Programme

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We are delighted that the Nichol Seminar has attracted such a rich range of presentations. This page provides information about the keynote speakers and lists all of the speakers whose papers have been accepted in alphabetical order, along with the titles of the papers. Each title is linked to its abstract, but the abstracts are all on a single page for those who would prefer to print and read the whole list at leisure. Those who register for the conference will receive a printed copy of the abstracts as part of the conference information packet to be distributed at the conference.

Full draft programme showing all the panels and speakers

Plenary Speakers:

Peter Knox-Shaw (U of Cape Town), author of Jane Austen and the Enlightenment (2004) and The Explorer in English Fiction (1986), as well as numerous articles on eighteenth-century and modernist literature. Peter will deliver the Bamforth lecture on "Hume's Philosophy of Natural History, its Context, and Aftermath."

Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA), president-elect of ASECS and author of The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century (2003), Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire (1995), and The Autobiographical Subject (1989). She is co-winner of the prestigious Louis Gottschalk Prize.

Ruth Perry (MIT), author of the well-received Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Culture and Literature 1748-1818 (2004), as well as The Celebrated Mary Astell (1986), Mothering the Mind: Twelve Studies of Writers and Their Silent Partners (1984), and Women, Letters and the Novel (1980).

David Porter (Michigan), author of Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe (2001) and an important essay, "Monstrous Beauty: Eighteenth-Century Fashion and the Aesthetics of the Chinese Taste" in Eighteenth-Century Studies (2002). He is currently working on a new book entitled Chinoiserie and Aesthetic Accommodation in Eighteenth-Century England and will be coming to New Zealand from research leave in China.

In addition, Stuart Sherman (Fordham) has agreed to serve as conference respondent, teasing out strands of relations across the variety of papers delivered and offering his personal insights into the overall theme of the conference. Sherman is the author of the Gottschalk-prize winning Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785 (1996) and co-editor of the Restoration and eighteenth-century volume of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.

Alphabetical List of Speakers:

Assoc. Prof. Chris Ackerley, University of Otago
Beyond the Last Ditch: Shades of Swift in Samuel Beckett's "Fingal"

Dr. Seyed Majid Alavi, Islamic Azad University of Tabriz
Shared Spheres, Unique Identities: The Eighteenth Century and Persian Literary Influences

Prof. Christine Alexander, University of New South Wales
The Gothic in Lady Susan: Jane Austen's Early Novel Experiment

Dr. Doreen Alvarez Saar, Drexel University
A Colonial Makes Good: Crevecoeur's Letters

Prof. Peter Anstey, University of Otago
The Experimental History of the Understanding from Locke to Sterne

Ms. Erin Jane Atchison, University of Edinburgh
The Taste o' the Toun: Robert Fergusson and Italian Music in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh

Prof. Annette Baier, University of Pittsburgh and University of Otago
David Hume's Deathbed Reading

Prof. Barbara Benedict, Trinity College, Connecticut
Ironic Things: Collecting Cultures in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Ms. Liz Bradtke, University of Melbourne
Wollstonecraft, Imagination and Feminism's Backward Glance

Ms. Fiona Brideoake, Australian National University
The Coy Scene" of Sapphic Sociability: Anna Seward's "Llangollen Vale

Prof. Hueikeng Chang, National Taiwan University
Life of Savage as a Fable of the Subversive Other

Dr. William Christie, University of Sydney
Twilight of the Godless: The Unlikely Friendship of Francis Jeffrey and Thomas Carlyle

Dr. Roger Collins and Prof. Robert Hannah, University of Otago
Through Classical Eyes: Piron's Illustrations to d'Entrecasteaux's Voyage

Prof. Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University
Labeling the Lowest of Landscapes: Rewriting Underground Wonders as Sites of Extreme-and Usually Scientific-Tourism

Dr. Baerbel Czennia, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen
The Many Deaths of a British Mariner: From Anna Seward's "Elegy on Captain Cook" to Robert Sullivan's "Captain Cook in the Underworld"

Prof. Lennard Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rethinking Foucault, Madness, and the Enlightenment

Dr. Joanna de Groot, University of York
Sexuality and the "Exotic": A Context for the Travels and Writing of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Dr Francesca di Poppa, Texas Tech University
Chasing Miracles Away: The Spinozan Roots, and the Limits, of Hume's Argument "Against Miracles"

Dr. Jennifer Dowling, University of Sydney
From Pierre to Zigmund: La Belle Maguellone Meets a New Audience

Dr. Melissa K. Downes, Clarion University
Rereading Crusoe and Rewriting the Erotic: Robinson Crusoe, Friday, and Erotic Possession

