Canadian Society for XVIII Century Studies /
Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle

and / et

The Atlantic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies /
La Société atlantique d'étude du dix-huitième siècle

Joint Conference / Congrès conjoint
13-16 October, 1988 / 13-16 octobre 1988
Dalhousie University / Université Dalhousie

Thursday, October 13 / Jeudi 13 octobre

8:30 - 9:15

Registration / Inscription

9:15 - 10:30

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

John Norris, University of British Columbia
"Mind over Life over Matter: Vitalism in the Eighteenth Century"

Introduction : J. M. Konczacki, Mount Saint Vincent University

10:45 - 12:15

Sessions / Ateliers I-III

I. English Literature : Humanity and Humanitas / Littérature anglaise : humanité et humanitas

1. Peter Hynes, York University
"Figures of Humanity in Tom Jones"

2. Mark Madoff, Royal Roads Military College
"'Finely Confused and Beatifully Alarming': Delusion and Betrayal in the Anti-Jacobin Satires"

3. Corinne Davies, Huron College -- University of Western Ontario
"Language, True Wit, and Humanitas in Sheridan's School for Scandal"

Chair / Président : George Hallett, Saint Mary's University

II. Théâtre français du XVIIIe siècle / Eighteenth-Century French Theatre

1. Dennis Wiseman, Wofford College
"Mercier and Diderot as Theoreticians of the Drame bourgeois"

2. Hope Leith, University of British Columbia
"Class, Gender, and Authority Constraints on Discourse in Eighteenth-Century French Theatre"

3. Eric Annandale, University of Manitoba
"La rhétorique de la liberté et de la tolérance dans le théâtre français en 1589 et en 1789"

Chair / Président : Michael Cartwright, McGill University

III. Colonial History / Histoire coloniale

1. Barry Cahill, Nova Scotia Public Archives
"The Court of Chancery in Nova Scotia: 1750-1855"

2. Kenneth Mackinnon, Saint Mary's University
"Progress Report on the Glenaladale Letters Project: The Letters and Papers of Captain John MacDonald (1742-1810)"

3. Diane O'Neill, Guest Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
"Female Education in Eighteenth-Century Halifax"

Chair / Président : Brian Cuthbertson, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture

14:00 - 15:30

Sessions / Ateliers IV - VI

IV. The Gothic Novel / Le roman gothique

1. Kenneth Graham, University of Guelph
"The Two Endings of Caleb Williams: Politics and Aesthetics in Revolutionary Novel"

2. Richard Gooding, Dalhousie University
"Discovering the Humanity of the Other: Desire and Dialogics in Caleb Williams"

3. Temple Maynard, Simon Fraser University
"The Appearance of Jinns and Afrits, and Allusions to Eblis, in William Beckford's Vathek"

Chair / Présidente : Devendra Varma, Dalhousie University

V. Études sur le XVIIIe siècle en France / Eighteenth-Century French Studies

1. Paul Benhamou, Purdue University
"Les périodiques de l'abbé Desfontaines : à la recherche de leurs lecteurs"

2. Glen Campbell, University of Calgary
"La domesticité comme élément structurant dans les romans picaresques de Lesage"

Chair / Président : Eric Annandale, University of Manitoba

VI. Reid and the Scottish Enlightenment / Reid et la philosophie des lumières en Écosse

1. Paul B. Wood, Queen's University
"Thomas Reid's Essays on the Active Powers of Man: Moral Philosophy and the Natural History of the Human Mind"

2. David Raynor, University of Ottawa
"The Philosophical Context of Thomas Reid's Essays on the Intellectual Powers of the Human Mind"

3. Roger L. Emerson, University of Western Ontario
"Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) : Where Does He Fit in the Scottish Enlightenment ?"

15:45 -14:45

Sessions / Ateliers VII - IX

VII. Burney and Austen / Burney et Austen

1. Grant Campbell, Queen's University
"All as Fine as Five-Pence: Chance and Currency in Frances Burney's Evelina"

2. David Oakleaf, University of Calgary
"The Name of the Father: Social Identity in Fanny Burney's Evelina"

3. Kathleen James-Cavan, Trent University
"The Uses of Deception in Austen's Sense and Sensibility: Or, Why the Emperor Has No Clothes"

