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Friday February 17

2:30- 4:00: Joseph Levine will present and discuss his paper “Intellectual History as History” that was published in The Journal of the History of Ideas (Spring 2005) with Arizona State University graduate students and faculty. All conference attendees are welcome to attend and join the discussion. [Coor Hall 4403]

4:00- 6:00: Registration in the Memorial Union

4:30- 6:00 (MU 209): Welcoming reception, light refreshments in the Memorial Union

6:00:  Dinner on your own

Saturday February 18

 8:00- 11:00 Registration in the Memorial Union

8:00-9:30 Session 1

I. Eighteenth Century Reactions (MU 209)

Chair: Walter H. Keithley, Arizona State University

Ann Campbell, Boise State University: “Heiresses and the Marriage Act: The Case of Francis Burney’s Cecilia”

Birgit Schmidt Rosemann, University of New Mexico: “‘Mocking the Angry Little Monster’s Harmless Quill’: Mary Wortley Montagu’s Resistance of Chastising Male Humor”

Robin Runia, The University of New Mexico: “Late Eighteenth Century Othello: Sensibility as Failed Correction”

II. New Sciences (MU 213)

Chair: Angie O’Neal, Arizona State University

Johann JK Reusch, University of Washington, Tacoma: “Collecting, Colonial Politics, and Ethnic Identity

Crises in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Numismatic, Craniological, and Ethnographic Collections at the University of Göttingen”

Angie O’Neal Arizona State University: “Slender Nerves: Anorexia and the Body of Sensibility”

Jennifer Santos, Arizona State University: “A Reflection on Thomas Traherne's Scientific Influences”

III. Gender and Sexuality (MU 221)

Chair: Ami H. King, Arizona State University

Stacey Abbott, UNLV: “Domestic Engineers: Then and Now”

Stephen Sweat, The University of Arizona: “Articulation Through Echo: Expressions of Same-Sex Desire in Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

Ami H. King, Arizona State University: “Roxana Reconsidered”

9:45-11:15 Session 2

IV. The Later Eighteenth Century (MU 209)

Chair: Cajsa Baldini, Arizona State University

Jennifer Weeks, Mills College: “Incest in Mansfield Park”

Bruce Matsunaga, Arizona State University: Title “Something far more deeply interfused': Wordsworth’s Rejection of the Picturesque”

Cajsa Baldini, Arizona State University: “Swedish Novelist Fredrika Bremer and 18-19th Century Precursors for Beatrice Cenci as a Model for Female, Deviant Characterization”

V.  The Future of Gender Studies in the Long 18th Century (MU 213)

Chair: Deborah Heller, Western New Mexico University

Marie-France Rouart, The University of Paris II: “Feminist Theories and Feminist Myths in France: A New Galaxy for the Future”

Patrick Brady, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville: “Chaos Theory, Control Theory, and the Cross-Dressing Narrator”

Beth Fowlkes Tobin, Arizona State University: “Gender and the Social Construction of Knowledge”

VI. Travel and Cosmopolitanism (MU 221)

Chair: Matthew Binney, The University of Arkansas

Donelle Ruwe, Northern Arizona University: “Zenobia, (the Pagan, Jewish, Christian) Queen of Palmyra: The Violent Conversion of the Rational Dame”

John Mahoney, Kansas State University: “Bentham's Battering Ram: Legal Positivism and the Critique of Natural Law”

Matthew Binney, The University of Arkansas:  “Cosmopolitanism, the Sublime, and Sympathy”

11:15-12:45 Lunch on your own

1:00- 2:30 Session 3

VII. The Practice of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Texts (MU 208 E)

Chair: Pier R. Baldini, Arizona State University

Robert Erickson, The University of California at Santa Barbara: “On the External Uses of Water in Humphrey Clinker”  

Deborah Heller, Western New Mexico University:  “‘A Friend is the Medicine of Life’: Doctoring Body and Mind in Bluestocking Correspondence”

Clare Gerlach, UNLV: “Malpractice: Fielding’s Treatment of Medical Practitioners in Tom Jones”

VIII. Cultural Politics (MU 209)

Chair: Taylor Corse, Arizona State University

Richard Kroll, University of California, Irvine: “Trade and Contingency in The Plain Dealer”

Ronald Sundstrom, The University of San Francisco: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Sense of Justice”

Jeremy Schraffenberger, Binghamton University: “The Chapbooks of Dougal Graham”

IX. Tobias Smollett (MU 213)

Dedicated to the Memory of Paul Gabriel Boucé

Chair: OM Brack, Jr. Arizona State University

Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University: “Becoming British: Roderick Random’s Sympathetic Education”

Leslie A. Chilton, Arizona State University: “Tobias Smollett: The Undiscovered Translator”

OM Brack, Jr., Arizona State University: “Tobias Smollett: A New Biography”

X. The Aesthetics of Tolerance (MU 221)

Chair: David Alvarez, University of California at Davis

Daniel Nolan, Northwestern University:  “Terribly Candid; the Density of Emancipation in

Heinrich von Kleist's “The Marquise von O....k”

Lee Morrissey, Clemson University:  “The Aesthetics of Tolerance: Paradise Lost?”

Mark Lounibos, The University of Wisconsin, Madison:  “The Pastoral Isn't Even Past: William Godwin's

‘Imogen’ and the Politics of Genre”

2:45-5:00 Plenary Addresses (MU 201)

Devoney Looser, The University of Missouri, Columbia: “Eminent Literary Ladies are Long-

Lived": British Women Writers and Old Age, 1750-1850

Joseph Levine, Syracuse University: “The Key to English Neoclassicism”

6:00 Group Dinner a Rula Bula, a local Irish restaurant/ pub

Acknowledgments

The conference organizers would like to thank the following for their kind support of the 2006 WSECS conference:

The Arizona State University Department of English

The Arizona State University Department of History

Mesa Community College

Lynette Austin

Cajsa Baldini

Sandra Crandall

Bruce Matsunaga