REGISTRATION
Thursday, 12 October 1995, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Friday, 13 October 1995, 8:00-12:00 p.m.
FRIDAY, 13 OCTOBER 1995
8:30 - 10:30 Sessions
1. AUSTEN AND COLERIDGE
Chair: Gerald Monsman, University of Arizona
Jane Austen and the Relativity of Grief
Jill Heydt-Stevenson, University of Texas at San Antonio
What remains when Disbelief has Gone? Wishing for nothing in Jane AustenUs Emma
Colin Jager, University of Michigan
Coleridge the Rhetor: Claiming Canonical Status
Megan OUNeill, University of New Mexico
Commentator: Gene Koppel, University of Arizona
2. GENDER IN LITERATURE
Chair: Gary Harrison, University of New Mexico
The Mother/Daughter Dilemma: The Failure of Motherhood in Anthony TrollopeUs
Lady Anna
Julianne White, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Supergirl the Monkey: She and Feminism
Jon Anderson, Texas Christian University
The Construction of Genre in the Victorian Popular Fiction Market: WomenUs
Sensation Fiction
Pamela K. Gilbert, University of WisconsinQParkside
Commentator: Helena Michie, Rice University
3. DOMESTIC SOCIETY AND POLITICS
Chair: Robert McJimsey, Colorado College
The Early StuartsU Use of the Embassy Household, 1603-1642
Christian E. Henneke, University of Virginia
The Decline of the English Domestic Chaplain, 1660-1840
William Gibson, Basingstoke College of Technology
Commentator: James Rosenheim, Texas A & M University
4. CONSERVATIVES AND CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY: SERVICE AND FRANCHISE
Chair: John A. Ramsden, Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London and Westminister College
'RobertsU RabbleU: The Conservative Party and the Ideology of Compulsion,
1905-14
Thomas C. Kennedy, University of Arkansas
Citizen Defence: The Conservatives and Conscription, 1937-1939
Nick Crowson, QueenUs University of Belfast
The Conservative Party and Electoral Reform during World War I
Neal McCrillis, Methodist College
Commentator: Jane K. Vieth, Michigan State University
PLENARY SESSION
Decline or Fall? Thoughts on the Eclipse of British Power
Daniel A. Baugh, Professor of Modern British History, Cornell University
5. TWENTIETH-CENTURY CULTURE
Chair: Elizabeth Gregory, University of Houston
Tragic Hero and Pederast: The Two Scobies
J. Robert Baker, Fairmont State College
Another Part of the Wood: Beryl BainbridgeUs Twice-Told Tale
Gloria Duarte-Valverde, Angelo State University
The Cultural Conext of RockUnURoll in Great Britain
Julie Smith, University of Arkansas
Commentator: TBA
6. VICTORIAN RADICALISM
Chair: Henry Weisser, Colorado State University
The Contentions of a TGood HaterU: William Hazlitt and Radical Journalism,
1810-1830
Philip Harling, University of Kentucky
Charlotte SmithUs The Emigrants and the Transformation of Radical Sympathy
Gloria Schultz Eastman, University of Colorado-Boulder
Courting CouplesU or Courting Disaster? Conflict over Public Indecency in
Nineteenth- Century London
Nan H. Dreher, Marquette University
Commentator: Nancy LoPatin, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
7.THE HIGH POLITICS OF GENDER IN TUDOR-STUART ENGLAND
Chair: Melvin Tucker, State University of New York at Buffalo
The Young Countess of Essex and Somerset: Her Scandals, Her Politics and Her
Poets
Gayle Gaskill, College of St. Catherine
Women in the Bawdy Court: Defining Disorder as Female in England, 1560-1650
Laura Deal, University of Colorado-Boulder
The Legal Rights and Privileges of Women Peers, 1550-1650
Margaret S. Minor, Nicholls State University
Commentator: Katharine Swett, Ohio State University
8. MILITARY REFORMERS
Chair: R.J.Q. Adams, Texas A&M University
General Sir Redvers Buller: Interim Reformer
James B. Thomas, Blinn College
Lord Methuen and the Late Victorian Military
Stephen Miller, University of Connecticut
Commentator: Jacq Collins, Texas Tech University
9.THE POSITION OF THE ARISTOCRACY AND REVOLUTION
Chair: Nan Dreher, Marquette University
Legitimacy, the Law of Nature and English Responses to the French Revolution
Robert Ingram, University of Virginia
Monarchy, Money, Munificence, and Morality: The Meeting of Aristocratic and
Middle- Class Ethos in England during the War with Revolutionary France
Marilyn Morris, University of North Texas
Reading MacaulayUs History of England: Family, Revolution and an Aristocratic
Reading Tradition
John Powell, Penn State-Erie
Commentator: Charles Middleton, University of Colorado
