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The 2008 SEASECS Conference will be held at Auburn University, 14-17 February, 2008.
Papers! We Need Papers!
The College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University will host SEASECS 14-17 February 2008. As always the conference is interdisciplinary, and we hope for many papers in art, theatre, philosophy, history (all branches), religion, literature (of all languages), music, and race and gender studies. The theme is "Contexts and Legacies," and this broad theme will encourage papers on the legacies earlier periods left for ours and on the influence our period had on the nineteenth century. Sessions on ghosts, ruins, places of pleasure, aesthetics, and theatre milestones are already scheduled. Plenary speakers will be Tim Harris and Donna Landry, and the colloquy with the author will feature Martin Brucker, The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity.
We welcome paper proposals any time before 1 October 2007. Please send an abstract ranging from a few sentences to a page to pkrb@auburn.edu and be sure to include your contact information.
Proposals for SEASECS 2008
Please remember that we will take accepted papers and group them into new sessions. You are not limited to sessions listed below. For the sessions listed here, please send a brief proposal or abstract (a paragraph or two is adequate). Although some proposals (Category I ) should be sent to session chairs, most (Category II) should be sent to the Program Committee for distribution.
CATEGORY I.
1. Serial Novel(ty): The Evolution of the Novel in the Digital Age Eager readers in days past would anxiously await the next novel installment to arrive via newspaper or magazine, delaying--and perhaps heightening--the pleasure of the narrative world. Today’s new media, including television, internet, and digital media, also rely on various forms of serialization to deliver new texts with the click of a button. This panel will explore how contemporary authors use serialized formats to reach their audiences, and how today’s forms of serialization resemble, reaffirm, and reject the challenges and advantages of traditional serialization. Suggested topics: • earlier forms of serialization compared to contemporary styles • podcast novels • television series/adaptations of novels • serialized novels online • serialization and the pleasures of the text Proposals to Lashea Stuart shea_stuart@hotmail.com
2. Die Aufklärung in England: Theories of Subject Formation in the Late Eighteenth-Century English Novel. With the reintroduction of the problem of dialects into western philosophy in the late eighteenth century, notions of subjectivity and the subject’s relation to society began to shift substantially. Many English novelists, ranging from Bage to Burney, Smith to Shelley, Hamilton to Holcroft, and of course, Austen, began to explore and redefine subject formation and relationships of the self to society, especially as concerns gender, race, sexuality, and nationality. This Panel seeks to explore the opportunities and spaces for thinking about the formation of selfhood in the English novel (approximately 1780-1832) and the ways in which the boundaries of those spaces expanded and contracted as a result of the paradigmatic shift in western thought. The panel will assume the traditional format of one chair and three presenters. The goal is to address the widest scope of English novelists and German thought. Papers will be selected accordingly, and abstracts of the selected pieces will be distributed to the panel members prior to the conference in order to facilitate extensive discussion. Proposals to Stephen Sweat sbsweat@email.arizona.edu
3. Art Academies in Eighteenth-Century Europe This session seeks papers that examine the development, function, politics, instructional/institutional practices and standards, membership, patronage, exhibitions, etc., of fine art academies (and societies) in Europe during the eighteenth century. Proposals to Andrew Graciano graciano@sc.edu
4. Editing French Texts The proposed session would provide a forum where problems encountered in publishing French texts could be discussed. The possible points that might be covered are numerous, and include the following: locating the texts themselves and determining the best edition to use; using online sources to locate printed materials, or letters to the subject involved in the case of edited correspondences; obtaining permissions to publish archival material; the challenges of handwriting; decisions about respecting original orthography and punctuation; decisions about the most appropriate format (online? paper?) in which to publish, and the extra efforts involved in adding the required tags for electronic publishing; how and where to add newly discovered pieces after a paper edition of a correspondence or diary is published; identifying minor individuals mentioned in the work; mastering enough of an unfamiliar discipline in which the subject was proficient to be able to annotate the work intelligently; how to edit the rough drafts of letters or other works; the perennial problem of dating texts. Proposals to Kathleen Hardesty Doig kdoig@gsu.edu/kdoig@bellsouth.net