Chair / Président : Roland Tétreault, Dalhousie University

VIII. Herder's Idea of Humanity / L'idée d'humanité chez Herder

1. Ronald B. Hatch, University of British Columbia
"Herder and the Language of Menschlichkeit"

2. Ingeborg H. Solbrig, University of Iowa
"The Practical Humanität of Johann Gottried Herder: The Case of his Neger-Idyllen (1792)"

3. Helen Liebel-Weckowicz, University of Alberta
"Herder's Idea of Humanity: Anti-Rational Ideology and Changing Value Systems in the Revolutionary Era"

Chair / Président : J. M. Konczacki, Mount Saint Vincent University

IX. La femme en France au XVIIIe siècle / Women in Eighteenth-Century France

1. Rosena Davison, Simon Fraser University
"Mme d'Épinay and her Conversations d'Émilie"

2.
""Femme naturelle" ou "femme sociale" ? Quelques aspects de l'éducation de la femme dans la littérature française et allemande"

3. Catherine Rubinger, Mount Saint Vincent University
"A Feminist Might-Have-Been"

Chair / Présidente : Karolyn Waterson, Dalhousie University

20:30

Concert - St. Paul's

Friday, October 14 / Vendredi le 14 octobre

8:30 - 9:15

Registration / Inscription

9:15 - 10:30

Sessions / Ateliers X - XIII

X. Scholarly Publishing / L'édition scientifique

1. David Blewett, Editor
Eighteenth-Century Fiction

2. Rosalind Malcolm, Assistant Editor
McGill - Queen's University Press

3. Alan Andrews, Editor
Dalhousie Review

Chair / Président : Robert Merrett, Business Editor, Man and Nature

XI. Editions and Editing / Éditions et publications

1. Richard Arnold, University of Lethbridge
"Those Damn Sacred Hymns: An Editor's Purgatory"

2. Don Nichol, Memorial University
"Publishing after Pope: Editorial Concerns"

3. Garry Sherbert, University of Alberta
"'A Scourge for the Sins of the Learned': Pope and Print Culture"

Chair / Président : Robert McG. Dawson, Dalhousie University

XII. Les Lumières en France, le concept d'humanité et les conceptions humanitaires / Humanity, Humanitarian Visions and the French Enlightenment

1. Magdy-Gabriel Badir, University of Alberta
"Humanité et philosophie de l'histoire : évolution d'un concept chez Bossuet, Rollin et Voltaire"

2. Henri Mydlarski, University of Calgary
"Les moralistes des Lumières ou la naissance de l'homme"

3. Roland Bonnel, Dalhousie University
"L'humanité de Marmontel"

Chair / Président : Michael Cardy, Brock University

XIII. Nova Scotia Church History / Histoire religieuse de la Nouvelle-Écosse

1. Alan Robertson, Queen's University
"'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Salvation': An Exploration of Causal Links Between Nova Scotia's Revivals and the Revolutionary Legacies of the United States and France"

2. Rev. Dr. Philip G. A. Griffin-Allwood, First Baptist Church
"'Full Liberty of Conscience': The Old Nova Scotia Revival of 1765 to 1767"

3. Judith Tulloch, Canadian Parks Service
"Nova Scotia Clergymen Analyze the French Revolution"

10:45 - 12:00

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Michael Mooney, Columbia University

"Vico's Humanity"

Introduction : B. Kiesekamp, Saint Mary's University

12:00 - 13:00

General CSECS Meeting / Assemblée générale SCEDHS

13:00 - 14:15

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Peter Michelsen, Heidelberg University
"The Influence of English Literature on German Literature"

Introduction : Hans-Günther Schwarz, Dalhousie University

14:30 - 16:45

Sessions / Ateliers XIV - XVI

XIV. Defoe

1. David Macaree, University of British Columbia, Retired
"The Loneliness of Daniel Defoe"

2. Barbara Belyea, University of Calgary
"Crusoe, Juan Fernandez, and Tahiti"

3. James Wilson, Université de Montréal
"The Recreating Self: Artistic Identity and narrative Technique in Defoe's Fiction"

Chair / Président : Russell Perkin, Saint Mary's University

XV. Colonial Culture / Culture coloniale

1. Frederick Hall, McMaster University
"Edward Duke of Kent: A Prince's Sojourn in Eighteenth-Century Canada"

2. Kim Ian Michasiw, University of Toronto
"Gilpin's Picturesque and Colonial Discourse"

3. Patrick O'Neill, Mount Saint Vincent University
"Jacob Bailey: Loyalist Plyawright"

Chair / Présidente : Julie Ross, University of Western Ontario

XVI. Hume

1. Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
"Hume on Justice"

