British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference 10:00 - 13:45 Wednesday 4 January 2012 10:00-13:45 Registration Maplethorpe Lobby 12:15-12:30 Welcome Maplethorpe Hall Professor Michael Burden, President, BSECS 12:30-13:45 Opening Plenary Maplethorpe Hall Professor David Fairer, School of English, University of Leeds Eco-Georgic: Organic Economies in the Eighteenth Century 13:45 - 15:30 Wednesday Session 1 Panel Wednesday Panel 1 Panel Title Chair New Sources in the Karen Harvey History of Sexuality Location Maplethorpe Hall Faramerz Sex: Public and Private Dabhoiwala Simon Dickie Rape Jokes and the Law Hal Gladfelder Wednesday Panel 2 Vaucanson’s Duck and d’Alembert’s Dream: The EighteenthCentury Body as Desiring Machine Eighteenth-Century M. O. Grenby Studies: the State of the Discipline Michael Burden Penelope Corfield Jeremy Gregory Wordsworth Room Alan Downie Laura Newby John Bonehill Andrew Kahn Wednesday Dialogue and Richard Terry Dobbs 1 Panel 3 Delineation: Imagining the Landscapes of Britain and France during the French Revolution Helen Stark ‘Nation [as] moral essence, not ... geographical arrangement’: Burke’s hierarchies of inclusion and exclusion in the 1790s. Christopher Imagining British Identity: John Bull at Home and Abroad Machell Helen Williams Voyage autour de ma chambre and Tristram Shandy: Traversing Boundaries of Geography and Genre Wednesday Panel 4 Consumerism and Commercial Landscapes Frank O’Gorman Anna Hope N.G. Howe Slop, Spills and Thrills: The Liquid Landscape of Mercantile Metamorphosis Advertising in Eighteenth-Century Derbyshire Matthew Jenkins Antiquity and improvement: The landscape of polite shopping in Georgian York Wednesday Panel 5 The eighteenthcentury book: production, form and text Stephen Clarke James McLaverty The Strawberry Hill Press and its printing house: an account, an iconography, and a discovery Censorship of the First Edition of Gulliver’s Travels: The Bibliographical Clues Abigail Williams Dobbs 2 Hamlin 2 Marcus Walsh Swift’s Tale of a Tub: Text, Paratext, and Swift’s Precursors Wednesday Panel 6 Jacob Sider Jost Philosophy, Politics, Pamela Clemit Identity David Hume, History Painter MGA Seminar Room Brian Norton Revisiting the Case for Virtue: Ethics, Subjectivism and the Formal Requirements of Happiness Paul Stock ‘Philhellenic Greece: A Space at the Margins of Europe?’ Wednesday Gender, Morality Sharon Young MGA Lecture Room Panel 7 and Biography Louise Curran Samuel Richardson and ‘The History of Mrs Beaumont’ Bill Overton ‘The Novel of the Young, the Lecture of the Old’: Verse Responses to the Adultery and Death of Katherine, Lady Abergavenny Cassie Ulph ‘How bold the Streatham Muse has grown’ – Hester Thrale and the Streatham Coterie Wednesday Panel 8 Penny Pritchard Lee Kahan The Public Sphere, Gary Day Hamlin 1 Space and Gender Jockeying for Position: Negotiating Personal Space in ‘Evelina’ and ‘Cecilia’ ‘I See the World Without Going into It:’ Marlborough, Manley, and the Mediated Public Sphere Kelly Fleming ‘In Common Dress’: Delicacy in Frances Burney’s Cecilia as an Inversion of the New Festive Social Order Wednesday Imagining the East Brycchan Carey Small SCR Panel 9 Mausumi Sen Landscapes and Empire in Indian Travel Writings in the Late Bhattacharjee Eighteenth Century Leyli Jamali Oriental Landscapes and Landscapes of the Orient: Imagining Geographies in the Eighteenth Century Literature Elis Yildirim Landscapes in 18th Century Ottoman Empire Wednesday Panel 10 Ayuka Kasuga Lucy Hodgetts Cities, Urbanity and Martha Zebrowski Maplethorpe Office Nostalgia Views of smoke in Leeds, 1800-1830: the consequence of Taylor’s campaign and Benjamin Gott’s smoke nuisance case ‘Strong recollections of my former pleasures’: reading nostalgia in the urban landscape in William Hone’s Every-Day Book (1825-6). Improving the City: Reason, Affect and Agency in John Gwynn’s London and Westminster Improved Francis Dodsworth Wednesday Panel 11 Mental States and Physical Landscapes Dolly Mackinnon Elisabetta Marino In the footsteps of antiquarians: the landscape of Earls Colne, Essex From Penelope to Ulysses: Empowering Women while Exploring Scandinavia in ‘Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark’ (1796) by Mary Wollstonecraft Nightmares of Generation: Landscapes of Mental Corruption in William Blake’s Lambeth Books Lucy Cogan Jennie Macdonald Boardroom 15:30 - 16:00 Wednesday Tea 15:30-16:00 Tea Maplethorpe Lobbies 16:00 - 17:45 Wednesday Session 2 Panel Panel Title Chair Wednesday Panel 12 John Thelwall Bill Speck Society Inaugural Meeting: Jacobinism, Place, and the (Re)reading of the English Landscape. Penelope Corfield Location Wordsworth Room Steve Poole Wednesday Panel 13 Ideas of Race and Ethnicity in the Brycchan Carey Hamlin 2 Tim McInerney Long Eighteenth Century The Nobility and Ideas of Humanity in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain and Ireland George Newberry Unobserving Environments: Polygenesis and the Body before 1770 Devin Vartija Egalitarianism or Racial Prejudice? An Analysis of Discourses of the Cultural ‘Other’ in Chambers’ Cyclopaedia and Diderot’s Encyclopédie Wednesday Panel 14 James Hanrahan Landscapes, John Dunkley MGA Seminar Room Urbanscapes and National Identity in France Voltaire’s environment and the roots of his engagement Orlaith Creedon Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s Tableau de Paris: The Moral Physiognomy of the (Changing) Parisian Landscape (1781-1788) Jon-Kris / JK ‘Reasoning Poetically’: Climate and French National Character Mason in Richard Blackmore’s ‘The Nature of Man’ Wednesday Panel 15 Rakes, Libertines, Corinna Wagner Hamlin 1 Coffeehouses and Masculinity Marine Riva- Gardens in French Libertine Fiction: Reflections of the Libertine Ganofsky System James The True Birth of the Rake Hileman Joanne O’Brien Masculinities in the Coffee-Houses and Molly-Houses: Performing Transgressive Male Sociability in London 1690-1740 Wednesday Panel 16 Consumer Goods, Clothing and Interior Design Richard De Ritter ‘What We Wear and Use’: Questioning Consumption in Priscilla Wakefield’s Domestic Dialogues Emma Newport Surfaces and Depths: Indoor Environments and Imagined Landscapes of the East and West Eve Rosenhaft Dobbs 2 Andrea Saenz Intimate Objects: Madame de Pompadour, François Boucher, and the Art of the Interior Wednesday Panel 17 Performance, Bonnie Latimer Desire and Gender Maplethorpe Seminar Room James Evans Goldsmith, Cowley, and Belles’ Stratagems Courtney ‘I am undone!’: Performing the Abject Body in Hoffman Haywood’s Fantomina, or, Love in a Maze Camelia Teglas Landscapes of Seduction in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess and Fantomina Wednesday Speech Acts: Elis Yildrim Small SCR Panel 18 Jed Wentz Paul Goring Language and Narration Speech as Soundscape: the space between the notes in Joshua Steele’s Prosodia Rationalis Sourcing and Seeing the Past: Archives, Memories and Narrative Perspective in Tristram Shandy Kelly Centrelli ‘Our Irish Copper-Farther Dean’: Swift’s Drapier’s Letters and Performative Social Response Wednesday Panel 19 Geography, Race and Conflict Boardroom Osama Siddiqui Dispatches from the Edge: The Reporting of the 1770 Bengal Famine in the English Press. Andrew D. Jackson Did discrimination against Kyŏngsang province elites lead to the 1728 Musillan rebellion? Karen Salt -Scaping the West Indies Wednesday Panel 20 Olga A Baird Music, Musicians Michael Burden Maplethorpe Hall and Prodigies Pugnani-Viotti’s 1780-1782 European tour: new materials from the Memoir of Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson (17691838) Adeline Mueller ‘The Tommasino’: Mozart, Thomas Linley, and the Making of the Modern Musical Prodigy Wednesday Panel 21 Michael Caines Harriet Tait The theatrical Michael Caines environment Shakespeare and the environment Gill Perry Portraits of actresses and the landscape Wednesday Panel 22 Gardens, Taste and Caroline D. Spiritual Matters Williams Dobbs 1 A theatre in Drury Lane MGA Lecture Room Sharon Young Jane Barker: the convent garden and the country house poem. Sue Edney ‘Those odious trees’: developing wastes and wasteful development in late-eighteenth-century domestic landscapes. Min (W. G. There is no such thing as a picturesque landscape M.) Wood Wednesday Panel 23 Irene Fizer Men: Dress, Stephen H. Gregg Maplethorpe Office Gardens and