British Society for Eighteenth Century Studiesbsecs 46Th Annual Conference 2017

British Society for Eighteenth Century StudiesBSECS 46th Annual Conference 2017

Welcome Address : Wednesday 4th January 2017 12:15 - 12:30

Chair: Matthew GrenbyMaplethorpe Hall

Opening Plenary : Wednesday 4th January 2017 12:30 - 13:45

Professor David Garrioch, Monash University : 'What happened when women began writing to their friends?'

Chair: Matthew GrenbyMaplethorpe Hall

Wednesday Session One : 4th January 2017 14:00 - 15:30

3 - Panel: Building Connections : Roads, Bridges, and MapsChair: Charlotte RobertsHo Tim Seminar Room

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Susan Clare Scott / The Chinese Bridge: From Ancient Structure to Global Garden Topos
Sarah Jayne Hitt / Mapping the Capitals: The “Special Relationship” between cartography, urban planning, and identity in late-18th century Washington, D.C. and London.
Tom Taylor / Roads of Discourse: Robert Southey, Thomas Telford, and the Means of Communication

4 - Panel: The Fourth Annual Swift and Pope PanelChair: Daniel CookHo, Leung, Ho and Lee Seminar Room

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Valerie Rumbold / How far can you go? Swift and the limits of material parody
Daniel Sperrin / “This I’m now writing is but a sketch” (Sterne). Swift’s Use of Character Sketch After Moor Park
Paul Baines and Julian Ferraro / Editing Pope: After Twickenham

5 - Panel: Political Alliances in Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthChair: Emma Salgard CunhaLecture Theatre 1

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Dorota Wiśniewska / A Useful Friend: Women’s Competences in Pursuing Political Intrigues in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth of the Latter 18th Century
Katrina O'Loughlin / ‘Your friends must act for you’: Ekaterina Dashkova and the bonds of friendship.
Pamela Buck / “You hope Russia will be our friend”: Imperial Objects and Global Alliances in Martha Wilmot’s Russian Letters

6 - Panel: Comparative History of Theatrical ExperiencesChair: Caroline WarmanLecture Theatre 2

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Joseph Harris / Writing the theatrical experience in Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert
Yassaman Khajehi / The audience in the 18th-century Persian performances
Alexei Evstratov / Theatrical performances in Paris and their subjects (1789-1799): towards a social history of experience

7 - Panel: Sustainability, Excess, and anti-Carriage TractsChair: Richard TerryLouey Seminar Room

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John Greene / Rousseau: An Enemy of the Carriage?
Anthony Pollock / Humean Resources: Sustainability and Luxury Consumption in the Essays
Tess Somervell / Floods in Early Wordsworth

8 - Panel: The Glory of Arms and Ancestry: A Practical Session on HeraldryChair: Peter Lindfield and Dan McCabeMaplethorpe Hall

9 - Round Table: The Future of Digital Humanities and BSECSChair: Stephen GreggMaplethorpe Office

10 - Panel: The Ties that Bind : Fraternity, Consumption, and Shared EnemiesChair: Matthew McCormackMaplethorpe Seminar Room

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Miranda Reading / Old Friends and New Allies: Evangelical Networks in the Membership of the Society for the Suppression of Vice
Elin Jones / Irrational Consumption, Fraternal Identity and the Eighteenth-Century Naval Seaman
Sara Caputo / Unequal Friends : The British Navy and the Two Sicilies, c.1780- c.1815

11 - Panel: Networks of Slavery, Networks of AbolitionChair: Sean CreightonMGA Lecture Room

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Ryan Hanley / Slavery, Gender and Celebrity Culture: the case of Mary Prince
Olivette Otele / Trade, diplomacy and slavery: British and French tumultuous relationships (1698- 1848)
Brycchan Carey / Networking the Black Atlantic: Olaudah Equiano’s Friends, Allies, and Enemies

12 - Panel: A Spectrum of (Dis)OrientationChair: Jack OrchardOld Law Library

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Anne Greenfield / The Appeal of Eunuchs on Stage: 1660-1735
Emma Newport / “Not knowing the paths we have come, we know not where we are”: Peter Pindar and Elizabeth Inchbald’s Satirical Disorientation of Monarchy and Empire
Lia Chisacof / Living melancholically while writing poems and recipes

