Romantic Conflict Timetable
All sessions take place in the Physics Concourse seminar rooms and lecture theatre.
Thursday 24 July
10:00-1:00: Registration and Check-in (Rootes Building)
1:30: Opening Remarks (Physics Lecture Theatre)
1:45-3:15: Plenary: Simon Bainbridge (Keele University), ‘“The Sir Walter Disease”: Scott and the Romantic Reimagining of War’
Chair: Jackie Labbe
(Physics Lecture Theatre)
3:15-3:45: Tea (Physics Concourse)
3:45-5:15: Panels (4 parallel sessions)
5:30-6:30: Wine reception sponsored by Manchester University Press (Physics Concourse)
7:00: dinner (Rootes Restaurant)
Friday 25 July
8:30-9:30: Registration (Physics Concourse)
9:30-11:00: Panels (5 parallel sessions)
11:00-11:30: tea (Physics Concourse)
11:30-1:00: Plenary: The Cambridge University Press Lecture: Susan Wolfson (Princeton University), ‘Gazing on Byron: Separation and Fascination’
Chair: Linda Bree
(Physics Lecture Theatre)
1:00-2:00: lunch (Rootes Restaurant)
2:30-4:00: Panels (4 parallel sessions)
4:00-4:30: tea (Physics Concourse)
4:30-6:00: Panels (4 parallel sessions)
6:30-7:45: dinner (Rootes Restaurant)
8:00-9:00: Coull Quartet: selections from Schubert, Death and the Maiden (wine will be served) (Sutherland Suite, Rootes Building)
9:00: BARS Biennial General Meeting (Sutherland Suite)
Saturday 26 July
8:30-9:30: Registration (Physics Concourse)
9:30-11:00: Panels (5 parallel sessions)
11:00-11:30: tea (Physics Concourse)
11:30-1:00: Panels (5 parallel sessions)
1:00-2:00: lunch (Rootes)
2:30-4:30: Excursion by coach to Kenilworth Castle
4:30-5:00: tea (Physics Concourse)
5:00-6:30: Plenary: The Stephen Copley Memorial Lecture: David Bromwich (Yale University), ‘The Regency Crisis and the French Revolution, 1788-1790’
Chair: Karen O’Brien
(Physics Lecture Theatre)
8:00: Banquet
Entertainment: Professor Mervyn Heard Presents a Magic Lantern Show (Chancellor’s Suite, Rootes Building)
Sunday 27 July
9:30-11:00: Plenary: Saree Makdisi (University of Chicago), ‘Empire and Moral Virtue’
Chair: Jon Mee
(Physics Lecture Theatre)
11:00-11:30: tea (Physics Concourse)
11:30-1:00: Panels (4 parallel sessions)
1:00: Close
Panel Details
Thursday 24 July 3:45-5:15
The French Revolution(B214)
Chair: Robert Clark
Ute Berns, ‘Thomas Lovell Beddoes’ Death’s Jest Book and the French Revolution’
Betty Hagglund, ‘Making Sense of Revolution: the Diaries of Mary and Martha Russell’
Performance and Conflict(B209)
Chair: Emma Francis
Jessica McShan, ‘On the Sister Arts, or How the Romantic Poets Came to Define Musico-Poetics: Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and the Eighteenth-Century Conflict over Artistic Representation’
Lia Laor, ‘Methodological Conflict: The Case of Romantic Piano Pedagogy’
Peter Howell, ‘Theatres of War: The French Revolutionary War on the London Stage 1792-1798’
Drawing Conflict(B212)
Chair: Sarah Wootton
Sibylle Erle, ‘Exploring the Dens of the Created World: William Blake and the Travelling Motif in The Book of Urizen
Julie Raby, ‘Horror of the Blasted Heath: Henry Fuseli’s Representations of Macbeth and Banquo’s Confrontation with the Three Witches’
Conflict in the Romantic Past (B213)
(panel organized by Robert Jones)
Chair: Robert Jones
Adam Rounce, ‘”Mimic Desolation”: Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Conflict’
Dafydd Moore, ‘Conflict as Reminiscence in the poems of Ossian’
Robert Jones, ‘Battle Fields: Chatterton’s Bloody Pastoral’
Friday 25 July 9:30-11:00
Wordsworth’s Conflicted Imagination (B209)
Chair: Emma Mason
James Disley, ‘The “Disputed Tracts” of The Borderers’
John Cole, ‘Conflicting Imaginations: Wordsworth in Two Minds in The Prelude’
Gavin Edwards, ‘Semantic Conflict: “Accident” in Wordsworth’
Industry, Commerce, and the Economy (B212)
Chair: Adeline Johns-Putra
Robert Clark, ‘Sense, Surveillance and the Rural Poor: Managing Conflict in 1795’
Stewart Crehan, ‘Romantic “Anti-Economism”: Romanticism and Bourgeois Political Economy’
Sharon Setzer, ‘”Pond’rous Engines” in “Outraged Groves”: The Environmental Argument of Anna Seward’s “Colebrook Dale”’
Slavery, Decadence and Liberalism (B213)