Coffeehouse Culture The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe Derya Gurses ‘One cup of coffee yields 40 years of good relations’: Tarbuck Reassessing the Literature of Coffeehouse Sociability Amelia Dale Mr Shenstone’s sluices, souls and ‘The Spiritual Quixote’ 17:45 - 23:00 Wednesday 4 January Evening 17:45-18:45 BSECS AGM Maplethorpe Seminar Room 19:00-20:00 Annual Reception Maplethorpe Hall 20:00-21:30 Dinner Dining Room 21:30-23:00 Post-Graduate Reception College Bar 08:00 - 09:00 Thursday 5 January Morning 08:00-09:00 Thursday Breakfast Dining Room 09:00 - 10:45 Thursday Session 1 Panel Thursday Panel 1 Laurent Châtel Felix Vogel Panel Title Chair The Art of Gardens Sue Edney Location Hamlin 1 ‘Back to Nature’? Environment, Conservation, and Utopia in Eighteenth-Century ‘English’ Gardens Hirschfeld’s ‘Theory of Garden Art’ and the politics of a ‘healthy landscape’ James Transformations: 18th-Century Landscape-Garden to GardenStevens Curl Cemetery Thursday Panel 2 Territories, Topographies and Politics Frank O’Gorman MGA Lecture Room Conrad Brunstrom ‘So unnatural a bond of union...’: Edmund Burke and Canada Joseph Pappin III Michael Meehan Edmund Burke on Territoriality, Political Identity and the Social Order: ‘Place,’ ‘Habitations’ and our ‘Natal Soil.’ Legal Topographies and the Imperial Rule of Law Thursday Panel 3 The Gothic: The James Watt Dobbs 2 Castle of Otranto and its Precursors The Pre-Otranto Origins of the Gothic Novel in Ireland Christina Morin Karin Kukkonen Walpole’s Mental Landscapes: Embodiment in The Castle of Otranto Janette MacDonald Spectralizing the Text: From The Castle of Otranto to The Count of Narbonne Thursday Panel 4 Linda Troost Jane Austen: Space Nicole Maplethorpe Seminar and Place Room Conflicts of Place in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey Douglas Murray ‘English Comfort’/English Discomfort: Conflicting Cultural Spaces in Austen’s Emma Robert Clark The Location of Mansfield Park: Jane Austen’s sense of topography Thursday Panel 5 Robert B. Craig Newton, Science Marcus Walsh MGA Seminar Room and Political History Zur Farbenlehre - Goethe’s Theory of Colours: Goethe vs Newton Charlotte Roberts ‘The Accurate Standard of the Thermometer’: Measurement in Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’. Gregory J Lynall Socinians and Queens: Samuel Clarke and Swift’s ‘Directions for a Birthday Song’ Thursday Panel 6 Will Pritchard Jane Darcy Imagination and Corinna Wagner Hamlin 2 Melancholy The Figure of the Distressed Poet, 1728-1740 Landscapes of the Literary Mind: Representations of the Inner Life in Literary Biography in the Long Eighteenth Century Mary Fairclough Thomas Beddoes and the Politics of the Imagination Thursday Panel 7 Music, Dance and Taste Michael Burden ‘‘With dances analogous to the drama’; the arrival of dance on London’s opera stage’ Naomi WalthamSmith ‘Whatever touch’d his Eyes, as what he felt, did his Skin’: The free fantasia and the limit of the picturesque Adeline Mueller Wordsworth Room Ann van A Total Revolution in our Musical tastes’: J. C. Bach’s orchestral Allen-Russell style, and the ‘re’-shaping of English musical taste Thursday Panel 8 Burney and Haywood Victoria Joule Small SCR Barbara Burney’s Eugenia and the Sacred Meadow Witucki Carol Stewart Eliza Haywood and Henry Fielding in the 1740s: A Story of Mutual Influence? Jing-fen Su Satirical Elements in Frances’s Burney’s Cecilia Thursday Panel 9 Enclosed space and Markman Ellis the landscape of culture in eighteenth-century London Dobbs 1 Jenn Chenkin ‘Curll’s chaste press, and Lintot’s rubric post’: Booksellers and Jill Gage Anna Kretschmer London Topographies ‘What ‘tis to deal with Scholars’: Spaces of Schoolboy Authorship in 18th century England ‘Good God, do I see Miss Anville!’: The female spectator in the eighteenth-century theatrical space Thursday Race, Rape and Darren Wagner Maplethorpe Office Panel 10 Representation James Smith ‘Your Good, Not Mine’: Reparation, Mediation and Richardson’s Clarissa Andrew Wells Race, Sex, and the Restoration Utopian Imaginary, 1668-1726 Jacqueline ‘Suitable to the Place for which they were designed’: Joseph Riding Highmore’s Foundling Hospital