Prof. John Drummond, University of Otago
Transforming the Transformer: Changing Images of Handel in the Long Eighteenth Century

Ms. Alexandra Dumitrescu, University of Otago
Rereading William Blake: Intimations of Metamodernity

Prof. Chris Fauske, Salem State College
Nothing remarkable: The "Irish" pamphlets of Jonathan Swift

Prof. Jan Fergus, Lehigh University
Patrick O'Brian's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: Rewriting Jane Austen

Prof. John Gascoigne, University of New South Wales
Rites of Passage: James Cook, Religion and Pacific Cross-Cultural Contact

Prof. Penny Gay, University of Sydney
The Singing Actress in Legitimate Drama

Prof. William Gibson, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jestbook Humor and Picaresque Comedy in the Early Novels of Tobias Smollett

Prof. Brean Hammond, University of Nottingham
Double Falshood by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Adapted for the Eighteenth-Century Stage by Lewis Theobald

Dr. Melissa Jane Hardie, University of Sydney
Biloquism: Projecting Fact into Fiction from Charles Brockden Brown to Charley Ross

Prof. Jocelyn Harris, University of Otago
Towards a Taxonomy of Jane Austen's Intertextualities

Dr. Judith Hawley, Royal Holloway, University of London
Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy Rewrite The History of England

Dr. Nikki Hessell, Massey University
Beyond Lilliput: Samuel Johnson's Parliamentary Reports and the Print Culture Marketplace

Ms. Michelle Hetherington, National Museum of Australia
Putting a Face to the Name: Portraits of the Eighteenth-Century Hero as Captain James Cook

Prof. Philip Horne, University of London
"A palpable imaginable visitable past": Henry James and the Eighteenth Century

Dr. Ingrid Horrocks, Massey University
Imagining a New Prospect: Movement from Thomson to Goldsmith

Dr. Christina Ionescu, Mount Allison University
Claiming Visual Agency in Eighteenth-Century Venice: The Figure of the Woman Artist in M. R. Lovric's Carnevale (2001)

Dr. Leyli Jamali, Islamic Azad University of Tabriz
Reading Defoe through Lacan

Ms. Olivera Jokic, University of Michigan
The Moor Woman Vanishes, or How Eighteenth-Century Fiction Shaped the Colonial Archive

Dr. Adrian Jones, La Trobe University
Telling Stories about a Battle

Dr. Donald Kerr, University of Otago
Dr. John Wolcot's Trade, Home and Abroad

Mr. Edmund King, University of Auckland
Alexander Pope's 1723-1725 Shakespear, Classical Editing, and Humanistic Reading Practices

Dr. Cynthia Klekar, Western Michigan University
Benevolence, Economy, and the Problem of the Gift in Adam Smith's Philosophy

Ms. Shino Konishi, University of Sydney
Re-Reading the Face: European Navigators and Indigenous Australians in the Eighteenth Century

Prof. Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia
Hieroglyphics of Desire

Dr. Susan Lamb, University of Toronto
First Contact, Captivity, and the Case of Gulliver

Prof. Helen Leach, University of Otago
Translating the Eighteenth-Century Pudding

Ms. Caitlyn Lehmann, University of Melbourne
Dancers at the Pantheon: Ballet and Fashionable Society in London c.1779

Dr. Kate Lilley, University of Sydney
Fruits of Sodom: Restoration Women's Poetry and Queer Reading

Prof. Harold Love, Monash University
Satiric Wells

Dr. Erin Mackie, University of Canterbury
The Perfect Gentleman: Boswell, Macheath, and Mr. Spectator

Prof. Robert Markley, University of Illinois
Adam Smith and the Sublime Object of Modernity

Dr. Lisa Marr, University of Otago
A Poet amongst the Rebels: Rewriting the 1798 Rebellion in Thomas Flanagan's The Year of the French

Dr. Matthew McCormack, University of Northampton, UK
Rethinking "Loyalty" in Eighteenth-Century England

Dr. Elaine McGirr, Royal Holloway, University of London
Un-natural Acting: From Colley Cibber to Hugh Grant

Ms. Karen McLean, University of Otago
Transformation and Transplantation: Coleridge on Travel, Publicity and Personality

Dr. Thomas McLean, University of Otago
Sardanapalus and his (C)zarina: Byron and Russia

Dr. Jennifer Milam, University of Sydney
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Garden Design

Mr. Tim Milfull, Queensland University of Technology
Thomas Whaley-Facts into Fiction

Ms. Olivia Murphy, University of Oxford
From Pammydiddle to Persuasion: Jane Austen Rewriting Eighteenth-Century Literature

