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Session 1:Thursday, 26 July
13:30-15:00
Waves of Revolution, Echoes of Revolution.
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A Special Session sponsored by the European Romantic Review
Session Convenor: Frederick Burwick
1. Heike Grundmann (University of Munich) Orientalism and Irish Nationalism; Thomas
Moore’s “Lalla Rookh” and Sydney Owenson’s “Missionary”
2. Anita O'Connell (University of Durham) Deep Rolling Chords of Revolution in De
Quincey's "The Dream-Fugue"
3. Alexandra Böhm (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) “The crocodile does not change, but
all things else do” Revolution and the acceleration of time in Thomas De Quincey’s English
Mail Coach and Ernst Moritz Arndts’ Der Geist der Zeit
The Theatre of Freedom: Liberty and Emancipation on Stage (1750-1830) Panel I
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Session Convenor: Diego Saglia
1. Giovanna Silvani (Università di Parma, Italia) Black and White Female Slaves on the
Long Eighteenth-Century Stage
2. Carlotta Farese (Università di Bologna) August von Kotzebue in European Culture of the
Romantic Period: Ideology, Reception and Biographical Myths
3. Annamaria Sportelli (Università di Bari, Italia) Liberating Naples: Masaniello and “the
brutal populace of a great town”
Whose Freedom?
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Session Convenor: Christoph Bode
1. Christoph Bode (LMU Munich) Whose Freedom? Kant's Anthropology and the
Universality of the Enlightenment
2. Sebastian Domsch (LMU Munich) Language and the Edges of Humanity: Orangutans
and Wild Girls in Monboddo and Peacock
3. Anthony Howell: (University of Swansea) "But I have no country” Does Freedom Extend
to the Romantic Gypsy?
Taking Liberties: William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, William Godwin
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1. Peter Allender (University of Bristol) "Culture Wars": Freedom of Expression and The
Examiner
2. Stephen Cheeke (University of Bristol) Hazlitt and the Louvre
3. Tim Webb (University of Bristol) Assassins of Truth: William Godwin and the Hazards of
Free Speech
Economics and Commerce
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1. Angela Esterhammer (University of Zurich) Free to Improvise: The Economic Tactics of
the Extemporizing Poet in European Fiction
2. Paul Keen (Carleton University) "This Erudite Swine": The Learned Pig and the Reading
Nation
3. Sharon Twigg (Marquette University) Freedom of Contract? Testing the Justice of
Economic and Moral Obligations in T.R. Malthus and William Wordsworth
Europe
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1. Marshall Brown (University of Washington) Libertinism and the End of Enlightenment:
Don Giovanni with Hegel
2. Dennis Low (Independent Scholar) “A power so organized, so subtle, so complete”:
Romanticism and the Invisible Hand of the Illuminati, 1787-1829
Race
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1. Michael Bradshaw (Manchester Metropolitan University) Imagining Egypt: the Singularity
of Landor’s Gebir
2. Jim Watt (University of York) Despotism and Liberty in the Novels of Robert Bage
3. Earnestine Jenkins (University of Memphis) John Northcote's Portrait, Head of a Negro in
the Character of Othello: Painting “Race” in Early Nineteenth Century European Art
The South West
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1. Dafydd Moore (University of Plymouth) Patriotism, Politics and Politeness in the South
West of England, 1789-1800
2. Morton D Paley (University of California, Berkeley) Washington Allton’s Bristol
Exhibition
3. Alan Vardy (City University of New York) Joseph Cottle’s “Recollections” and
Coleridge’s Forgetfulness
Southey
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1. Benjamin Colbert (University of Wolverhampton) Romantic “Enfranchisement” and the
Condition of Travel in Southey’s Letters from England (1807)
2. Juan Sanchez (University of Notre Dame) Liberating Spain and Freeing Europe:
Robert Southey and the Politics of an Iberian Poetics
3. Zak Sitter (Xavier University) The Languages of Compulsion and Liberation in
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Southey’s The Curse of Kehama
Women and Education
1. Greg Kucich (University of Notre Dame) Charlotte Smith and the Political Uses of
Women’s Educational History
2. Jennifer Martin (Northeastern University) “To prepare, not to bring about revolutions:”
Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Artistic and Literal Rearing of the Romantic Citizen, between
Hymns in Prose for Children and “Sins of Government, Sins of a Nation; or a Discourse
for the Fast, Appointed on April 19, 1793” (Barbauld);
3. Amy Culley (Queen Mary, University of London ) A revolutionary subject: Helen Maria
Williams and the politics of collective memory
Session 2 Thursday, 26 July
15.30-17.00
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The Theatre of Freedom: Liberty and Emancipation on Stage (1750-1830) Panel II
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Session Convenor: Diego Saglia
1. Gioia Angeletti (Università di Parma, Italia) “To all those whose sympathetic tears
can flow … Or who can laugh a fool or fop to scorn”: Staging Colonial Critique and
Scottish Wit in Archibald Maclaren’s The Negro Slaves
2. Thomas C. Crochunis (Shippensburg University, USA) Women Playwrights and
Dramatic Spaces: Locating Historical Tragedy’s Venues and Politics
3. Diego Saglia (Università di Parma, Italia) ‘“Patrician accusation and democratic
triumph”: Virginius, Rome and Liberty on the 1820 Stage
Visual Freedoms
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Session Convenor, Luisa Calè
1. Ian Haywood (Roehampton University, London), “Her name was Hope - but she
looked more like Despair”: political violence, national crisis, and the iconography of
female distress in Romantic popular culture.
