Revolutions and Reactions / Révolutions et réactions

18-21 October, 1990 / 18-21 octobre 1990
Kingston
Queen's University / Université Queen's

Wednesday, October 17 / Mercredi 17 octobre

16:00 - 21:00

Registration / Inscription

17:00 - 19:00

Reception / Accueil

19:30 - 22:00

Executive Meeting / Réunion du Bureau

Thursday, October 18 / Jeudi 18 octobre

9:00 - 10:30

Sessions / Séances

A. Science and Literature

Chair / Présidente : Alison Scott-Prelorentzos, Emerita, University of Alberta

Margarete G. Smith, Memorial University
"Albrecht von Haller in Praise of Nature and Its Impact on Man: A Comparative Study of his Poem Die Alpen and of Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse"

Simon Jan Richter, University of Maryland
"Laocoön in the Clinic: Goethe and Haller on Reiz"

Thilo Joerger, Mount Alison University
"Physiological Metaphor in J. K. Wezel"

B. Voix discordantes d'une fin de siècle

Chair / Présidente : Barbara Havercroft, Queen's University

Thierry Belleguic, Queen's University
"Pouvoirs de l'abjection: le neveu de Rameau (Diderot) ou les avatars de Narcisse"

Elizabeth Zawisza, Queen's University
"Les affreux spectacles de la Révolution : les techniques dramatiques dans l'Émigré de Sénac de Meilhan"

Roland Bonnel, Dalhousie University
""Le soc s'est ennobli sous les mains d'un bon roi" : Lumières, nature et bohneur à la veille de la Révolution ou réaction nobiliaire ?"

C. Edmund Burke

Chair / Présidente : Nadia Khalaf, Queen's University

Troni Y. Grande, University of Alberta
"'The Tears of Hypocrisy': Reflections on Burke and She-Tragedy"

George C. McElroy, Indiana University Northwest
"Edmund Burke as a Figure of the Scottish Enlightenment"

John Whiton, University of Waterloo
"Creative Appropriation: Aspects of Edmund Burke's Reception in Post-Revolutionnary Germany"

10:45 - 12:15

Sessions / Séances

A. How to Read Burke: A Debate

Chair / Président : Paul Wood, Queen's University

Frederick A. Dreyer, University of Western Ontario
"As a Philosopher"

F. P. Lock, Queen's University
"As a Rhetorician"

B. Art Theory in Context

Chair / Présidente : Carol Gibson-Wood, Queen's University

Peter Wagner, Katholische Universität Eichstätt
"Hogarth's and Eighteenth-Century Literature"

Robert Gould, Carleton University
"Winckelmann and English Political Theory"

Marcia Allentuck, City University of New York
"Kraft and Artistic Energy: Henry Fuseli's Diffusion of J. G. Herder Aesthetic Concepts in Britain"

C. Sentiment, Sympathy, and the Origins of Romanticism

Chair / Présidente : Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta

Gary Sherbert, University of Alberta
"'The Coquetry of a Modern Author': Sentimental Satire and Romanticism"

Leith Ann Davis, Berkeley
"Origins of the Specious: James Macpherson's Fingal and the Politics of English Romanticism"

Anne-Louise Gibbons, University of Ottawa
"Spectators, Agents and Sympathy in Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling"

D. Children and the Family

Chair / Présidente : Barbara Kes-Costa, Carleton University

Janina Konczacki, Mount Saint Vincent University
"The Child in Eighteenth-Century Polish Society"

Catherine Rubinger, Mount Saint Vincent University
"'Le cher fils': The Ideal of Family Love in Eighteenth-Century New France"

Ruth Beckers, Queen's University
"The Problem of Infanticide in Mid-Eighteenth-Century German Literature"

14:00 - 15:15

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Chair / Présidente : J. Duffin, Queen's University

Ludmilla Jordanova, University of Essex
"Conceptualizing Revolution in the Eighteenth Century"

15:30 - 17:30

Sessions / Séances

A. Feminist Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Chair / Présidente : Lisa Zeitz, University of Western Ontario

Nancy Copeland, Toronto
"'Once a Whore and Ever'? Angellica Bianca and her Predecessors"

Ann Boyd, McMaster University
"Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: 'only a female pen'?"

Kathleen James-Cavan, Queen's University
"Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, and A Representation of Women: Celebrating the Rebellious Power of the 'wav'ring form'"

Eleanor Ty, McMaster University
"Freke in Men's Clothes: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Edgeworth's Belinda"

B. Lesage

Chair / Président : David Smith, University of Toronto

Glen Campbell, University of Calgary
"Les histoires intercalaires dans Gil Blas : récits pertinents ou diversions marginales ?"