5. "The City Jilt" as Mother of Sex and the City?: The Legacy of Haywood and Austen as Mothers of Chick Lit Topic: In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennett joyfully exclaims over a hat that her sisters find ugly, "I may as well buy it as not." In Confessions of a Shopaholic, Becky Bloomwood espouses a similar philosophy, defining herself through items she may as well buy. The popularity of chick lit has led many to attempt to find the origin of the genre, and Austen is usually heralded (or berated) as its mother. However Eliza Haywood should also be included in a history of chick lit, as she is beginning to be included in the history of the novel. Both authors validated love and relationships, and both taught their readers the business practices of marriage. Similarly, novels like Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic and Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary explore the new negotiations between finance and romance that women face. The novels of Austen and Haywood and those of their literary descendents offer (albeit briefly) friendships, careers, and success as alternatives to marriage. This panel will explore the heritage of Austen and Haywood through the chick lit genre. Suggested topics: • Elements from Austen and Haywood novels which have become staples in chick lit • Treatment of sexuality and female fantasy • Fantasies beyond sex – shopping, food, friends, and limitless credit cards • Chick lit as sublimation of revenge fantasy Proposals to Jessica Lyn Van Slooten dharmagirl@mindspring.com
6. Shakespeare’s Legacy in the Eighteenth Century: "He was not of an age, but for all time" (and use) During the long eighteenth century, Shakespeare was a currency in which many traded. He was not merely for all time, as Ben Jonson noted, but for all uses, as well. Editions and adaptations of his work made Shakespeare an industry, while allusions and analogues made his presence ubiquitous. Whether one examines Tate’s infamous adaptation of Lear in 1681, Wooten's 1750 painting of Macbeth and Banquo with the weird sisters, or Rossini's 1816 opera Otello, eighteenth-century expressions of Shakespeare are invaluable for what they reveal about the period's attitudes toward the bard and for what they reveal about the period's attitudes toward medium (ballet, poetry, opera, novels, art, poetry, etc.) and any context during the long eighteenth century are welcome. Proposals to Stephen Sweat sbsweat@email.arizona.edu
7. Anti-Theatricality's Legacy in the Long Eighteenth Century Anti-theatricality has certainly been a hot topic in early modern studies as scholars such as Laura Levine and, most recently, Jean I. Marsden have explored the relationship between the spectator and "spectacle" of the theater. In an interest to pursue investigations into the "anti-theatrical," this panel seeks papers that explore anti-theatricality in the long eighteenth century. Of particular interest are papers that examine literary and non-literary texts' criticism of actresses, the stage, and the culture surrounding playhouses throughout the long eighteenth century. Papers might consider pamphlets, legal acts, satires, or dramatic works that openly address anti-theatricality. Papers are also welcome that look at responses to anti-theatricality. Proposals to Misty Krueger mkrueger@utk.edu
8. Roundtable: "Creating Contexts for Comedy: Teaching Restoration Comedy to Undergraduates" We know how funny Restoration comedies can be--with their narcissistic fops, uppity servants, scheming younger brothers, hussies, hoydens, and randy old men--but much of the humor in these comedies goes right over the heads of our undergraduates, who have no familiarity with the plays or their cultural milieu. How can we "decode" aspects of Restoration comedy so our students can enjoy both the sparkling wit and the ironic undercurrents these texts offer us? I would welcome 6 or 7 10-minute presentations on teaching strategies directed towards providing a context (social, political, generic, linguistic, etc.) for appreciating the delights of Restoration comedy. Handouts encouraged. Proposals to Patty Hamilton phamilto@uu.edu
9. Identification Reconsidered: Beyond Sympathy in Eighteenth-Century Novels Traditionally, discussion of identification in eighteenth-century literature has been closely tied to the construction of sympathy. However, the essential qualities of identification, I suggest, need not necessarily lead to mere sympathy, or sympathy at all. Instead, I argue that many texts rely on readers' identification (however partial) with "unsympathetic" characters or actions in order to further their didactic ends. In other cases, we see readers identify with characters, only to chastise them. One thinks of (for example) Montagu's identification with Richardson¹s Clarissa as "a near resemblance of my Maiden Days," though she would later find Anna and Clarissa deeply flawed and thus deserving of lasting critique. In less "exemplary" characters this tendency to mingle identification with critique becomes even more striking, as in the works of Jane Austen or Elizabeth Hamilton. This paper will place the phenomenon of identification in a larger context that allows for its use beyond sympathy. Proposals to Emily Friedman ecf4hf@missouri.edu