2. Daniel O'Quinn (University of Guelph), Ficus indica: William Hodges and the Ghostly
Face of Company Rule
3. David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University), Gillray at Covent Garden: Bonds without
Judgment; or, The Loves of Bengal
William Blake: Gender, Sexuality and Non-violence
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1. Emily Bernhard-Jackson (University of Arkansas) Bloody Globes and Pregnant
Nostrils: Freedom, Gender and the Body in William Blake’s The Four Zoas
2. Glen Brewster (Westfield State College) William Blake and Sexuality:
Androgyny, Hermaphroditism, and the “Human Form Divine”
3. Keri Davies (Nottingham Trent University) “A tongue to drown the throat of war!”:
Blake and non-violence
Popular Culture
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1. Mary Fairclough (University of York) “It is … not being answerable for one’s opinions
one’s-self… that is the reason of the violence of mobs, the veniality of courts, and
the corruption of all corporate bodies.” Free will and the crowd in Regency England.
2. John Strachan (University of Sunderland) Neoclassicism in Romantic-Era Sporting
Literature
3. Abigail Lundelius (University of South Carolina) Felicia Hemans: Subversive Hymnist
Percy Bysshe Shelley – Emancipatory Politics
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1. Laura Jane Barlow (University of Liverpool) '”Impress as from a seal”: Politics,
Culture and Print in Shelley's “Ode to Liberty”
2. Brian Goldberg (University of Minnesota) Shelley, Priestley, and the Radical Afterlife
3. Rieko Suzuki (Columbia University) “The loathsome mask has fallen”: The Influence
of Leigh Hunt’s Descent of Liberty on P. B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
Acts of Liberation: Warfare, Revolution and Romantic Modernity
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1. Graciela Iglesias Rogers (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) Romantic Liberators: British
Volunteers in the Spanish Army during the Peninsular War
2. Neil Ramsey (Australian National University) Wars of Liberation and the British
Romantic Writer
3. Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University, Montreal) Staging Rome: Between
Democracy and Empire
Race
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1. Hilary Fezzey (Purdue University) The Biopolitics of Race in Edgeworth’s “Belinda”
and Opie’s “Adeline Mowbray”
2. Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia) Environmental
Determinism and Aboriginal Agency in William Richardson’s The Indians, A Tragedy
3. Paul Youngquist (Penn State University) “The African Queen”
Periodicals 1
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1. Kim Wheatley (College of College of William and Mary) Hazlitt’s Attacks on William
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Gifford: Transcending the “Age of Personality.”
Kathryn Ready (University of Winnipeg) The Aikin Family and the Legacy of Rational
Dissenting Sociability in Romantic Periodical Culture
Aesthetics, Influence and Tragedy in Mary Shelley and P. B. Shelley
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1. Allison Dussane (Duke University) P.B. Shelley’s Developmental Aesthetic:
Organicism, Agency and Freedom in Queen Mab and The Triumph of Life
2. Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Universite de Montreal) The Influence of Staël on Mary
Shelley, or the Rise of the ‘Romantic’ Hero
3. Dana Van Kooy (University of Colorado) Acting Out the Unspeakable: Shelley’s
Cenci and the Play for Legitimacy
Session 3 Friday, 27 July
9:30-11:00
Religion and Censorship
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Convenor: Murray Pittock
1. Murray Pittock (University of Manchester)Popery and Slavery: the discourse of slavery
in 1745 and 1798
2. Alan Rawes (University of Manchester) The uneradicable taint of sin': Byron, Scottish
Calvinism and Freedom
3. Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford) Freedom in Obscurity?
