Scottish Romanticism in
World Literatures
THURSDAY, September 7 th Morrison
Room , UC Berkeley Library
6:30 pm Welcome – Reception
Plenary # 1 Cairns Craig, “Scottish Aesthetics
and the Landscape of Memory”
FRIDAY, September 8 th Clark-Kerr
Campus Conference Center
8:45 - 10:25 Session I :
1.) Romanticisms (I)
Michael Gardiner (Aberdeen), “‘Is the ‘Scottish’ in
Scottish Romanticism like the ‘English’
in ‘English Romanticism’?”
Alan Rawes (Manchester), “Byron and the Scottish Foundations
of European Romanticism”
Andrew Hook (Glasgow), “The American Response to Scottish Literary
Romanticism”
2.) The New World (I)
Tim Fulford, “Scottish Indians”
Siobhan Carroll (Indiana), “Of Nobles and Savages: William Gilmore
Simms and the
Americanization of the Waverley Novels”
Carol Baraniuk (Glasgow), “‘At my ain fire-side at last’:
Exile and Return in the Life and Works
of James Orr, a Scotch-Irish Poet”
3.) Periodicals (I): Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Tony Jarrels (USC), “Provincializing Enlightenment”
Nicholas Mason (Brigham Young), “Blackwood’s and
the Scottish Poetic Tradition”
Tom Mole (McGill), “‘Personality’ in Blackwood’s Attacks
on the Cockney School”
4.) History and Enlightenment
David Bates ( Berkeley), “Constitutional Violence”
Mary Favret ( Indiana), “Enlightenment Historiography in Wartime”
Juliet Shields ( Ohio State), “The Origins of Sensibility and
the Origins of Great Britain”
10:45-12:00 Plenary# 2:
Luke Gibbons, “‘A Wandering Passion for a Fugitive Object’:
Romanticism and the Irish Sublime”
Lunch [on-site]
1:20 - 3:00 Session II
5.) Poetry, People, Nation
Janet Sorensen, (Indiana), “Figuring the People in English and
Scottish Ballad Collections”
Fiona Stafford (Oxford), “Lice, Mice, Bumclocks, Grubs: Dialect
Poetry and the Legacy of Burns”
Jennifer Watson (Texas, Austin): “Re-imagining Nation and Gender:
Janet Little
and Isabel Pagan’s ‘Metre of diff’rent kinds’”
6.) The literary field
Evan Gottlieb (Oregon State), “Walter Scott’s New World
Order”
Sharon Ragaz (Oxford), “The Scottish Connection: Walter Scott
and the Quarterly Review”
Joe Rezek (UCLA), “Jeanie Deans Goes to London: The Heart
of Mid-Lothian
and the Structure of the Early Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary
Field”
FRIDAY, Sept. 8 th
7.) The New World (II)
Ken McNeil (Eastern Connecticut State), “Voices of Empire: Ann
Grant’s Memoirs of an
American Lady ”
Ann Rowland (Harvard), “A Colony of Children: Cultural Theory
for the New World”
Jeffrey Scraba (Memphis): “Abbotsford on the Hudson”
8.) The novel
Peter Garside (Edinburgh), “The Scotch Novel, 1770-1836”
Jared Greene (Berkeley), “The Three Perils of the Novel: Scale,
Sequence, Simultaneity”
Hans de Groot (Toronto), “Cervantes, Sterne, Hogg”
tea
3:20-4:30 Session III
9.) Tradition and its discontents
Suzanne Gilbert (Stirling), “Scottish Narrative and the Authority
of Tradition”
Catherine Cronquist Browning (Berkeley), “‘Myself maun
bear the blame’: Structuring Feminine
Power and Voice in the ‘Tam Lin’ Ballad”
10.) Transatlantic Scott
