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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

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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

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F8:ScottishInnovationRoom:K/155Chair:DanielCook(UniversityofDundee) JulieWatt(independentscholar) ‘SusanEdmonstoneFerrier:The“ScottishAusten”’

JohnOwenHavard(BinghamtonUniversity) ‘ImprovingBoswell’

DuncanHotchkiss(UniversityofStirling) ‘JamesHogg,Blackwood’sEdinburghMagazineandthe

counter-reformistpoliticsofRomanticprintculture’

FridayEveningInformalsocialeventsincluding:

PostgraduatesocialatWalmgateAleHousefrom7pm

Saturday29thJuly

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–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

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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

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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

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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

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–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

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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

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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

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Lunch1pm–2pm,King’sManorK/123(HuntingdonRoomanteroom)

**Pleasenotethevenue**

ShortwalktoBoothamSchool

PLENARY42pm–3:15pm,BoothamSchool

JonKlancher(CarnegieMellon)

'ScalesofImprovement'

Chair:MaryFairclough(UniversityofYork)

ClosingRemarks3:15pm–3:30pm,BoothamSchool

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