Canadian Society for
Eighteenth Century Studies

1997 Conference (October 16 to 19)
University of Western Ontario

Representations of Time in the 18th Century


Société canadienne
d'étude du dix-huitième siècle

Congrès 1997 (du 16 au 19 octobre)
Université Western Ontario

Le temps et ses représentations au XVIIIe siècle


VENDREDI 17 OCTOBRE / FRIDAY OCTOBER 17

Toutes les séances du congrès se dérouleront à l'hôtel Delta Armouries / All conference sessions will take place at the Delta Armouries Hotel.

9:00-11:00

Salle A: La fiction et ses genres au XVIIIe siècle / Forms of Fiction in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Roland Bonnel (Dalhousie University, Français):

Monique Moser-Verrey (Université Laval, Littérature): "L'Eloquence du corps entre le merveilleux et le vraisemblable"

Maryse Duggan (Vancouver): "Mlle de Lubert et la réactivation de contes du dix-septième siècle"

Stéphanie Bouabane (Lille III, Littérature): "Entre brevitas préfacielle et digressions narratives: le dilemme du romancier"

Ana Fernandes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Français): "Une histoire de la littérature bien particulière: De la littérature de Mme de Staël"
 
 

Salle B: Le temps de la poésie au XVIIIe siècle / Time and Poetry in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Peter Sabor (Université Laval, Anglais)

John Baird (University of Toronto, English): "Cowper's Time-Piece: The End of Time and the Timeliness of The Task"

Aaron Santesso (Queen's University, English): "Dryden's Rhetorical Nostalgia"

Katherine Quinsey (University of Windsor, English): "Time and Eternity in Pope"
 
 

Salle C: Le temps des arts / Timing Art and Artistic Time in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Joan Coutu (University of Waterloo, Art History)

Sarah Watson (University of California at Santa Barbara, Art History): "The Historical Positioning of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun"

Servanne Woodward (University of Western Ontario, Français): "Chardin's Gravity"

Ian Rae (University of British Columbia, Art History): "Time-as-Exhibit in Canadian Government Architecture"

 

Salle D: Philosophies du temps au XVIIIe siècle / Philosophies of Time in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Jean-Pierre Schachter (Huron College, University of Western Ontario, Philosophy):

Peter Walmsley (McMaster University, English): "A New-Discovered Country: John Locke and the Choreography of Mind"

R.S. Krishnan (North Dakota State University, English): "The Shortness of Our Present State: The Concept of Time in Johnson's Rasselas"

Doug Long (University of Western Ontario, Political Science): "Re-imaging Time: The Temporal Context of Social and Political Thought in Hume, Smith and Bentham"

Peter Loptson (University of Saskatchewan, Philosophy): "The Ineliminability of Time in Hume and Kant"
 
 

Salle E: Schiller et le drame / Aspects of Schiller's Dramas

Président/Chair: David John (University of Waterloo, German)

U. Pasterkiewicz (University of Waterloo, Germanic and Slavic): "Eine Arie für die Braut: Über Schillers Braut von Messina"

E. Schroeder (University of Waterloo, Germanic and Slavic): "Schiller's Amalia in Die Räuber: New Insights Into a Neglected Character"

Peter Trummer (University of Waterloo, Germanic and Slavic): "Die multiplen Vaterbilder und die Erschütterund der Vaterordnungen"

Respondent: David John (University of Waterloo, German)
 
 

11:00-11:30 PAUSE-CAFÉ / COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:30 SÉANCE PLÉNIÈRE / PLENARY SESSION

Président/Chair: Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal, Études françaises)

Jean Marie Goulemot

(Université de Tours, Institut Universitaire de France)

"Temps de l'histoire, temps de la littérature"
 
 

12:30-14:00 DÉJEUNER / LUNCH
 
 

14:00-15:30

Salle A: Représentations du corps au XVIIIe siècle / Bodies and Clothing in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Frans De Bruyn (University of Ottawa, English):

Robert Merrett (University of Alberta, English): "The Exchange of Body Styles in Eighteenth Century Britain and France"

Raymond Stephanson (University of Saskatchewan, English): "The Enlightenment Penis; Cultural Discourses and the Male Reproductive System"

Helen Lowry (Queen's University, German): "Dressing to Impress: The Female Discourse on the Feminine in the Travelogues of Johanna Schopenhauer and Hester Lynch Piozzi"
 
 

Salle B: Temps et écriture chez Crébillon / Time and Writing in Crébillon

Président/Chair: Thierry Belleguic (University of Western Ontario, Français)

Jean Sgard (Université de Grenoble, Littérature): "'De deux minutes à un quart d'heure': le temps de l'analyse chez Crébillon"

Jacques Wagner (Université Blaise-Pascal, Littérature): "Temps social et temps personnel dans Les Égarements du coeur et de l'esprit"
 