Bristol’s Robert Southey I
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Session Convenor: Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Chair: Lynda Pratt
1. Elisa Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh) Between Bristol and Lisbon: Southey’s
Foreign Travels and Border Crossings in Thalaba the Destroyer
2. Dan White (University of Toronto) Robert Southey’s The Curse of Kehama and the
Museum of the Bristol Baptist Academy
3. Rania Chatsiou (University of Wales, Swansea) Liberation vs. Containment of the
Romantic Sublime in Robert Southey’s The Curse of Kehama (1810)
Free Blake: Creation and Constraint
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Session Convenor: Angela Esterhammer
1. Erin M. Goss (Loyola College in Maryland) Circumscribing Freedom in Blake’s Book of
Urizen
2. Chris Bundock (Western Ontario) “Free to fall”: Creation, Freedom, and God’s
Suffering in Schelling and “The Book of Urizen”
3. Peter J. Otto (Melbourne), “Reasonings like vast Serpents / Infold around my limbs”:
Reason, Passion, Imagination and the Body of Freedom
Lamb
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1. David Higgins (University of Leeds) Charles Lamb, Freedom, and Romantic Exoticism
2. Simon Hull (University of Bristol) Lameness, Enclosure, and the Domesticated
Flâneur: Charles Lamb and the Self-emancipating Self
3. Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths, University of London) Liberties in the Library: The
Lambs Deranging the Books
Waves of Revolution, Echoes of Revolution. Panel 2
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A Special Session sponsored by the European Romantic Review
Session Convenor: Frederick Burwick
1. Noel Jackson (MIT) Reason to Lament: Revolution, Romanticism, and “Left-Wing
Melancholy”
2. Elizabeth Raisanen (UCLA) Post-Napoleonic liberal discourse in Mary Mitford's
Rienzi
3. Deborah Elise White (Emory University) Revolution and Romantic Irony: Marx, Engels
and The Great Men of the Exile
Emancipatory modes in Edmund Burke and William Godwin
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1. Helena Bergmann (University College of Borås) Emancipated “Lions in the Den”:
William Godwin and the Other Mary
2. Claire Connolly (Cardiff University) Edmund Burke and Irish Romanticism:
Aesthetics and Emancipation
3. Sue Chaplin (Leeds Metropolitan University ) A Supplement: William Godwin’s Case
for Justice
Gothic 1
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1. Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia) “Time presses”: Radcliffe, feeling,
mediation
2. Jeffrey Cass (University of Louisiana Monroe) Karl Kahlert’s “Horrid” Homosociety:
The Necromancer and the Queer Gothic
3. Mike Goode (Syracuse University) Northanger Abbey and the Interest of Boredom
The Caribbean
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1. Fran Botkin (Towson University) Liberating the "Terror of Jamaica"
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Josh Brewer (Purdue University) Caribbean Romanticism: Liberating the MetaArchipelago
3. Peter Kitson (University of Dundee) Fictions of Slave Revolt
Aboliton
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1. Kerri Andrews (University of Leeds) ‘“More’s polish’d muse, […] Yearsley’s muse of
fire”: bitter enemies write the abolition movement’
2. Rona Brown (University of Glasgow) “Why feels not man for man?”: Slavery and
Abolition in the Work of William Roscoe and James Currie
3. Brycchan Carey (Kingston University) Thomas Clarkson’s Curious Map of the Rise,
Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade
Landscape
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1. Julie Barst (Purdue University) Transporting the Picturesque: National and Imperial
Subjectivity Through the Claude Lorraine Glass
2. Julia Carlson (University of Cincinnati) Blank-Verse Technology and the Freeing of
Topographical Vision
3. Julia Wright (Dalhousie University) “This Vale of Tears”: Drennan’s “Glendalloch” and
Gothic Landscape
Session 4 Friday, 27 July
11.30-13.00
"Transatlantic Agitation" – Panel One
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Session Convenors: Robert Anderson and Jeffrey Insko
1. Robert Anderson & Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University) “The hourglass contemned”:
Time and Labor in Blake and Whitman
2. Harriet Kramer Linkin (New Mexico State University) William Blake and Lucy Hooper:
the Rights of Women Poets
3. Daniel Block (Brown University) Transatlantic Liberation from Bad Taste: Gifford,
Cobbett and the Della Cruscans
Bristol’s Robert Southey II
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Session Convenor: Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Chair: Elisa Beshero-Bondar
1. Carol Bolton (University of Nottingham) Robert Southey: Writing the Empire
2. Asya Rogova (St. Petersburg State University) Craving for Emancipation and
Freedom: Russian Themes in Robert Southey’s Poems and Letters and Perception of
His Works in Russia
3. Michael V. di Massa, (Yale University LSF) Robert Southey and T. B. Macaulay:
Historical Perspectives, Paradigms of Progress, and Colloquies on the Progress and
Prospects of Society
4. Bill Speck (University of Nottingham) Southey’s Letters
Liberating Medicine I: Medical Tropes
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Session Convenor: Tristanne Connolly
1. Hisao Ishizuka (Japan Women's University and Seikei University) Under Urizen’s Web:
William Blake and Enlightenment Nervous Medicine
2. Kimiyo Ogawa (Sophia University) An Organic Body Politic: Wollstonecraft's Historical
and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and John Brown's