paintings Thursday Panel 11 ‘Female Sharon Young Empowerment’ and Women’s Writing Boardroom Raquel Bello Ambition and transgression through the letters of a noble Vazquez woman in the Portuguese Enlightenment Miriam The Liberating Effect of Literature: Writing as Escape in Borham-Puyal Elisabeth S. Tomlins’s The Victim of Fancy (1787) Diana Cusmerenco The Image of the Woman in Eighteenth Century Romanian Erotic Poetry and its Reflections in the Post-War Romanian Novel The Most Beloved of the Earthlings by Marin Preda. Thursday Panel 12 Benjamin Brabon Alison Winch The Postfeminist Steve Van-Hagen Maplethorpe Hall Eighteenth Century A Virtuous Whore: Sade’s Postfeminist Gothic Turn Steve VanHagen Robert Lovelace: Postfeminist Man? ‘perpetual Masquerade’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Sex and the City 2 10:45 - 11:15 Thursday 5 January Morning Coffee 10:45-11:15 Thursday Coffee Maplethorpe Lobbies 11:15 - 12:45 Thursday 5 January Mason Lecture 11:15-12:45 Mason Lecture Maplethorpe Hall Dr Ann Lewis (Lecturer in French Studies, Birkbeck, University of London) Picturing ‘Nature’: Landscape and Environment in Illustrations of Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse (Gravelot, Marillier, Monsiau, Schall) 12:45 - 13:30 Thursday Lunch 12:45-13:30 Thursday Lunch Dining Room 13:30 - 15:15 Thursday Session 2 Panel Panel Title Thursday Panel 13 From the Bill Speck Dobbs 1 Newsletter to Jonathan Swift’s Letters and Journals News From City to Country, January 1678/9-February 1681/80 Connie Capers Thorson Chair Location James L. Thorson The Environments of Jonathan Swift: England, Wales, and Ireland Louise Barnett Jonathan Swift and Remembrance of Past Glory: The Affair of the Medals Thursday Panel 14 Darren N. Wagner Nervous Corinna Wagner Wordsworth Room Narratives: Physiology, Gender, and the Literature of Sensibility ‘Slawkenbergius’s sensorium:’ Genital Nerves and Sexual Scenes in Sensibility Eleanor Crouch Enervation and Innervation: Nervous Construction and Gender Identity in Fanny Burney’s Cecilia Joanna Wharton George Rousseau Lasting Impressions: Nervous Psychology in Hays and Barbauld Thursday Panel 15 The Gothic Novel Gerd Bayer True Horror and the Proto-Gothic in Mary Pix’s The Inhumane Cardinal The Midnight Pageant: Gothic Landscapes in an English Wood Panel Respondent Karin Kukkonen Dobbs 2 Teresa Barnard Erin Whitcroft The Physiognomist’s Eye: How Radcliffe’s heroines made the gothic landscape safe and transparent. Thursday Panel 16 Danger in the Jackie Labbe Landscape: Charlotte Smith on Space, Place, and Environment Hamlin 2 Deborah Patterns of place in Desmond: the invasion of the outdoors. Brown Kate Scarth Francesca Scott Suburban-scapes in Celestina Charlotte Smith’s ‘Lovely family of flowers’ and the ‘bleakness of the Northern blast’: Environment and Childbirth in Smith’s Anna Augusta Poems Thursday Panel 17 British Cultural Celine/CS Sabiron MGA Seminar Room Identity and ‘Scottishness’ John Stone John Hunter’s Books: or, How a Subscriber’s Copy of Robert Burns’s Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Came to the Real Academia Española Eric Gidal Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age Dafydd Moore The Poems of Ossian and British culture identity in the Napoleonic Age Thursday Panel 18 Moira Goff Theatre, Dancing Michael Burden Hamlin 1 and Stage Framing the Action: Scenery for Dancing on the London Stage, 1700-1750 Lucia MontenegroPico Pedro Januário Academic knowledge on the theatrical field. Anomalies and deficits through a case study. Thursday Panel 19 Writing and Sean Creighton Maplethorpe Hall Reading the Landscape Landscape in A Natural History of Selborne. Anne Dromart The Landscapes and Environments created by the Galli Bibiena family in their stage set designs production Laura Giacomini A Technical-scientific Reading of the Italian Landscape at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Observations from the Italian Travel Journal (1795) of the Veronese Architect Luigi Trezza. Rebecca Ford Reading the Landscape in the Correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Thursday Panel 20 Carolyn Williams Mary Chadwick Poetry, Place and David Fairer