CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
365 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK CITY
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
AND MODERNITY
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, engraved by Benoit Louis Prévost
conference schedule
Thursday, October 17 at 12:00 - 1:30
Opening Plenary
Sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation
Welcoming Remarks: William Patrick Kelly III, Provost of the CUNY Graduate Center
Chair: David Richter (Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center)
Mary D. Sheriff
Daniel W. Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina
"Embellishing Truth: The Encyclopédie, Its Frontispiece, and the Ornamental Book"
Proshansky Auditorium
1. Thursday, October 17 at 1:45-3:00 pm
1A. Roundtable: Women Writers Confront Enlightenment in the Skylight Room Chair: Betty Rizzo (City College and CUNY Graduate Center) Carla Hesse (University of California at Berkeley) Paula Backscheider (Auburn University) Randolph Trumbach (Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center) Ruth Perry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1B. The Self-Critique of Enlightenment Intellectuals in the Segal Theatre Chair: Ala Alryyes (Yale University) Ala Alryyes: "Rousseau's Critique of Slavery" Joanna Stalnaker (Columbia University): "The Ruins of Enlightenment Description: Bernardin de
Saint-Pierre's Études de la nature" Michael Holquist (Yale University): "Imperial Satire: Political Aspects of Russian Anti-Enlightenment" Natasha Lee (Harvard University): "Nature Undone: Writing the History of Race in Sebastien Mercier's L'An 2440"
1C. Law and Literature in C201 Chair: Rex Batson (Georgia State College) Daniel Gonzalez (Louisiana State University): "Licensing the Criminal: Lillo's The London Merchant and the Trouble with Apprentices" Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky): "Bastards and Foundlings: The Eighteenth-Century Culture of Illegimacy" Melissa Ganz (Yale University): "Moll Flanders and English Marriage Law" Miriam Wallace (New College of Florida): "Female Victims and Lost Boys: Challenging Propertied Subjectivity in The Victim of Prejudice and Bryan Perdue"
1D. Samuel Johnson in C202 Chair: James Basker (Barnard College of Columbia University) Jack Lynch (Rutgers University at Newark): "Johnson and the Cosmos" Jennifer Snead (University of Pennsylvania): "Cannon Fodder: 'Bad' Poets, Literary Posterity, and Johnson's Lives" Katherine Turner (St. Peter's College, Oxford University): "Johnson and the Victorians"
1E. Aesthetics and the Political Imaginary in C203 Chair: Mark Blackwell (University of Hartford) Teri Doerksen (Mansfield University of Pennsylvania): "The Enlightenment and the Created Past: Representations of Enlightenment Ideals and National Identity in Radcliffe's Gothic" Anthony Pollock (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana): "Masochism and Agency in Burke's Aesthetic Theory" David Alvarez (University of Pennsylvania): "Shaftesbury's Aesthetics of Sociability: The Pleasures of Imposition" Donal McQuillan (Cornell University): "Hypocrisy, Culture, and Politics: Hobbes' Critique of Shaftesbury"
1F. Modernity Revisited in the Intellectual History of the Enlightenment:
Philosophy, Economy and Literary Biography in C204 Chair: Isser Woloch (Columbia University) Stephane Van Damme (Centre Alexandre Koyré): "Descartes and Non-Modernity: The Cultural Circulation of the Cartesian Knowledge (1730-1780)"
John Shovlin (Hobart and William Smith Colleges): "Is 'Modernity' a Teleology? Analyzing the Economy of Eighteenth-Century France." Gregory Brown (University of Nevada at Las Vegas): "Beaumarchais, Modern Man?"
1G. Modern Manners and Morals in C205 Chair: Lisa Tilton-Levine (Seton Hall University) Brigitte Humbert (Middlebury College): "Eighteenth-Century Women Through a Twentieth-Century Lens: Patrice Leconte's Ridicule" Catherine Mikell (University of South Carolina): "The Progress of Politeness in Eighteenth-Century British Society: The Case of Elizabeth Mure" David C. Hensley (McGill University): "Sympathy and Attraction in Clarissa"
2. Thursday, October 17, at 3:15-4:30 pm
2A. Roundtable on Enlightenment and Pedagogy in Skylight Room Chair: Carrie Hintz (Queens College, CUNY) Susan Lamb (University of Toronto at Scarborough): "Teaching Eighteenth-Century Literature in Its Wider Culture" Carrie Hintz: "Some Thoughts on Teaching Early British Novels, or: 'When Do We Get to the Books with Chapters?'" Nora Nachumi (Stern College): "Teaching the Enlightenment at a Religious Institution" Jack Lynch (Rutgers University at Newark): "Teaching the Electronic Eighteenth Century"