Idea of Health
3. Clark Lawlor (University of Northumbria at Newcastle) Liberation and Consumption:
Disease, imperialism, and the conversion of the heathen in Felicia Hemans' "Edith. A
Tale of the Woods"
Romanticism and Liberalism:Theory
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Session Convenor: Alex Dick
1. Alex J. Dick (University of British Columbia) Romanticism, Liberalism, Criticism: An
Introduction
2. Chris Jones (University of Wales, Bangor) Godwin and Barbauld, Habermas and
Bakhtin: Hard and Soft Liberalism
3. Clifford Siskin (New York University) Liberalism, Gender, and The System: Freeing the
Political from Romanticism
Free Blake: The Language of Justice and Freedom
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1. Mark L. Barr (Vanderbilt) Trial by Aphorism: Justice and Freedom in Blake's Proverbs
of Hell
2. Annalisa Volpone (Perugia) Freedom vs Liberty: Blake’s emancipation(s) in Jerusalem
3. Julie Joosten (Cornell) Jerusalem and the Minute Particulars of Vision
Authority
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1. Michael Halley, Breaking the Law in America
2. Katey Castellano (James Madison University) Romantic Prophecy and Reactionary
Delineations of the Sacred
3. Alastair Hunt (University of Wisconsin—Madison) Declarations of Rightlessness
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Wordsworth
1. Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol) Wordsworth’s Literary Ignorance
2. Sarah Graham (Rice University) Liberating the ideologically inscribed adult:
Wordsworth, Emerson and the figure of the child
3. Robin Jarvis (University of the West of England) “Something without place or
bound”: The Meaning of “Stepping Westward”
Aboliton
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1. Janina Nordius (Goteburg University) Being “a party in oppression”: Slavery in
Charlotte Smith’s The Story of Henrietta
2. Kerry Sinanan (University of the West of England) “Now I’ll bless my cruel capture”:
Reading Voice in Women’s Abolitionist Poetry
3. Margaret Sloan (University of California, Santa Barbara) Feel Free to Thank Me:
Gratitude, Freedom, and Abolition in Maria Edgeworth’s Oeuvre
Gender
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1. Elaine Bailey (Queen's University in Kingston) Prettiness, Empowerment and the
"Poetess"
2. Lisa Kasmer (Clark University ) “The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best
men”: Lucy Aikin’s Epistles on Women
3. James Masland (UCLA) Robert Wedderburn: Creole Masculinity in the TransAtlantic Scene
Gothic Spectacle
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1. Luisa Calè (Birkbeck, University of London) “Black it stood as Night”: Visualising
Milton’s Death and Anxieties of Miscegenation
2. Anne McCarthy (City University of New York) Sublime Humiliations: Coleridge’s
Christabel
3. Deidre Gilbert (Cornell College) Fuseli and Baillie: A Nightmare for Both
Session 5 Saturday, 28 July
09.30-11.00
Liberating music
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Session Convenor: Marshall Brown (Professor, University of Washington
1. Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton) The Crisis of Musical Cognition and the
(Temporary) Triumph of Performance
2. Keith Chapin (Fordham University) From Absolute Music to Music of the Absolute: The
Aspiration of Music to Language
3. John T. Hamilton (Harvard University) “Nach tiefern Meolodien”: The Emancipation of
Music in Eichendorff’s Das Marmorbild
Liberating Medicine II: Madness
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1.Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow) James Hogg’s The Shepherd’s Calendar and the
Middle-ground of Madness
2. Michelle Faubert (University of Manitoba) Thomas Bakewell: Liberating Psychology
Through Poetry
3. Molly Desjardins (University of California, Irvine) Emancipating Idiots / Emancipatory
Idiocy
Free Blake: Visual and Performative Dimensions
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Session Convenor: Angela Esterhammer
1. Mei-Ying Sung (Houghton Library, Harvard University/Nottingham Trent University)
Liberated from Rossetti: Re-titling Blake’s “Hecate”
2. Diane Piccitto (Western Ontario) Blake and Drama: Freeing the “Visionary forms
dramatic”
3. Jason Whittaker (Falmouth), England’s Other Anthem: The Fight for “Jerusalem”
The Crisis of Phenomenology
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Session Convenor: Tilottama Rajan
1. David Clark (McMaster University) Schelling's Wartime
2. David Ferris (University of Colorado-Boulder) Unpresenting Law: Aesthetic Crisis in
Schiller's Politics
3. Josh Lambier (University of Western Ontario) The Organismic State Against Itself:
Schelling, Hegel and the Life of Right
Patronage, politics and agency in labouring-class poetry
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Session Convenor: John Goodridge
1. Scott McEathron (South Illinois University Carbondale) Robert Millhouse and the Royal
Literary Fund: Vocational Freedom and Labouring-Class Patronage
2. Bridget Keegan (Creighton University) Garden Plotting: Faith, Gender and Patronage
in James Woodhouse's Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus
3. Jon Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University) Patronage, politics and agency in
labouring-class poetry
Coleridge and Emancipatory Thinking
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Quentin Bailey (San Diego State University ) ‘Anarchy, confusion, and bloodshed’:
Coleridge, Francklyn, and the Abolitionist Movement
2. Murray Evans (University of Winnipeg) Coleridge’s Logic and the Opus Maximum:
Emancipatory Thinking?