Fiona Robertson (University of Central England), “Emblems, Devices,
and the
Figure of the Substitute: Scott, Hawthorne, Crane”
Peter Manning and Susan Scheckel (SUNY Stony Brook), “Troubling
Boundaries:
Scott, Whitman, and National Poetry”
11.) Conspiracy, secrecy and sedition
Nigel Leask (Glasgow), “Conspiracy Theories in 1790s Scotland”
Penny Fielding (Edinburgh), “Secrecy and Sedition in Scotland
and America”
12.) Word and image
Gilles Soubigou (Sorbonne), “‘Un pays vraiment romantique’:
The Reception of Scottish Literature
in French Romantic Art”
Richard James Hill, “Scott, Illustration and The
Keepsake”
4:45-6:00 Plenary # 3 :
David Simpson, “‘Which is the Merchant here, and which
the Jew?’: Walter Scott’s Foreigners”
6:00-6:30 Refreshment break
6:30-8:00 : Symposium: The Novel in World
History, 1780-1840
Margaret Cohen, Catherine Gallagher, Peter Garside, Catherine Jones,
Franco Moretti
SATURDAY, September 9 th Wheeler
Hall
8:30-10:15 Session IV
13.) Romanticisms (II)
Leith Davis (Simon Fraser), “Scottish Romanticism, Cyberspace
and Global Technologies
of Nostalgia”
Margery Palmer McCulloch (Glasgow), “‘You Talk Utopia’:
Romanticism and the
Twentieth-Century Scottish Renaissance Movement”
Ryan Shirey (Washington University), “A Background of Infinite
Possibility: the Romanticism of
the Scottish Renaissance”
14.) Histories of the Senses
Denise Gigante (Stanford), “On Hospitality, Raw and Cooked”
Kevis Goodman (Berkeley), “English Bards and Scotch Physicians:
Nostalgia, or the History in
Motion(s)”
Noel Jackson (MIT), “The ‘Sense of History’ and
the History of the Senses: Periodizing
Perception in Wordsworth”
15.) Romanticism and/as Enlightenment
Slavica Naumovska (Berkeley), "Productive Indolence in Hume
and Keats"
Matt Wickman (Brigham Young), “‘Alba Newton’;
or, After Euclid, Before Scott”
Clifford Siskin (NYU), “Romanticism as Enlightenment: The
System of the World”
16.) Scotland and Europe (I)
Silvia Mergenthal (Konstanz), “Caledonia Germanica? German
Women Writers Discover Scotland”
Jane Moore (Cardiff/Caerdydd), “Owen of New Lanark: Wales,
Scotland and Romantic Period Satire”
Stuart Campbell (Glasgow), “What Happened to the Romance
of Scotland in
Nineteenth-century Russian Music?”
17.) Medieval excitement
Antony Hasler (St Louis), “Scott and Medieval Excitement”
Dana Van Kooy (Boulder), “Melodrama, Extravaganza, and
Gothic Romance:
Dramatic Refigurations of Cultural Identity in Scott’s Doom
of Devorgoil”
Tara Wallace (George Washington University), “Returning
Romance to the Crusades:
Walter Scott’s The Talisman and Ridley Scott’s ‘Kingdom
of Heaven’”
18.) Burns abroad
Rhona Brown (Glasgow), “The Reception of Robert Burns in
the Scottish, Irish
and American Periodical Press”
Jane Darcy (King’s College, London), “Burns and Highland
Mary:
Early Constructions of a Literary Reputation”
Pauline Gray (Glasgow), “The Correspondence of Burns and Clarinda:
Irish and American Publications”
10:35-12:15Workshops
/ seminars
James Chandler, “Edgeworth between Smith and Scott”
Penny Fielding and John Plotz, “Is there a Whole Hogg?”