Mary Ellen Ross, University of Victoria
"Le merveilleux forain de Lesage"

David Trott, University of Toronto
"Les débuts de Lesage à la Foire"

Roseann Runte, York University
"The Role of the Theatre in Gil Blas"

C. John Locke

Chair / Président : Frederick A. Dreyer, University of Western Ontario

John Wright, University of Windsor
"Locke, Willis, and the Material Soul"

Peter Schouls, University of Alberta
"Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and his Writings on Education"

Peter Walmsley, McMaster University
"'Captious Logical Disputes' in Locke's Essay"

D. Eighteenth-Century Painting

Chair / Président : Robin Middleton, Columbia University

J. Douglas Stewart, Queen's University
"Humour and Visual Irony in English Portraiture from Van Dyck to Kneller"

Rosalie Smith McCrea, University College, London
"More Last Words on the Man Said to Be Francis Barber, Dr Johnson's Negro Servant"

George Knox, Emeritus, University of British Columbia
"Dominico Tiepolo's Country Walk of 1791"

Gerard Finley, Queen's University
"Turner, Dryden, and the Legend of Aeneas"

18:30 - 20:00

Principal's Reception / Réception du recteur

20:00 - 21:30

Plenary Session II / Séance plénière II

Chair / Président : Pierre du Prey, Queen's University

Robin Middleton, Columbia University
"The Enfilade and Interior Space in France from Louis XIV to Napoleon"

Friday, October 19 / Vendredi 19 octobre

9:00 - 10:30

Sessions / Séances

A. Representing Female Sexuality

Chair / Présidente : Ludmilla Jordonova, University of Essex

K. J. Zuk, University of Alberta
"Pornographic Representation: The Reification of Women and Scientific Writing"

Peter Gölz, Queen's University
"The Unity of Lucinde' Sexuality"

Ulrich Scheck, Queen's University
"Erotic Revolutions: Narcissism and the Golden Age in Late Eighteenth-Century German Literature"

B. Pope: Editors and Readers

Chair / Président : Michael Treadwell, Trent University

James McLaverty, Keele University
"The Riddle of Pope's Changing Text"

Claudia Thomas, Wake Forest University
"'His Spirit Heighten'd yet his Sence Intire': Eighteenth-Century Women Respond to Pope's Homer"

Stephen Brown, Trent University
"Dilke, Sherburn, and the Editor as Reader"

C. The Progressive Enlightenment in England

Chair / Président : M. A. Stewart, University of Lancaster

Jack Fruchtman, Jr., Townson State University
"The Progressive English Enlightenment, 1790-1795"

James E. Crimmins, University of Western Ontario
"The Nature of Bentham's 'Radicalism'"

Noel Chevalier, Queen's University
"William Blake's Sexual Revolution"

10:45 - 12:15

Sessions / Séances

A. Studies in Music I

Chair / Président : Gaynor Jones, University of Toronto

Thomas Green, Brandeis University
"Rameau's Io: Problems and Evidence of Dating"

Dorothea Link, University of Toronto
"Mozart's Cosi fan tutte's Indebtedness to Martin's L'Arbore"

Timoty Jackson, University of Toronto
"Better and Best: Schubert's Motivic Revisions in Der Jüngling und der Tod (D545a-b) and Meeres Stille (D216a-b)"

John Glofcheskie, Douglas College
"Schubert and Censorship in the 1820s"

B. Educating Women in Eighteenth-Century England

Chair / Présidente : Kathy McKenna, Carleton University

Diana Patterson, Toronto
"Some Notes on the Education of Women"

Deborah Wills, University of Alberta
"'Discharging the Maternal Office': The Subversion of the Domestic in Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman"

Sussan Hillabold, University of Alberta
"Hannah More and Moral Education"

Carol Hart, University of Alberta
"The Politics of Romance: Woman : or, Ida of Athens"

C. The Scottish Enlightenment

Chair / Président : Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario

M. A. Stewart, University of Lancaster
"The Irish Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment"

Lewis Ulman and Denis Quon, Ohio State University
"Semiotics in Eighteenth-Century Aberdeen: Thomas Gordon's Contribution to the Aberdeen Philosophical Society"

Mark S. Madoff, Royal Roads Military College
"John Robinson's 'Madness' and the Science of his Politics"

D. Image and Text in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Chair / Président : Peter Wagner, Katholische Universität Eichstätt

Hans-Günther Schwarz, Dalhousie University
"Gardens and Poetics"

Jasmine Cooke, Queen's University
"J. M. R. Lenz and the Doctrine of 'ut pictura poesis'"

Hildegard Nabbe, University of Waterloo
"Innocence, Nature, and Paradise: Philip Otto Runge's Representation of the Divine Child"

14:00 - 15:15

Sessions / Séances

A. Kant and Education

Chair / Président : David Pugh, Queen's University

John C. Luik, Brock University
"Kant and the Education of the Human Race"

