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BARS2017
ROMANTICIMPROVEMENT
27TH–30THJULY2017
KING’SMANOR,
UNIVERSITYOFYORK
CONFERENCEPROGRAMME
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Registration9am–2pm,King’sManorK/123(HuntingdonRoomanteroom)
Theregistrationdeskwillremainopenforenquiriesanddayregistrationsthroughouttheconference.
Welcome11am–11:15am,BoothamSchool
PLENARY111:15am–12:30pm,BoothamSchool
CatherineHall(UniversityCollegeLondon)
‘TheTasteforImprovement:ColonialJamaicaintheLateEighteenthCentury’ Chair:JoannadeGroot(UniversityofYork)
Lunch12:30pm–1:30pm,DeGreyRooms
PARALLELPANELSSESSIONA1:30pm–3pm,variousroomsinKing’sManor
A1:ImprovementinAusten’sNovelsI Room:K/133Convenors:IvanOrtiz(UniversityofSanDiego)&EmilyRohrbach(UniversityofManchester)Chair:IvanOrtiz JoeMorrissey (CoventryUniversity) ‘NeedleworkinMansfieldPark:NarrativeStyleand
DomesticImprovement’
EmmaClery(UniversityofSouthampton) ‘“Astateofalteration,perhapsofimprovement”:JaneAusten’sEnglandafterthewar’
RitaJ.Dashwood(UniversityofWarwick) ‘CreatorsofSpaces:SingleWomenandDecorationinJaneAusten’sSenseandSensibility’
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A2:Mines,Mills,andMountains:ProductiveLandscapesinRomantic-eraToursofScotlandandWalesRoom:K/159Chair:NigelLeask(UniversityofGlasgow)KirstyMcHugh(UniversityofWales)
‘“Awildandsolitaryspot”:TheMarshalls,theWordsworthsandhometourism’
AlexDeans(UniversityofGlasgow) ‘“ABotanistwouldsurelymakesomediscoveriesinthisplace,whichaboundswithshadydens”:softlandscapesandlocalknowledgeintheHighlandtour’
Mary-AnnConstantine(UniversityofWales) ‘“Banefulinfluence”&“mineralfavours”:metal,slateandcoalmininginRomantic-eraWelshtours
A3:Wordsworth,Coleridge,andtheEnvironmentRoom:K/122Chair:TessSomervell(UniversityofLeeds)JacobLloyd(UniversityofOxford) ‘“Reflectionssuchasmelioratetheheart”:Natureas
MorallyImprovinginCowperandColeridge’
CarlMcKeating(UniversityofLeeds) ‘Coleridge,NapoleonandMontBlanc–ASearchforPolitical,PhysicalandEmotionalImprovement’
AlexandraHankinson(UniversityofSydney) ‘ADarwinianFlight:ColeridgeandtheTransitionfromVegetabletoInsectLife’
MatthewWard(UniversityofBirmingham) ‘SoundImprovements:Wordsworth’sListeningtotheEnvironment’
A4:Labouring-ClassPoetryRoom:K/111Chair:TimFulford(DeMontfortUniversity)BridgetKeegan(CreightonUniversity) ‘Thepoetasbookseller:labouring-classpoetsinthe
printtrade’
SteveVan-Hagen(CoventryUniversity) ‘JamesWoodhouse’sTheLifeandLucubrationsofCrispinusScriblerusandtheIm/PossibilityofImprovement’
JosefinaTuominen-Pope(UniversityofZürich) ‘JohnClare,Education,andtheImprovementofGenius’
ChristyEdwall(UniversityofOxford) ‘Clare'sImprovements’
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A5:ImprovingtheColonialMind:LiteraryCultureinColonialAustralia,SouthAfricaandtheStraitsSettlementsRoom:K/G33Convenor:PorschaFermanis(UniversityCollegeDublin)Chair:HonorRieley(UniversityofOxford)SarahComyn (UniversityCollegeDublin) ‘TheDiffusionofUsefulKnowledgeintheColonies:
VictorianMechanics’Institutes,1854-1870’
NathanGarvey(UniversityCollegeDublin) ‘JudiciousImprovement:LiteraryPatronage,Philanthropy,andtheLegalFraternityinColonialNewSouthWales’
PorschaFermanis(UniversityCollegeDublin) ‘ThePleasuresoftheText:ImprovementandLiteraryAppreciationinColonialSingapore,1820-1860’
LaraAtkin(UniversityCollegeDublin) ‘Nolongeradisunited,waveringandtemporaryassemblageofadventurers':SettlerNewspaperPoetryandtheMakingofColonialIdentityin1820sSouthAfrica’
A6:IllustratedBooksRoom:K/GO7Chair:AnthonyMandal(CardiffUniversity)MaximiliaanVanWoudenberg(SheridanInstituteofTechnology)
‘ImprovingtheRomanticText?TheVisualAfterlivesofRomanticWorksinVictorianIllustratedBooks’
HelenStark(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon) ‘AnIllustratedAfterlife:WilliamGodwin’sEssayonSepulchres’
NaomiBillingsley(UniversityofManchester) ‘TheambitionoftheMacklinBible(1800)’
RachaelKing(UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara) ‘“Noideaofimprovement”:LandscapeGardeninginManuscriptandPrint’
A7:MediatingtheFrenchRevolutionRoom:K/157Convenor:KoenraadClaes(GhentUniversity)Chair:IanHaywood(UniversityofRoehampton)KoenraadClaes(GhentUniversity) ‘“AReassuringPicture”?:TheFrenchRevolutioninthe
Lady’sMagazineandtheLady’sMonthlyMuseum’
TielkeUvin(GhentUniversity) ‘More(’s)Watts:Watts’sDivineSongs(1715)asaCheapRepositoryTract(1795)’
JasperSchelstraete(GhentUniversity) ‘TheBullionReportintheEdinburghandQuarterlyReview’
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A8:ImaginingtheCityRoomK/155Convenor:AlisonO’Byrne(UniversityofYork)Chair:CatrionaKennedy(UniversityofYork)AlisonO'Byrne(UniversityofYork) ‘CitiesofCultureandCommerce’
MariaKalinowska(UniversityofWarsaw)JenniferOrr(NewcastleUniversity)
‘TheGreatCitiesofEastandWestEuropeintheEyesofPolishRomantics’‘EnlightenedUlster,RomanticUlster:PrintJournalsinEarlyUnion-EraBelfast’
Tea/Coffee3pm–3:30pm,King’sManor
PARALLELPANELSSESSIONB3:30pm–5pm,variousroomsinKing’sManor