David Hewitt and Alison Lumsden, “ The Edinburgh Edition
of the Waverley Novels:
Past, Present and Future”
Margaret Russett, “Authority and Authenticity in Scottish
Romanticism”
SATURDAY, Sept. 9th
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15Plenary #4: Murray
Pittock,
“Fratriotism: Empire and its Limits in the Scottish and
Irish Imagination”
3:30-5:10Session V
19.) Scotland and Europe (II)
Margaret Bruzelius (Smith), “Dumas’s Scott”
Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon (Paris VIII), “Fingal and
the Steam Engine: Jules Verne’s Vision of
Romantic Scotland”
Kathleen O’Donnell, “Ossian in the Nineteenth-Century
Greek-speaking World”
20.) Celtic Gothic
Carol Davison ( Windsor), “Gothic Scotland/Scottish Gothic:
The Politics and Poetics of
a Literary Tradition”
Claire Connolly (Cardiff), “Reanimating the Corpse of Superstition:
Scottish and Irish Gothic”
Deirdre Shepherd (Edinburgh), “Sir Walter Scott, James
Hogg and the Taming of the Uncanny”
21.) Romanticisms (III)
James Deboo (Lancaster), “Burns and Wordsworth”
Dafydd Moore (Plymouth), “Tennyson, Malory and the Ossianic
Mode: The Poems of
Ossian and the Deaths of Arthur”
Patrick Scott (South Carolina), “Tennyson, Ossian, and
the Origins of In Memoriam”
22.) The historical novel
Jen Camden (Indianapolis), “Race, Femininity and the Historical
Romance in
Ivanhoe and Hope Leslie”
Simon Edwards (Roehampton), “The Wild Boy of the Woods:
Scott, Dickens and the Feral Child”
Enrica Villari (Venice, Ca’ Foscari), “‘History
saved my mind from utter dissipation’:
Scott, Tolstoj and the Therapy of History”
23.) Adam Smith, Romantic
Maureen Harkin (Reed College), “Adam Smith’s Literary
Culture”
Rae Greiner (Berkeley), “Adam Smith’s Narrative Sympathy”
Dermot Ryan (Columbia), “‘The Beauty of That Arrangement’:
Adam Smith Imagines Empire”
24.) Periodicals (II)
Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming), “Fighting Words:
Dueling at the Bounds of
Class and Culture in the Newspapers of Walter Scott’s Scotland”
Rebecca Newman (Rhodes College), “‘Our Edinburgh
Brethren’: Blackwood’s, Peter’s
Letters and the Problem of the Magazine”
Mark Schoenfield (Vanderbilt), “Pageantry and Majesty:
The King and Maga”
5:15-6:30 Plenary #5: Robert Crawford, “America’s
Bard”
7:00St Andrew’s Society reception
and recital:
Kirsteen McCue and David Hamilton, “The Ettrick Shepherd
in Soho Square.”
SUNDAY, September 10 th Wheeler
Hall
9:00-10:45Session VI
25.) The science and history of nations
Catherine Jones ( Aberdeen), “Mme de Staël and Scotland: Corinne, Ossian
and the Science of Nations”
JoEllen DeLucia ( Indiana), “Ossian, The Bluestockings,
and Conjectural History”
Mark Allison ( Berkeley), “Geist in the Machine:
Scottish Materialist History and
Early Victorian Social Criticism."
26.) Global Scott
Andrea Cabajsky (Moncton), “Reading Canada's Literary History
in English and French: Scott's
Critical Reception in Canadian and Quebec Studies”
Richard Maxwell (Yale), “Scott and South America”
Tony Day (Yale), “Scott in the Indies”
27.) Scottish and Irish National Fiction
Sharon Alker (Whitman College), “‘Wild English Boys:
Scottish Romanticism
in Edgeworth’s ‘Forester’”
Leslie Walton (Berkeley), “Maria Edgeworth, Moral Philosophy,
and the Education of Daughters”
Julie Donovan (George Washington University), “Lady Morgan
and Walter Scott’s
Worn-Out Inexpressibles”
28.) Poetics of War
Nancy Goslee (Tennessee-Knoxville), “Falkirk and Footnotes:
Holford, Scott and the Figure of Wallace”
Gill Hughes (Stirling), “Hogg, Wallace and Waterloo”
Andrew Monnickendam (Barcelona), “Women and War: Christian
Isobel Johnstone, Clan-Albin
and the Ideology of the Historical Novel”
29.) Transnational minstrelsies
Maureen McLane (Harvard), "Whose World Anyway?: Scottish
Romanticism Before and After "World Literature[s]": National
Song, Transnational Airs, Transcultural Fantasy, Medial Circuits,"
Erik Simpson (Grinnell), “‘A Minstrel of the Western
Continent’: The Last of the Mohicans and
American Minstrelsy Before Blackface”
Samuel Baker (Texas, Austin), “Minstrelsy of the Mexican
Border: John Lomax,
Walter Scott, and Devolving American Romance.”
Coffee
11-12:30 Closing Plenary : Susan Manning, “Literary
Friendship and Lateral Thinking”
Farewell |