2B. Franklin, Mesmer, and the Glass Armonica in the Segal Theatre Bob Craig (Independent Scholar): Speaker Cecilia Brauer: Soloist on the Glass Armonica
2C. A Roundtable: Booksellers as Cultural Intermediaries in C201 Jeffrey Freedman (Yeshiva University) Robert DeMaria (Vassar College) Thierry Rigogne (Princeton University)
2D. The Rise of the Novel in C202 Chair: Susan Greenfield (Fordham University) Anthony Jarrells (Willam Paterson University): "Forms of Enlightenment: The Case of Scotland and the Novel" Frank Boyle (Fordham University): "First Principles: Travel and New Science in Crusoe" Robert Spector (Long Island University): "Greaves and the Smollett Canon"
2E. The Culture of Envy 1660-1820 in C203 Chair: Ziad Elmarzafy (New York University) Anne Vila (University of Wisconsin at Madison): "Envy as Pathology from Destouches to Balzac" Josué Harari (Emory University): "What Does a Eunuch Want?" Robert Dimit (New York University): "Base and Virtuous Envy in Joseph Addison's Cato"
2F. Germaine de Staël in C204 Chair: Karyna Szmurlo (Clemson University) Panagiota Batsaki (Harvard University): "De Staël's Conception of National Interest as a Shift in Translation Policy" Gita May (Columbia University): "Germaine de Staël, Vigee Le Brun, and the Vindication of
Posterity" Tili Boon Cuillé (Washington University of St. Louis): "L'homme éclaire: The Emergence of the Modern Intellectual in the Writings of Germaine de Staël"
2G. Science and Social Engineering Across Two Revolutions in C205 Chair: James Jacob (John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) James Jacob: "The Heavenly City of the Natural Philosophers: Boyle, Wilkins and Locke as Social Engineers 1649-1693" John Morgan (Ryerson Polytechnic University): "Society, Social Reform, and the Trope of 'Israel': Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society as Cultural Manipulation" Sean Quinlan (University of Idaho at Moscow): "The Limits of Rejuvenation: Sensibility and Domestic Hygiene in Post-Thermidorean France" Clifford Conner (Independent Scholar): "Respondent"
3. Thursday, October 17, at 4:45-6:00 pm
3A. Die Aufklärung in the Skylight Room Chair: Paul Kerry (Brigham Young University) Arild Saether (Agder University College of Kristiansand Norway): "Pufendorf: An Almost Forgotten Initiator of the European Enlightenment" Charlotte Craig (Rutgers University): "Universality in Schiller's Allegory: Politics Can Be Beastly" Wolfgang Wittkowski (University of Albany): "Forwards or Backwards: Goethe's 'Divinity' and an Infanticide's Execution"
3B. Armonica Concert in the Segal Theatre Cecilia Brauer on the Glass Armonica
3C. Resistance to Enlightenment in C201 Chair: Dennis McEnnerney (SUNY at Oneonta) Klaus Mladek (University of Cincinnati): "At the Juncture of Ethics and Politics: Resistance and the Question of Evil in Kant and Hegel" Tonya Howe (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor): "'A (Quondam) Friend to Libertynism': John Wilkes' Essay on Woman as Essay in Oppositionality"
Caroline Castiglione (University of Texas at Austin): "Rethinking Village Resistance in the Eighteenth Century: What the Roman Countryside Can Tell Us" Dennis McEnnerney: "Theory and Politics of Résistance in Early Modern France"
3D. Philanthropy in England, the US and Turkey in C202
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Philanthropy, CUNY Graduate Center Chair, Eugene Miller (CUNY Center for the Study of Philanthropy) Barbara Leopold (CUNY Center for the Study of Philanthropy): "Changing Faces: Poverty, Charity and the State in France" Kathleen McCarthy (CUNY Center for the Study of Philanthropy): "Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society in the US" Mine Ener (Villanova University): "The Extent of Imperial Charity in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul"
3E. Enlightenment and Traditional Literary Genres in C203 Chair: John H. O'Neill (Hamilton College) Mark Blackwell (University of Hartford): "Milton and Dryden: Modernity in Epic" Dylan Krieg (University of Massachusetts): "Georgic Nation: Thomson's The Seasons and the Writing of Great Britain" Elisabeth Ellington (Brandeis University): "At the Crossroads: Biography as an Enlightenment Project?" Jason Pearl (Boston University): "The 'Comic Epic-Poem in Prose' of Fielding's Preface to Joseph Andrews."