10. "Eighteenth-Century Revolutions" This panel will look at the various revolutions of the 18th century (scientific, financial, gender, political, print). How are these revolutions represented, promoted or resisted by writers, artists, and others? And what do these examples tell us about the nature of "revolution" in the period? Proposals to Matthew J. Kinservik matthewk@english.udel.edu
11. The Pre-Romantic Sublime Longinus's treatise "On the Sublime" circulated Great Britain in at least a dozen Latin or translated texts between 1710 and 1770; this interest in Longinus's work marked a trend in aesthetic theory and reshaped discourses on taste. While the effect of Longinus’s theories have been tracked in the history of philosophical thought by Peter de Bolla and Samuel Monk, most critical work on the sublime turns quickly to Kant’s treatises and the literary work of Wordsworth and Coleridge. I wish to explore both deeper and broader implications of the sublime in the pre-Romantic eighteenth-century: How did theories of the sublime affect artistic creation? What was the relationship between God and the sublime? How did the sublime fit into discourses of nature and science? And how did discourses of freedom interpolate the sublime? This panel seeks to answer such questions concerning the influence the sublime had on aesthetic, political, and cultural thought. To this end, I invite proposals that address any aspect of the sublime in either literary or cultural life in Britain or America before the Romantic period. Proposals to Teresa Saxton tmoore18@utk.edu
12. Interdisciplinary Roundtable: "Colloquy with Martin Bruckner on The Geographic Revolution in Early America" Rather than presenting papers, each participant in this interdisciplinary panel -- including Prof. Bruckner of the University of Delaware, author of the 2007 Gottschalk Prize-winning The Geographic Revolution in Early America -- will make a four- or five minute opening statement that lays out a specific issue or question related to the book. That round of brief opening statements frees up time for a lively, substantive discussion that engages members of the audience as well as panelists. Proposals to Dennis Moore dmoore@english.fsu.edu
13. Panel on "Legacies of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing in the Long Eighteenth Century" This panel, it is hoped, would elicit contributions from various aspects and disciplines of the period. The legacy of one female writer, for example, on the practice of one or several later writers. Or the legacy of earlier religious publishing practices on the evolving denominational publishers. Proposals to Calhoun Winton cwinton@mail.umd.edu
14. "French 'Letters': Real and Fictional Contexts in Art and Literature" This panel, consisting of three or four participants, will focus on the cultural significance of letters in French art and literature. The following are possible approaches to this topic: What was the literary or artistic importance of letters? How do real and fictional letters intersect? Why were epistolary novels a dominant literary genre in the 18th century? What is the function of letters in paintings, drawings, and book illustrations? What differentiates authentic from fictional letters? Did readers have different perceptions of letters and epistolary novels by men as opposed to women? How did letters differ as vehicles of communication in private and public spaces? How did manuals on letter writing influence the style and content of letters? Proposals to Felicia Sturzer sturzerf@bellsouth.net
15. "Gender, Race and Class in 18th-century Gothic" Proposals to John Burke jburke@english.as.ua.edu
16. "Parisian Cafe' Proposals to W. Scott Haine shaine@aol.com
17. Growing Pains (Within The Bildungsroman) More than 200 years after Voltaire's Candide, Defoe's Robinson, Goethe's Suffering Werther and the establishment of the Bildungsroman as a literary Genre, the young struggling to find a place in society continues to be a dominant motif in modern literature. Analyses of novels of maturation by any author and from any country, from all perspectives, are welcome, as long as historical period (1660-1830) and its legacy are "respected." Proposals to Giovanna Summerfield summegi@auburn.edu
18. "The German Atlantic World in the 18th Century" In the past few years, "the Atlantic World" has become a dominant paradigm in the study of early modern history, literature, ethnicity, and culture in general. From David Armitage's collection The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2002) and Bernard Baylin's trendsetting Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours (2005) to John H. Elliott's seminal Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 (2006), scholars have embraced "the Atlantic World" as a mode of inquiry that takes into account the manifold interpenetrations of Old World nation-building and New World imperialism and expansionism. "The Atlantic World," in this burgeoning scholarly tradition, has primarily emerged as an era and space of intense rivalry as well as cross-fertilization among the major imperial players—Britain, France, and Spain. Applied to the 18th century, "Atlantic History," also seems to chronicle an almost inevitable ascendancy of British and, successively, United States hegemony. This panel posits that a focus away from the major imperial players would produce an important counter-narrative or counter-history to the imperial model of "the Atlantic World." Specifically, I would like to probe how an