MGA Lecture Room British Identity Cold Pastoral: British Writers Looking North Felicia Hemans’s Juvenilia and the North Wales Landscape Afag Fazlollahi Elizabeth Carter: Poetry and Landscapes of Deal Thursday Panel 21 Landscapes of Political Engagement Eve Rosenhaft Maplethorpe Seminar Room Simon Hill Cityscapes in Conflict: Liverpool in London during the American Revolutionary Era, c. 1763-1783 Angel O’Donnell Figures in a Landscape: Native Americans and the Future of America Bethan M. Jenkins Lewis Morris, mapping the edge of empire Thursday Panel 22 The Defoe Society Howard Weinbrot Maplethorpe Office Panel: Defoe, Landscapes and Global Archetypes Man’s Imprint on Natural Landscapes in Defoe Emmanuelle Peraldo Stephen H. Gregg Defoe’s ‘horse-rhetorick’: ecocriticism, human animals and gender Seyed Majid Alavi Shooshtari Similar Landscapes from Different Mindscapes: Revisiting Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Ibn Tofayl’s Hayy Ibn Yakzan Thursday Panel 23 Mysticism, the Celts and Gothic Architecture Persida Lazarevic Di Giacomo Milagros TorradoCespón Charlotte Craig Landscape of Truth in the Serbian Enlightenment Elis Yildrim Boardroom Church and Paganism or how it is easier to build a temple than eradicate a custom Goethe’s Thoughts on Architecture and his ‘Conversion’ to the Gothic Style 15:15 - 15:45 Thursday Afternoon Tea 15:15-15:45 Thursday Tea Maplethorpe Lobbies 15:45 - 17:30 Thursday Session 3 Panel Panel Title Thursday Panel 24 Matthew McCormack Ilya Berkovich Soldiers and Matthew Maplethorpe Seminar Soldiering McCormack Room Army versus Militia in Georgian England: Honour, Status and Rivalry Reconsidering Desertion in Old-Regime Europe: Additional Comparative Evidence Structures of oppression? Scotland’s fortifications c.1700-1750 Victoria Henshaw Chair Mark Hallett Location Thursday Panel 25 British Art, 16601735 Wordsworth Room Tabitha Protestant iconography and the post-Restoration church Barber Tim Batchelor ‘Dead Standing Things’: Still-Life painting in Britain, 1660-1740 Claudine van Hensbergen ‘The Wicked have Enclosed Me’: The birth, life and decay of Queen Anne’s statue at St.Paul’s Cathedral Thursday Writing the French Pamela Clemit Dobbs 1 Panel 26 Revolution Jonathan Dent Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, the Ruined Abbey and the French Revolution Amy Culley Fiona Price Thursday Panel 27 Adam Perchard Ruth Scobie ‘To Rally Round the Throne’ British Women Travellers and the French Revolution ‘Amidst the Ruins of Ancient Rome’: The Historical Novel in the Post-French Revolution Debate – Landscape and Nation Image and the Ian Calvert Hamlin 1 Imagination: Constructing and Inheriting Eighteenth-Century Global Landscapes Oriental and Occidental Despotisms: Reading Montesquieu and Voltaire in the Light of the Rushdie Affair Cannibals and Palm Trees on the Drawing-Room Wall: Reading ‘Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique’ Ian Calvert Byron at Troy: A Homeric Pilgrimage Thursday Panel 28 Redrawing Political Frank O’Gorman Hamlin 2 Landscapes 17801820 Nothing the Nearer our own Hearts and Interests’:The Point of the Name in Burney’s Cecilia Sophie Coulombeau Ryan Hanley Ruth Mather Abolitionism and Political Radicalism in the 1790s Politicising Personal Experience: The Addresses of the Female Reformers of Lancashire, 1819-1820. Thursday Panel 29 Religion and Place Jeremy Gregory MGA Seminar Room Peter Forsaith People and preachers in the landscape: Methodist ‘field preaching’ and its depiction. Rachel Atlantic Puritans: Spiritual Retreat in the New World Monroy Gareth Atkins On Land, at Sea: the Navy in British evangelical thought, c. 1780-1815 Thursday Panel 30 C Bucknell Bethan Lyric Poetry, Jackie Labbe Dobbs 2 Labour and Landscape Labouring-Class Georgic in the Early Eighteenth-Century: A Work of Poetry, or a Poetry of Work? ‘Bright as its waves, and various as its way’: The River and Roberts Literary Tradition in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets Adam Rounce Eighteenth Century Poetic Landscape and Influence from Simon Kövesi Thomson to Clare Thursday Panel 31 Rachel Kiddey Katrin Berndt Gender Politics and Debbie Welham Small SCR Relationships The