Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance
Conference Program 2011
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Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance
Thursday 10 February 2011
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Colonial Romanticism (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 022) |
Canonical Romanticism (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 028) |
Romanticism’s Preludes and Postscripts (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 030)
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8.30 – 9.30
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Registration: New Law School Foyer |
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9.30 – 11.00 |
Welcome: Vice Chancellor Dr Michael Spence
Plenary: Professor Deirdre Coleman (University of Melbourne), ‘Orient Knowledge’ and its ‘fountains pure’: India in Coleridge’s writings of the 1790s
Venue: New Law School Lecture Theatre 101
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Morning Tea
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11.30 – 1.00
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Chair: A/Prof. Will Christie
Prof. Graham Tulloch Flinders University Reading Scottish Romanticism from Australia: Beginnings to 1837
Dr Lisa O’Connell University of Queensland Sensible Distances: The Colonial Projections of Therese Huber and E. G. Wakefield
Dr Fiona Polack Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada The Currans and the Colonies: Shelley’s Circle and the Settlement of Newfoundland
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Chair: Dr Thomas McLean
Dr Sara Meyer Haifa University, Israel Multiple Acts of (Un) Distancing in Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’
Dr John Cole Surprised by ‘tender joy’: The ‘sober pleasures’ of ‘Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey’
Mr Elias Greig University of Sydney ‘Between Words and Things a dim and perilous Way’: Wordsworth’s Long Walk out of Convention
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Chair: Dr Clara Tuite
Dr Young-ok An University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA Creating Distances: Felicia Hemans’s Flight into the Foreign
Dr Glen McGillivray University of Sydney/UWS ‘The Wonderful Scene’: Distance, Strangeness and Theatrical Metaphors in the Eighteenth Century
Dr Ben P. Robertson Troy University, Troy, USA Managing Distance: Elizabeth Inchbald’s Manipulative Streak
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1.00 – 2.00 |
Lunch
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2.00 – 3.30
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Chair: Prof. Graham Tulloch
Ms Anne Brown The Exotic Remote in a Land of New Values: Familiarity and Distance in Early NZ Novels
Dr Nikki Hessell Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Ropata Purana: A Bicultural Burns
Mr Don Carter NSW Board of Studies ‘Transportation’ to ‘Transformation’: The influence of Romanticism on English education and curriculum in New South Wales |
Chair: Prof. Judith Johnston
Dr Thomas McLean University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ Revolution in Recline
Dr Neil Ramsey Australian National University Mediating Distant Suffering in Romantic War Writing
Dr Eric Parisot University of Melbourne Writing from the Precipice: The Rhetoric of Self-Destruction in Godwin’s Caleb Williams
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Chair: Prof. Paul Giles
Mr Michael Buhagiar University of Sydney William Blake and Christopher Brennan: the Revolt Against Classical and Newtonian Constriction
Mr Adam Colman University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA The Globalizing Sublime in Moby-Dick
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3.30 – 4.00 |
Afternoon Tea
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4.00 – 5.30
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Chair: Dr Lisa O’Connell
Dr Adam Newcombe Edith Cowan University Distances Real and Imagined: Writing the Remote in Time and Place and Culture
Ms Dunya Lindsey Monash University ‘Their spirit walks abroad’: Intertextuality, the Romantics and Irish Political Transportation Writings
Dr Nathan Garvey University of Queensland William Bligh and the Pirates in London
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Chair: Prof. Peter Otto
Dr Thomas Ford Australian National University Calling Long Distance in Romanticism
Mr Tony Ross University of Glasgow, UK The Demands of Distance: Romantic Correspondence as Focal Practice
Dr Rachel Hewitt Queen Mary, University of London, UK Mapping Romantic Distance |
Chair: Dr Angie Dunstan
Dr Christopher Rovee Stanford University, California, USA Photographie à distance: On the Impossibility of Romantic Photography
Prof. Richard Read University of Western Australia Distance, Recognition and Synaesthesia: The Afterlife of Molyneux’s Question in the Art Criticism of William Hazlitt and John Ruskin
Prof. Christine Alexander University of New South Wales Negotiating ‘divine intoxication’: Charlotte Brontë and the Revolutionary Sublime
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6.00 – 7.30 |
Plenary: Professor Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews, UK), Distant Keats
Venue: New Law School Lecture Theatre 101
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Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance
Friday 11 February 2011
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Colonial Romanticism (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 022) |