investigation of the impact of German-speaking people on the circum-Atlantic world could shift attention to the ways in which ideas, philosophies, cultural practices, and communities were transmitted in spite of a lack of an expansionist agenda promulgated by a major European power broker. Given the splintered political landscape of the German-speaking states throughout the 18th century, German interests throughout the Atlantic world lacked the tandem force of emerging nationalism and imperial expansionism. Thus, this panel invites contributions to fashioning an alternative "Atlantic World" including a multitude of stories such as the Moravian mission system stretching from Greenland to the Caribbean, the reach of Halle Pietism and its educational and missionary activities from North America to Sri Lanka (and, thus, beyond the Atlantic per se), the impact of Pietist hymnody and spirituality on the language of religion in Methodism and other emerging Protestant movements, utopian and separatist settlements, migration patterns, the development of minority languages and literatures within Anglo-phone colonies, and the impact of German Enlightenment philosophy across the Atlantic. The panel encourages proposals from a variety of disciplines, including literature and linguistics, history, political science, art history, religion, music, and philosophy. Proposals to Patrick Erben perben@westga.edu
19. "Marie-Antoinette: Legacies and Contexts" Recent intellectual and commercial interest in Marie-Antoinette include Caroline Weber’s 2007 book entitled Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette wore to the Revolution and Sofia Coppola's 2007 pop film. This panel invites scholars to consider the following: what is the legacy of the last queen of France? How does the contemporary 21st-century context (Internet, film, etc.) influence our understanding of her lived experience and her legendary status? Interdisciplinary papers combining art historical, psychoanalytic, and/or literary approaches encouraged. Proposals to Julia Knowlton jknowlton@agnesscott.edu
20. Eliza Haywood: New Texts and Contexts Especially welcome are papers that consider relatively unstudied aspects of her life, writings, and career, including (but not limited to) her journalism, plays, acting career, "spies," scandal chronicles, translations, "polite" conversations, conduct manuals, and so on. Proposals to Kathryn King kingk@montevallo.edu
21. Teaching Oroonoko The inclusion of Oroonoko in recent editions of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and the publication of Catherine Gallagher's excellent Bedford Cultural.Edition of Oroonoko have given teachers and students easy access to Behn's most famous work. The text, however, can be challenging to teach, especially to undergraduates. There have been many useful critical studies published on Oroonoko, but few pedagogical essays. Cynthia Richards and Mary Ann O'Donnell will address this imbalance in their new collection, Approaches to Teaching Behn 's Oroonoko, which is forthcoming from MLA. The proposed session will attempt to do something similar. In selecting papers, I will try to include essays that address different facets of Behn's work, such the influence of scientific writing and the development of travel literature, which have been sometimes overlooked in critical studies focused more heavily on issues of gender, race and empire. Most importantly, however, the essays will provide useful approaches for helping students understand the rich complexity of Oroonoko and its place within the culture of the long eighteenth century. Proposals to Christopher D. Johnson CJohnson@fmarion.edu
22. Parody and Satire: Garrick and the Eighteenth-Century Stage Though relatively obscure today, dramatic satires formed an important part of the repertories of London theatres in the eighteenth century. David Garrick's involvement with satire (as performer, author, and object of parody) will form the focus of this panel. Resisting the temptation to merely discuss examples of Garrick and satire on the eighteenth-century London stage, this panel will take an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. Paper proposals currently under consideration include a textual study of Garrick's first dramatic satire (Lethe), and a historical/theatrical study of the rivalry between Foote and Garrick made manifest in Foote’s parody of Garrick's Jubilee. Proposals to Naomi Stubbs naomi_stubbs@hotmail.com
23. "Studies on the French novel and novelists in the Eighteenth Century" This session invites proposals for presentations on any topic concerning the French novel and novelists in the eighteenth century. Please send 150-250 word abstracts to Joe Johnson. Proposals to Joe Johnson joejohnson@clayton.edu
24. Alexander Pope and Legacy Seekers This panel invites papers that connect with Alexander Pope as a focus for considerations of "legacy seeking" in the Long Eighteenth Century. Appropriate investigations might include Pope himself as a legacy seeker or, perhaps, Pope's attitudes towards contemporaries whom he deemed legacy seekers, either positively or negatively. And, of course, further reflections on individuals, whether in Pope's lifetime or in the later eighteenth century, seeking to claim or disclaim Pope's legacy. Proposals to Stephen Szilagyi sjszilagyi@knology.net