B1:ImprovementinAusten’sNovelsIIRoom:K/133Convenors:IvanOrtiz(UniversityofSanDiego)&EmilyRohrbach(UniversityofManchester)Chair:RitaDashwood(UniversityofWarwick)MarkCanuel(UniversityofIllinoisatChicago) ‘TheQuandariesofPleasureinEmma’
EmilyRohrbach(UniversityofManchester) ‘IdeasofImprovementandtheCounterfactual
ImaginationinEmma’
AndrewMcInnes(EdgeHillUniversity) ‘HowtoTeachGirlstoResistBeingTaughtaLesson:CounteringImprovementinEmmaandClueless’
IvanOrtiz(UniversityofSanDiego) ‘SelfieswithEmma:JaneAusten’sSocialMedia’
B2:GlobalBurneysIRoom:K/159Chair:FrancescaSaggini(UniversityofTuscia)RuthScobie(UniversityofSheffield) ‘“AndJemmtoOtahieta”:TheBurneyfamilyinthe
SouthPacific’
DanWaterfield(UniversityofCambridge) ‘“AfixedandmostprejudicedhatredofwhateverisnotEnglish.”CaptainMirvan,MadameDuval,andthelimitsofBritishnessinFrancesBurney’sEvelina’
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B3:CulturesofImprovementinScottishRomanticismRoom:K/122Chair:NigelLeask(UniversityofGlasgow)AlexBenchimol(UniversityofGlasgow) ‘ScottishConstitutionalImprovementandtheNational
PublicSphere:DiscoursesofReformintheCaledonianMercury,1782-83’
GerardLeeMcKeever(UniversityofGlasgow) ‘“Thegreatmoralobject”:DramaticImprovementinJoannaBaillie’sPlaysonthePassions’
MichaelMorris(LiverpoolJohnMooresUniversity) ‘The“ProblemofSlavery”intheAgeofImprovement:RobertOwen,NewLanarkandtheCottonConnections’
B4:Wordsworth,Coleridge,andthe1790sRoom:K/111Chair:MatthewWard(UniversityofBirmingham)EliasGreig(UniversityofSydney) ‘RegenerationofOurCommonCountry:Wordsworth,
Gerrald,andtheConventionofSalisburyPlain’
AngusLedingham(YaleUniversity) ‘TragicUtopianisminWordsworth’sBorderers’
SharonTai(DurhamUniversity) ‘“bybriefwrong/MakingTruthlovely”:Progressfrom“ReligiousMusings”toChristabel’
ChristopherStokes(UniversityofExeter) ‘Unquietprayers:DisquietingUnitarianisminColeridge’sPoetry’
B5:BiographyandLife-WritingRoom:K/G33Chair:EmmaMajor(UniversityofYork)NickMason(BrighamYoungUniversity) ‘MoralImprovement,TextualDesecration,and
RepurposingtheSpiritualDiaryofWordsworth'sNieceinPioneer-EraUtah’
AlexisWolf(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon) ‘Formsofimprovement:readingthe“Originaljournalsof‘Kitty’Wilmot”’
SarahFaulkner(UniversityofWashington) ‘PrintedPersonas:ImprovingRomanticWomenWriters’
SusanCivale(CanterburyChristChurchUniversity) ‘The“Form”ofImprovementinMaryHays’sFemaleBiography(1803)’
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B6:ReadingArchitecturalImprovementsinRomanticBritainRoom:K/G07Convenor:DaleTownshend(ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity)Chair:JimWatt(UniversityofYork)PeterLindfield(UniversityofStirling) ‘RomanticImprovement:TheExtension,Elaboration
andGothicisationofEatonHall,Cheshire’
AmyFrost(Beckford’sTowerArchivesandLibrary) ‘ImprovingNature,InnovatingClassicismandReimaginingHimself:WilliamBeckfordinBath’
DaleTownshend(ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity)
‘ArchitecturalImprovementandRomantic-EraLiterature,1790–1820’
B7:Manufacturing,Commerce,andEconomicImprovementRoom:K/157Chair:SimonKövesi(OxfordBrookesUniversity)TomRusbridge(UniversityofSheffield) ‘TakingStock:LeatheranditsInnovatorsintheLong
EighteenthCentury’
PatrickVincent(UniversityofNeuchâtel) ‘CommonSenseandAle:Cobbett,Clareandthe1830BeerAct’
PaulStephens(UniversityofOxford) ‘ColeridgeandtheEthicsofIndebtedness’
B8:LiteraryCircles,UsefulKnowledgeandNetworksofImprovementRoom:K/155Convenor:CarmenCasaliggi(CardiffMetropolitanUniversity)Chair:EmilyBowles(UniversityofYork)CarmenCasaliggi(CardiffMetropolitanUniversity) NetworksofImprovementandtransnational
Sociabilityin‘theHouseofAllEurope’
SusanMatthews(UniversityofRoehampton) ‘“UsefulKnowledgeGossip”andthe“SpiritofImprovement”:ArthurMalkin’sGalleryofPortraits’
KyleGrimes(UniversityofAlabamaatBirmingham) ‘FromDivisiontoDebate:PercyShelley,WilliamHone,andtheIdeologicalFunctionofLiteraryCircles’
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ComfortBreak5pm–5:15pm,King’sManor
PARALLELPANELSSESSIONC5:15pm–6:45pm,variousroomsinKing’sManor
C1:TheDialecticofImprovementRoom:K/133Convenor:AnthonyJarrells(UniversityofSouthCarolina)Chair:JonMee(UniversityofYork)ChristinaLupton(UniversityofWarwick) ‘TimeforImprovement’
AnthonyJarrells(UniversityofSouthCarolina) ‘TheValueofImprovement’
AlexanderDick(UniversityofBritishColombia) ‘IdeasofImprovement’
C2:GlobalBurneysIIRoom:K/159Chair:FrancescaSaggini(UniversityofTuscia)StephenAceWillier(TempleUniversity) ‘TheBurneys,Pacchierotti,andtheGordonRiotsof
1780’
BarbaraWitucki(UticaCollege) ‘MadameFrancesBurneyd’ArblayinFrance:TwoPerspectives’
EugeniaZuroski(McMasterUniversity) ‘“AmphibiousFemales”:CosmopolitanChangeabilityintheNovelsofFrancesBurney’
C3:TheMechanic,theLabourer,thePeasant:Literature&theImprovementoftheLabouring-ClassesRoom:K/122Convenor:SimonKövesi(OxfordBrookesUniversity)Chair:SteveVan-Hagen(CoventryUniversity)SimonKövesi(OxfordBrookesUniversity) ‘“Theilluminationofthepeasantmind”:whattodo
withtheRomanticpeasant?’
