Northeast Conference on British Studies
Brown University September 29-30 1995
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Friday Evening 29 September
5:00-6:00 Registration and Cash Bar Reception
6:15-7:30 Dinner (to 7:15) Business Meeting (to 7:30)
7:45-9:00 "Playing for Power"
A one-Act Play celebrating the experience of the
Actresses' Franchise League in the Movement for
Women's Suffrage, written, devised and performed
by Margaret Metcalf, North London University
9:00-9:30 Discussion of the play with Ms. Metcalf
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Saturday, 30 September
8:00-8:40 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-10:15 First Group of Panels
I. Panel: A British Court? Networking Before and After 1603
Chair: Maurice Lee, Rutgers
Paper: Maureen M. Meikle, Westminster College, Missouri
Anna of Denmark and the Scottish Court, 1589-1603
Paper: Neil Cuddy, University of Toronto
Englishmen, Scotsmen and Henry, Prince of Wales,
1603-1612
Paper: Caroline M. Hibbard, University of Illinois
Scots and Politics in the Court of Henrietta Maria,
1625-42
Comment: Maurice Lee, Rutgers
II. Faith and Politics in the English Reformation
Chair: Paul Fideler, Leslie College
Paper: Marc Schwartz, University of New Hampshire
Joan Bocher and the Treatment of Heresy under Edward VI
Paper: Karen Guest, University of Virginia
A Bishop Rampant, Stephen Gardiner's Theological Defense of
Catholicism
Paper: Heather Lewis, Vanier College, Montreal
William Warham, Patron of Erasmus
Commentary: Susan Wabuda, Fordham University
III. Social Problems in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Joyce Malcolm, Bentley College
Paper: Katherine Kittredge, Ithaca College,
Making Sex Visible: Dress as Gender Performance in 18th C.
England
Paper: Patty Seleski, California State, San Marcos
A Mother, A Mistress and a Murderous Tool: Elizabeth
Brownrigg and the Construction of an Eighteenth Century
Mistress
Paper: Susannah Ottaway, Brown University
"'Old and Ragged': the Elderly Poor in Eighteenth Century
England"
Comment: Deborah Valenze, Barnard College
IV. The Fine Arts and the Image of Empire
Chair: Paget Henry, Brown University
Paper: Ronald R. Thomas, Trinity College, Hartford
Rethinking Venice, Victorian Venice and the Architecture of
Empire in Nineteenth Century Non-fiction Prose
Paper: Gita Rajan, Fairfield University
Empire and Colony: Illusion and Reality
Paper: John D. Lloyd, Boston College
Moving Pictures. Eighteenth Century Travel Literature and
the Appropriation of Killarney
Commentary: Brian Foss, Concordia University
10:30-12:00 Second Group of Panels
V. On the Philosophy of History
Chair: Gary Shaw, Wesleyan University
Paper: Robert Goheen, Carleton University
"Subjects of Discourse: Objects of Domination. Political
History after the Linguistic Turn"
Paper: David Kaiser, Harvard University
Consuming Philosophy: Literary Forms and Cultural
Representations in Eighteenth Century English
Popularizations of Natural Philosophy
Comment: Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
VI. The Association of Women in Early Modern England
I. Friendship and Patronage
Chair: Susan D. Amussen, Union Institute Graduate School
Paper: Lisa Schnell, University of Vermont
'Lets (Not) be Friends: Amelia Lanyer's Dedications to
"Salve Deus Rex Judeaeorum"'
Paper: Marybeth Levrakas, U. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Women of the Howard Family, Patriarchy and Family Ties
in Sixteenth Century England
Paper: Robert Tittler, Concordia University
The Feminine World of Joyce Jefferies, Spinster, Gentlewoman
and Moneylender
Commentary: Jodi Mikalachki, Wellesley College
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VII. The Changing Role of the Clergy, c. l660-l820
Chair: Richard Vann, Wesleyan University
Paper: William Gibson, Basingstoke College of Technology
The Decline of the English Domestic Chaplain, 1660-1830
Paper: Carl Estabrook, Dartmouth College
Cathedral Clergy and Lay Worship in 17th C. England
Comment: W. Brown Patterson, University of the South
VIII. Images of Ireland Since the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Vincent Carey, SUNY Plattsburgh
Paper: R. M. Douglas, Brown University,
"This Huge Swarm of Alien Barnacles: British Fascism and
Racial Hyberphobia, 1922-1940"
Paper: Lisa Meloy, Brown University
Imagined Peasants: Representations of Rural Life in Pre-
Revolutionary Ireland
Paper: Perry Curtis, Jr., Brown University