Chair: Jackie Labbe
Emma Clery, ‘Progress vs. Decadence in Mansfield Park: The Regency Afterlife of the Eighteenth-Century Feminisation Debate’
Diego Saglia, ‘Mediterranean Unrest: Romantic Drama of the 1820s and Revolutions in the South’
H.J.K Jenkins, ‘”Gothic” British Comment on Caribbean Conflict in the 1790s’
Conflicting Discourses (B214)
Chair: Susan Matthews
Rieko Suzuki, ‘Mary Shelley’s Valperga: A Site of Conflict’
Jane Hodson, ‘The Wrongs of Language in Wollstonecraft’s Maria’
Helena Bergmann, ‘”I am neither a philosopher nor a heroine”: Mary Hays’s Fictionalisation of the Conflict Between Reason and Romance’
William Blake’s Illustrations to The Divine Comedy (Physics Lecture Theatre)
(panel organized by Morton Paley)
Chair: Morton Paley
David Fuller, ‘Blake and Dante’
Antonella Braida, ‘The Iconology of War and Conflict in Blake’s Illustrations of the Inferno’
Rosamund Paice, ‘”He eyed the serpent and the serpent him”: Struggling with the Serpents in Blake’s Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy’
Morton Paley, ‘Opposition and/or True Friendship? Dante, Blake, and the Figure of Beatrice’
Friday 25 July 2:30-4:00
Generic Conflict (B209)
Chair: Paul Cheshire
Felicity James, ‘Nether Stowey, Summer 1797: Exploring the Site of Romantic Conflict’
Mary-Ann Constantine, ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Iolo Morganwg and the Politics of English Pastoral’
Candice El Asmar, ‘Monstrous Pretty’
Modernity (B212)
Chair: John Whale
Shirley Dent, ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Blake?’
Gavin Budge, ‘Third Way Wordsworth: Romanticism and the Conflicts of Social Modernity’
Anxiety and Influence (B214)
Chair: Mark Sandy
Jonathon Shears, ‘”No, no, go not to Lethe”: Keats and the Burden of the Mystery’
Sally West, ‘”To him my tale I teach”: The Legacy of Coleridge’s Mariner in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound Volume’
Simon Kövesi, ‘Conflicts between John Clare's “I” and “eye”: Egotism and Ecologism’
Domesticity and the Feminine (B213)
Chair: Vivien Jones
Debnita Chakravarti, ‘Memory and Imagination: Examining Core Conflicts in Mary Tighe’s Psyche’
Markus Poetzsch, ‘Nesting in Grasmere: Intimations of Intimate Immensity’
Caroline Franklin, ‘Class and Gender Conflict: Helen Maria Williams’s “Tale of Perourou the Bellows Mender”’
Friday 25 July 4:30-6:00
Savagery, Nature and Science (B214)
Chair: Karen O’Brien
Padma Rangarajan, ‘”This Well-Ordered Island”: Locating the Savage in Romanticism’
Sharon Ruston, ‘”Natural enemies in science, as well as in politics”: Romanticism and Scientific Conflict’
Sue Chaplin, ‘”In the beginning, all the world was America”: Nature, Gender, Race and Law in Romantic-Era Writing’
Wars of Words: The Periodical Press (B209)
Chair: Roger Sales
Angela Wright, ‘History or Gothic Tale? The After-Life of the Abbé Barruel’s The History of the Clergy During the French Revolution in the British Periodical Press’
Dennis Low, ‘”I have neither time nor taste, for new literary gossip”: Southey’s Senility and the Periodical Press’
Paul Keen, ‘Ragged Enlightenment: The Cheap Weekly Magazines, 1816-1821’
Religion (B212)
Chair: Michael John Kooy
Emma Mason, ‘“Affectionate without disquietude”: Unruffling Wordsworth’
Mary Hurst, ‘Byron, Butler and Southey: Courtesy, Catechism and Conflict’
Adrianne Wadewitz, ‘The Overdetermining Religious Rhetoric(s) of Blake’s and Paine’s Theosophies’
Insanity and Violence (B213)
Chair: Michael Rossington
Keri Davies, ‘Richard Gough: Scholar, Antiquary, and Man of Violence’
Paul Cheshire, ‘”Brawlers for Jesus”: William Gilbert’s Romantic Inversion of Missionary Zeal’
Andrew Amend, ‘Insanity and Uncertainty as the Results of Conflict in Wordsworth’s The Borderers’
Saturday 26 July 9:30-11:00
Conflicting Selves/Conflicting Locations (B213)
Chair: Jane Moody
Mark Sandy, ‘”God-Like Exercise”: Nietzschean Conflict and Self-Creation in Keats’s Hyperion Fragments’
Tom Mole, ‘Conflicting Models of Reading in Childe Harold, “Canto Three”’
Steve Clark, ‘Chatterton and the Location of Memory’
The Battlefield (B212)
Chair: Diego Saglia