13 - Panel: Power, Politics and Form: Friendship and Enmity in the works of William GodwinChair: Michèle CohenThe Boardroom

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Emma Povall / William Godwin’s Cursory Strictures: Exercising Sociable Liberty and Debate
John-Erik Hansson / Revenge and the Stakes of Children’s Histories: William Godwin Reviews Sarah Trimmer

14 - Round Table: Tolerance (after Brexit): Perspectives from the Global Eighteenth CenturyChair: Thomas IrvineWinston C S Wong Seminar Room

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Seema Alavi
Catriona Seth
Jean Mondot

Wednesday Afternoon Coffee Break : 4th January 2017 15:30 - 16:00

Elizabeth Wordsworth Tea Room (Dickson Poon Building)

Wednesday Session Two : 4th January 2017 16:00 - 18:00

16 - Panel: The Eighteenth-Century Female Subject : Trauma, Slavery, SacrificeChair: Penny PritchardHo Tim Seminar Room

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Yvonne Noble / Anne Finch’s Friends, Allies and Enemies: Background to ‘The Spleen’ and ‘The Petition for an Absolute Retreat’
Regulus Allen / The Sacrificial African Woman in the Legend of the Two Lovers
Rebeca Araya / Clarissa disseminated – a medical case study of epistolary friendship
Amanda Auerbach / Clarissa’s Family: Her Foes or Her Self?

17 - Panel: Flattery, Imitation, and Desire in Print Culture : Reinvention, Sonnets, and OdesChair: Richard TerryHo, Leung, Ho and Lee Seminar Room

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Val Derbyshire / “Suddenly rich Men are hard to deal with, & poor Authors must bear with rich booksellers” : Charlotte Smith’s Love-Hate Relationship with Cadell & Davies
Daniel Cook / Swift’s Imitation Odes
Laura Alexander / Wooing the Muse in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets
Siv Brandtzag / London vs. Dublin: the reprinting and repackaging of novels by the Irish bookseller Christopher Jackson

18 - Panel: The Art of Life or Life with ArtChair: Adelaine Meira SerrasLecture Theatre 1

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Patricia Rodrigues / Art in Eighteenth-century Lapdogs: the case of Coventry’s Pompey the Little
Adelaide Meira Serras / Art in the Eighteenth-Century Utopia. The case of Hamilton’s Munster Village
Paula Rama da Silva / Art and enemies in Hogarth’s “Times”
Marcia Bessa Marques / “Colliding worlds?” The Cost of Progress in William Hogarth’s Industry and Idleness”.

19 - Panel: Form and Space Inside the NovelChair: Helen WilliamsLecture Theatre 2

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Katharina Boehm / Tangible Pasts: Antiquarian Culture and Historical Experience in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Kim Simpson / Desperately Seeking Susan Smythies: Amatory Traces in 1750s Women’s Writing
Nicolás Martín Olszevicki / Diderot, materialism and the novel
Victoria Buyanovskaya / “Web of Kindness”: Constructing the Space of Sensibility in “A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy” by Laurence Sterne

20 - Panel: International Laurence Sterne FoundationChair: Peter de VoogdLouey Seminar Room

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Daniel Reed / Laurence Sterne’s First Professional Network
Alexander Hardie-Forsyth / ‘The “Mock-Edition” and Textual Commerce: Sterne and Swift. Again’
Paul Goring / Laurence Sterne’s Subscribers and the Society of Dilettanti
M-C Newbould / “Othering Sterne: The Absent-Presence of Anonymity in Sterneana”

21 - Panel: Eighteenth-Century Studies without Borders : How can we build alliances to support global eighteenth-century studies?Chair: Matthew GrenbyMaplethorpe Hall

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Stefanie Stockhorst; Catriona Seth; Thomas Irvine; Seema Alavi; Penelope Corfield; Melinda Rabb; David Garrioch / Global Eighteenth-Century Studies Panel : 18th-C Studies without Borders: How can we build alliances to support global eighteenth-century studies?