JohnGardner (AngliaRuskinUniversity) ‘ConundrumsoftheWorkshops,1823’
MeikoO’Halloran(NewcastleUniversity) ‘LabouringinOtherWorlds:TheEttrickShepherdandtheEpic’
DavidStewart(NorthumbriaUniversity) ‘AllanCunninghambetweentheFineandtheCoarseArts’
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C4:ImprovingBooksRoom:K/111Chair:AlexWatson(NagoyaUniversity)CasieLeGette(UniversityofGeorgia) ‘PruningPoems:Quotation,Co-operation,and
ImprovedRomanticism’
FrancescaKavanagh(UniversityofMelbourne) ‘SpoilingtheBook:AnnotationandAppropriationasImprovement’
BeatriceTurner(UniversityofRoehampton) ‘[W]etranslatewordsintothings,andbooksintomen’:Biography,relationalfeeling,andthelimitsofpoetryinHazlitt’scriticism'
C5:AnimalandHumanBodiesRoom:K/G33Chair:RuthScobie(UniversityofSheffield)RichardDeRitter(UniversityofLeeds) ‘Exhibiting“theVariousWondersofourGlobe”:
ImprovementandBemusementintheLeverianMuseum’
KerrySinanan(NationalUniversityofIreland,Galway)
‘ImprovingPlantations?RepresentationsofBreastfeedingandMaternityinSlavery’
JuliaCarlson(UniversityofCincinnati) ‘SensoryImprovement:TactileMapsandBlindTravelers’
C6:The(twenty-first-century)LivesofHesterThralePiozzi:Recovery,Form,ImprovementRoom:K/G07Convenor:ElizabethEdwards(UniversityofWales)Chair:CassieUlph(BishopGrossetesteUniversity)ElizabethEdwards(UniversityofWales) ‘MixingMisery…withMagnificence:HesterPiozzi’s
hometourism’
EmilyFriedman(AuburnUniversity) ‘PiozziAmongtheUnpublished:Contextualizing“UnaandDuessa”asmanuscriptfiction’
MaschaHansen(UniversityofGreifswald) ‘ImprovingtheManuscriptof“TotheLadies”:H.L.Piozzi’sStruggleswiththeVoiceofAuthority’
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C7:Fiction,Improvement,andEmpireRoom:K/157Chair:JimWatt(UniversityofYork)DanielRoberts(Queen’sUniversityBelfast) ‘FromtheRuinsofEmpire:ImprovementandDecayin
CharlesJohnston’sTheHistoryofArsaces(1774)’
DanaVanKooy(MichiganTechnologicalUniversity) ‘TheDiminishingReturnsofModernImprovements:SanctioningSlaveryandDepreciatingNatureintheNewWorld’
ChristopherEwers ‘ThomasLovePeacockandHeadlongHall’
C8:ImprovingPerformancesRoom:K/155Convenor:JamesGrande(King’sCollegeLondon)Chair:DavidFallon(UniversityofSunderland)JonathanHicks(NewcastleUniversity) ‘TheResoundingFameofFingal’sCave’
OskarCoxJensen(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon) ‘OfSightandSound,or,RealisingTheEnraged
Musician’
JamesGrande (King’sCollegeLondon) ‘RadicalHaydn:ImprovingMusicinthe1790s’
WineReception6:45pm–9pm,King’sManorK/123(HuntingdonRoomanteroom)
LeStrange&Maxim:Lyrical(Power)Ballads
BARSBookPrize2017(Chair:NigelLeask)Bursaryawards
LeStrange&Maxim:NowThat'sWhatICallColeridge!1983
Friday28thJuly
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–FRIDAY28THJULY–
PARALLELPANELSSESSIOND9:30am–11am,variousroomsinKing’sManor
D1:IllegitimateTheatreI:Context,PerformanceandMaterialCulture.ATributetoJaneMoodyRoom:K/133Chair:GregKucich(UniversityofNotreDame)SerenaBaiesi(UniversityofBologna) ‘Theatreis“apleasureformostsocialkind”:
illegitimateperformancesaspersonalenjoymentandsocialimprovementinLeighHunt’sreviews’
LillaMariaCrisafulli (UniversityofBologna) ‘ElizabethInchbald’sTheMogulTale:orhowtodeflatediscoursesofnationalism’
CarlottaFarese(UniversityofBologna) ‘IllegitimateTheatricals:Comedyand/asnovelfromInchbaldtoAusten’
D2:EcocriticismIRoom:K/159Chair:JeremyDavies(UniversityofLeeds) JoannaWharton(UniversityofYork) ‘“Livingwaters”:ChristianityandMaterialismin
PriestleyandBarbauld’
SusanOliver(UniversityofEssex) ‘RocksandHardPlaces:RomanticismandtheAgencyofStone’
DavidHiggins (UniversityofLeeds) ‘ColonialImprovementandtheCatastrophicAssemblage:WritingTambora’
D3:MutualImprovements:Form,Fashion,Fiction,theFemaleReaderandTheLady'sMagazineRoom:K/122Convenor:JennieBatchelor(UniversityofKent)Chair:GillianDow(UniversityofSouthampton)ChloeWigston-Smith(UniversityofYork) ‘TheLady’sMagazineandDIYFashion’
JennieBatchelor(UniversityofKent) ‘Improvingforms:Improvementsin/andTheLady’s
Magazine’
JennyDiPlacidi(UniversityofKent) ‘ImprovingFictions:TheLady’sMagazineandtheCultureofLiteraryImprovement’