Cartoon Images of Ireland or, Saving Erin/Hibernia from a
Fate Worse than Death
Commentary: Sidney Burrell, Boston University
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12:10-1:10 Lunch
1:15-2:00 Plenary Address, Michael Bentley, Cambridge
University
'The Historiography of Modern British History
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2:15-3:45 Third Session of Panels
IX. : The Interaction of Women in Early Modern England
II. Womens' Cross-Class Friendships in the Renaissance
Chair: Susan Pennybacker, Trinity College
Paper: Jan Stirm, UCLA
"Speaking of Women in "Macbeth"
Paper: Helen Ostovich, McMaster University
"Mistress and Maid, Womens' Friendship in the 'New Inn'"
Paper: Nely Keinanen, University of Helsinki
"Courting the Queen: "Love's Labor's Lost" at the Court of
Elizabeth"
Comment Lisa Schnell, University of Vermont
X. Perspectives on the Glorious Revolution
Chair: Steven Pincus, University of Chicago
Paper: Tim Harris, Brown University
The Law and the Constitution in Scotland and England: A
Comparative Approach to the Glorious Revolution
Paper: Paul Halliday, Union College
The Corporations and the Revolutions of 1688
Paper: Todd Galitz, Brown University
Party Politics after the Glorious Revolution in a Provincial
Context, Worcestershire, 1690-1715
Comment: Steven Pincus, University of Chicago
XI. Gender Stereotypes and Politics in Twentieth Century
Britain
Chair: Fred Leventhal, Boston University
Paper: Gerard J. de Groot, University of St. Andrews
I Love the Smell of Cordite in Your Hair": Gender
Stereotypes and the Employment of Women in Anti-Aircraft
Batteries during the Second World War
Paper: Franklin Noll, Hyattsville, Maryland
Beyond the Postmodern Divide, Gender, Politics and the Rise
of the British Welfare State
Paper: Cary Champlin, Harvard Divinity School
Crowning the Peacemakers: Constance Todd Coltman on Gendered
Ministry and the Christain Church as Women's Kingdom
Commentary Chris Waters, Williams College
XII. Conceptualizing History in Victorian England
Chair: James O'Neill, Bryant College
Paper: Jennifer Lloyd, SUNY Brockport
"'Thunder on the Horizon': Ruskin's Reading of World
History"
Paper: Elizabeth J. Morse, Northridge, California
"The Tout Tait': the Partnership of Thomas F. Tout and
James Tait in Manchester, 1890-1919
Paper: John Powell, History, Penn State, Erie
Morley's Compromise and the Religion of Liberalism
Comment: David Roberts, Dartmouth College
Information and Registration forms may be had from Dr. Susan
Pennybacker, Department of History, Trinity College, Hartford,
Connecticut, 06106, tel. 203-297-2389.
Saturday, 30 September, 8:45-10:15
I. A British Court? Networking Before and After 1603
Chair: Maurice Lee, Professor of History, Rutgers University
P.O. Box 5059, New Brunswick, N..J., 08903-5059
Paper: Maureen M. Meikle, Visiting Professor of History,
Westminster College, 50l Westminster Ave.
Fulton, Missouri 65251-1299
Anna of Denmark and the Scottish Court, 1589-1603
Paper: Neil Cuddy, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1
Englishmen, Scotsmen and Henry, Prince of Wales,
1603-1612,
Paper: Caroline M. Hibbard, Associate Professor of History
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 61801
Scots and Politics in the Court of Henrietta Maria,
1625-42
Comment: Maurice Lee, Rutgers University (as above)
Saturday, 30 Sept., 8:45-l0:15
II. Faith and Politics in the English Reformation
Chair: Paul Fideler, Department of History, Leslie College,
29 Everitt Street, Cambridge, Mass., 02138-2790
Paper: Marc Schwartz, Department of History, University of New
Hampshire, Horton Social Science Centre, 20 College Road
Durham, N.H., 03824-0178
Joan Bocher and the Treatment of Heresy under Edward VI
Paper: Karen Guest, University of Virginia
c/o 206-B Montebello Circle, Charlottsville, Va. 22903-3109
A Bishop Rampant, Stephen Gardiner's Theological Defense of
Catholicism
Paper: Heather Lewis, Department of English, Vanier College,
821 Ste. Croix Avenue, St. Laurent, Quebec H4L 3X9
William Warham, Patron of Erasmus
Commentary: Susan Wabuda, Department of History, Fordham
University
Bronx, N.Y., 10458
III. Saturday, 30 September, l995, 8:45-10:15
Social Problems in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Joyce Malcolm , Bentley College
Department of History, Bentley College, Waltham, Mass.,
02154
Paper: Katherine Kittredge, Department of English, Ithaca
College,
Ithaca, New York, 14850
Making Sex Visible: Dress as Gender Performance in 18th C.