Dr. Nancy November, University of Auckland
Instrumental Arias Or Sonic Tableaux: Voice In Haydn's String Quartets Opp. 9 And 17

Dr. Bridget Orr, Vanderbilt University
The Nation's Past on an Imperial Stage: English History Plays, 1714-1780

Dr. Dianne Osland and Dr. Marea Mitchell, University of Newcastle
Using Rewritings in the History of Reading: The Case of Shamela

Dr. Ali Uzay Peker, Middle East Technical University
European Inhabitance in Ottoman Travellers' Accounts

Dr. Charles Pigden, University of Otago
David Hume and the Concept of 'Deduction' in the Eighteenth Century

Prof. Clive Probyn, Monash University
Representing the Public Intellectual: Edward Said's Reading of Jonathan Swift and Others

Ms. Gillian Prowse, Harvard University
"The Age of Anon": Johnson Rewrites the Name of the Author

Mr. Neil Ramsey, Australian National University
Rewriting War: British Military Memoirs and the Nation in Arms

Ms. Anna Reglinska-Jemiol, University of Gdansk
Writings about Dance and Dance Writing and-a Few Remarks on Dance Source in the Eighteenth Century

Ms. Fiona Ritchie, McGill University
Rewriting the Theatre History of the Eighteenth Century: My Experience of Curating an Exhibition on Johnson and the Theatre

Prof. William Rivers, University of South Carolina
Rewriting the Early Craftsman's Success: Amhurst's Roles as Chief Essayist and Journalist

Dr. Shef Rogers, University of Otago
Cancels Less in Sight: Revisioning the Bibliographical Context of Pope's "Rape of the Locke"

Dr Mary Rooks
Unconventional Authorings: Genre, Form, and Function in the Works of Sarah Fielding

Dr. Sarah Ross, Massey University
"Friendless and helpless, I'me exposed here": Mary Astell's Collection of Poems (1689)

Dr. Scott Roulier, Lyon College
John Locke and the "Too Long" Eighteenth Century

Ms. Laura Ruch, Macquarie University
Confidants, (Bad) Advisers, and Talking to the Maid: Imparting, Recognizing, and Gaining Wisdom in Eliza Haywood's Novels

Dr. Gillian Russell, Australian National University
"Canonized adultery": Sarah Siddons in The Stranger (1798)

Prof. Peter Sabor, McGill University
Frances Burney's Court Journals and Letters, 1786-1791: Restoring the Text

Ms. Nina Serebrianik, University of Texas at Dallas
Serpents, and Wizards, and Princes, Oh My!: Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and the Folktale

Dr. Douglas Simes, University of Waikato
Political Infighting, Scurrilous Journalism and the End of an Era: The Tory Press and the Downfall of the Wellington Administration in 1830

Ms. Christina Smylitopoulos, McGill University
Rewritten & Reused: Imaging the Nabob through "Upstart Iconography"

Dr. W. Dean Sutcliffe, University of Auckland
"A Thousand Agreeable Sensations": Boccherini and Sociability

Dr. Peter Swaab, University College London
Rethinking Patriotism and Cosmpolitanism in the Romantic Period: Wordsworth and Coleridge

Dr. Paul Tankard, University of Otago
Hester Thrale on Johnson: Literally Writing in the Literal Margins

Dr. Arbaayah Ali Termizi, Universiti Putra Malaysia
A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in the Eighteenth Century

Assoc. Prof. Heidi Thomson, Victoria University of Wellington
Neither Augustan nor Romantic: the Poet of Sensibility in Coleridge's "Monody on the Death of Chatterton"

Prof. Connie C. Thorson and Prof. James L. Thorson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Uncensored News from the Popish Plot Era: Narcissus Luttrell's Unpublished Collection

Prof. Paul Turnbull, Griffith University
Charles White (1728-1813), an Early Apostle of Race?

Prof. Ann Van Sant, University of California, Irvine
Crusoe's Hands: Georgic Labor in Non-Poetic Forms

Prof. Hans-Peter Wagner, UniversitŠt Koblenz-Landau
Reading Hogarth in the Twenty-First Century

Assoc. Prof. Kathryn Walls, Victoria University of Wellington
Rewriting Dampier: Swift's "Rhetorical Narrative"

Dr. Rowland Weston, University of Waikato
William Godwin's Historical Drama

Dr. Barbara Witucki, Utica College
The Other Life of Theagenes and Charicleia in Eighteenth-Century France

Dr. Eugenia Zuroski, University of Arkansas
Chinoiserie and Aestheticism: Rewriting British Subjectivity