3G. Sexual and Gender Identity in Modern Culture: The Netherlands, Germany, and England in C205
Co-Sponsored by CLAGS (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies of the City University of New York) Chair: Jeffrey Merrick (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) Theo van der Meer (Free University of Amsterdam): "Public Indecency and Private Identity in Dutch Courtrooms in the Long Eighteenth Century" Matthew Johnson (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor): "This Is Not a Hermaphrodite: The Medical Assimilation of Gender Difference in Germany around 1800" Jill Campbell (Yale University): "Lord Hervey and Male Friendship: The Evidence of His Letters"
Thursday, October 17, at 6:15-7:15 pm
Reception in the Dining Commons (Eighth Floor)
Sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation
4. Friday, October 18, at 8:30 - 9:45 am
4A. Sexuality, Religion, and the State in Eighteenth-Century France in the Segal Theatre Chair: Gregory Brown (University of Nevada at Las Vegas) Jeff Ravel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Comic Certainties and Judicial Doubts: The Pivardière Affair" Bryant Ragan (Fordham University): "Sodomitical Subcultures in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris" Mita Choudhury (Vassar College): "Theological Borders: the Jansenist Attack on Mme de Moysan and the Jesuits"
4B. Body Art in Eighteenth-Century English Theatre in C197 Chair: Judith Milhous (Graduate Center, CUNY): Jennifer Danby (Graduate Center, CUNY): "Lines of Business: Restoration Actress Rebecca Marshall and the Shaping of Type" Matthew Kinservik (University of Delaware): "Samuel Foote's Sodomy Trial and the Performance of Innocence" Judith Milhous: "The Abnormal Body on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage" Robert Hume (Pennsylvania State University): Respondent
4C. Slavery and Abolitionism in C201 Chair: Philip Gould (Brown University) Carmen DePasquale (University of Malta): "Christians and Infidels: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Malta" Diana Moore (Independent Scholar): "Early Franco-American Trade in the Indian Ocean: From Monopoly and Slavery to Free Trade and Globalization" James Basker (Barnard College of Columbia University): "Afrocentric Poetics and the Eighteenth-Century Canon"
4D. The Ancients, the Moderns, and Their Aftermath in C202 Chair: Jennifer Tsien (John Jay College, CUNY) John Richardson (National University of Singapore): "Nostalgia and Melancholy in Pope's Mock-Heroics" Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat (Université de Poitiers): "A Quixote in the Querelle: Marivaux's Ways of Defining the Ancients and Defending the Moderns" Jennifer Tsien: "Epic Heroes and Trivial Things"
4E. Romanticism and Its Discontents in C203 Chair: Kathleen Grathwol (Suffolk University) Anca Munteanu (Millikin University): "Female Power in Frankenstein" D.J. Moores (University of Rhode Island): "Romantic Heterodoxy and the Cosmic Vision" John L. Mahoney (Boston College): "The Enlightenment and Wordsworth's Shifting Religious Practices"
4F. Modernity and Ambivalence in Enlightenment Thought in C204 Chair: Susan Tenenbaum (Baruch College, CUNY) Martha K. Zebrowski (Columbia University): "The Well-Worn Way to Enlightenment: John William Thomson's 1728 Edition of Plato's Parmenides" Benedetto Fontana (Baruch College, CUNY): "Rousseau and Rhetoric" Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University): "Condorcet and Democratic Representation" Susan Tenenbaum: "The Persistence of History: Modernity and Corruption in the Work of Adam Smith"
4G. Adam Smith and Modernity: The French Connection in C205 Chair: Catherine Labio (Yale University) Anoush Terjanian (Johns Hopkins University): "Diderot and Luxury: In Flumine Reflections in Counterpoint to Smith" Carl Wennerland and Lars Tragardh (Barnard College): "Theoretical Responses to First and Second Wave Globalization: From British Political Economy, French Économie sociale and German Nationalökonomie to the Contemporary Globalization Debate" Evert Schoorl (University of Groningen): "Jean-Baptiste Say as a Reluctant Adam Smith Disciple" Marguerite Finnigan (University of Washington): "Adam Smith: Economic Theory and the Individual Imagined"
Special Double Session:
Friday, October 18 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm in C202
The Dark Underbelly of Enlightenment: Rousseau, Desire and Modern Society
Three consecutive roundtables organized by John Duncan and Simon Kow (University of King's College).
Each roundtable will consist of three 10-minute position papers followed by discussion.
Roundtable I: Rousseau and Desire in Context: Locke, Mandeville, and the Philosophes Chair: John Duncan
Vana Grigoropoulou (University of Athens) "Uneasiness as Desire: Locke and Rousseau" Simon Kow: "Rousseau's (Anti-) Mandevillean Conception of Desire" Alice Ormiston (Carleton University): Rousseau versus the Philosophes: Desire and Recognition
Roundtable II:
Rousseau and Desire: From the Second Discourse to the Confessions
Chair: Simon Kow John Duncan: "Rousseau's Self-Governing Desiring Machines" Katrin Froese (University of Calgary): "Openings That Close: The Paradox of Desire in Rousseau" Barbara Abrams (Suffolk University): "Limitation of Desire: Hopelessness and Melancholy in Rousseau's Confessions"
Roundtable III: Rousseau and Desire in the Modern World
Chairs: Simon Kow and John Duncan
Jennifer Jones (Rutgers University): "Elite Reactions to Rousseau's Therese Levasseur: The 'Other Woman' or the 'Natural Woman' of the Enlightenment?" Mira Morgenstern (Kingsborough College, CUNY): "Politics in/of the City: Love, Modernity, and Strangeness in the City of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" Marshall Berman (Graduate Center, CUNY) "Rousseau, Modernity and Desire: A Discussion"
Special Sessions at the Morgan Library
Our sessions on Pope and Austen will be held in the Meeting Room of the
Morgan Library, 29 East 36th Street. On exhibition at the
entrance to the Meeting Room will be two original manuscripts from the
Library's collection: Austen's LADY SUSAN and Pope's ESSAY ON MAN.