Political and Personal Landscapes of Anna Letitia Barbauld. ‘These would have been all my friends’: Structural Significance and Referential Qualities of Male Friendship in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Persuasion (1817) Leslie Aronson The Female Threat to the Paternal Estate: Landscape Alteration in Humphry Clinker Thursday Panel 32 Carriages, Turnpikes and Travel Nicole Garret Maplethorpe Office A Libertine’s Progress: Carriage Selection and Use in 18thCentury Europe Victoria Joule Up Close and Personal in Fictional Coaches and on Epistolary Journeys John Greene Chris Ewers Turnpikes and the landscape of the novel Thursday Panel 33 Sandra Parmegiani Intertextuality, James Thorson Boardroom Interpretation and Exchange English Novels and the Italian Press in the Long Eighteenth Century J Swann An Eighteenth-century Reader Corrects Paradise Regain’d Christie Margrave Italian Landscape and French Female Sentimental Novelists (1792-1815) Thursday Panel 34 Landscape and Pete Denney Tourism in Britain, 1750-1830 Gothic Sociability Jim Watt Maplethorpe Hall William Thomas Gray’s Marginalia and the development of early guideRoberts book writing Alison O’Byrne Calton Hill: Topography, Tourism, and National Identity in Edinburgh, 1750-1830 Thursday Panel 35 Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’ Revisited David Fairer Kerri Andrews Anne Milne Brycchan Carey Bill Overton MGA Lecture Room 17:00 - 23:00 Thursday 5 January Evening 17:00-17:15 Thursday Interlude Maplethorpe Lobbies 17:15-18:45 Conference Keynote Lecture Maplethorpe Hall Professor Mark Hallett, History of Art and The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York Faces in the Library: Sir Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Streatham Worthies’ 18:45-19:00 Thursday Interlude 2 N/A 19:00-19:45 Concert Mordan Hall 20:00-20:30 The Parley of Instruments Post-Concert Reception Mordan Hall 20:30-23:00 Conference Dinner Dining Room 08:00 - 09:00 Friday 6 January Morning 08:00-09:00 Friday Breakfast Dining Room 09:00 - 10:45 Friday Session 1 Panel Panel Title Friday Panel 1 Rousseau’s Landscapes Chair Location Charlotte Roberts MGA Seminar Room Catherine ‘The Alpine Landscape in Rousseau: From the Picturesque to Beaudry the Romantic’ Susan Wilson Barefoot maidens and lightfoot lads: Sweetening the botanical record with clandestine chalets and Alpine meadows - JeanJacques Rousseau shifts the public imagination to embrace idealised pastoralism Miryam Rousseau’s landscapes in ‘Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse’ Giargia Friday Panel 2 Soundscapes Elizabeth Wride Alison O’Byrne Maplethorpe Hall From The ‘Sound’ Up: Constructing the landscape of the historic Smalls Lighthouse in radio dramatisation. Peter Denney The Sights and Sounds of the Countryside: Picturesque Taste and the Attack on Noise in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain Laura Davies Soundscapes of Mid-Eighteenth-Century London Friday Panel 3 The Eighteenth Century Digital Maplethorpe Seminar Miscellanies index: some early findings Room and questions Jennifer Batt Abigail Williams Friday Panel 4 Scottish Identity and Landscape Dafydd Moore Dobbs 1 Celine/CS Sabiron Border Crossings and Initiation Rituals in Walter Scott’s Waverley and Guy Mannering Declan Kavanagh Arthur Murphy’s ‘native bog of Allen’: Hibernophobic landscaping in mid-eighteenth-century political satire Danielle Thom Imagining the Highlands: Representing Scottishness and antiJacobitism among the London public Friday Panel 5 Parenthood, Bonnie Latimer Hamlin 2 Motherhood and Family Nicole Garret Tyranny, Passivity, Abdication: Transforming Paradigms of Parenthood in Clarissa and Sidney Bidulph. Emrys Jones Siobhan O’Donnell Maternal Duties and Filial Malapropisms: Frances Sheridan and the Problems of Theatrical Inheritance Clarissa - A Paragon of Virtue: Characterisation of Mothers in Richardson’s Clarissa Friday Panel 6 Landscape: Gender Barbara Schmidtand Spaces in the Haberkamp Long and Global Eighteenth Century MGA Lecture Room Eva Axer ‘The heathman is coming!’ – Landscape, Gender and Regional Sense of Belonging in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Ballads Gunda Windmüller Of ‘craggy Cliffs’ and ‘Rosy Bowers’ – Seascapes and Gender in Restoration Drama Joana Stausberg Landscapes in Perspective – Literary Depictions of Masculinity in Tales of Dwarfs and Giants Friday Panel 7 Philosophy, Corinna Wagner Wordsworth Room Environment and the Self Rowland Environment, Identity, Autonomy: Aspects of Godwin’s Weston Philosophical Development Thomas Condillac’s Philosophy: Nature as a Foundation of Human Robert Culture Jean-Luc Guichet Acting on oneself through acting on one’s environment: making use of determinism for freedom? Friday Panel 8 Politics of Place Penelope Corfield Boardroom Beccie P. Lismahago’s American Project: The History of Place in Tobias Randhawa Smollett’s Humphry Clinker Robert W. Sayre William Bartram’s Proto-environmentalist Vision of the American Wilderness Sean Creighton The politics of landscapes and environments in the North East in the long 18thC. Friday Panel 9 Gardens, Language Sue Edney Small SCR and Emotion Judy Tarling Gardens of Eloquence: a rhetorical view of garden making and visiting in the 18th century. Carolyn Appropriation, allusion and the standardisation of feeling in the Dougherty design of Hardwick Park (Sedgefield) Megumi Iwasa The Integration of Pictorial and Poetic Circuits in English Landscape Gardens Friday Panel 10 Karen Lacey Holder Rebecca Davies National Identity, Matthew Hamlin 1 Colonies and the McCormack Military Home and Away: the Military Man in Domestic and Foreign Landscapes ‘Like the Flies of a Summer’: Using the discourse of genius and epistemology in the literary construction of post-revolutionary national identity. Rachel Heeter Gibraltar: A Landscape of Security Smith Friday Panel 11 A. Ai Quintas Earthquakes, Regina Maria Dal Dobbs 2 Mythology and Santo Reconstruction Depictions of ruins: an eighteenth century taste or a catastrophe report? Maria J. P. Neto Disrupted Landscape – the effects of the 1755 Earthquake in the Southern region of Portugal Mario Say Ming Kong Reconstructed Landscape: The role of Harmony and Proportion in the Urban Design of Lisbon after the 1755 Earthquake 10:45 - 11:15 Friday Coffee 10:45-11:15 Friday Coffee Maplethorpe Lobbies 11:15 - 13:00 Friday Session 2 Panel Panel Title Chair Location Friday Panel 12 Women, Landscape Carolyn D Williams Dobbs 1 and Environment (Women’s Studies Group, 1558-1837) Yvonne Noble Cutting down trees at Lord Winchilsea’s Eastwell lets in a little more light on Anne Finch Felicity Roberts ‘Idleness never grew in my soil’: women, gender and the moral authority of ‘nature’ in the eighteenth century Laura Mayer A penchant for the picturesque: the writings & scenic tours of Elizabeth Percy, first Duchess of Northumberland Friday Panel 13 Dutch Delights: City, Countryside and Nation John Dunkley Hamlin 1 Freek Schmidt Printed delights: representations of country life in the Amsterdam territory Graeme Callister The City and the Creation of the Revolutionary Dutch Nation, 1780-1800 Friday Panel 14 Margins of the Anna Hope Printed Landscape: Reconsidering Textual Boundaries in the EighteenthCentury Adam James Smith Defoe, Swift, Addison and the Textual Voice: Metaphors of Oral Communication in the Early Eighteenth-Century Preface Frauke Jung Breaking out: Negotiating textual, physical and social boundaries in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year The Illuminated Landscape of William Blake’s ‘There is no Natural Religion’ Mark Yates Friday Panel 15 Oskar Cox Jensen David Kennerley Oliver Cox Maplethorpe Seminar Room Landscapes of Susan Whyman MGA Seminar Rivalry: Aural, Architectural and Urban Environments ‘London Cries’: How did singers stand out in the early nineteenth-century streetscape? A tale of two butchers: Contesting the urban soundscape of Whitechapel Market, 1779 Architecture as Mnemonic: Rendering the 1769 Yorkshire Petition in stone Harry Smith Controlling the Urban Landscape: Urban Improvement in Birmingham, 1769-1838 Friday Panel 16 W. A. Speck Frank O’Gorman Loyalism and Steve Poole MGA Lecture Room Radicalism The radicalisation of Tom Paine The Origins of Loyalism: Trajectories and Linkages Jonathan Atherton Shattered, Broken and Marginalised?: Birmingham