England
Paper: Patty Seleski, California State, San Marcos
Department of History, California State University, San
Marcos, Ca., 92096
A Mother, A Mistress and a Murderous Tool: Elizabeth
Brownrigg and the Construction of an Eighteenth Century Mistress
Paper: Susannah Ottaway, Brown University
"'Old and Ragged': the Elderly Poor in Eighteenth Century
England"
c/o Department of History, Brown University, Providence,
R.I.,
USA 02912 marked 'please forward'
Comment: To Be Announced
Saturday, 30th September, 8:45-l0:15
IV. The Fine Arts and the Image of Empire
Chair: Paget Henry, Brown University
Department of Afro-American Studies, Brown Univ, Providence,
R.I. 02912
Paper: Ronald R. Thomas, Chair, Department of English, Trinity
College, Hartford, Connecticut, 06106-3100
Rethinking Venice, Victorian Venice and the Architecture of
Empire in Nineteenth Century Non-fiction Prose
Paper: Gita Rajan, Department of English, Fairfield University,
Fairfield, Conn., 06430
Empire and Colony: Illusion and Reality
Paper: John D. Lloyd, Dept. of History, Boston College
c/0 21 Vershire St., West Roxbury, Mass., 02132
Moving Pictures. Eighteenth Century Travel Literature and
the
Appropriation of Killarney
Commentary: Brian Foss, Concordia University, Montreal
Department of Art History, Concordia University
Sir George Williams Campus, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, Quebec Canada H3G lM8
Saturday, 30th September, 10:30-12:00
V. On the Philosophy of History
Chair: Gary Shaw, Department of History, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Conn., 06459-0002
Paper: Robert Goheen, Department of History, Carleton University
Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, KlS 5B6
"Subjects of Discourse: Objects of Domination. Political
History after the Linguistic Turn"
Paper: David Kaiser, Department of the History of Science,
Harvard University, Science Center 235, Cambridge, Mass.,
02138
Consuming Philosophy: Literary Forms and Cultural
Representations in Eighteenth Century English Popularizations of
Natural Philosophy
Comment: Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
Department of History, University of New Hampshire,
Horton Social Science Center, Durham, N.H. 03824-0178
Saturday, 30 Sept., 10:30-12:00
VI. The Association of Women in Early Modern England
I. Friendship and Patronage
Chair: Susan D. Amussen, Union Institute Graduate School
14 Giles Street, Hamden, Conn. 06517
Paper: Lisa Schnell, Department of English, University of Vermont
Burlington, Vt., 15405
'Lets (Not) be Friends: Amelia Lanyer's Dedications to
"Salve Deus Rex Judeaeorum"'
Paper: Marybeth Levrakas, Department of History, U. North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, c/o 400 Davie Rd., #67, Carrboro,
N.C.