22 - Round Table: “Fleuron: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers’ Ornaments”: Launch Workshop and RoundtableChair: Hazel WilkinsonMaplethorpe Office

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Hazel Wilkinson
James McLaverty
Giles Bergel
Joseph Hone

23 - Panel: Political Enmity, Religious Alliance, and RitualChair: Jessica ClementMaplethorpe Seminar Room

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Anna McKay / Harbouring the Enemy: Print Culture, the Public, and Escape of French Prisoners of War on board British Prison Hulks, 1778-1815
E. Wesley Reynolds, III / Anglican Martyrdom and Jacobite English Constitutionalism
Megumi Ohsumi / “To One Another as Christians”: Jesuits in Alexander Pope’s Early Years
Ciarán McDonnell / Friends, allies or enemies? Transnational identity and the Irish in the French Revolution

24 - Panel: The Eighteenth Century as a Site of Translation and/or TransformationChair: Marine GanofskyMGA Lecture Room

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James Harriman-Smith / The Experimental Passions of Zara: Voltaire, Hill and Garrick
Ian Calvert / Latin Translations of English Classics in the Long Eighteenth Century
Alessa Johns / Mary Wollstonecraft’s German Allies: Feminism and Progressive Pedagogies in the 1790s
Elena Fernandez Fernandez / Race and Nation. A Racial Interpretation of the Numancia National Myth in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes and Ignacio López de Anaya.

25 - Panel: Prologues, Epigraphs, and Intertextuality : A Study in Three GenresChair: Andreas MuellerOld Law Library

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Kerstin Fest / A Prologue-Speaking Age: Prologues and Epilogues as Performance Spaces
Anas Sareen / Rousseau’s Crusoe
Corrina Readioff / A Poetic Battle: Epigraphic Rivalry in ‘The Tatler’ and ‘The Female Tatler’

26 - Round Table: Eighteenth-Century Centres of Study in the UKChair: Nicholas Seager

Winston C S Wong Seminar Room

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Stephanie Clayton (Cardiff)
Catriona Kennedy (York)
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Oxford)
Mark Towsey (Liverpool)
Mark Knights (Warwick)
Emrys Jones (London)

BSECS Annual General Meeting : Wednesday 4th January 2017 18:00 - 19:00

18.00 – 19.00Lecture Theatre 1

Wiley-Blackwell and Postgraduate Reception : Wednesday 4th January 2017 19:00 - 20:00

Elizabeth Wordsworth Tea Room (Dickson Poon Building)

Dinner : Wednesday 4th January 2017 20:00 - 21:30

Dining Hall

Thursday Session One : 5th January 2017 09:00 - 10:30

30 - Panel: ‘Poore Strangers’ Reconsidered: Poverty, Mobility, and Community in England’s Long Eighteenth CenturyChair: Ben LaffertyHo Tim Seminar Room

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Adam Crymble / Failed and accidental Irish migration to London: vagrancy and demobilisation c. 1780-1820
David Hitchcock / Moving the Vagrant Body: Conveyance, Correction, Transportation and Impressment in the English Long Eighteenth Century
Lucy Huggins / Articulating Poverty in the Courtroom: Language in the Old Bailey, 1750-1800

31 - Panel: Crime and Biography, with and without MusicChair: Nicholas SeagerHo, Leung, Ho and Lee Seminar Room

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Cheryll Duncan / Musical life in the King’s Bench Prison c.1760: new evidence from the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer
Rebecca Gribble / The Old Bailey: Tales of theft involving musicians and their instruments
Mary Peace / The unfortunate Dr Dodd and the limits of moral-sense sentimental virtue
Camille Pidoux / Literary Rivals: who owns the criminal life?

32 - Panel: The Marquis de SadeChair: Caroline WarmanLecture Theatre 1

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Samuel Harrington / The Marquis de Sade and Absolute Sovereignty: The eighteenth century setting of ‘The 120 Days of Sodom’
Natalia Zorilla / Oh monstre! The problem of moral monstrosity in Sade’s ‘Juliette’
Lode Lauwaert / From moral to metaphysical transgression

33 - Panel: Location and Network : The Eighteenth-Century TownChair: Penny PritchardLecture Theatre 2