Nonconformity and the Impact of the Priestley Riots of 1791 Friday Panel 17 Representing Otherness: Gypsy and Jewish Communities Brycchan Carey Dobbs 2 Michaela Mudure Gypsies in Eighteenth Century Environments Avinoam Yuval-Naeh Jews at Tyburn: Jewishness and Britishness reflected in representations of Jewish criminality in 18th century London Bonnie Latimer A contemptible figure in history: Samuel Richardson, Jewishness, and the ‘Domestick Politicks’ of 1753 Friday Panel 18 Rosalind Powell Interpreting the Small SCR Past Replanting Horace’s Garden: Eighteenth-Century Translations of the Sabine Farm Katarina Maria Wandering amazed: Miltonic landscapes in Thomson’s The Stenke Seasons Susan Helen Reynolds On first looking into Casanova’s Homer: Giacomo Casanova’s translations of the Iliad and his view of man Friday Panel 19 Kristina Booker H. C. Goldsmith ‘Dirty and Distorted Darren Wagner Hamlin 2 Spaces: Representing Anxiety in the Eighteenth Century’ ‘Filth and Performance Anxiety in Swift and Montagu’s ‘Dressing Room’ Debate’ ‘Excrement, Pollution, and Distortion: Bringing Home the Filth in Gulliver’s Travels’ Bethany Williamson ‘Monsters in Utopia: Benevolence and Boundaries in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall’ Friday Panel 20 Understanding Natural Disasters Tatiana Abramzon Tsai-ching Yeh Regina Maria Dal Santo Fire-breathing Etna in Lomonosov’s works: ways of understanding and depiction Disaster Discourse in Daniel Defoe: The Storm Peter Nockles Wordsworth Room ‘Heaven lately spoke’: Religious Interpretations of the Great Storm in 1703. 13:00 - 13:45 Friday Lunch 13:00-13:45 Friday Lunch Dining Room 13:45 - 15:30 Friday Session 3 Panel Friday Panel 21 Heather Williams Panel Title Welsh Landscapes Chair Mary-Ann Constantine Location Dobbs 1 ‘Le pays de galles ressemble entièrement à la Suisse’: Wales through French eyes Cathryn CharnellWhyte A ‘weather eye’ on Wales in the Age of Revolutions Elizabeth Edwards ‘Shut within these beautiful Mountains with little Idea of any Changes except in the Sky’: Hester Piozzi in Wales Friday Panel 22 Poetry and the City Susan Whyman Aishah AlShatti Joseph Hone Mary Robinson and Poetry Writing in the Urban Landscapes Friday Panel 23 Piotr Lewicz Wordsworth, Poetry Bill Overton Wordsworth Room and Landscape Landscape of Memory in the Poetry of Adam Mickiewicz and William Wordsworth Polly Atkin Making Home at Grasmere Friday Panel 24 Howard D. Weinbrot W. M. Barton Religion and Peter Nockles Dobbs 2 Landscape Defoe’s Shortest Way, the Bible, and Other Clues Beyond the Obvious Mountain Beauty and God’s Machine in Johannes Jacobus Scheuchzer’s Itinera Alpina (1723) Catherine Armstrong Were lessons learned? Developments in landscape depiction in promotional literature about Virginia, Carolina and Georgia from 1607-1750 Friday Panel 25 Music, Lyric and Religion Emma Salgård Cunha M G Spring Achieving Lyric Sincerity: William Cowper and the EighteenthCentury Hymn Small SCR ‘Hell Rises, Heav’n descends’: Pope and the Urban Underworld Jeremy Gregory Hamlin 1 The Music and Musicians of Bath’s Eighteenth-Century Proprietary Chapels Friday Panel 26 Visual Michael Burden Hamlin 2 Representations of Dance Keith Cavers Making a catalogue of English Dance prints 1670-1836 – Muddle or Methodology? Or: ‘Reading Between the Lines.’ Jennifer Thorp Picturing a Gentleman Dancing-Master Friday Panel 27 Gillian B. Pierce Ofri Ilany The Aesthetics of Douglas Murray MGA Seminar Ruins and Catastrophes ‘Les belles, les sublimes ruines’: Denis Diderot, Hubert Robert and the Poetics of Ruins Ruins of the First World: Post-Catastrophe scenarios of the World after the Flood Annalisa Andreoni Mythology and earthquakes in the Italian literature of Eighteenth Century Friday Panel 28 Katherine Aske Christine B. Shih Paulina Surniak Woods, Walking Alison O’Byrne MGA Lecture Room and Friendship The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood: Character and Setting in Eighteenth-Century Moral Tales The Psychological Metaphor of Ruined Palaces: The Role of Landscape in Jane Austen’s Poem ‘Venta’ Walking the landscape: walks as an essential outdoor pastime of women in the eighteenth-century English country house.