27510
The Women of the Howard Family, Patriarchy and Family Ties
in
Sixteenth Century England
Paper: Robert Tittler, Concordia University
The Feminine World of Joyce Jefferies, Spinster, Gentlewoman and
Money Lender
Dept. of History, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec
Commentary: Jodi Mikalachki, Dept. of English, Wellesley
College
Wellesley, Massachusetts, 02181
Saturday, 30th September, 10:30-12:00
VII. The Changing Role of the Clergy, c. l660-l820
Chair: To Be Announced
Paper: William Gibson, Head, Student Services, Basingstoke
College
of Technology, Basingstioke, England Fax: UK 0256-810007
The Decline of the English Domestic Chaplain, 1660-1830
Paper: Carl Estabrook, Department of History, Dartmouth College
6107 Reed Hall, Hanover, N.H. 03755-3506
Cathedral Clergy and Lay Worship in 17th C. England
Comment: W. Brown Patterson, Department of History, University of
the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 37375-4003
Saturday, 30 September, 10:30-12:00
VIII. Images of Ireland Since the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Vincent Carey, Assistant Professor of History,
SUNY Plattsburgh, Rugar Street, Champlain Valley Hall
Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901
Paper: R. M. Douglas, Department of History, Brown University,
Providence, R.I., 02912
"This Huge Swarm of Alien Barnacles: British Fascism and
Racial Hyberphobia, 1922-1940"
Paper: Lisa Meloy, Department of History, Brown University
Providence, R.I., 02912
Imagined Peasants: Representations of Rural Life in Pre-
Revolutionary Ireland
Paper: Perry Curtis, Jr., Professor of History, Brown University
Providence, R.I., 02912
Cartoon Images of Ireland or, Saving Erin/Hibernia from a
Fate
Worse than Death
Commentary: Sidney Burrell, Professor Emeritus of History, Boston
University, Boston, Mass., 02215
Saturday, 30th September, 2:15-3:45
IX. The Interaction of Women in Early Modern England: II Women's
Cross-Class Friendships
Chair: Coppelia Kahn, Department of English, Brown University
Providence, R.I.,
Paper: Jan Stirm, Department of English, UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca.
90024
Paper: Helen Ostovich, Department of English, McMaster Univ.,
Hamlton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L9
Paper: Nely Keinanan, Depart. of English, University of
Helsinki,
P.O. Box 4 (Hallituskatu 11), FIN-000014, University of
Helsinli, Finland.
Commentary: Lisa Schnell, Department of English, University of
Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
Saturday 30th Sept., 2:15-3:45
X. Perspectives on the Glorious Revolution
Chair: Steven Pincus, Department of History
University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th Street, Chicago, Ill.
60637
Paper: Tim Harris, Brown University
The Law and the Constitution in Scotland and England, a
Comparative Approach to the Glorious Revolution
Paper: Paul Halliday, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.
12308-2365
The Corporations and the Revolution of 1688
Paper: Todd Galitz, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Party Politics after the Glorious Revolution in a Provincial
Context, Worcestershire, l690-l7l5
Chair: Steven Pincus, University of Chicago (as above)
Saturday, Sept. 30th, 2:15-3:45
XI. Gender Stereotypes and Politics in Twentieth Century
Britain
Chair: Fred Leventhal, Boston University
Department of History, Boston University, Boston, Mass.,
02215
Paper: Gerard J. de Groot, Department of Modern History,
University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9AL
Fax: 0334-62914
"I Love the Smell of Cordite in Your Hair": Gender
Stereotypes
and the Employment of Women in Anti-Aircraft Batteries during the
Second World War
Paper: Franklin Noll, University of Maryland
c/o 1908 Oliver Street, Hyattsville, Md., 20782
Beyond the Postmodern Divide, Gender, Politics and the Rise
of
the British Welfare State
Paper: Cary Champlin, Harvard Divinity School
Crowning the Peacemakers: Constance Todd Coltman on Gendered
Ministry and the Christaian Church as Women's Kingdom
(After 11 Sept., 144 Battle Street, Cambridge, Mass.;
before llth Sept., to be supplied.)
Commentary Christopher Waters, Department of History, Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass., 01267
Saturday, 30 September, 2:15-3:45
XII. Conceptualizing History in Victorian England
Chair: James O'Neill, Department of English, Bryant College,
ll50 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, R.I., 02917-1284
Paper: Jennifer Lloyd, Department of History, SUNY Brockport
350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, N.Y., 14420-2956
"'Thunder on the Horizon': Ruskin's Reading of World
History"
Paper: Elizabeth J. Morse, Northridge, California
c/o 8 Marlborough Road, Oxford OX1 4LP, England
"The Tout Tait': the Partnership of Thomas F. Tout and
James Tait in Manchester, 1890-1919"
Paper: John Powell, Department of History, Penn State at Erie,
Station Road, Erie, Pennsylvania 16563-1501
Morley's Compromise and the Religion of Liberalism
Comment: David Roberts, Dartmouth
Department of History, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire 03755