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Hatsuyo Shimazaki / A Spa Resort, Southampton, in Frances Burney’s “Camilla” (1796)
Choedphong Uttama / Exploring the Scenes of “the English Urban Renaissance” in Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Sean Creighton / Wandsworth – 18thC Powerhouse

34 - Panel: Literary Enemies : Swift, Pope, Curll, TibbaldChair: Daniel CookLouey Seminar Room

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Jukka Tiusanen / Jonathan Swift and the search for the ideal enemy
Joseph Holloway / Enemies for Mutual Advantage: An Analysis of Pope and Curll
John McTague / Tibbald in a Coma: Suspension as Satirical Technique

35 - Panel: Friends and Enemies at Home and Abroad : Mobilizing and Immobilizing Collective EmotionsChair: Matthew GrenbyMaplethorpe Hall

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Amy Milka / ‘Frères et Amis’: Emotional Bonds in Political Correspondence during the French Revolution
David Lemmings / Emotions, Courtrooms and Popular Opinion about the Administration of Justice: the English Experience, from Coke’s “Artificial Reason” to the Sensibility of “True Crime Stories”
Giovanni Tarantino / The Unintended Emotional Consequences of Othering: the fictitious prophesies of Jeremiah van Husen

36 - Panel: William ShenstoneChair: Emma Salgard CunhaMaplethorpe Office

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Danni Glover / “The most elegant and amiable of men”: A study of the literary friendship of Thomas Percy and William Shenstone
Alison Horgan / “I always tremble when you take up the pruning hook”: The correspondence of Thomas Percy and William Shenstone
Steve Van-Hagen / ‘The Friend of Shenstone’ (and Others): James Woodhouse’s Long Career of Friendship

37 - Panel: The Artist’s Life :Three Case StudiesChair: Danielle ThomMaplethorpe Seminar Room

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Federico Furnari / Giovanni Battista Serini, life and catalogue
Marie Michlova / Sir Walter Scott’s Circle
Susan Helen Reynolds / The multifarious memoirs of the Mayor of Milčice: František Jan Vavák (1741-1816).

38 - Panel: Lord Hervey’s Friends and Enemies: Pulteney, Buckingham, and PopeChair: Valerie RumboldMGA Lecture Room

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Elaine Hobby / ‘A painfull secret should be guess’d not told | I wish to tell’: The Poetry of Lord Hervey’s Collaboration with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
James McLaverty / Interpreting Lord Hervey’s Duel with William Pulteney
Joseph Hone / Hervey, Pope, and the Duchess of Buckingham

39 - Panel: Navigating Sociable Spaces : Research Arising from the DIGITENS ProjectChair: Alexis TadiéOld Law Library

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Valérie Capdeville / Introducing DIGITENS
Michèle Cohen / Boarding Schools as Spaces for Sociability and Friendship
Helen Williams / The Good Humour Club
Emrys Jones / Navigating Levees

40 - Panel: Keeping a Welcome in the Hills – Cambrian Sociability in Wales and BeyondChair: Bethan JenkinsWinston C S Wong Seminar Room

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones / Keeping the Peace Amongst the Poets: Unruly Behaviour, Political Discord, and Bardic Community at the 1798 Caerwys Eisteddfod
Bethan Jenkins / “Whatsoever nation he may be”: Welsh relations with the four nations in the letters of the Morris Brothers of Anglesey.
Mary Chadwick / Eighteenth-Century Viz? Manuscript Magazines from the Wynnstay Estate (1783)

41 - Panel: Friendship, Commerce, and CommunityChair: tbaWordsworth Room (Main Building)

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Catherine Beck / Building friendships and warships: James Jagoe, a shipwright in the Royal Navy 1758-1810.
Pete Collinge / Assisted by Friends and Family: Elizabeth Cowlishaw and the Provincial Grocery Trade
Mark Ledbury / “The fruits of friendship: Prince Hoare in Rome and London”

Thursday Morning Coffee Break : Thursday 5th January 2017 10:30 - 11:00

Elizabeth Wordsworth Tea Room (Dickson Poon Building)

Thursday Session Two : 5th January 2017 11:00 - 12:30

43 - Round Table: Casts and Copies : A Visit to the Ashmolean Casts GalleryChair: Helen WilliamsAshmolean Museum – Register at Conference Desk