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D4:ShelleytheImprover/ImprovingShelleyRoom:K/111Chair:AnnaMercer(UniversityofYork)JonQuayle(NewcastleUniversity) ‘Writinga“poeticalPisgah”:PercyShelley’sUtopian
Poetry’
MaddyCallaghan(UniversityofSheffield) ‘“Theseedsaresleepinginthesoil”:LaonandCythnaandthePoet’s“Improvement”oftheReader’
TomMole(UniversityofEdinburgh) ‘ImprovingShelleyinVictorianSermons’
D5:PostgraduateandEarlyCareerWorkshopRoom:K/G33Roundtablediscussion:‘TakingtheNextStep:GettingPublishedandGettingaJob’Theworkshopshouldbeofinteresttoanyoneattheearlystagesoftheircareer–whetherinthefirstyearoftheirPhDorafewyearspost-viva–andparticularlytothosewhowantajobintheeducationalsector.Subjectsthatarelikelytobeexploredinclude:howtolookbeyondtheacademy;jobapplications;therolesandpublicationsthatemployersvalue;theREFandTEF.Contributorswillinclude:JamesGrande(King’sCollegeLondon)SimonKövesi(OxfordBrookesUniversity)MatthewSangster(UniversityofGlasgow)TessSomervell(UniversityofLeeds)HelenStark(QueenMary,UniversityofLondon)JoannaTaylor(LancasterUniversity)BeatriceTurner(UniversityofRoehampton)MatthewWard(UniversityofBirmingham)D6:ScottandGaltRoom:K/G07Chair:EmmaMajor(UniversityofYork)JamesMorris(UniversityofGlasgow) ‘The“CosmopolitanBorder”inWalterScott’sSaint
Ronan’sWell(1823)’
KazumiKanatsu(DoshishaUniversity) ‘IllusionandDisillusionmentofImprovementinJohnGalt’sTheMemberandTheRadical’
NickyLloyd(BathSpaUniversity) ‘Sympathy,Historyandthe“progressofcivilisation”inWalterScott’sTheBrideofLammermoor’
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D7:TheNovelandMis/EducationRoom:K/157Chair:EmmaClery(UniversityofSouthampton)Li-chingChen(NationalUniversityofKaohsiung) ‘“AKnowledgeoftheUseful”:EconomyinMaryHays’s
FamilyAnnals,ortheSisters’
OliviaLoksingMoy(CityUniversityofNewYork) ‘MiseducationandImprovementintheGothicWorksof“MotherRadcliffe”andMatthew“Monk”Lewis’
TomokoNakagawa(UniversityoftheSacredHeart,Tokyo)
‘Beautyof“Mind”andBeautyin“Person”:Self-EducationandImprovementinMansfieldParkandFrankenstein’
D8:CrimeandPunishmentRoom:K/155Chair:JonMee(UniversityofYork)AllisonTurner(UniversityofChicago) ‘GeneralPopulation:JohnHoward'sPrisonReform’
RachelSulich(UniversityofLeeds) ‘TheLanguageofReformandRebuke:TheAnti-
SuicideDebateofthe1790s’
FionaMilne(UniversityofYork) ‘Storiesofprogress:literaryandlegalcharacterintheScottishseditiontrialsof1793-4’
Tea/Coffee
11am–11:30am,King’sManor
ShortwalktoBoothamSchool
PLENARY2:TheStephenCopleyLecture11:45am–1pm,BoothamSchool
JaneRendall(UniversityofYork)
‘FemaleImprovers:Women,PhilanthropyandBorderCrossings’
Chair:CatrionaKennedy(UniversityofYork)
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Lunch1pm–1:45pm,DeGreyRooms
BARSBGM
1:45pm–2:45pm,King’sManor(RoomK/133)
PARALLELPANELSSESSIONE2:45pm–4:15pm,variousroomsinKing’sManor
E1:IllegitimatetheatreII:Context,PerformanceandMaterialCulture.ATributetoJaneMoodyRoom:K/133Chair:KeirDouglasElam(UniversityofBologna) FabioLiberto (UniversityofBologna) ‘“Thedramatist&physicianareclosely,almost
inseparably,allied”:ShakespeareandtheRomanticimprovementofscience’
DiegoSaglia(UniversityofParma) ‘LondonThings:materiality,thecityandmodernityinCharlesDibdin’sillegitimatetheatre’
FrancaDellarosa(UniversityofBari) ‘EnvisioningtheIllegitimate:ALondonStreetScene’
E2:EcocriticismIIRoom:K/159Chair:KateRigby(BathSpaUniversity)KateScarth(DalhousieUniversity) ‘London’sGreenGeographies:TheCaseofJohn
Thelwall’sThePeripatetic’
TessSomervell(UniversityofLeeds) ‘“TheIllimitableWaste”:Wordsworth’sDreamsofDeluge’
ErinLafford(UniversityofOxford) ‘“Yourvilefennyatmosphere”:Clare,Ecocriticism,andtheMedicalHumanities’
E3:Women,Writing,andMoralReformRoom:K/122Chair:KevinGilmartin(CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology)JulietShields(UniversityofWashington) ‘MaryBrunton’sImprovingFictions’
KerriAndrews(EdgeHillUniversity) ‘HannahMore'sImprovements’
JessicaLim(UniversityofCambridge) ‘Governingchildrenand(in)famousgibbets:Mary
MarthaSherwoodandtheEvangelical“correction”ofchildren’sbooks’
