectral Romanticisms | The New Space (TSH) |
| Special session organized by Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate
School). 1) Karen Swann (Williams C): "The Strange Time of Reading." 2) Jerrold E. Hogle (U of Arizona): "The Gothic Ghost as Counterfeit and its Haunting of Romanticism." 3) Laura E. Quinney (Brandeis U): "Wordsworth's Ghosts and the Model of the Mind." | |
| 6.2: Governance and Literature: Reading English India | Robinson Memorial Theatre (TSH) |
| Moderator: Asha Varadharajan (Queen's U). 1) Siraj Ahmed (Columbia U): "The Missionary and Romantic Anticolonialism." 2) Fred Hoerner (U of Texas, Austin): "Why Shiva Stumped Him: the Governing Limits of Reading in the Mythography of Sir William Jones." 3) Daniel O'Quinn (U of Guelph): "Inchbald's Indies." | |
| 6.3: Recuperating Rousseau: The Forgotten Other | TSH-122 |
| Special session organized by Tom McCall (U of Houston
CL). 1) Nancy Yousef (Harvard U): "Sentiments of Existence: Towards the Rereading of Romantic Autonomy." 2) Susan Blood (Yale U): "The One and the Many in Rousseau and Baudelaire." 3) Oleg Krochik (CUNY): "System and Spectacle: Rousseau and the Theoretical Project of Romanticism." | |
| 12:00-1:30 |
|
Convocation Hall |
and Craig Fields, baritone (Virginia Tech) | |
NASSR Advisory Board Luncheon Meeting (Closed Meeting): Skylight Room, 2nd
Floor, Commons Bldg.
| 1:30-3:00 |
| 7.1: Queer Romanticism. | Robinson Memorial Theatre (TSH) |
| Special session organized by Robert Tobin (Whitman C). 1) Christian Gundermann (Cornell U): "It all happened in a Dash -- Toward a Queer Reading of Affect and Syntax in 'Die Marquise von O.'" 2) Catriona MacLeod (Yale U): "Twilight Zones: Ambiguous Femininity in Eichendorff's 'Ahnung und Gegenwart.'" 3) Fred Randel (U of California, San Diego): "Mountain Purity and the Esoteric Homoeroticism of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III." 4) Gregory Wassil (Universidad Interamerica de Puerto Rico): "Transvestite Practices in Keats." | |
| 7.2: The "Other" Wordsworth. | The New Space (TSH) |
| Special session organized by Jill Heydt-Stevenson (U of Colorado
at Boulder) and Jeffrey Robinson (U of Colorado). 1) Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent U): "The Haunted Tree." 2) Jeffrey N. Cox (Texas A&M U): "Re-Covering Italy: Wordsworth's Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837." 3) Bruce Graver (Providence C): "The Classical Wordsworth." 4) Elizabeth Green (Boston C): "Narcissus Meets Joan: The Others at the Farewell to Rydal Mount." | |
| 7.3: Literary Histories, New and Old | TSH-122 |
| Moderator: Stephanie Brown (Rijks Universiteit
Leiden) 1) J. Douglas Kneale (U of Western Ontario): "Repression of the Classical in Romanticism." 2) Michelle Turner Sharp (East Carolina U): "Mirroring the Future: Romantic Elegy and the Life in Letters." 3) Ted Underwood (Cornell U): "Science and Romantic Skepticism: Why Humphry Davy Isn't in the (Old, or New) Anthologies." | |
| 3:30-4:45 |
|
Convocation Hall |
York University |
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| 4:45-5:15 |
|
Convocation Hall | |
University of Michigan |
||
| 6:30-8:00 |
|
Celebration Hall, Kenneth Taylor Hall |
| 8:00-9:15 | Faculty of Music, Sir Wilfred Laurier University |
Convocation Hall |
| Clara Wieck Schumann: | Quatre Pièces Caractéristiques, Opus 5
(1834-1836) Impromptu: Le Sabbat Caprice à la Boléro Romance Scène fantastique: Le Ballet des Revenants |
| Robert Schumann: | Sonata in F sharp minor, Opus 11 (1832-36) "To Clara
from Florestan
and Eusebius" Introduzione: Un poco Adagio - Allegro vivace Aria Scherzo e Intermezzo: Allegrissimo - Lento alla burla, ma pomposo Finale: Allegro un poco maestoso |
| |
| 8:00-8:30 | |
| 8:30-10:00 | |
| 8.1: Animals and Environments | Chester New Hall 102 |
| Moderator: Onno Oerlemanns (U of
Ottawa) 1) Kevin D. Hutchings (McMaster U): "Nature's Economy, Nature's Alterity: 'Every Thing That Lives' and The Book of Thel." 2) Kurt Fosso (Lewis & Clark C): "The Romantic Animal: Animal Representation and Community in Wordsworth and Coleridge." 3) Stephanie Rowe (U of Oregon): "'An Excellent Hold for the Hands': Reading the Primate in Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue." | |