3. Kiran Toor (Queen Mary and Westfield, University of London) Coleridge’s
(Play)giarisms, the Rhetoric of Slavery, and the Failure of Aesthetic Autonomy
Seward, Austen, Baillie
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1. Thomas McClean (University of Otago, New Zealand) Joanna Baillie: New Letters,
New Chronologies
2. Adam Rounce (University of Keele) Anna Seward’s Critical Raptures
3. Claire Lamont (University of Newcastle) Jane Austen and the Monasteries
Mary Shelley
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1. Caroline Franklin (University of Wales Swansea) Mary Shelley and free love
2. Peter Melville (University of Winnipeg ) Monstrous Ingratitude: Mary Shelley’s
Fugitive Turk
3. Lisa Vargo (University of Saskatchewan) Mary Shelley, Corinne, and “the mantle of
enthusiasm”
Europe
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1. Monika Coghen (Jagiellonian University, Krakó) “The Tree of Freedom is not the
Tree of Life”: Britain in the Polish Eyes between 1815 and 1863
2. Mary Orr (University of Southampton) Madame de Staël’s ethnographies in the
feminine: cosmopolitan “femmes de génie” and transnational character
3. Beyke Maas (University of Amsterdam) Nationalist discourse as a site of struggle:
young authors in the Netherlands 1820-1840
Canon
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1. Jeffrey Cox (University of Colorado) The Pantheon of Poets: Liberating the Canon
2. Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University) Romanticism and Book History: The New
Materialism
3. Kristin Wilcox (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Marketing Nightingales:
The Anthology and the Woman Writer
Session 6 Saturday, 28 July
11.30-13.00
Madame de Staël and the invention of `Romanticism`
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Convenor: Caroline Franklin, Professor, University of Wales, Swansea
1. Orianne Smith (University of Maryland) Freedom and Female Enthusiasm in De
Staël’s Corinne, ou L'Italie and De l’Allemagne
2. Michael Broers (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford) Stael de Vie: French views
of Italian womanhood in Napoleonic Italy
3. Naqaa Abbas (The University of Western Ontario) The Grief of Glory: Freedom and its
Discontents in Staël’s Corinne
Inventing the Wheels that Enslave
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Session Convenor: Marilyn Gaull
1. Marilyn Gaull (Boston University) Inventing the Wheels that Enslave
2. Richard C. Sha (American University) Transcendence as Ideology: Rethinking the
Romantic Imagination through Science
3. Michael Farrell (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) Blake's Night Thoughts and Newton
Charlotte Smith's Posthumous Works
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Session Convenor: Jacqueline Labbe
1. Anne Mellor (UCLA), 'The Baffling Swallow: Gilbert White, Charlotte Smith and the
Limits of Natural History'
2. Simon Bainbridge (University of Lancaster), title tbc
3. Jacqueline Labbe (University of Warwick), 'The absurdity of animals having the
passions and the faculties of man': Charlotte Smith's Fables
Romanticism and Liberalism, panel 2: Practice
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Session Convenor: Alex Dick
1. Stuart Allen (Auburn University) Liberal pleasures: Shaftesbury's hedonism
2. Brian Folker (Central Connecticut State U.) A “huge colossal constable”: Liberalism
and International Law in Joseph Fawcett’s The Art of War
3. Daisy Hay (New Hall, University of Cambridge) Liberalism, Liberality and the
liberales: Shelley, Byron, Hunt and The Liberal
Transatlantic Agitation: Panel 2
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Session Convenors: Robert Anderson and Jeff Insko
1. Nicholas Mason (Brigham Young University) Transatlantic Proto-Abolitionism and
Edward Kimber’s Mr. Anderson
2. Franca Dellarosa (University of Bari) “Yet you are a slave-holder”:Washington,
Rushton, Garrison, and the transatlantic tides of history
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3. Claire Grogan (Bishop’s University) A Transatlantic Tussle: National
Owning/Disowning of Thomas Paine and his Rights of Man (1791/2)
Blake
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1. David Baulch (University of West Florida) The [First] Book of Reynolds
2. Susan Matthews (University of Roehampton) ‘A Long Story’: Blake’s Gray and t he
spaces of viewing