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E4:MaryShelleyRoom:K/111Chair:DeborahRussell(UniversityofYork)PaulineLiang(ChineseUniversityofHongKong) ‘“PoliticalEuthanasia”inMaryShelley’sValperga’
AnnaMercer(UniversityofYork) ‘MaryShelley’sroleintheconstructionofPercy
ByssheShelley’sprose1814-1817:TheAssassinsandHistoryofaSixWeeks’Tour’
CesarSoto(UniversityofNotreDame) ‘Deism,Perfectibility,andRedemptioninMaryShelley’sTheLastMan(1826)’
CatherineRedford(UniversityofOxford) ‘RevisionsandRevisitings:MaryShelleyasEditor’
E5:ApologyfortheLiteraryPursuitsofPhysiciansRoom:K/G33Chair:JonMee(UniversityofYork)FusonWang(UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside) ‘Wordsworth,Jenner,andtheMedico-LiteraryCase
Study’
ChristineWoody(UniversityofPennsylvania) ‘“Suchacrazybodyasmine”:PerformingtheinfirmbodyinBlackwood’sEdinburghMagazineandtheLondonMagazine’
ClarkLawlor(NorthumbriaUniversity) ‘“Thehistoryoffashionsinphysicwouldbealmostthehistoryofphysicitself”:representingmedicalprogressinHenrySouthern’sLondonMagazine,1825-26’
E6:GothicInnovationsRoom:K/G07Chair:OliviaLoksingMoy(CityUniversityofNewYork)RaynaRosenova(UniversityofSofia) ‘GothicAestheticsinMaryRobinson'sLyricalTales’
CorrinaReadioff(UniversityofLiverpool) ‘“[A]kindofslumber”:Epigraphs,Sleep,andSublimity
inAnnRadcliffe’sTheMysteriesofUdolpho(1794)’
LucianaColucci(UFTM,Brazil) ‘TheVisionaryHoraceWalpole:ManofLetters,TastesandIdeas’
YaelShapira(Bar-IlanUniversity) ‘IntheFootstepsoftheMinervaNovelist’
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E7:TheCirculationofJamesHoggintheNineteenth-CenturyWorldRoom:K/157Convenor:SuzanneGilbert(UniversityofStirling)Chair:JamesMorris(UniversityofGlasgow)SuzanneGilbert(UniversityofStirling) ‘JamesHogg:ContributionstoInternational
Periodicals’
AdrianHunter(UniversityofStirling) ‘HoggandTransatlanticReprinting’
BarbaraLeonardi(UniversityofStirling) ‘TheReceptionofJamesHoggaroundtheWorldintheRomanticPeriod’
DuncanHotchkiss(UniversityofStirling) ‘Innovatingtheshortstory:Hogg,theperiodicalpressandtheculturalcircuitofEmpire’
E8:Classicallearning,EducationalReformsandEducationalImprovementRoom:K/155Chair:CarmenCasaliggi(CardiffMetropolitanUniversity)MariaSchoina(AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki) ‘“HappywhilestudyingGreek”:TheShelleysand
ClassicalLearning’
RobertA.Davis(UniversityofGlasgow) ‘PerfectCitiesofProduction:RomanticResponsestotheEducationalReformsofRobertOwen’
MaximiliaanvanWoudenberg(SheridanInstituteofTechnology)
‘EducationalImprovementandtransculturalNetworks:BritishCoteriesandtheUniversityofGöttingen’
Tea/Coffee4:15pm–4:45pm,King’sManor
PARALLELPANELSSESSIONF
4:45pm–6:15pm,variousroomsinKing’sManorF1:Use-ValuesRoom:K/133Chair:JonKlancher(CarnegieMellon)JonathanSachs(ConcordiaUniversity) ‘UselessRocks’
PaulKeen(CarletonUniversity) ‘“GladEnlightenment”:LeighHunt'sRadical
Humanism’
KevinGilmartin(CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology) ‘Hazlitt’sUses’
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F2:Air/Clouds/WaterRoom:K/159Chair:SusanOliver(UniversityofEssex)ElisaHammond(UniversityofBristol) ‘OftheImprovementofAir:Wordsworth,Coleridge
andErasmusDarwin’
EmilySenior(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon) ‘RomanticClouds:Events,Objects,Phenomena’
DanielEltringham(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)
‘WaterasCommonNatureintheLandscapeofAgrarianImprovement’
F3:ByronRoom:K/122Chair:MatthewSangster(UniversityofGlasgow)MichaelSimpson(Goldsmiths,UniversityofLondon) ‘BringingtheBooktoMarket;BringingtheMarketto
Book:WordsworthandByron,rectoandverso’
MarcinLeszczyński(UniversityofWarsaw) ‘ImprovementandDegenerationinByron'sPoetry’
MichaelFalk(UniversityofKent) ‘HowNottoImprove:“MoralDerangement”inTomMoore’sLifeofByron’
F4:WollstonecraftRoom:K/111Chair:JaneMoore(CardiffUniversity)LauraKirkley (NewcastleUniversity) ‘RousseauvianAlter-Egos:ThePoliticsofPedagogical
ImprovementintheworksofFélicitédeGenlisandMaryWollstonecraft’
ShirleyTung(KansasStateUniversity) ‘WollstonecraftianProgress:AMaternalEthicofCareintheScandinavianWilderness’