2. Sheldon Wein, Saint Mary's University
"Hume and the Law"

Chair / Président : Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario

XVII. Lessing and Lenz / Lessing et Lenz

1. Marianne Henn, University of Alberta
"lessing's Conception and Understanding of Menschlichkeit in Hamburgische Dramaturgie"

2. John Whiton, University of Waterloo
"Tellheim and Minna: Lessing's Anticipation of Kant's Categorical Imperatice in Minna von Barnhelm"

3. Elizabeth Calkin, Dalhousie University
"From Lenz to Büchner: The Birth of Realism"

4. Norman Diffey, University of Windsor
"J. M. H. Lenz and the Humanizing Role of Literature"

Chair / Présidente : Elizabeth Spence, Dalhousie University

19:00 - 20:30

Lieutenant Governor's Reception

21:00

Evening Entertainment / Soirée

I. Scenes from Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays / Extraits du répertoire théâtral du XVIIIe siècle

II. Forte piano Recital / Récital -- Matt Hughes, Acadia University

Saturday, October 15 / Samedi 15 octobre

8:45 - 10:15

Sessions / Ateliers XVIII - XX

XVIII. Women Writers : Canon and Perspectives / Auteures du XVIIIe siècle : canon et interprétations

1. Eleanor Ty, McMaster University
"Feminizing the Eighteenth-Century Literary Canon: Some Problems and Possibilities"

2. Gary Kelly, University of Alberta
"Mary Wollstonecraft, Social Criticism, and Romantic Feminism"

3. Liang Wenqi, Dalhousie University
"A Description of Millenium Hall: Sarah Scott's Views on Luxury and Female Education"

Chair / Présidente : Judith Fingard, Dalhousie University

XIX. Humanity and Philosophy / Philosophie et humanité

1. Peter A. Schouls, University of Alberta
"To be Human Is To Be Revolutionary"

2. Margarete G. Smith, Memorial University
"The Dire Consequences of a Godless Universe: La Mettrie and the Protestant Press"

XX. Parody, Comedy and Petticoats / Parodie, comédie et jupons

1. Thomas Cleary, University of Victoria
"The Rape of the Lock Back to Paradise Lost: Parody as Double Heuristic Opportunity"

2. Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta
"A Real-Life Comedy: Boswell's London Journal"

3. Steve Lynn, University of South Carolina
"'Johnson in Petticoats': Sexual Disguise and Difference in Rasselas and Rambler"

Chair / Président : Nicholas Hudson, University of British Columbia

10:30 - 11:45

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Henri Coulet, Université de Provence
"Deux confrontations du sauvage et du civilisé : les Dialogues de Lahontan et le Supplément au voyage de Bougainville de Diderot"

Introduction : Roland Bonnel, Dalhousie University

14:15 - 15:45

Sessions / Ateliers XXI - XXIII

XXI. Pope Tercentenary / Le tricentenaire de Pope

1. Stephen William Brown, Trent University
"Playing with the Ladies, or Pope's Feminine Dis-coarse"

2. Carol J. Gibson-Wood, Queen's University
"Alexander Pope's Letters to Jonathan Richardson"

3. Richard Bevis, University of British Columbia
"From Windsor Forest to Bartholomew Fair: The Education of an Imperialist"

Chair / Président : Don Nichol, Memorial University

XXII. Voltaire

1. Krystyna Piechura, University of Victoria
"The Prophecy of Les Lois de Minos"

2. James Forsythe MacLean, Memorial University
"L'apanage de l'humanité : nature humaine et liberté de conscience dans l'oeuvre de Voltaire"

3. Janine Chapuis-Enhorn, King's College - University of Western Ontario
"Le ménage Tronchin-Voltaire"

Chair / Président : David Jory, University of New Brunswick

XXIII. Locke and Berkeley

1. William Kinsley, Université de Montréal
"Locke's 'Humanity': Sexual Difference and Power"

2. Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University
"Surrounded by Silence: Conversations with Berkeley's Lying God"

Chair / Président : Sheldon Wein, Saint Mary's University

Sessions / Ateliers XXIV- XXVI

XXIV. Swift

1. Jon Rowland, Université de Montréal
"Another Turn of the Screw: Prefaces in Swift and Marvell"

2. Nicholas Hudson, University of British Columbia
"Language Theory and Representation in Gulliver's Travels"

3. W. John Rempel, University of Manitoba
"'Like a small Wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious': Swift's Knowledge of Gulliver's Expertise"