3. Hikari Sato (University of Tokyo) Liberation and Intolerance – Rereading of Blake’s
Europe
Scotland
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1. Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming) Freedom Deferred? Scotland
and Slavery from Walter Scott to James Robertson
2. Margaret Russett (University of Southern California) “Free Translations”: Scottish
Ballad Forgery and the Invention of Tradition
3. Alshatti Aishah (University of Glasgow) Liberating the Lady of the Rock: Joanna
Baillie and Thomas Holcroft Rewriting a Highland Legend
Chatterton
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1. Daniel Cook (Queen's College, Cambridge) The Radical Afterlife of Thomas Chatterton
2. Michael Macovski (Georgetown University) Emancipating History:
Recontextualizations of Chatterton’s Historical Prose
3. John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University) Bristol, heritage, and the Chatterton
legacy
Coleridge 2
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1. Fred Burwick (UCLA) Coleridge and Vormärz
2. Laura George (Eastern Michigan University) “A mode of Memory emancipated from
the order to time and space”: the political and economic contexts of Coleridge’s
“Fancy”
3. Dometa Wiegand (University of Minnesota Duluth) The Physics of Coleridgean
Romanticism: Leibniz, Newton, Einstein and the Development of Relativity
“Are we free to speak of freedom?” Philosophical and Theoretical Articulations
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Session Convenor: David L. Clark (Professor, McMaster University)
1. David Simpson, (University of California-Davis) Wordsworth's Mechanicals
2. Rei Terada, (Department of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine) After-Images of
Freedom and the First Critique
3. Tilottama Rajan, (Canada Research Chair, University of Western Ontario)
Difficult Freedom: Art and History in Hegel and Schelling
Session 7 Saturday, 28 July
17:00-18:30
"Public Romanticism: A Session to Honour Paul Magnuson"
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Session Convenor: Nicholas Halmi
1. John Cole (Univ. of Aukland, NZ) Liberating Wordsworth from Romantic Imaginations'
2. Monika Class (Balliol College Oxford) Coleridge's "France: An Ode" and Kant's "On
Perpetual Peace"
3. Nicholas Halmi (University of Washington) Representation and the Appeal to Nature
Free Blake: Self-Annihilation, Openness, and Mutuality
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Session Convenor: Angela Esterhammer
1. Mark Lussier (Arizona State), Inner Revolution: Blakean Self-Annihilation and
Individual Liberation
2. Saree Makdisi (UCLA), Blake, Religion and Empire
3. Jon Mee (Oxford), “A little less conversation, a little more action”: mutuality, converse,
and mental fight
Liberating Gothic
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A Special Session organised by the German Society for English Romanticism
Session Convenor: Franz Meier
1. David Collings (Bowdoin College) The Ghost of Revolution: The Politics of the
Uncanny in The Monk
2. Michael Meyer (University of Koblenz) The Gothic Inversion of Protestantism by The
Monk
3.Nowell Marshall (University of California, Riverside) Refusing Femininity, Liberating
Rage: Zofloya and the Illusion of Gendered Agency
Free Hemans the Poet: Making and Breaking Genre
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Session Convenor: Nanora Sweet
1. Noah Comet (University of California, Los Angeles) “Once proud in freedom, still in
ruin fair”: Felicia Hemans and the fate of modern Greece
2. Michael T. Williamson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) Freedom of Association:
Felicia Hemans's Revisionary Pindarics
3. Helen Luu (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) Spectacles of Speaking: Felicia
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Hemans and the dramatic monologue
Language and Revolution in the 1790s
1. David Duff (University of Aberdeen) 1790s Polemical Prose and the Language of
Forms
2. Mark Algee-Hewitt (New York University) “The pleasing illusions which made power
gentle”: Revolutionizing the English Language with Wollstonecraft and Paine
3. Georgina Green (Hertford College, University of Oxford) “My language has always
been that of liberty and humanity”: Thomas Paine’s paradoxical resistance to
totalitarian liberty.
“Taking Liberties: Polite Letters and Romantic Poetry".