ElizaO'Brien(NewcastleUniversity) ‘MaryWollstonecraftandthePrisonerof“Progress”’
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F5:TheatresofImprovementRoom:K/G33Chair:FrancaDellrosa(UniversityofBari)YasserKhan(UniversityofOxford) ‘“AmINotABrotherandaMan”:TheHumanitarian
RevolutionandSlaveryinBritishSentimentalDramaintheLateEighteenthCentury’
OrianneSmith(UniversityofMaryland,BaltimoreCounty)
‘ImprovingUponAdamSmith:JoannaBaillie’sWitchcraftandtheDemonizationofDomesticity’
SarahBurdett (UniversityofWarwick) ‘ImprovingbyRemoving:NeutralisingtheThreatoftheMartialWomaninJohnPhilipKemble’sLoveinManyMasks(1790)andElizabethInchbald’sNextDoorNeighbours(1791)’
F6:Poetry/Performance/ProtestRoom:K/G07Chair:JamesGrande(King’sCollegeLondon)CaitlinKitchener(UniversityofYork) ‘“SeetheConqueringHeroComes”:TheRadical
LandscapesofHenryHuntandImprovement’
AlisonMorgan(UniversityofWarwick) ‘“SongoftheSlaughter”:thePoetryandMusicofPeterloo’
F7:ImprovementandGenreRoom:K/157Chair:MarianneBrooker(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon)TimMilnes(UniversityofEdinburgh) ‘HappyNonentities:TheRomanticEssayandthe
ProgressofSentiments’
BillHughes(UniversityofSheffield) ‘“Baseanddegeneratelanguage”:genreandtherationalvoiceinJohnThelwall’sTheDaughterofAdoption’
SabinaAkram (AngliaRuskinUniversity) ‘Areflectiveswansong:theuseofgenreinRobertSouthey’sTheDoctor,&c(1834)’
Friday28thJuly
19
F8:ScottishInnovationRoom:K/155Chair:DanielCook(UniversityofDundee) JulieWatt(independentscholar) ‘SusanEdmonstoneFerrier:The“ScottishAusten”’
JohnOwenHavard(BinghamtonUniversity) ‘ImprovingBoswell’
DuncanHotchkiss(UniversityofStirling) ‘JamesHogg,Blackwood’sEdinburghMagazineandthe
counter-reformistpoliticsofRomanticprintculture’
FridayEveningInformalsocialeventsincluding:
PostgraduatesocialatWalmgateAleHousefrom7pm
Saturday29thJuly
20
–SATURDAY29THJULY–
PARALLELPANELSSESSIONG9:30am–11am,variousroomsinKing’sManor
G1:NASSRpanel–Affect,Effect,andRomanticImprovementRoom:K/133Convenor:MarkLussier(ArizonaStateUniversity)Chair:MaryFairclough(UniversityofYork)MarkLussier(ArizonaStateUniversity) ‘AffectiveTextualities:Blake’sMarriageandthe
Re/formationofSubjectivity’
KateRigby(BathSpaUniversity) ‘“Seasonofmistsandmellowfruitfulness”:AffectiveImprovement,ImprovingAffect’
AngelaEsterhammer(UniversityofToronto) ‘EducationandTextualExperimentinJohnGalt’sFiction’
G2:War,RevolutionandProgressRoom:K/159Convenor:IanHaywood(UniversityofRoehampton)Chair:CatrionaKennedy(UniversityofYork)IanHaywood(UniversityofRoehampton) ‘Thevirtuousmob:picturingthesecondFrench
revolution’
EmmaButcher(ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity) 'ReadingWarTraumainpost-NapoleonicMilitaryMemoirs'
NeilRamsey(UniversityofNewSouthWales,Canberra)
‘Warandthenationalistromance:TheUnitedServiceJournalandtheMilitaryTale’
G3:ShelleyanImprovements:Morals,Poetics,Science,andReceptionRoom:K/122Convenor:RossWilson(UniversityofCambridge)Chair:AnnaMercer(UniversityofYork)AlexFreer(UniversityofCambridge) ‘Shelley’s“experimentsinmorals”’
RossWilson(UniversityofCambridge) ‘ShelleyintheOvergrowth’
RowanBoyson(King’sCollegeLondon) ‘ShelleyandthePerfectionoftheAir’
MichaelRossington(NewcastleUniversity) ‘RichardMoncktonMilnes’sContributiontothe
ImprovedUnderstandingofP.B.Shelley’sWritingsintheNineteenthCentury’
Saturday29thJuly
21
G4:OutlookUncertain:ReconceptualisingthePastandProgressintheRomanticPeriodRoom:K/111Convenor:AndrewRudd(UniversityofExeter)Chair:DeborahRussell(UniversityofYork)AndrewRudd(UniversityofExeter) ‘CharitablePasts,UncharitablePresents:Medieval
CharityandtheThomasChatterton-HoraceWalpoleControversy’
NickGroom(UniversityofExeter) ‘ThinkingwithVampires:Medicine,Theology,andtheGothic’
JosephCrawford(UniversityofExeter) ‘“Come,BowYourSoulsBeforetheBard!”TheImperiouslyImprovingRomanticismofChaunceyHareTownshend’
DaisyHay(UniversityofExeter) ‘LivingwithTheNightmare:FragmentedHistoriesintheJohnsonCircle’
G5:PrintCultureandKnowledgeRoom:K/G33Chair:ChloeWigstonSmith(UniversityofYork)AnthonyMandal(CardiffUniversity) ‘FromLostLabyrinthstoRediscoveredNetworks:
GothicFictionandtheRomanticBookTrade’