Chair / Président : David Oakleaf, University of Calgary

XXV. New Approaches / Nouvelles approches

1. Robert Merrett, University of Alberta
"Natural Science in the Eighteenth-Century Novel"

2. Diana Patterson, University of Toronto
"Vermicelli Pudding: Notes on the Popularity, Use, and Distribution of Foodstuffs"

3. Maria Pia Chisu, University of Wisconsin
"Aspects of XVIII Century Italian Vernacular Poetry"

Chair / Président : J. Crowley, Dalhousie University

XXVI. Art History / Histoire de l'art

1. Karen Mulhallen, Ryerson Institute
"Leonora -- Her Origins and Manifestations in Poetry, Prose, Painting, and Opera in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries"

2. Reed Benhamou, Indiana University
"Architectural Education in Eighteenth-Century France: Professionnal and Para-Professional Training"

3. Jay MacPherson, University of Toronto
"Sun-Symbolism from Louis XIV to Tom Paine"

Chair / Présidente : Vivian Cameron, Acadia University

Sunday, October 16 / Dimanche 16 octobre

Sessions / Ateliers XXVII - XXIX

XXVII. The Descriptive-Reflective Poem / Le poème descriptif-méditatif

1. John Morgenstern, Mount Saint Vincent University
"Development of the Descriptive-Reflective Poem from Denham to Wordsworth"

2. Judith Thompson, Dalhousie University
"Wordsworth's Excursion from Cambridge to Hawkshead"

3. Ronald Rompkey, Memorial University
"Cartwright's 'Labrador: A Poetical Epistle' As Colonial Georgic"

Chair / Président : Richard Davies, Acadia University

XXVIII. Politics and Religion / Religion et politique

1. James E. Crimmins, Huron College -- University of Western Ontario
"Manners maketh the Nation: John Brown's Road to Salvation"

2. Alexander Balisch, Memorial University
"Joseph II's Patent of Tolerance"

3. Leonore Loft, State University of New York
"A Humanitarian Vision: Abolition of the Slave Trade in Revolutionary France"

XXIX. L'ère révolutionnaire / The Age of the French Revolution

1. Sante Viselli, University of Winnipeg
"Un disciple de Montesquieu: Sénac de Meilhan explique 1789"

2. Monique Moser-Verrey, Université de Montréal
"L'émigré dans le théâtre et dans la prose de Mme de Charrière"

3. Marie-France Silver, York University
"La Grèce dans le roman français de la période révolutionnaire : le Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce au milieu du quatrième siècle avant Jésus-Christ"

Chair / Président : Roland Bonnel, Dalhousie University

11:00 - 12:30

Sessions / Ateliers IXXX - XXXI

XXX. Dryden and Gibbon / Dryden et Gibbon

1. Trevor Ross, University of Toronto
"'Everything is altered': Dryden and the Historicist Dilemma"

2. John J. McManmon, Indiana University of Pennsylvannia
"Dryden's Conversion"

3. Thomas Jemielity, University of Notre Dame
"Gibbon Among the Protestants"

Chair / Président : Erla Wilputte, Saint Francis Xavier University

XXXI. Rediscovery of Greece / Redécouverte du monde grec

1. Vincent Tobin, Saint Mary's University
"Iphigénie en Tauride: Gluck's Re-Interpretation of a Euripidean Melodrama"

2. Gary Retzleff, Bishop University
"Richard Payne Knight and the Elgin Marbles: A Reconsideration"

3. James F. Woodruff, University of Western Ontario
"Thomas Gray's 'Odes in the Greek Manner'"

Chair / Président : David Schroeder, Dalhousie University

XXXII. Menschlichkeit

1. Adrian Hsia, McGill University
"German 'Menschlichkeit' in Chinese Garb: Adaptations of The Chinese Orphan in Eighteenth-Century German Literature"

2. Arnd Bohm, Carleton University
"'Wer kennt sich selbst' ?'' Goethe's Ilmenau and Kant's Was ist Aufklärung ?"

3. Thilo Joerger, Mount Allison University
"A Petty Bourgeois Agathon: J. K. Wezel's Tobias Knaut"

Chair / Présidente : Christa Fell, Queen's University

12:30

AtSECS General Meeting / Assemblée générale SAtEDS

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