| 8.2: (M)others: | Chester New Hall 106 |
| Moderator: Mary Keczan-Ebos (York U). 1) Eleanor Ty (Sir Wilfrid Laurier U): "Sexualizing the M/Other: Maternal Anxieties and Female Desire in Amelia Opie's Temper." 2) Robert C. Hale (Texas A&M U, Kingsville): "Wordsworth's Poetics and the Balance of Self and (M)others: Reading the `Blessed Babe' in 1805 and 1850." 3) Kathryn J. Ready (U of Ottawa): "A Problematic Subject: Maternal Gesturing in Felicia Hemans's Records of Woman." | |
| 8.3: Romanticism's Other Disciplines: Law, Economics, Journalism, and the Professionalization of Experience | Chester New Hall 107 |
| Special session organized by Thomas Pfau (Duke U). 1) Mark Canuel (U of Illinois-Chicago): "Coleridge and the State of Sedition." 2) Karen Weisman (U of Toronto): "Person-hood and the Law of Provocation: a (Romantic) Legal History of a State of Mind." 3) Michael Macovski (Fordham U): "Regency Law, Censorship, and the Commodification of Discourse: The Case of Byron." | |
| 10:00-10:30 | |
| 10:30-12:00 |
| 9.1: European Romanticism and the Orient | Chester New Hall 102 |
| Moderator: Michael Laplace-Sinatra (St. Catherine's C, Oxford
U). 1) Ranita Chatterjee (U of Utah): "Of Seraglios and Others: Mary Shelley's 'Safie' and the Cultural Boundaries of British Romanticism." 2) Gary Handwerk (U of Washington): "Envisioning India: Friedrich Schlegel's Sanskrit Studies and the Emergence of Romantic Historiography." 3) Kevin Hickey (SUNY at Oneonta): "'Bind[ing] Together with Passion and Knowledge': (Exotic) Others at Home and Abroad in William Wordsworth and Eugène Delacroix." | |
| 9.2: Paternal Desire | Chester New Hall 106 |
| Moderator: Mark Hansen (Princeton U) 1) Shannon Zimmerman (U of Georgia): "`Strange Ruin': Power, Incest and the Disruptive Father in Percy Shelley's The Cenci." 2) Maureen O'Connor (Claremont Graduate School): "The Disfigured Father in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." 3) Guinn Batten (Duke U): "Blake's Spectral Fathers and His Gonadal Golgonooza." | |
| 9.3: Imagining the Romantic Public Sphere | Chester New Hall 107 |
| Special session organized by Amanda Berry (Rhode Island
School
of Design). 1) Douglas Scott Berman (U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): "Coleridge on Coleridge: Abstract Philosophy, Persuasion and Public Audience in Biographia Literaria." 2) Ghislaine McDayter (Bucknell U): "Public Poets and Private Affairs: Byron and the Commodification of Romanticism." 3) Lisa Steinman (Reed C): "Slaves of Passion & Sickly Sensibility: Audiences, Narrative, and Lyric, 1812-1819. | |
| 12:00-1:15 |
| 12:00-1:15 | Memorial Robinson Theatre (TSH) | |
| 1:15-3:15 |
| 10.1: Theoretical Inflections | Chester New Hall 102 |
| Moderator: David Ferris (Queens College--CUNY) 1) Gordon Teskey (Cornell U): "Assimilation." 2) William D. Melaney (U of Nebraska at Kearney): "Schleiermacher and Linguistics: Interpretation as an Infinite Task." 3) Teresa Younga Chung (Duke U): "Making Public Reason Private: Gespräch and the Legitimation of Power." | |
| 10.2: The Musical Other | Chester New Hall 106 |
| Special session organized by Lawrence Kramer (Fordham U,
Harry Lyman
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster U) and Richard Leppert
(U of Minnesota). 1) Annette Kreutziger-Herr (U of Hamburg): "The Child as Cultural Other." 2) Lawrence Kramer (Fordham U): "The Harem Threshold: Beethoven's Turkish Music and Philhellenism." 3) Richard Leppert (U of Minnesota): "Desiring Difference: Virtuosic Display and Audience Subjectivity." 4) Marshall Brown (U of Washington): "Othering the Past, Authoring the Future: Mozartian Romanticism and the Figure of Bach." | |
| 10.3: Romantic Theatre and its Other Stages | Chester New Hall 107 |
| Special session organized by Judith Pascoe (U of Iowa) and
Catherine
Burroughs (Cornell U). 1) John A. Hodgson (Princeton U): "An Other Voice: Ventriloquism in the Romantic Period." 2) Maureen Dowd (Loyola U, Chicago): "Private Theatricals and Public Theaters: The Politics of Identity in Lady Morgan's Florence Macarthy." 3) Reeve Parker (Cornell U): "Casus Cenci: Shelley's Delicacy, Wordsworth's Dying Fall." 4) Respondent: Alex Dick (U of Western Ontario). | |