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Session Convenor: Mina Gorji
2. Jamie Baxendine (Magdalen College, University of Oxford) Prosody and Society
3. Sam Ward (Nottingham Trent University) Clare and Popular Songs
Nation
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1. Wendy Nielsen (Montclair State University) Boadicea, Romantic Audiences, and
Empire
2. Paul Stock (Birkbeck College, University of London) ‘Liberty and Independence’: the
Shelley-Byron circle and the State(s) of Europe
3. Goffe Jensma (University of Amsterdam) Dutch dependency and Frisian Freedom
Medicine and the body
Room 8
1. Gavin Budge (University of Central England) Slavery and Sensuality: Romanticism
and the medical discourse of mass society
2. Catherine Grimm (Albion College) Placing the Self in Harm’s Way: Theories of Mind
and Body in Bettine von Arnim’s Epistolary Memoirs
3. Brian Rejack (Vanderbilt University) From Glutton to Gourmand: William Kitchiner
and the Creation of Middle-Class Gourmandism
Byron
Room 9
1. Tom Mole (McGill University) Don Juan and the Freedom to Develop
2. Kristin Samuelian (George Mason University) Bodied forth to a fare-thee-well: Byron,
intertextuality and the body in responses to the Queen Caroline affair
3. Jennifer Sarha (University of Leeds) Coerced consent in Byron's Don Juan
Moore and Hone
Room 10
1. Jane Moore (University of Cardiff) Radical Satire and Literary Value: The Case of
Thomas Moore
2. Kyle Grimes (University of Alabama at Birmingham) After the Trials: The Strange
Freedom of William Hone
3. Jane Moody (University of York) Thomas Brown [alias Thomas Moore], Censorship
and and Regency Cryptography
Session 8 Sunday, 29 July
09.30-11.00
Animal Subjects in the Age of Revolution
Room 1
Session Convenor: Tobias Menely
1. Onno Oerlemans (Hamilton College) Encountering the Animal: The Romantic Lyric and
Nonhuman Consciousness
2. Louise Economides (University of Montana) The Pursuit of Happiness: Individualism and
Animal Rights in Poetry of the Romantic Era
3. Tobias Menely (Willamette University) Animals as Legal Subjects: Liberalism,
Sentimentalism, and Anti-Cruelty Legislation, 1800-1822
Liberating Joanna Baillie
Room 2
Session Convenor: Regina Hewitt
1. William D. Brewer (Appalachian State University) The Liberating and Debilitating
Imagination in Joanna Baillie’s Orra and The Dream
2. Robert Hale (Monmouth College) “[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great”: Liberation in
Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790)
3. Judith Bailey Slagle (East Tennessee State University ) The Emergence of Animal
Rights: John Hunter’s First English Veterinary School and Joanna Baillie’s “A Lesson for
School Children”
Orientalism
Room 3
1. Adeline Johns-Putra (University of Exeter) Gender, History and Islam: Eleanor Anne
Porden’s Cœur de Lion
2. Luigi Marfé (University of Turin) Deconstruction and Persistence of Orientalism in the
XX Century Italian Travel Literature. Four Representations of Iran: Alberto Moravia,
Mario Praz, Italo Calvino, and Claudio Magris
3. Geoffrey Nash (University of Sunderland) Lost in Translation – Henry Martyn and the
Evangelical Retreat
Periodicals 2
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1. Alex Benchimol (University of Glasgow) Reforming the Nation in the Romantic Period:
The Language of Cultural and Political Freedom in the Edinburgh Review
2. Susan Oliver (Canterbury Christchurch University) Prisons and Penitentiaries: The
Edinburgh Review, Civil Liberty and Penal Reform
3. Christopher Scalia (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) Taking Liberties: Defending the
Mystifications of Blackwood’s Magazine
Wordsworth
Room 5
1. Adam Potkay (College of William and Mary) Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth’s
Lyrics on Music
2. Patrick Vincent (University of Neuchâtel) Wordsworth’s Discordant Voices: Freedom
versus Independence in the 1806 Subjugation Sonnet
3. Yu Xiao (University of Newcastle) The freedom of giving alms: Wordsworth’s
humanitarian project in “The Old Cumberland Beggar”
Blake
Room 6
1. Matt Green (University of Nottingham) “Empire is no more!”: Reading Kant’s “Perpetual
Peace” alongside Blake’s proclamations of liberty and calls for mental war
2. David Jenkins-Handy (University of Central England) Patriotism in chains: Blake's
freedom versus Thomson's liberty
3. Talissa Ford (University of California, Berkeley) To the Muslims: The Bounds of Freedom
in William Blake’s Jerusalem
Liberating Medicine 3: Maternity in Barbauld
Room 7
1. Tristanne Connolly (University of Waterloo) Anna Barbauld's “To a Little Invisible
Being...”: Maternity in Poetry and Medicine