5M. Friday, October 18, at 10:00 - 11:15 am
Pope Studies for the New Century: Rethinking Genre and Authorship at the Morgan Library Chair: Gabrielle Starr (New York University) Erik Bond (University of Michigan at Dearborn): "'Oblig'd to Build on Another Man's Scheme': Romans, Pope, and the Imaginative Essay" Jaclyn Geller (NYU): "'The Moving Toyshop of the Heart': Courtship and Marriage in Pope's Poetry" Scott Cleary (NYU): "Edited in Himself: Alexander Pope and the Works of 1717"
6M. Friday, October 18 at 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Jane Austen at the Morgan Library Chair: Rachel Brownstein (Graduate Center, CUNY) Amy Wolf (Canisius College): "Epistolarity, Narrative, and the Fallen Woman in Mansfield Park" Erin Smith (Birkbeck College, University of London): "Bodies in Motion: Social Dance in Jane Austen" Mina Tharoor (New York University): "Domestic Versions of Colonial Vices: Moral Syntax and Modern Sinning in Jane Austen's Fiction" Sonia Kane (Graduate Center, CUNY): "'I Would not Attempt to Force the Confidence of Any One': Interrogating the
Daughter in Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park"
5. Friday, October 18, at 10:00 - 11:15 am
5A. Reason and Sentiment in Literary Solution in the Segal Theatre Chair: Marcia Allentuck (City College and CUNY Graduate Center) Lynn Festa (Harvard University): "Sterne's Snuffbox and the Problem of the Sentimental Commodity" Mercy Cannon (University of Tennessee): "Sentiment and Resistance in The Castle of Wolfenbach"
5B. Transforming Traditional Word Image Relations in C197 Chair: Jane Kromm (SUNY at Purchase) Meredith Martin (Harvard University): "La Maison Gothique: Architectural Regeneration in the Work of Jean-Jacques LeQueu" Vernon Minor (University of Colorado at Boulder): "From Pastoral Word to Pastoral Image: Arcadianism and Buon Gusto in Rome"
5C. Masculinities I in C201 Chair: Christopher Mayo (Brandeis University) Brian Reed (Mercyhurst College): "Manipulating Men: Power and Masculine Anxiety in Boswell, Sterne, and Smollett" Irene Beesemeyer (University of California at Los Angeles): "Mapping Masculinity onto a Gothic Canvas: The Enlightened Choice in Mysteries of Udolpho" Rebecca Shapiro (Westminster College): "Masculinity and the Nation in Ivanhoe and Hermsprong" Terri Nickel (Bowdoin College): "Queering the Eighteenth-Century Garden: The Case of Stowe"
5D. Rousseau Double Session -- see details above in C202
5E. Narrative Speculations on the Modern Subject in C203 Chair: Kathleen Lubey (Rutgers University) Lisa Tilton-Levine (Seton Hall University): "John Dunton: Modern Man" Tony Brown (University of Chicago): "The Stretched Subject of Daniel Defoe's Essay upon Projects" Gabriel Cervantes (Princeton University): "In Respite from the Gallows: Moll Flanders in America" Dahlia Porter (University of Pennsylvania): "Dispossessing the Deer Hunter: Dialectical
Subjectivity in Travel Narrative, Natural History, and Eighteenth-Century Law"
5F. Enlightenment for All: The Role of Print Culture in C204 Chair: Ernelle Fife (SUNY at New Paltz) Matt Nickel (SUNY at New Paltz): "Rasselas and the Necessary Journey" Julia Saric (University of Toronto): "Religious and Moral Instruction for Children" Linda Reesman (Hofstra University): "'Learned Ladies' and Domestic Strife: Educating the Fair Sex" Danielle Bienvenue (SUNY at New Paltz): "Children's Literature and the Enlightenment"
5G. Reason, Difference, and the Global Subject of Enlightenment in C205 Chair: Laura Rosenthal (University of Maryland) Laura Rosenthal: "Captain Cook and Joseph Banks as Critical Paradigms" Rajani Sudan (Southern Methodist University): "Mythical Substance, Material Culture, and the British East India Company" Robert Markley (West Virginia University): "Abject Europeans: Chinese Hegemony and the Myth of Rationality" Kinohi Nishikawa (Duke University): "Time Is on My Side: Enlightenment Analogics and Postcolonial Critique."