10. SEX AND POLITICS: POLICING SUBVERSIVE DESIRE IN LITERATURE
Chair: Mary Ann OUFarrell, Texas A & M University
Eighteenth-Century Obscenity and the Construction of the Sodomite
Jeremy Wade Webster, University of Tennessee
Burning Desire in ByronUs Sardanapalus
Samuel Lyndon Gladden, Texas A & M University
Disciplining the Homoerotic in LawrenceUs The Prussian Officer
Kevin Lee Cole, Baylor University
Commentator: Mark Lusser, Arizona State University
11. BRITISH POLITICS AND THE THIRD HOME RULE CRISIS
Chair: William Lubenow, Richard Stockton State College
Home Rule TIn Its International and Imperial AspectU: Winston Churchill and
Ireland, 1911-1914
Andrew Muldoon, Washington University
A Conservative Policy for the Unionist Party: Lord Curzon and the Third Home
Rule Crisis
Derek W. Blakeley, Washington University
The Army and the Third Home Rule Crisis
Stephen M. Duffy, Texas A & M University
Commentator: Richard Cosgrove, University of Arizona
12. MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Chair: Ellwood Mather, Montana State University
The Feast of Relics in the English Use of Salisbury
Brad Eden, Houston, Texas
Heraldry and Heralds: Crying 'Ryche Folkes' in Chaucer's The House of Fame
Patricia Torpis, University of Houston
Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston
Middle English Romance and the Missing Fabliaux
Glenn Wright, University of Michigan
Commentator: Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
13. MORALITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
Chair: Kathrine McDorman, Texas Chrisian University
Ruskin and Organic Moral History
Stephen L. Keck, College of Charleston
Mary Anne Clarke and the Politics of Morality, 1809-1810
Ronald K. Huch, University of Papua New Guinea
Blasphemy and the Freethinker: The Contest for the Control of Morality and
Opinion
David Nash, Oxford Brookes University
Commentator: Shirley Mullen, Westmont College
14. BROWNING AND TENNYSON
Chair: Irene Neuman Brown, New Mexico State University
Dante, Browning and Epiphany
Eugene R. August, University of Dayton
Constructing a Web of Theory: BrowningUs TAndrea Del Sarto,U 'Fra Lippo Lippi,U
and 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'
Tracey M. Gau, Texas Christian University
TennysonUs Aesthetic Triumph in In Memoriam
Neil H. Petrie, Colorado State University
Commentator: Irene Neuman Brown, New Mexico State University
15. BRITISH INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
Chair: Shirley Eoff, Angelo State University
MillUs Heterodox Disciples: The Influence of T.E.C. Leslie and W.T. Thornton on
MillUs Economic and Religious Thought
Jeff Lipkes, Hollins College
William Whewell and Architectural Knowledge in the Context of Victorian Natural
Science
Carla Yanni, University of New Mexico
Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey and the Tradition of Henry Sidgwick
William C. Lubenow, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Commentator: Hew Joiner, Georgia Southern University
16. MILITARY POLITICS: THE CASE OF BRITAIN IN WORLD WAR I
Chair: John Fair, Auburn University at Montgomery
The Royal Navy and the Trenches: The Causes and Impact of the Battle of
Passchendaele
Andrew Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi
Changing the Image of Race: Britain and the Indian Corps at the Battle of Neuve
Capelle
Robert McLain, University of Southern Mississippi
The Residue of Victorian Idealism: The Imperial War Graves Commission and
Rudyard Kipling
Deborah Wiggins, South Plains College
Commentator: Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert, University of IllinoisQChicago
17. POLITICS AND LITERATURE
Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Social Unrest and WordsworthUs The Borders
Michael Avis, University of Colorado
Romantic Ecotopia: The Place of John Clare
Gary Harrison, University of New Mexico
Keats: The Ambivalent Liberal
Rebecca K. Rowley, Clovis Community College
Commentator: Jeffrey Cox, Texas A & M University
18. WOMEN AND THEIR ROLES
Chair: Sandra Peacock, Georgia Southern University
Englishwomen in Music: Performers and Composers of the Late Eighteenth and Early
Nineteenth Centuries
Paula Gillett, San Jose State University
Anglican Nuns as Missionaries: The Case of South Africa, 1880-1910
Modupe Labode, Iowa State University
Women and Work in Inter-War Britain: The Return of White and Useless Hands?