Michael John Kooy, ‘Romantic Militarism: Coleridge, Barbauld, Wordsworth’
Michael Rossington, ‘”Metropolis of a ruined Paradise”: Percy Shelley and the Neapolitan Revolution of 1820’
The Body (B209)
Chair: Sharon Ruston
Sarah Wootton, ‘Friend or Foe? Shelley’s Elegy to the Competition’
Mark Mossman, ‘Reading Conflict in John Keats: Romanticism, Disability, and the Postmodern Body’
Julie Donovan, ‘Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Conflict of the Colonized Body in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl’
Aesthetics (B214)
Chair: Simon Kövesi
Beatriz González Moreno, ‘Aesthetic Conflict Under Serpentine Appearances’
James Thain, ‘Stasis and Dynamics: Description and Narrative in Wordsworth’s Early Landscape Poetry’
John Williams, ‘William Crowe’s “Lewesdon Hill” and William Wordsworth’s The Ruined Cottage: The Legacy of 17th Century Republican Conflict in Two Late Eighteenth Century Poems’
Pictures of War and Death (Physics Lecture Theatre)
Chair: Philip Martin
Philip Shaw, ‘The Dead Soldier: Joseph Wright and the Culture of Sentiment’
Luisa Calé, ‘Virtual Wars: The Battle of the Nile Across Visual Media’
David Mannings, ‘James Ward’s “Bulls Fighting”’
Saturday 26 July 11:30-1:00
Confused Genres/Contested Labels (B214)
Chair: Angela Wright
Jason Rudy, ‘Lyric Binding: Felicia Hemans’
Michelle Cheyne, ‘”Une guerre de cadaver à fantasme”: Paradigms of Poetic Conflict in the Debate over Romanticism (1813-1831)’
Katherine Astbury, ‘When the Heart No Longer Prevails Over Hierarchy: Social Divides and the Rise of Romantic Tendencies in the French Sentimental Tale 1770-1830’
Real and Represented Selves (B209)
Chair: Julie Raby
Adeline Johns-Putra, ‘The Self-Made Hero: The Epic Poet in Wordsworth, Byron and Keats’
Benjamin Colbert, ‘”How subjects also cut off heads of Kings!”: Wolcot’s Radical Louisiad (1794-96) and the Figure of “Peter Pindar” in Regency Satire’
Blake’s Structural Antagonisms (B212)
Chair: David Worrall
Laura Rutland, ‘Intellectual and Corporeal War in Blake’s The Four Zoas’
Magnus Ankarsjo, ‘”And they Twain shall Be One Flesh”: Reconciliation and Eternal Battle in Blake’s The Four Zoas’
Catalin Ghita, ‘Visionary Antagonism: Blake’s Artistic Structure’
Romanticism, Counter-Revolution and the Radical Public Sphere I (Physics Lecture Theatre)
(panel organized by Ian Haywood)
Chair: Paul Keen
Kevin Gilmartin, ‘Forging a Counterrevolutionary Public’
Jon Mee, ‘Burke’s Revolutionary Enthusiasm and the Danger of Transparence’
Adriana Craciun, ‘Mary Robinson and the Radical Public Sphere’
Respondent: Anne Janowitz
Nation, Nationalism, and Oppression (B213)
Chair: Nichola Trott
Maire Ni Fhlathuin, ‘Poetic and Prosaic Images: Conflicting Visions of India in the Work of Emma Roberts’
Cathryn Charnell-White, ‘Internal Strife: North Wales vs. South Wales in the Bardic Vision of Iolo Morganwg’
Tim Burke, ‘The Literary Fund and the Nationalisation of Genius’
Sunday 27 July 11:30-1:00
Romanticism, Counter-Revolution and the Radical Public Sphere II (B209)
(panel organized by Ian Haywood)
Chair: Jane Hodson
David Worrall, ‘Censorship at Covent Garden: T.J.Dibdin’s Two Farmers and the 1800 Artificial Famine’
Susan Matthews, ‘”Another, and another and another”: Hannah More, conservatism, reproduction, and anxiety’
Ian Haywood, ‘Sensational Politics’
Respondent: Anne Janowitz
Conflict, Femininity and the Woman Writer (B212)
Chair: Nora Crook
Lisa Vargo, ‘The Aikins and the Godwins: Notions of Conflict in Writings by Anna Barbauld and Mary Shelley’
Marie Mulvey-Roberts, ‘Brides of Frankenstein: Romantic Conflict in the Making of the Woman Writer’
Picturing War (B213)
Chair: Philip Shaw
Philip Martin, ‘History in the Making: Turner, Byron and the Heroic Aesthetic’
John Bonehill, ‘”The reeking plains of Flanders”: Rumours of War in Graphic and Literary Satire of the mid-1790s’
Cian Duffy, ‘”A magnificent and enlightened science”: Thomas De Quincey’s “On War”’
Duels and Vendettas (B214)
Chair: Simon Bainbridge
Nicola Trott, ‘Antagonism Between Writers and Reviewers’
Roger Sales, ‘Hot Blood; Literary Duels’
Jane Moody, ‘Romantic Censors’