5M. Alexander Pope Session -- see details above at the Meeting Room, Morgan Library, 29 E. 36th Street
6. Friday, October 18, at 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
6A. Revolutionary Space in the Segal Theatre Chair: Carol Houlihan Flynn (Tufts University) Janet Aikins (University of New Hampshire): "Clarissa's Place within Twentieth Century Revolutionary Space" Carol Houlihan Flynn: "Whatever Happened to the Gordon Riots?" David Palumbo (Tufts University): "Incarcerated Potential: Transgressive Language in Caleb Williams"
6B. Modernity and the Graphic Arts in C197 Chair: Heather MacPherson (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Alden Cavanaugh (Indiana State University): "Spaces of Intimacy" Deborah Shafer (Boston University): "Zoffany's 'Bradshaw Family': The Affectionate Family Portrait as a Tool of Modern Identity Construction" Jane Kromm (SUNY at Purchase): "Picturing the Passions"
6C. Erotics of Modern Reading in C201 Chair: Tony Brown (University of Chicago) Danielle Bobker (Rutgers University): "Whoring and the Art of Reading the Body in Love" Kathleen Lubey (Rutgers University): "Pornographic Reading" Kathryn Steele (Rutgers University): "'I will not pretend to tell you what my Transports were while I was reading': Gendered Reading Positions in Haywood and Fielding" Susan Lamb (University of Toronto at Scarborough): "Cleland Self-Censored"
6D. Rousseau Double Session -- see details above in C202
6E. Actors and Acting in C203 Chair: Robert Dimit (New York University) Julie Park (Princeton University): "Of 'Trivial Things' and 'Surprising Scenes': Charlotte Charke and the Eighteenth-Century Puppet Theatre" Felicia Gordon (Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge): "Filles Publiques: A Gendered View of Modernity" Natalya Baldyga (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities): "Bodies of Knowledge: Revisiting the Enlightened Actor in Lessing's Hamburg Dramaturgy"
6F. Resistance and Enlightenment in C204 Chair: Ernelle Fife (SUNY at New Paltz) Anna Battigelli (SUNY at Plattsburgh): "From Panegyric to Beast Fables: The Impact of Richard Simon's Critical History of the Old Testament on Dryden's Thought" Jay Reedy (Bryant College): "Modernity Indicted, Modernity Imitated: Louis de Bonald's Counter-Revolutionary Science" John Baird (Victoria College University of Toronto): "Climbing Up from Bangor: Benjamin Hoadly's Assault on Hierarchy"
6G. Masculinities II in C205 Chair: Christopher Mayo (Brandeis University) Ann Evelyn Richardson (University of Southampton, UK): "Men at Serious Play: the Satiric Persona and Knapton's Portraits of the Society of Dilletanti" Elizabeth Hollow (Graduate Center, CUNY): "'That man's voice followed me still': The Confessions' 'Queer Plot'" Kate Deimling (Colgate University): "Masculinity and Homosexual Desire in Restif de la Bretonne's Paysan perverti"
6M. Jane Austen Session -- see details above at the Meeting Room, Morgan Library, 29 E. 36th Street
Lunch Break: 1:00-2:30 pm
There will be at this time a Luncheon Meeting for NEASECS Officers, location TBA
7. Friday, October 18, at 2:30-3:45 pm
7A. Women Writers Confront Enlightenment I in the Segal Theatre Chair: Mita Choudhury (Georgia Tech) Alison Tracy (University of Puget Sound): "The Transatlantic Traveler: Hybridity, Liminality, and Female Identity in Unca Eliza Winkfield's The Female American" Noel Chevalier (Luther College, University of Regina): "Loyalist Gods, Republican Monsters: Hannah More, Evangelical Christianity, and Enlightenment Education" Gina Luria Walker (The New School): "Mary Hays: Curricula for an Auto-Didact" William Levine (Middle Tennessee State University): "Barbauld's Negotiation of Enlightenment Progress, Public Significance, and Gendering in 'Eighteen Hundred and Eleven'"
7B. Education and Charity in C197 Chair: Maureen E. Mulvihill (Princeton Research Forum) Clare Callaghan (Catholic University): "Swift's Charity and Corinna" Karen L. Taylor (Sidwell Friends School): "The Articulation of Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Théâtre d'éducation" Martha Bowden (Kennesaw State University): "Lady Bountiful and Queen Anne's Bounty: Women's Charitable Work in Eighteenth-Century England" William Stargard (Pine Manor College): "Educating the Poor in the Early Modern Savoyard State"
7C. Political Modernity in France in C201 Chair: Fabienne Moore (University of Oregon) Ben Kafka (Stanford University): "The Knot of Power: Paperwork and Political Thought in Late Eighteenth-Century France" Paul Benhamou (Purdue University): "Voltaire: City Planner avant la lettre" Sanja Perovic (Stanford University): "Roman Time, Christian Time: Sylvain Marechal's Le Jugement dernier des rois as a Manifesto for Modernity"
7D. Gender, Violence, and Modernity: Goethe and the Romantics in C202 Chair: Dennis Mahoney (University of Vermont) Arnd Bohm (Carleton University): "Modernity Begins with Cain: Gessner-Byron-Goethe" Gabriele Wurmitzer (University of Vermont): "Rings and Revolution: The Portrayal of the Heroine in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea" Martha Helfer (University of Utah): "The Gender of German Romanticism"
7E. Modernity Onstage in C203 Chair: Brigitte Weltman-Aron (University of Memphis) Brigitte Weltman-Aron: "Modernity on the Stage, New Theories of Drama" John C. O'Neal (Hamilton College): "The Modernity of Marivaux's Theatre" William Thierfelder (Dowling College): "Lunar Treatments: Carlo Goldoni's Il mondo della luna as Satire on Modernity"