J.A. Turley-Ewart, University of Toronto
Commentator: Margaret Barnett, University of Southern Mississippi
19. NOT GUILTY: THE BRITISH MEDIA AND APPEASEMENT
Chair: Roy T. Matthews, Michigan State University
NOT the TGuilty Men!U Punch and Appeasement, 1933-1940
Peter Mellini, Sonoma State University
Lies, Spies and Saboteurs: Alfred HitchcockUs Film in the Appeasement Era
Robert Cole, Utah State University
'Who Among Us Has Not Committed Treason?' The Figure of the Spy in Graham
GreeneUs The Ministry of Fear
Kristine A. Miller, Utah State University
Commentator: R.J.Q. Adams, Texas A&M University
20. CATHOLICS AND ENGLISH LIBERALS
Chair: Shirley Mullen, Westmont College
Maynooth and the Liberal Party
Joseph Coohill, Oxford University
Odo Russell and the First Vatican Council
D. Niler Pyeatt, Wayland Baptist University
Gladstone, Russell, and the 'Kennedy Dispute'
Paul Scherer, Indiana University-South Bend
Commentator: Josef L. Altholz, University of Minnesota
21. THE RISE OF THE GREAT BRITAIN
Chair: Margaret S. Minor, Nicholls State University
England, Scotland and the TUnion of the CrownsU: Multiple Kingdom(s) or Nation-
State(s)?
Swen Voekel, University of Rochester
1740-1792: Setting the Agenda for British International Leadership
Daniel J. Whiteneck, Seattle University
Commentator: Richard A Voeltz, Cameron University
22. BRITISH OPINION AND PROPAGANDA
Chair: Larry L. Witherell, University of Minnesota
Lord Northcliffe in America: British Associative Propaganda June to November
1917
Lee Thompson, Texas A & M University
Uneasy Undercurrents in the Anglo-American Rapprochement, 1902-1914
James D. Startt, Valparaiso University
Commentator: Lyle McGeoch, Ohio University
23. ELIZABETHAN AND VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Chair: Gayle Gaskill, College of St. Catherine
MarloweUs Elizabeth I, Prince and Queen of Troy Revised
Susan Williams, University of Arkansas
The Included/Excluded Narrator in Elizabeth GaskellUs Cranford
Andrea Rohlfs Wright, Texas Christian University
Commentator: TBA
24. CONSTRUCTING COLONIAL IDENTITIES: COLONIAL NATIONALISM IN THE BRITISH
EMPIRE, 1850-1950
Chair: Edward Cox, Rice University
Preserving White Australia: Race, Nation and Security in Twentieth-Century
Australia
Karl Ittmann, University of Houston
Demarcating an African Community: The East Africa Royal Commission and the
Definition of the African
A.J. Hood, Rice University
Developing a New Zealand Identity, 1850-1910
Rebecca Durrer, University of Houston
Commentator: Brian Blakeley, Texas Tech University
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Medical Center Hilton
Houston, Texas
13-14 October 1995
Registration Form
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Institution (If applicable)____________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________________
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Registration Fee........................$25 __________
Luncheon (Saturday, Oct. 14)............$17 __________
Annual Banquet (Friday, Oct. 13)........$21 __________
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Return Registration Form, with fees to
Professor Karl Ittmann
WCBS, Local Arrangements
Department of History
University of Houston
Houston, Texas 77204-3785
If you have any questions contact Prof. Karl Ittmann (713) 743-3102, E-Mail:
KITTMANN@jetson.uh.edu
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Hotel Reservations:
The Conference is being held at the Medical Center Hilton, 6633 Travis Street,
Houston, Texas 77030-1308. To reserve accomodations, please contact the hotel at
(713) 524-6633, FAX (713) 529-6806 or 1-800-HILTONS. Please be sure to mention
the WCBS when making your reservations. Conference room rates are: $80 for
single and $85 for double/triple/quad. A deli buffet will be available to
conference participants for $6.95 and continental breakfast will be available
Friday, Saturday and Sundary mornings for $5.95 each.
The Airport Express goes from both airports (Intercontinental and Hobby) to the
hotel and return.
For Program Brochure contact:
Larry L. Witherell
Program Coordinator
Institute of International Studies
214 Social Science Bldg
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Tel. (612) 624-0255
FAX (612) 626-2242
withe007@maroon.tc.umn.edu