25. 18th Century Women Poets and the Public Sphere Proposals to Catherine Ingrassia cingrass@vcu.edu
26. Book-in-progress: Waverley's Descendants: Scott and Contemporary Historical Fiction, or 'Tis Two Hundred Years Since Presenter: Martha F. Bowden, Kennesaw State University Chair: Randa Graves, University of Alabama at Birmingham Bowden will circulate a paper from her current project, the establishment of a critical framework in which to discuss historical fiction. The larger project encompasses a number of contemporary novels whose settings is the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and uses Sir Walter Scott's Waverley as a template and starting point. In this paper, I will investigate the central issues of authenticity and accessibility in historical fiction, and demonstrate the ways in which Scott establishes essential characteristics and strategies, such as the distinction between history and romance. Implicit in the development of the critical framework is the matter of evaluation (what is "good" historical fiction? In what proportion must it be good fiction and good history?) which I will demonstrate with reference both to the novels I have chosen for my study and, in some ways more revealingly, those I have excluded. Discussion will also include strategies for making choices during the process of writing books. Responders needed. Proposals to Randa Graves lgraves@uab.edu
27. Restoration Writings The Long Restoration Period: Literature and Culture, 1649-1737 Chair: Kamille Stone Stanton, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Savannah State University This panel hopes to expand our understanding of the social positionings of British literature of the Long Restoration. From the beheading of King Charles I in 1649, the catalyst for the seventeenth-century’s best-selling book, Eikon Basilike (1649), to the Stage Licensing Act of 1737, which resulted in the closing of most of London’s small and fringe theaters, the years increasingly known as the Long Restoration Period were a fertile time for prose, poetry and drama. This panel invites papers which explore literature composed or published during the period, especially those papers alert to literature’s political, social, scientific, religious or cultural contexts. Writings during this period were often part of a discursive thread of social commentary, to which authors, male and female, sought to participate and contribute. By focusing on a selection of literary pieces and their contexts, this panel hopes to trace these discursive threads for a better understanding of this prolific period in literature and culture. Proposals to Kamille Stone Stanton stonek@savstate.edu
28. Roundtable on Teaching Restoration and 18th-century tragedy Restoration/18th-century tragic drama is disappearing from undergraduate curricula just as productions of these plays are also dwindling. While well-known comedies by Congreve, Goldsmith and Sheridan turn up in theatres and survey courses, tragedies barely achieve name recognition among 21st-century students. Yet, those of us who stubbornly offer whole semesters on 18th-century drama find that students who came in to fulfill requirements find themselves bewitched by All for Love, by Jane Shore, and even by Cato…and wish they could see the plays performed. Please send 250-word proposals to Tara Ghoshal Wallace, Department of English, George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, or by attachment to tgw@gwu.edu.
CATEGORY II. (Send all proposals to Paula Backscheider pkrb@auburn.edu)
29. Abolition and the Appeal of Sensibility
30. Ghosts, Ruins, and Addicts in Eighteenth-Century Literature
31. Fielding in the 21st Century In the wake of the theoretical revolution's interaction with the Fielding boom of the 1960s, what new question, direction, revisions ought Fielding criticism pursue in the young years of the current century?
32. Colonial Music How did the early colonists listen to and play music? What did they enjoy?
33. Did the Philosophes Generate the French Revolution?
34. Catholics into fellow subjects
35. The Twilight of Aristocratic Culture What thematic, formal ties link the work of Dryden and Racine, Mme de La Fayette and Aphra Behn, et al? How do we situate bourgeois defenders of aristocratic-heroic culture at the moment of its demise? What links questions of class to questions of genre to questions of religion to questions of politics among some of these writers?
36. The Theatre of Kotzebue: What was it really like?
37. Americans into foreigners
38. New Approaches to Laurence Sterne (possible roundtable)
39. Motherhood: Fact and Fiction
40. Women and Slave Rebellions Women were deeply affected by slave rebellions. Sometimes they witnessed them, sometimes they fictionalized them, and sometimes their causes, such as abolition, were deeply effected by them. Papers on any aspect of this topic are welcome.
41. Patriarchs into gentlemen The movement of representations and valorizations of masculinity away from aristocratic heroic values, the material and political culture supportive of such values, toward models of gentlemanly that include the bourgeois values of self discipline, frugality, regular habits, lack of self-display and the sentimental, conversational values of urbanity, understatement, moderation, kindliness, attentiveness, and polite gentility.