7F. Scandalous Bodies in C204 Chair: Karen L. Sullivan (Queens College, CUNY) Barbara Abrams (Suffolk University): "Mutation or Mutilation: Gender and the Body Politic in Eighteenth-Century France" Karen L. Sullivan: "Vile Castrati, Barbarous Fathers, and Musical Pleasure in Rousseau" Kathleen Grathwol (Suffolk University): "Scandal in Writing: The Case of Laetitia Pilkington"
7G. Masculinities III in C205 Chair: Christopher Mayo (Brandeis University) Helga Duncan (Brown University): "Libertine Masculinity in Austen's Novels" Jessica Leiman (Yale University): "'My Devil Constantly fail'd me': The Crisis of Masculinity in Richardson's Pamela" Michael O'Rourke (University College, Dublin): "Walpole and Warhol: Closets and Collecting" Sarah Jordan (Albion College): "Melancholy, Madness, and Manhood: The Middle-Class Readership of Gray, Cowper, and Lamb"
Friday, October 18, at 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Second Plenary
Chair: Donna Heiland (American Council of Learned Societies)
Welcome: Joan Richardson (CUNY Graduate Center)
Patricia Meyer Spacks
Edgar Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia
"Fact and Fiction"
Proshansky Auditorium
Friday, October 18, at 5:30-7:00 pm Reception hosted by the Doctoral Program in English
4th Floor at the English Department Open Space and the Science Center
8. Saturday, October 19, at 8:30-9:45 am
8A. Interior Subjects in the Segal Theatre Chair: Tita Chico (Texas Tech University) Lisa Freeman (University of Illinois at Chicago): "Interiority and Allegory: Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress" Hans Turley (University of Connecticut): "'I, the most forlorn, lost Man alive': Masculine Subjectivity and Libertine Objectification" Tita Chico: "Private Eyes: Voyeurism and the Epistolary Novel" Helen Thompson (Northwestern University): "Discursive Cavities: Audience-Oriented Subjectivity in Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"
8B. High Crimes and Misdemeanors in C197 Chair: Susan Goulding (Monmouth University) Mary Peace (Sheffield Hallam University): "Modernity, Desire, and the Magdalen Hospital for Repentant Prostitutes" Nancy Johnson (SUNY at New Paltz): "Reclaiming Intention: Narratives of the London Treason Trials of 1794" Richard Quaintance (Rutgers University at New Brunswick): "Landscape, Politics, Scandal: Kew Gardens 1754-1780"
8C. The Ethics of Print in C201 Chair: Christopher Fanning (Queen's University) Katherine Quinsey (University of Windsor): "Pious by Production: Christianizing the Essay on Man through the Book Trade" Douglas Pfeiffer (Columbia University): "Ethics, Hermeneutics, and an Eunuch: From Cowley's Essay on Himself to Johnson's Life of Cowley" Jeanette Herrle (Queen's University): "Ethics in Print: Misquotation and Plagiarism in Medical Publication" Christopher Fanning: "The Ethics of Print"
8D. Daniel Defoe in C202 Chair: Pam Lieske (Kent State at Trumbull) Ann Marie Fallon (University of Virginia): "Charting Robinson Crusoe: The Early Modern Novel and the Self-Made Map" D. N. DeLuna (Johns Hopkins University): "Male Virginal Heroes of the North, By Defoe, Apostle of Trade" Leon Guilhamet (City College, CUNY): "Moll Flanders and Management: A Contribution to the Enlightenment"
8E. Publishing in the 1760s in C203 Chair: Karen L. Sullivan (Queens College, CUNY) Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Pennsylvania): "Trust, Betrayal and Literary Commerce: Rousseau's Image of His Publisher Marc-Michel Rey" Jérôme Bouron (Université de Paris III): "Mode et modernité dans les journaux littéraires anglophones et germanophones du début du dix-huitième siècle" Susan Carlile (California State University at Long Beach): "Realizing Unorthodoxy: Charlotte Lennox after The Female Quixote"
8F. Adam Smith and Politics in C204 Chair: Roger Lund (Le Moyne College) Adam Witztum (London Guildhall University): "Adam Smith and Jurisprudence" Antonio Almodovar and Maria de Fatima Brandao (University of Porto): "Smith and Modernity: Prudence and Market Forces" Jack Weinstein (University of North Dakota): "Proximity and Biography: Reconstructing Adam Smith's Moral Condemnation of Slavery" Nicolle Jordan (Southern Methodist University): "Equivocal Speech: The Strange Alliance of Mary Wollstonecraft and Adam Smith"
8G. Frances Burney in C205 Chair: Stephanie Oppenheim (Graduate Center, CUNY) Deborah Rankin (Purdue University): "When Sentimentality Goes Wrong" Maria Cecilia Herrera Astua (University of Hawaii at Manoa): "Willoughby as Seduced Libertine: In Search of Opportunity" Susan Greenfield (Fordham University): "Burney's Cecilia and the Madness of the Self"
9. Saturday, October 19, at 10:00-11:15 am
9A. Roundtable: Whose Modernity, Which Enlightenment? in the Segal Theatre Daniel Gordon (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) David Hollinger (University of California at Berkeley) James Schmidt (Boston University)
9B. Spaces of Modernity, Spaces of Enlightenment in C197 Chair: Alden Cavanaugh (Indiana State University at Terre Haute) Michael Yonan (Saint Louis University): "Gender, Accessibility, and Modernity at Maria Theresia's Schoenbrunn" Reed Benhamou (Indiana University): "A Very Private Space: The World Enclosed by the Hoop" Rochelle Ziskin (University of Missouri at Kansas City): "Culture and Domestic Space in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris" Suzanne Pucci (University of Kentucky): "At Home and Abroad with Jane Austen"