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Helen Williams
Danielle Thom
Julia Lenaghan

44 - Panel: Newspapers, Propaganda, and ReportingChair: Jennifer BattHo Tim Seminar Room

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Johanne Kristiansen / Reporting the St. Domingue Slave Revolt: News and Commentary in the London Press, 1789-1795
Ben Lafferty / ‘All the news is frozen up’: newspaper delivery in the Little Ice Age
Ross Nedervelt / The British Caribbean in Patriot and Loyalist Newspaper Propaganda during the American Revolution

45 - Panel: Spanish Friends, Enemies, and AlliesChair: Brycchan CareyHo, Leung, Ho and Lee Seminar Room

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Laura Blanco de la Barrera / The Galician 18th Century: Oasis or Lacuna? Periodization, Semantic Space and Conflicting Views within the Literary Historical Discourse-Building by Regionalist Movement
Phoebe Oliver / Following suit, coming up trumps: card playing as performance of diplomacy and national identity in Peninsular War colloquies
Anna Brinkman / Merchants of Fortune: British Foreign Policy and the Spanish Empire in the Americas 1775-1780
Francesca Suppa / Translating the Enemy: Lope de Vega in France in the Long 18th Century

46 - Panel: Gestures, The Gaze, and Speaking GlancesChair: Frank O'GormanLecture Theatre 1

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Miriam Handley / ‘A volume in a single glance’: Eye portraits, opera boxes and the spectacle of the look in the theatre, 1786
Erin Whitcroft / ‘Captivating grace’: the role of gesture and movement in the Eighteenth Century.
Nigel Joseph / The spectator, “self-liking,” and amour propre: The gaze of the other as civilizing mechanism in Addison, Mandeville, and Adam Smith and as alienating in Rousseau.

47 - Panel: Taxonomies and ‘Civilisation’ : Animals and Feral ChildrenChair: Nicholas SeagerLecture Theatre 2

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Stephanie Howard-Smith / ‘The War Against Curs’: Mad Dogs, Sad Dogs and the 1760 London Rabies Outbreak
Mihaela Irimia / From Foe to Friend and Socialite
Kerstin Maria Pahl / A Cat May Look Upon a King: Animal Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century England

48 - Panel: Aesthetics : Theology, Morality, and the PicturesqueChair: Andreas MuellerLouey Seminar Room

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Eduard Ghita / Theological Underpinnings of Joseph Addison’s Aesthetics
Marta Oracz / Gilpin’s correspondence with his friends – defense of his theory of Picturesque against objections of Joshua Reynolds.
Wing Sze Leung / Kant’s Account of Aesthetic Ideas in the Critique of Judgment and its Moral Relevance

49 - Panel: Property Management and the Built EnvironmentChair: Penny PritchardMaplethorpe Hall

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Peter N. Lindfield / Vathek and Fonthill Abbey: Beckford’s architectural imagination in prose and stone
Rita J. Dashwood / “An office in which she had always depended”: Surrogate managers in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Persuasion
Myles McKenna / Enlightening the ‘Speaker’: Charles FitzRoy, second Duke of Grafton in Ireland
Ariyuki Kondo / The Mid-Eighteenth-Century Fascination of Picturesque Antiquity: The ‘art of using’ ancient precedents is ‘the father of modern art’

50 - Panel: Object and Identity : Jugs, Wigs, BootsChair: Penelope CorfieldMaplethorpe Office

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Beth Kowaleski Wallace / Character Formed into Clay: The Toby Jug and late 18th-century English Identity
Matthew McCormack / These boots aren’t made for walkin’: material culture and Georgian masculinities
Laura Griffin / The “company of our Relations, acquaintances, and familiars”: The English wig and eighteenth century American identity, 1750-1800

51 - Panel: Public and Covert Enemies and Spies in State and SocietyChair: Conrad BrunstromMaplethorpe Seminar Room

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Fiona Milne / ‘What confidence can there be?’: Surveillance, state trials, and social fracture in the 1790s
Mika Suzuki / Friends and Hidden Enemies
Kyle Hughes / The Enemy Within: Bernard Duggan, United Irishman and Ribbonman

52 - Round Table: Reading Rowe AloudChair: John McTagueMGA Lecture Room