42. Goethe Papers desired on any aspect of his life or legacy or his reception in any country.
43. An Acquired Taste: 18th-century studies and the undergraduate Given textuals and contextual barriers between 18th-century literature and current undergraduates, how--apart from shameless pandering--can pedagogical strategies make seeming remote writers (Johnson, Dryden, Pope, etc.) speak to young people raised on a youth culture one suspects they would not approve?
44. Spanish contributions to the New World.
45. Evangelicalism on Two Continents How might issues in trans-Atlantic studies reshape discussions of relationships between Calvinist and non-Calvinist branches of evangelicalism in North America and Britain?
46. The Legacy of Lope de Vegas
47. French Business Women
48. The Sonnet Revival The sonnet revival that began in the 1770s is described as a major literary movement, one at least as important as the rise of the sonnet in English in the Renaissance and early modern England. Papers on any of its authors or on any aspect of it are welcome.
49. Dissenting Theologies
50. Women and the Academies Many women were members of regional, provincial, and European academies, but not the French Academy in Paris, until 1980.
51. Kant's 3rd Critique
52. Getting Real: David Garrick and his Reforms The idea of the "real" and the "natural" is a slippery concept, shifting in meaning depending on the historical moment. David Garrick introduced many reforms to the eighteenth-century British stage, including an increase in the number of rehearsals for individual productions, greater attention to detail in costuming and scenic practice, and an acting style that some critics saw as more "naturalistic" than the declamatory and neoclassical approach employed by many of his fellow actors. This panel welcomes papers that deal with Garrick’s reputation as a reformer and theatrical innovator, and his influence on contemporaries.
53. Illustrating Crime: Artistic and Popular Representations of Crime and Criminals
54. Sterne and War How does Sterne's discourse on war speak to war's professionalization, outsourcing, uncertain ends, uncertain endings, marginalization from the lives of civilian populations, etc. In other words, how does Sterne's relation to the Seven Years' War and the War of Spanish Succession anticipate not total war but murky brush wars or proxy wars?
55. The Resonance of a Tale: Imitations, and Enduring Characters
56. Jane Austen's Cohort Everyone knows that Austen was not the most popular, most praised, or best selling novelist of her time. Who were those who outshone her? What were they doing? Why have they faded?
57. Cross-Ocean Exchanges Books, ideas, and people flowed across the Atlantic. Papers welcome!
58. Theatres of Dissection We are interested in any kind of dissection and spaces in which they were carried out. This might include places where anatomy, literature, or taxonomies were studied.
59. Abjection and the 18th-Century Picaresque How do contemporary theories of abjection illuminate the peculiarities of picaresque discourse in the 18th-century, especially Smollett, Marivaux, and Lesage?
60. Visual Representations of 18th-Century Texts: Prints, Paintings, and Book Illustrations
61. Dressing in the Enlightenment
62. Satire and Censorship on the British Stage The Licensing Act of 1737 effectively ended the stage careers of satirists such as Henry Fielding, whose Historical Register for the Year 1736 is widely seen as one of the primary catalysts for its passage. This panel calls for papers that address the nature of political satire and burlesque on the British stage prior to 1737. Papers that address the content of and reception to the work of dramatists such as Fielding (Tom Thumb), Henry Brooke (Gustavus Vasa), Henry Carey (Chrononhotonthologos) and other political satirists of the period are welcome.
63. The Jamestown Anniversary. In 1607 the first permanent English settlement was founded, and numerous claims for its importance have been made. On its 400th anniversary what are the legacies of Jamestown?
64. Communing with the Muses Poets berate, cajole, converse, and compete with the Muses. Papers on any aspect of writer’s relationships with the Muses are desired.
65. Agamben, Badiou, Nancy and 18th-Century Aesthetics How have the discourse on aesthetics, ethics, and sense pursued by Agamben, Badiou, Nancy, and/or others reshaped our understanding of why and how aesthetics emerges as both a distinct branch of philosophy and a consuming subject of popular discourse in the 18th century?
66. 'Beauty' in the 18th century
67. Friendship Poems. Since Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, friendship has been an idealized yet controversial topic. What happened to the conception of ideal friendship in the eighteenth century? Are all of the great friendship poems by men elegies and by women platonic?
68. Early American Playwrights and the Construction of American Identity The colonial and early American stage relied almost exclusively on European models, yet a handful of playwrights emerged in the late eighteenth century whose themes were distinctly American. This panel seeks papers that address the construction of American identity in late eighteenth-century American plays by such playwrights as Mercy Otis Warren, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Robert Munford and John Leacock.
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