9C. Jonathan Swift in C201 Chair: Lisa Berglund (Buffalo State College) Benjamin Carson (University of Nebraska at Lincoln): "Alan Sokal's Tale of a Tub, and the Converting Imagination" Hugh Ormsby-Lennon (Villanova University): "Capital Texts and Public Spheres: 'Mechanic Exercises,' 'Husbandry & Trade,' and 'Tale of a Tub'" Steven Soud (The Bolles School): "Gulliver as Time Traveler?: Swift's Attack on Modernity in Brobdingnag (and Lilliput)" Maureen E. Mulvihill (Princeton Research Forum): "Irish Women Writers and Swift's Circle: Towards a Reassessment"
9D. Women Writers Confront Enlightenment II in C202 Chair: Joyce Grossman (Independent Scholar) Gillian Dow (Balliol College, Oxford): " 'Il est au moins etrange de voir dans une femme le courage d'attaquer...les Diderot, les d'Alembert, les Raynal & les Helvetius': Contemporary Responses to the Writing of Madame de Genlis (1746-1830)" Lili Hsieh (Duke University): "The Utopian Vision of the New Femininity in Madame de Staël's Corinne or Italy" H.L. Johnson (Sam Houston State University): "Judith Sargent Murray and the Failure of Enlightenment Rhetoric"
9E. Cultural Politics on the Restoration Stage in C203
Chair: D. N. DeLuna (Johns Hopkins University) Anne Cotterill (Rutgers University): "Modernity's 'Empire of the Ear': Trade, Science, and Song on the Restoration Stage" Katherine Scheil (University of Rhode Island): "Family Politics: The Bullocks on the Eighteenth-Century Stage" Jason Gieger (California State University, Sacramento): "Ibsen and Restoration Comedy" Jenny Davidson (Columbia University): "Behn, Biyu Bandeli, Southern, and the Return of the Repressed"
9F. Literary Approaches to Adam Smith in C204 Chair: Nicolle Jordan (Southern Methodist University) Sandra Sherman (University of Arkansas): "Adam Smith and the Poor: The Market versus the Moral Economy" Suzie Park (University of California at Berkeley): "'Tell the embosom'd grief, however vain': Adam Smith and Wasted Sentiment in the Age of Sensibility" Catherine Labio (Yale University): "Literary and Cultural Studies Approaches to the Works of Adam Smith"
9G. Laws of Desire in C205 Chair: Teri Doerksen (Mansfield University of Pennsylvania) Avgi Saketopoulou (Yeshiva University): "What Do (Wo)Men Want: Gender Confusion and Narration of (Fe)male Desire in Sade" Guillemette Johnston (DePaul University): "Strategic and Accidental Symbolic Transformations: The Garden Scene in Emile and Rousseau's Experience of the Broken Comb" Joe Pappa (SUNY Binghampton): "Reading with the Body: Reading Pornographically during the Eighteenth Century" Sheldon Wein (St. Mary's University, Halifax): "David Hume on Human Sexuality and Justice"
10. Saturday, October 19, at 11:30 am-12:45 pm
10A. The Radical Enlightenment -- A Paradigm Considered in the Segal Theatre Chair: Michael McKeon (Rutgers University) Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton), author of Radical Enlightenment (2001) Margaret Jacob (University of California at Los Angeles), author of The Radical Enlightenment (1981) John Marshall (Johns Hopkins University) Wijnand Mijnhardt (University of Utrecht)
10B. Music and Opera in C197 Chair: Marlies Danziger (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) Alan Sikes (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities): "Snip Here, Snip There: The Rise and Fall of the Castrato Singer" Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse University): "Madness and the Prophetic Voice: Musical Prognostication on the Late Seventeenth-Century English Stage" David Schroeder (Dalhousie University): "Is Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte an Antifeminist Work?" Michael Fodor (Dartmouth College): "Beaumarchais' Tartare: An Enlightened Opera Libretto"
10C. Enlightenment Identities in C201 Chair: John Baird (Victoria College of the University of Toronto) Vassiliki Grigoropoulou (University of Athens): "Identity and Difference in Locke and Rousseau" Catherine Keohane (Rutgers University): "Giver or Receiver: Charity and Selfhood in Sarah Scott's Millennium Hall" James Buickerood (University of Missouri at St. Louis): "Self as Consciousness, Self as Sui Generis: John Locke and Charles Mein on the Nature of Selves" Nora Nachumi (Stern College): "Disguise and Female Identity"
10D. Enlightenment and Postmodernity in C202 Chair: Anne Stevens (New York University) Cynthia Current (University of North Carolina): "Fear and Loathing: A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms via Las Vegas" Emma Parker (University of Leicester): "Sterne Stuff: Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum" Laura Wadenpfuhl (New Jersey City University): "Re/membering Johnson: Boswell, Thrale, Bainbridge" Lisa Hirschfield (New York University): "Crazy Salad: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Narratives and Postmodern Aesthetics of Irony"
10E."Enlightening" the East in C203 Chair: Rose Zimbardo (University of San Francisco) Donald D. Stone (Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY): "Voyages to the East: Gulliver in China" Rachel Crawford (University of San Francisco): "Missions and Modernism" Raymond Tumbelson (Kutztown University): "Other Others: Enlightenment, Religion, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters" Rose Zimbardo: "The Middle-Eastern 'Other' in the Eyes of Fifteenth/Sixteenth-Century as Opposed to Late Seventeenth/Eighteenth-Century Travellers"