Miriam J. Levy, University of Hartford
"C. A. Martini and Educational Reform: Universities and their Role in Late Eighteenth-Century Austria"

B. Bodily Experience

Chair / Président : Ulrich Scheck, Queen's University

Burkhardt Krause, Universität Mannheim
"The 'Self' and 'the Body': Changing Self-Referential Expressions in the Eighteenth Century"

Erk Grimm, Queen's University
"The Beautiful Woman in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century: Wieland's Amorous Discourse as a Theorie der angenehmen Empfindungen"

Arnd Bohm, Carleton University
"Bürger, Münchhausen, and the Body Carneval"

C. De la xénophobie et des philosophes

Chair / Président : Michael Cardy, Brock University

Alexandre L. Amprimoz, Brock University
"Montesquieu et le Japon : xénophobie ou naïveté"

Léonard Rosmarin, Brock University
"Voltaire et les Juifs"

Jean-Pierre de Villers, University of Windsor
"Voltaire et le colonialisme"

15:30 - 17:30

Sessions / Séances

A. The Political Pamphlet in Eighteenth-Century England: Lines of Development and Perspectives

Chair / Président : Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen

Eberhard Späth, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
"The Political Pamphlet in the Reign of Queen Anne"

Karl-Tilman Winkler, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
"The Political Pamphlet in the Age of George III"

B. Studies in Music II

Chair / Président : Rudi Schnitzler, Queen's University

Paul F. Rice, Memorial University
"The Performing Arts and the Court of Louis XVI"

Dorothy Deval, King's College, London
"Aesthtics and Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain"

Jack Eby, Bishop's University
"Church Music and the Critics: The Problem of a Sacred Style during the Enlightenment"

Gaynor Jones, University of toronto
"Beethoven and the Revolution: Or 'Who Cares about a Tune'?"

C. Goethe

Chair / Président : Christa Fell, Queen's University

Marianne Henn, University of Alberta
"'Denn gelöst sind die bande der Welt': Goethe's View of the French Revolution on the Basis of Hermann und Dorothea"

Rainer Christ, Queen's University
"The Public and the Private in Goethe's Egmont"

David G. John, University of Waterloo
"Goethe's Concept of Acting: Reactionary or Progressive"

Ingeborg H. Solbrig, University of Iowa
"The Theatre, Theory, and Politics: Voltaire's Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet le prophète (1740-42) and Goethe's Mahomet Adaptation (1799-1800)"

D. Aspects of Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Chair / Président : David Oakleaf, University of Calgary

Camille R. La Bossière, University of Ottawa
"Thomson's Dizzy Poise in The Castle of Indolence"

Gary Retzleff, Bishop's University
"The Ruins of Rome: Changing Symbols in Eighteenth-Century English Literature"

Sarah Jordan, Brandeis University
"The Inclusive Eye and the Controlling Mind: Style as Balance in Johnson, Gibbon, and Burke"

19:30 - 21:00

Plenary Session III / Séance plénière III

Chair / Président : Paul Christianson, Queen's University

J. G. A. Pocock, The Johns Hopkins University
"Edward Gibbon and the Historiography of Religion"

Saturday, October 20 / Samedi 20 octobre

9:00 - 10:30

Sessions / Séances

A. Samuel Richardson

Chair / Président : Peter Sabor, Queen's University

Betty A. Schellenberg, University of Ottawa
"Making a Fine Man: Desire as Structure in Sir Charles Grandison"

Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta
"Clarissa's Ignorance"

Mildred S. E. Greene, Arizona State University
"The Reception of Richardson's Clarissa in France just before the Revolution"

B. Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment

Chair / Président : John Wright, University of Windsor

Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario
"The Origins of the Edinburgh Medical School"

Nina Reid, University of Toronto
"Scottish Chemistry and the Theistic Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia"

Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara
"The Adventures of a Thirty-Stone Scot: Or, the Education of George Cheyne"

C. Le théâtre et la Révolution française I

Chair / Président : Elizabeth Zawiswa, Queen's University

Sandra L. Beckett, Brock University
"Dans les coulisses de l'histoire : la Révolution française portée sur les scènes de Paris pour le Bicentenaire"

Muriel Usandivaras-Mili, Laurentian University
"Une reine-catin : ou Marie-Antoinette dans le théâtre français de 1789 à 1793"

Marie-France Silver, York University
"Olympe de Gouges : féminisme, théâtre et théâtralité"

D. Eighteenth-Century German Literature

Chair / Président : Tom Müller, Queen's University

Ronald B. Hatch, University of British Columbia
"Origins and Irony in Late Eighteenth-Century Language Theory"

Alison Scott-Prelorentzos, Emerita, University of Alberta
"Die deutsche Schaubühne Reconsidered"