| 3:45-5:00 |
|
Convocation Hall |
University of Michigan Harry Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University |
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| 5:00-5:30 | ||
| 5:30-7:00 |
|
Convocation Hall |
A Panel Discussion on Period and Profession. |
||
| Is the term "Romanticism" losing its literary-historical and professional currency? If so, what are the causes and consequences, both for those already in and those seeking to enter the profession? What, if anything, should be done, and why? These and related questions will be addressed in six brief position papers, to be followed by an hour-long open discussion. Participants: Charles Rzepka (Boston U), Greg Kucich (U of Notre Dame), Beth Lau (California State U, Long Beach), Clifford Siskin (SUNY, Stony Brook), Elizabeth Jones, and a joint statement by Susan Wolfson (Princeton U) and William Galperin (Rutgers), read by William Galperin. | ||
| 7:30 | (access via the walkway from the Sheraton Hotel). |
|
| |
| 8:30-9:00 | |
| 9:00-10:30 | |
| 11.1: The Production of the Family | Chester New Hall 102 |
| Moderator: Susan Brown (U of Guelph). 1) Michael T. Williamson (Indiana U of Pennsylvania): "Entitling Mothers and Fathers in Mary Lamb's Tales from Mrs. Leicester's School." 2) Anne Wallace (U of Southern Mississippi): "Home Again at Grasmere: Revising the Family in Dove Cottage." 3) Donelle R. Ruwe (Fitchburg State C): "Fabulous Histories and Moral Imaginations: Sarah Trimmer and William Godwin." | |
| 11.2: Coppet and its Others | Chester New Hall 106 |
| Special session organized by Ann T. Gardiner (New York
U). 1) Fabienne Moore (New York U): "Chateaubriand's Alter Egos: Mme de Staël, Napoleon and the Indian Savage." 2) Nanora Sweet (U of Missouri, St. Louis): "Sismondi's Historiography: Republican Martyr as Male `Other' at Coppet." 3) Joanne Wilkes (U of Auckland): "`Interred at Coppet?' Byron Reburies Germaine de Staël." | |
| 11.3: Britain's Internal Others: Irish and Scottish Romanticism | Chester New Hall 107 |
| Moderator: Justin Baird (U of Western Ontario). 1) Esther Wohlgemut (U of Ottawa): "`The harp means Ireland': Colonial Discourse and Self-Representation in Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon." 2) Samantha Webb (Temple U): "Walter Scott's Tales of my Landlord Series and the Limits of Antiquarian Knowledge." 3) Miranda Burgess (U of New Brunswick): "Petticoat Nation: Scott, Scotland, and Britain's Other History in George IV's Jaunt and The Heart of Midlothian." | |
| 11:00-12:30 |
| 12.1: Wordsworth and Materiality | Chester New Hall 102 |
| Moderator: Alan Bewell (U of Toronto). 1) Alan Bewell (U of Toronto): "Hybrid Landscapes: Colonial Psychopathology in The Brothers.'" 2) Vince Willoughby (U of California, Santa Barbara): "Waddsworth: Wordsworth, the Borrowdale Mines, and Technologies of Writing." 3) Robert Frost Anderson (Oakland U): "'As on a Picture': Commodity, Form, and Poetic Form in The Ruined Cottage." | |
| 12.2: Gender in Romanticism's Other Genres | Chester New Hall 106 |
| Special session organized by Katherine Binhammer (U of
Alberta). 1) Andrea Henderson (U of Michigan): "Keats, Tighe, and the Feminine Soul." 2) Angela D. Jones (Cornell C): "Autobiography by Any 'Other' Name: Women Travel Writers and the Problem of Romantic Self-Representation." 3) Lauren Gillingham (York U): "Traumatic Crossings: Histories of the Self in Mary Shelley's Mathilda." | |
| 12.3: Ships, Maps, and Plagues: Insular Britain | Chester New Hall 107 |
| Moderator: Julia Douthwaite (U of Notre Dame) 1) Michael Laplace-Sinatra (Oxford U): "The Conflict of Gender and Genre: Science as the Other in Frankenstein." 2) Julia Wright (U of Waterloo): "'This Little Globe': Anxieties of Space in Mary Shelley's The Last Man." 3) Creighton Don (U of Michigan): "The Borderlands of Sympathy: Disease and the Orient in Mary Shelley's The Last Man." | |
Jean-Joseph Taillasson
Detail: Rhadamistes and Zenobia
Collection of McMaster University
Photo by The Matthiesen Gallery, London
(Artwork removed from website with expiration of copyright permission after
conference)
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