10F. Kant and the Sublime in C204 Chair: Irwin Primer (Rutgers University at Newark) Alison Ross (Monash University, Melbourne): "Kantian Limits: Culture and Finitude in Critical Philosophy" Irmgard Scherer (Loyola College in Maryland): "Irrationalism in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics: A Challenge for Kant" Nicolas Halmi (University of Washington, Seattle): "Infinity and Visibility in the Eighteenth-Century Sublime"
10G. Enlightenment Social Structures in C205 Chair: Michael Suarez (Fordham University and Campion Hall, Oxford) Daniel Brewer (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities): "Bringing Out the Dead: Commemorating the Eighteenth Century" Frank Palmeri (University of Miami): "Foucault, Conjectural History, and the Enlightenment" Frans DeBruyn (University of Ottawa): "The Eighteenth-Century Literary Origins of Statistics and Graphs" Richard B. Sher (New Jersey Institute of Technology): "Sir John Sinclair and the Road to Modernity: The Statistical Account of Scotland and the Stages of Society"
Saturday, October 19, at 1:00-2:00 pm:
NEASECS Business Meeting/Luncheon
Michael Suarez, presiding
Presentation of the Edna Steeves Award
Graduate Center Dining Commons (8th Floor)
11. Saturday, October 19, at 2:15-3:30 pm
11A. Author Roundtable in the Segal Theatre Chair: Robert Maccubbin (The College of William and Mary) Carla Hesse (University of California at Berkeley): "The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern" (2001) David Ferris (University of Colorado at Boulder): "Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity" (2000) Dianne Dugaw (University of Oregon): "Deep Play: John Gay and the Invention of Modernity" (2001) Frank Boyle (Fordham University): "Swift as Nemesis: Modernity and Its Satirist" (2000) Laura Brown (Cornell University): "Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century" (2001)
11B. Fallen Women on Stage and Page in C197 Chair: Beth Kowaleski Wallace (Boston College) Irene Fizer (Hofstra University): "'Sunk to a State of Guilt': Female Bastardy and the Fall into Artifice in Burney's Evelina" Liz Denlinger (Yeshiva University): "Lady Charade and the Female Bawdy: Elizabeth Craven's Miniature Picture at Drury Lane" Sarah Cote (Boston College): "Fallen Women Write Back: The Histories of Some Penitents in Magdalen House" Sharon Harrow (Shippensberg University): "Women Who Dive into the Righteous Fall"
11C. Montesquieu in C201 Chair and Respondent: Jenny Batlay (Fordham University) Giulia Pacini (College of William and Mary): "Montesquieu and Women's Rights in France" N.G. Robertson (University of King's College): "Modernity and Montesquieu" Johanna Smith (University of Texas, Arlington): "Jemima Kindersley and L'Esprit des lois"
11E. Aesthetics of Working Writers in C203 Chair: Manuel Schonhorn (Southern Illinois University) Justin Bauer (Temple University): "Eliza Haywood and Marketplace Aesthetics" Marie Ganne-Schnermeier (Fordham University): "La hiéroglyph ou le sublime chez Diderot: Itinéraire et modernité d'une réflexion esthétique de la Lettre sur les sourds et muets au Salon de 1767" W. Thomas Pepper (SUNY at Stony Brook): "Godwin's Enlightenment Aesthetics"
11F. Imagining America in C204 Chair: Byron Wells (Wake Forest University) Ann Huse (John Jay College, CUNY): "Marvell and Defoe on Island Time: Modernity in the Indies" Colin Wells (St. Olaf College): "Unmasking the American Condorcet: Enlightenment, Race, and Manifest Destiny in Anti-Jeffersonian Verse Satire" Thomas M. Curley (Bridgewater State College): "Ireland and the American Revolution in the Age of Johnson"
11G. Innocence in the Age of Enlightenment in C205 Chair: Priscilla Gilman (Vassar College) Maria Mann (SUNY Nassau Community College): "Narrowing the Gap through Poetry: Women in Arcadia: The Case of Fidelma Partenide" Priscilla Gilman: "'Nor Be Despised, Aiming to Be Admired': Ambition and Artfulness in Enlightenment England" Aaron Santesso (University of Nevada at Reno): "Poetic Play and Poetic Enlightenment in British Public Schools" Richard Prud'homme (Yale University): "Babes in the World: American Innocence and 'Infant Industries'"
Final Sessions at the New York Public Library
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
On display will be autograph letters, pamphlets and rare printed books from the Martin Gross Voltaire collection.
Saturday, October 19, at 3:00 pm Guided Tour of the New York Public Library
By prior reservation (Signup will be at the registration desk on the Conference Level).
Saturday, October 19, at 4:00 pm
Final Plenary at the New York Public Library
Welcoming Remarks: Paul LeClerc (President, New York Public Library) Chair: Randolph Trumbach (Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center)
Gordon Wood
Alvin O. Way University Professor of History at Brown University
"The American Enlightenment"
Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Celeste Bartos Forum of the New York Public Library
at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue
Final Reception in the Celeste Bartos Forum following the Plenary and concluding at 6:00 pm