Albert R. Schmitt, Emeritus, Brown University
"J. K. Wezel's Image of Society in his Novel Hermann und Ulrike and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse"

10:45 - 12:15

Plenary Session IV / Séance plénière IV

Chair / Présidente : Roseann Runte, York University

Elizabeth Eisenstein, Emerita, University of Michigan
"Silent Demagogues : Some Political Uses of Print in the Age of Revolution"

13:00 - 14:00

Annual General Meeting / Assemblée annuelle des membres

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Chair / Président : James Leith, Queen's University

Claude Langlois, Université de Rouen
"Les fonctions de la caricature : l'exemple de la Révolution française"

15:30 - 17:30

Sessions / Séances

A. Science and Enlightenment

Chair / Président : Paul Wood, Queen's University

Lisa Zeitz, University of Western Ontario
"Expanded Eighteenth-Century Editions of English Works of Natural Theology"

Julie C. Hayes, University of Richmond
"Encyclopedic Systems"

John McEvoy, University of Cincinnati
"From Copernicus to Lavoisier: The Rise of Modernity and the Birth of the Physical Sciences"

Anne Godlewska, Queen's University
"Text and Image in Napoleonic State Geography"

B. Theatre and the French Revolution II

Chair / Présidente : Muriel Usandivaras-Mili, Laurentian University

R. Emmet Kennedy, Jr., George Washington University
"Paris Theatre Repertories and Audience Tastes during the French Revolution, 1789-1799"

Neal Johnson, University of Guelph
"From Versailles to the Bastille: The Slow Death of Aristocratic Theatre"

Annette Graczyk, Philipp Universität, Marburg
"La femme virile : la femme-héros dans le théâtre de la Terreur"

C. Women and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

Chair / Présidente : Diana Patterson, Toronto

J. E. Svilpis, University of Calgary
"Sexual Politics and Science in Eighteenth-Century English Literature"

David Oakleaf, University of Calgary
"The Jamaica Lady: W. P.'s Typical Enlightenment Novel"

Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta
"Mrs Woodfin, Susanna Pearson, and Metempsychosis"

Robert J. Merrett, University of Alberta
"The Politics of Romance in The History of Emily Montague"

19:30 - 23:30

Banquet

Introduction : Pierre Gobin, Queen's u

Address / Conférence : James Leith, Queen's University
"Fashion and Anti-fashion in the Era of the French Revolution"

Sunday, October 21 / Samedi 20 octobre

Sessions / Séances

A. Littérature française

Chair / Président : Neal Johnson, University of Guelph

Marie Laure Girou Swiderski, Université d'Ottawa
"Philémon et Baucis au Siècle des lumières"

Pierre Gobin, Queen's University
"L'utopie, l'uchronie, et le théâtre de la Révolution"

B. Swift and Goldsmith

Chair / Président : Robert J. Merrett, University of Alberta

John Rempel, University of Manitoba
"Travels with Swift in the 1990s: the State of Criticism Past, Present, and Future"

Jon Rowland, Université de Montréal
"'Threadbare and Ragged with Paerpetual Turning': Revolution and Reaction in A Tale of a Tub"

Nicole Didicher, Concordia University
"The Citizen of the World and the Parodic Stance"

C. Eighteenth-Century German Drama

Chair / Président : Bill Reeve, Queen's University

Diane Pitts, University of Victoria
"Staging a Revolution: Strategic Games in Kleist's Die Hermannsschlacht"

Angela Borchert, Princeton University
"The Letters in the Dramas of the Young Schiller: A Semiotic Reading"

Elizabeth Calkin, Queen's University
"Götz von Berlichigen and the Paradox of Activity"

10:45 - 12:15

Sessions / Séances

A. Burney and Austen

Chair / Président : Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta

Mary Stewart, Queen's University
"Epistolary Form and Feminism: Evelina"

Grant Campbell, University of Toronto
"The Slow Ripening Fruits of Tardy Conceptions: The Economic Contradictions of Education in Frances Burney's Camilla"

Andrea C. Cole, Queen's University
"Society and the Individual in Jane Austen's Persuasion"

B. Aspects of Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Chair / Président : H. Grant Sampson, Queen's University

John D. Baird, University of Toronto
"The Poetry of Newspapers: Cowper and Crabbe"

Paul Fritz, McMaster University
"Death and Burial in Eighteenth-Century England"

C. French Officers in an Age of Revolution

Chair / Présidente : Anne Godlewska, Queen's University

Martin L. Nicolai, Queen's University
"A Changing Climate: The Social and Political ideas of the French Officer Corps in North America, 1755-1783"

William S. Cormack, Queen's University
"An Admiral's Revolutionary Ordeal: Morard de Galles and the Mutiny of the Brest Fleet in 1793"

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