 

Salle C: Temps et mémoire dans le roman anglais du XVIIIe siècle / Time and Memory in the English Novel of the Enlightenment

Président/Chair: David Oakleaf (University of Calgary, English)

Sharon Ragaz (University of Toronto, English): "Pathological Time: Madness and Memory in Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian"

Stephen Ahern (McGill University, English): "Mnemonic Possession in Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho"
 
 

Salle D: Maternité, mariage et domesticité au XVIIIe siècle / Motherhood, Matrimony and Domesticity in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Katherine Quinsey (University of Windsor, English)

Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier University, English): "No Time for the Heart and Maternal Affection: Theory and the Mother and Daughter in Opie's Adeline Mowbray"

Jeanne Wood (University of Alberta, English): "The Literary Woman in the Lady's Monthly Museum (1798-1828): Negotiating Domestic Ideology"

Leslie Ritchie (McMaster University, English): "Mapping "The Region of Our Fears and Our Hopes": Anna Laetitia Barbauld's To Mr. Barbauld, with a Map of the Land of Matrimony"
 
 

Salle E: Les temps du roman: Tristram Shandy revisité / The Times of the Novel: Tristram Shandy revisited

Président/Chair: Peter Walmsley (McMaster University, English)

Stuart Pierson (Memorial University, History): "Shandean Time and Newtonian Time"

Will McConnell (McMaster University, English): "What Tristram (K)no(w)se?: Subjective Agency, Historical Causality, and Contractual Re-membering of the Social Body in Tristram Shandy"

Grant Campbell (Dalhousie University, Information Studies): "Clocks, Cash and the Enigma of Measurement in Moll Flanders and Tristram Shandy"
 
 

15:30-15:45 PAUSE-CAFÉ/COFFEE BREAK
 
 

15:45-17:30

Salle A: Politique et éducation chez Rousseau / Politics and Education in Rousseau

Président/Chair: Daniel Dumouchel (Université de Montréal, Philosophie)

Antoine Sassine (Mount Royal College, Languages): "La représentation du temps chez Rousseau"

Robert Elbaz (University of Haïfa, Études françaises): "Du sujet et du politique chez Rousseau"

Marie-Blanche Tahon (Université d'Ottawa, Sociologie): "Le temps dans l'éducation d'Émile et dans l'éducation de Sophie"
 
 

Salle B: Religion et colonialisme au XVIIIe siècle / Religion and the Colonies in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Ian Steele (University of Western Ontario, History)

Karen Stanbridge (University of Western Ontario, Sociology): "Eighteenth-Century British Catholic Policy in Ireland and Quebec: An Institutional Approach"

Nancy L. Rhoden (University of Southern Indiana, History): "Religion and Empire: Anglican Political Philosophies in the American Revolution: The Case of the Church of England Colonial Clergy"

Polly Stevens Fields (Lake Superior University, English): "Occam's Razor: Considerations of Native-American Christian Theology in Ontario"

Modératrice / Commentator: Margaret Kellow (University of Western Ontario, History)
 
 

Salle C: Temps, voyage, fiction / Time, Travel, Fiction

Président/Chair: John O'Neal (Hamilton College, Romance Languages):

Heinz Antor (University of Düsseldorf, English): "Educational Chronotopes in the Eighteenth Century Novel"

Kevin Cope (Louisiana State University): "Men in Black, the Universal Standard Day, and the Regulating of Semi-Fictive Travel Time from Crusoe to Cowper"

Modératrice / Commentator: Brigitte Glaser (University of Eichstaett, English)
 
 

Salle D: Épistolarité et témoignage au XVIIIe siècle / Epistolarity and Witnessing in the Eighteenth Century

Président/Chair: Rosena Davison (Simon Fraser University, Français)

Marie Laure Girou-Swiderski (Université d'Ottawa, Études françaises): "Témoin et juge de son temps? De Robert Challe à Madame de Meinières"

Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal, Études françaises): "De la configuration épistolaire chez Isabelle de Charrière et Constant d'Hermenches"

Susan Dalton (Université de Montréal, Histoire): "Elisabetta Mosconi Contarini's Letters to Her Future Son-in-Law"
 
 

Salle E: Femmes écrivains dans l'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle I / British Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century I

Président/Chair: Jane Magrath (University of Alberta, English):

Nanette Morton (McMaster University, English): "A Most Sensible Oeconomy: From Spectacle to Surveillance in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall"

Juliette Merritt (McMaster University, English): "The Discourse of Abandonment in Eliza Haywood's The British recluse"

Katherine Binhammer (University of Alberta, English): "Sexual Victims and Political Agents of Seduction: Mary Hays. The Victim of Prejudice"
 
 

17:45-19:00

ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE ANNUELLE / ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

19:00 RÉCEPTION / RECEPTION

19:30 BANQUET, DELTA ARMORIES


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