2. Steve Clark (University of Tokyo, Hongo) “Some Heart once pregnant with celestial
Fire”: Maternal Elegy in Gray and Barbauld
Emancipatory Politics
Room 8
1. Michael Franklin (University of Wales Swansea) Fragments of Liberty: Republican
Jones and the ‘Poetry of Politics’
Philosophy
Room 9
1. Andreas Korpas (University of Pannonia) The Birth of Freedom in the Symphilosophie
between Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) and Friedrich Schlegel
2. Martina Luke (University of Connecticut) Burke and Berlin - Poets and Politics in the
Romantic Period
3. Simon Swift (University of Leeds) Conditions of Freedom: Kant, Hannah Arendt and the
Romantic Ideology
Bloomfield, Clare, Luddism
Room 10
1. Paul Chirico (University of York) Looking Up: John Clare’s Imaginative Liberty
2. Simon White (Oxford Brookes University) The Otaheite and Agrarian Reform in Robert
Bloomfield’s The Farmer’s Boy
3. Kevin Binfield (Murray State University) Luddism, Liberation, and Complication
Session 9 Sunday, 29 July
14:00-15:30
Free Hemans from/for Influence: Early, Late, Posthumous
Room 1
Session Convenor: Nanora Sweet
1. Barbara D. Taylor (University of Nottingham) Free Hemans from Nineteenth (and
Twentieth) Century Paternalism: The Domestic Affections
2. Jeffrey C. Robinson (University of Colorado)"Late Voluntaries: Hemans and Wordsworth"
3. John-David Lopez (University of California, Los Angeles) 'When the strength from your
right arm hath melted': Felicia Hemans and Free Women in Romantic Spain
Transatlantic
Room 2
1. Fiona Robertson (University of Central England) Sexual Freedom and Transatlantic
Romanticism
2. John Whale (University of Leeds) Accounting for the Life of Paul Cuffe
3. Susanne Schmid (Frankfurt University) The Dangers of Polite Conversation:
Americans Travelers and London Salons in the Early Nineteenth Century
Thelwall
Room 3
1. Colin Harris (Boston University) Radical Politics and Emancipated Theaters: John
Thelwall’s “On the Political Prostitution of Our Theatres”
2. Jasmine Solomonescu (Cambridge University) Articulations of Community in The
Peripatetic
3. Judith Thomson (Dalhousie University) Freeing Speech: What John Thelwall has to
teach Romanticism
Emancipation
Room 4
1. Anthony John Harding (University of Saskatchewan) No Freedom to Read: Slave
Literacy and the Emancipation Debate 1823-33
2. Jane Hodson (University of Sheffield) The semantics of “emancipation”, “liberation” and
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“freedom” in the French Revolution Debate: a corpus-based analysis
3. Oksun Kang (Dongseo University) Romantic Radicals against Imperial Eyes
Sedition, Liberation and Emancipation in William Blake
1. David Fallon (University College, Oxford) William Blake and Liberation from “the
Selfish Virtues of the Natural Heart”
2. Josie McQuail (Tennessee Technological University) Blake's Trial for Sedition and
Dissidence Today
3. Daniel Burgoyne (Malaspina University-College) Emancipating Oothoon: Coil and
Recoil of Abolitionist Discourse
Reading Freedom
1. William Davies (Colorado College) Ann Batten Cristall in the Twilight Zone
2. Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado) “Amber does not shed so sweet a
perfume as the veriest trifles touched by those we love”: The things that Liberate in St.
Pierre's Paul et Virginie
3. Joseph Rezek (UCLA) The Irish National Tale and the Re-Invention of the English
Reader
Wordsworth
1. Laila Ferreira (University of British Columbia) Selling Romanticism: Wordsworth and
Public Discourse in the Literary Marketplace
2. Anne-Lise Francois (Cornell University) Romantic Constatives, Weather Reports,
Dropped Subjects
3. Brian McGrath (Colgate University) A Wordsworthian Freedom: Aesthetics and Political
Indifference
Outsiders
1. Padma Rangarajan (University of Colorado Boulder) Useless Confession: The Colonial
Police State and Confessions of a Thug
2. Terence H W Shih (University of Edinburgh) Fatal Attraction: Physical Aesthetics and
Humanity in Romanticism
3. Craig Thompson Friend (University of Central Florida) Songs of the Trans-Appalachian
West
Sentimentality
1. Ildiko Csengei (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge) The Woman of Feeling
and the Psychopathology of Sensibility
2. Ya-Feng Wu (National Taiwan University) The Place of Sentiment: Hemans and
Landon
3. Celeste Pottier (University of South Carolina) Lorenzo's Head and Shelley's Heart: the
Liberating Power of the Memento Mori
Classical inheritance
1. Amy Muse (University of St. Thomas) “The Great Drama of the Revival of Liberty”:
Philhellenic Drama of the 1820s
2. Jonathan Mulrooney (College of the Holy Cross) Keats's Hieroglyphs