MarianneBrooker(Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon) ‘“Thefirstbutterflytheory”:ApprehensionandFugitiveKnowledgeintheRomanic“antilibrary”’
GillianRussell(UniversityofMelbourne) 'BallooningandephemeralmedialityinEnlightenmentBritain:improvingthe"stockofknowledge"’
G6:Early-Nineteenth-CenturyCanadianLiteratureRoom:K/G07Chair:PaulKeen(CarletonUniversity)HonorRieley(UniversityofOxford) ‘RomanticismintheBackwoods:CanadianSettler
NarrativesandtheTransatlanticTimeLag’
GabrielCervantes(UniversityofNorthTexas) ‘PropertyandPrint:StephenBurroughsinGeorgiaandLowerCanada’
CynthiaSugars(UniversityofOttawa)andPaulKeen(CarletonUniversity)
‘HomeImprovements:AuthorsandAgencyinEarlyNineteenth-CenturyCanada’
Saturday29thJuly
22
G7:SunnySpotsofGreenery?GardensInspiredandInspiringRoom:K/157Chair:AlexWatson(NagoyaUniversity)KantaroOhashi(KobeUniversity) ‘ImaginationImproved:Buffon’sImplicitInfluences
onBritishRomanticism’
WakaIshikura(UniversityofHyogo) ‘J.C.Loudon,GreenSpaces,andSocialImprovement’
HirokoWashizu(UniversityofTsukuba) ‘DeathintheGarden’
G8:Anglo-SpanishImprovementsRoom:K/155Convenor:JonatanGonzález(UniversityofLaRioja)Chair:CesarSoto(UniversityofNotreDame)JonatanGonzález(UniversityofLaRioja) ‘“Allmoderntheatresareindebtedtohim”:Lopede
VegaandtheAnglo-SpanishNetworkofImprovementofHollandHouse’
SaraMedinaCalzada (UniversityofValladolid) ‘AdaptingtheBritishLiteraryAnnualtotheSpanish-SpeakingAudience:PossibilitiesofImprovementinJoséJoaquíndeMora’sNomeolvides(1824-1827)’
CristinaFloresMoreno(UniversityofLaRioja) ‘“Ourwalkwasfaramongtheancienttrees”:TheLegacyofBritishRomanticPedestrianPoetryinEarlyTwentieth-CenturySpanishVerse’
Tea/Coffee11am–11:30am,King’sManor
ShortwalktoBoothamSchool
PLENARY3:TheMarilynButlerLecture11:45am–1pm,BoothamSchool
NigelLeask(UniversityofGlasgow)
‘PhilosophicalVagabonds:Pedestrianism,PoliticsandImprovementontheScottishTour’
Chair:IanHaywood(UniversityofRoehampton)
Saturday29thJuly
23
Lunch1pm–1:45pm,King’sManor(Brownbaglunch)
Excursions1:45pm–6pm
CastleHoward:busleaves1:45pm;meetinKing’sManorcourtyardat1:30pm
FairfaxHouse:tourgroupmeetsatKing’sManorlodge,1:45pm
Walkingtour:tourgroupmeetsatKing’sManorgates,1:45pm
ConferenceDinner7:30pm–11:30pm,MerchantAdventurers’Hall
Quizcompère:JonMee(UniversityofYork)
Sunday30thJuly
24
–SUNDAY30THJULY–
PARALLELPANELSSESSIONH9:30am–11am,variousroomsinKing’sManor
H1:DigitalRomanticism:Newand/orImproved?Room:K/133Convenorandchair:FrancescaBenatti(OpenUniversity)FrancescaBenattiandDavidKing(OpenUniversity) ‘AlgorithmicCriticism,DistantReadingandthe
EdinburghReview’
MatthewSangster(UniversityofGlasgow) ‘RevivifyingRomanticLondon:DigitalTransformationsasAmbivalentImprovements’
JoannaTaylor (LancasterUniversity) ‘RomanticMapsandDigitalCartographies’
JustinTonra(NationalUniversityofIreland,Galway) ‘RoomforImprovement:theDigitalRomanticScholarlyEdition’
H2:Ballad/Song/NationRoom:K/159Chair:JimWatt(UniversityofYork)JeffStrabone(ConnecticutCollege) ‘Wordsworth’sBardicHistoryofEngland’
DanielCook(UniversityofDundee) ‘TheLayoftheLastMinstrelandBardicImprovement’
GenaMcNutt(UniversityofEdinburgh) ‘“Itisreallyanoblepoem”:MedievalEnglishMetrical
RomanceintheRomanticPeriod’
JaneMoore(CardiffUniversity) ‘NationalimprovementandThomasMoore’sSacredSongs(1816-24)’
H3:“Wiser,better,andhappier”:PursuingWordsworth’sHopesforImprovementthroughMuseumandUniversityPartnershipsRoom:K/122Chair:JeffCowton(WordsworthTrust)SimonBainbridge(LancasterUniversity) ‘RomanticImprovementthroughCollaboration?
ReflectingonthePartnershipbetweentheWordsworthTrustandLancasterUniversity’
AnnaFleming (UniversityofLeeds) ‘CreativeCommunities:WordsworthinGrasmereandLeeds’
JamesIllingworth(Queen’sUniversity,Belfast/NorthernBridge)
‘WordsworthCrossingthe“NorthernBridge”:TheRe-ImaginingIrelandwithWordsworthProject’
Sunday30thJuly
25
H4:JaneAusten'sRomantic‘Improvement’:HerRelationshipwithWertherism,D.H.Lawrence,andModernIllustrationRoom:K/111Chair:NoraCrook(AngliaRuskinUniversity)OkamotoYoshie(YasudaWomen'sUniversity) ‘AustenandWertherism:IsGivingWaytoBadMoods
aCrime?’
YamanouchiRie(KobeCityCollegeofNursing) ‘D.H.Lawrence’s“DaughteroftheVicar”:AParodyofPrideandPrejudice’
HisamoriKazuko(FerrisUniversity) ‘Listeningtowhat“thewordevokes”:JulietMcMaster'sIllustrationofTheBeautifullCassandra’
H5:KeatsRoom:K/G33Chair:DanaVanKooy(MichiganTechnologicalUniversity)GregKucich(UniversityofNotreDame) ‘Keats,theHyperionPoems,andtheGendered
ProblemofProgress’
AndreaTimár (EötvösLorándUniversity) ‘“Increasingstorewithloss,andlosswithstore”:Keats,Shakespeare,andtheElginMarbles’
AlexBroadhead(UniversityofLiverpool) ‘ImprovingonBiography?KeatsasLiberalHumanistMessiahinContemporaryFiction’
H6:Translation/Mediation/RetrospectRoom:K/G07Chair:MaryFairclough(UniversityofYork)MelanieHacke(UniversityofLeuven) ‘“WhatWeUnderstandbyTranslation”:TheReception
ofAncientGreekOratoryintheEdinburghReviewandtheQuarterlyReview’
GlenBrewster(WestfieldStateUniversity) ‘“Ontherackofpleasureandoffense”:HenryCrabbRobinsononColeridge’sLectures’
BrechtdeGroote(UniversityofLeuven/UniversityofGhent)
‘“AGrossandDisastrousAnachronism”:RecoveringLate-RomanticCosmopolitanism’
Tea/Coffee
11am–11:30am,King’sManor
Sunday30thJuly
26
PARALLELPANELSSESSIONI11:30am–1pm,variousroomsinKing’sManor
I1:TimeandtheEndofTimeRoom:K/133Convenor:StephenBygrave(UniversityofSouthampton)Chair:JoannaWharton(UniversityofYork)LauraDavies(UniversityofCambridge) ‘OrderingandShapingTimeintheLongEighteenth
Century’
StephenBygrave(UniversityofSouthampton) ‘“Symbolic”,“Literal”andTemporal:SomeKindsofProphecy’
EmmaMajor(UniversityofYork) ‘“Respectingthedragon:JamesBicheno,ProphecyandProgress
I2:TravelsinIndiaandPersiaRoom:K/159Chair:DanielRoberts(Queen’sUniversityBelfast)AlexWatson(NagoyaUniversity) ‘ImperialRuins:IndianRuinsinBritishRomantic-
PeriodTravelWriting’
MáireníFhlathúin(UniversityofNottingham) ‘TheruinwritingoftheEastIndiaCompany’
JoannaDeGroot(UniversityofYork) ‘Iranian-EuropeanContactZones,c.1780-1830’
I3:ReadingforImprovementRoom:K/122Chair:AnthonyMandal(CardiffUniversity)JillDye(UniversityofStirling) ‘ReadingReligion:Booksandborrowersfromthe
LibraryofInnerpeffray1762-1854’
PhilippHunnekuhl(UniversityofHamburg) ‘Informalimprovement:CrabbRobinson’sautodidacticismanditsinfluence’
DavidFallon(UniversityofSunderland) ‘MaryRobinsonandtheImprovingEnvironmentofHookham’sBookshopandLibrary’
Sunday30thJuly
27
I4:LegaciesandAfterlivesRoom:K/111Chair:AlexBroadhead(UniversityofLiverpool)TomToremans(UniversityofLeuven)
‘SpectresofScott:thePseudotranslationalAfterlifeoftheGreatUnknown’
EmilyBowles(UniversityofYork)
‘ImprovingontheRomanticsinTheLifeofCharlesDickens’‘
MichelleO'Connell(UniversityCollegeDublin)‘“HeroineWorship”AfterDeath:HemansinthePress’
I5:DavidBowieasRomanticImprovementRoom:K/G33Convenor:MatthewSangster(UniversityofGlasgow)Chair:HelenStark(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon) BeatriceTurner(UniversityofRoehampton)EmlyBernhardJackson(UniversityofExeter)JoannaTaylor(LancasterUniversity)MatthewSangster(UniversityofGlasgow)
‘“They’requiteawareofwhatthey’regoingthrough”:HunkyDory’s“PrettyThings”andrejectingRomanticchildhood’‘TheReturnoftheThinWhiteDuke:DavidBowieasDescendantofLordByron’‘SpaceOddities:RomanticSpatialitiesandDavidBowie’sContainedExpansions’‘“ICan’tGiveEverythingAway”:DavidBowieandPost-RomanticArtisticIdentity’
I6:WilliamBlakeRoom:K/G07Chair:JonMee(UniversityofYork)LucyCogan(UniversityCollegeDublin) ‘Improvement,ProphecyandFuturityinthePoetryof
WilliamBlake’
JoshuaSchoutendeJel(PlymouthUniversity) ‘WilliamBlake’sMillenarianism:theProgresstowardsaPersonalApocalypse’
AmadeusKang-PoChen(UniversityofEdinburgh) WilliamBlake'sEroticResonancesandInnovationsinVisionsoftheDaughtersofAlbion
Sunday30thJuly
28
Lunch1pm–2pm,King’sManorK/123(HuntingdonRoomanteroom)
**Pleasenotethevenue**
ShortwalktoBoothamSchool
PLENARY42pm–3:15pm,BoothamSchool
JonKlancher(CarnegieMellon)
'ScalesofImprovement'
Chair:MaryFairclough(UniversityofYork)
ClosingRemarks3:15pm–3:30pm,BoothamSchool
CoverImage:‘MarchofIntellect’byPaulPry(WilliamHeath).Credit:WellcomeLibrary,London.UsedunderCCby4.0,croppedfromoriginal.