Canonical Romanticism (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 028) |
Romanticism’s Preludes and Postscripts (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 030)
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9.00 – 9.30
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Registration: New Law School Foyer
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9.30 – 11.00 |
Chair: Prof. Deirdre Coleman
Dr Claire Knowles La Trobe University 1789: The World and the Forgotten Della Cruscans
Dr Amy Garnai Tel Aviv University, Israel Robert Merry's Emigration to America and the Tyrannies of (Romantic) Distance
Prof. Paul Giles University of Sydney Joel Barlow’s The Columbiad and the ‘New Thassalogy’
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Chair: Prof. Nicholas Roe
Prof. Bob White University of Western Australia Keats’s Scottish Poems and the Emotions of Distance
Ms Alexandra Paterson Victoria University of Wellington, NZ ‘Loud and Bold’: Keats in the Mist
Dr Heidi Thomson Victoria University of Wellington, NZ ‘See what is coming from the distance dim!’: Keats and the Poetics of Distance
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Chair: A/Prof. Will Christie
Dr Hend Alsudairy and Dr Ibrahim Alshatwy Princess Norah University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Al Imam University The Romantic Novel and History
Dr Barbara Pauk Filgueira University of Western Australia Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Distances: Helen Maria Williams’ Translation of Paul et Virginie
Mr Shawn McAvoy Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Early German Romantic Writers
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Morning Tea
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11.30 – 1.00
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Chair: Dr Barbara Pauk Filgueira
Dr Peta Beasley University of Western Australia/ Edith Cowan University A Distant Rose
Ms Katie Hansord Deakin University ‘What have news supplying papers to do with poets’ silly capers?’: Reading Mary Bailey, Romanticism, and Gender in the Colonial Times
Dr Carol Anderson Edith Cowan University ‘As fresh as an English corpse’: Emily Eden Interprets the Gothic Experience of India in Up the Country
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Chair: A/Prof. Will Christie
Ms Meegan Hasted University of Sydney Imagining ‘Heaven’s Brink’ in Endymion’ and ‘Bright Star’
Ms Mandy Swann University of New South Wales Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and Robert Penn Warren’s ‘one life’ theory
Mr Osmond Chien-ming Chang National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, R. O. C Immortality and the Romantic Imaginary in Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’
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Chair: Dr Angie Dunstan
Dr Alexis Harley La Trobe University Animal Encounter in Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary
Ms Alexandra Hankinson University of Sydney ‘Swallows interweaving there…At distance wildly-wailing’: Observations of Animals in Coleridge’s Notebooks
Mr Atilla Orel University of Sydney Fatstock: Romantic Cows in the Age of Enlargement
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1.00 – 2.00 |
Lunch
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2.00 – 3.30
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Panel: ‘Romanticism in Australia’ Panel comprised of the editors of The Oxford Companion To The Romantic Age (1999); Professor Iain McCalman (Sydney), Professor Gillian Russell (ANU) and Dr Clara Tuite (Melbourne). Venue: New Law School Lecture Theatre 101
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3.30 - 4.00 |
Afternoon Tea
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4.00 – 5.30
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RSAA’s AGM: New Law School Lecture Theatre 101
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5.30 – 7.30 |
Book Launch: Professor Bob White’s John Keats: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Documentary: A Regular Black: The Hidden History of Wuthering Heights, a documentary exploring slavery and miscegenation in the novel, featuring commentary by Professors Iain McCalman and Cassanda Pybus.
Venue: Common Room, John Woolley Building
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Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance
Saturday 12 February 2011
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Colonial Romanticism (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 022) |
Canonical Romanticism (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 028) |
Romanticism’s Preludes and Postscripts (Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 030)
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9.00 – 9.30
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Registration: New Law School Foyer
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9.30 – 11.00 |
Chair: Dr Angie Dunstan
Dr Lesley Hawkes Queensland University of Technology Landscape, Romanticism and Australia
Prof. Judith Johnston University of Western Australia The Green Language in Colonial Australia: William Howitt Explores the ‘Austral Eden’
Dr Susan Carson Queensland University of Technology Sydney Harbour and Romantic Engagements with the Sublime
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Chair: A/Prof. Will Christie
Prof. Silvia Mergenthal University of Konstanz, Germany Scott’s ‘Airy Condescension’: The Talisman and Orientalism
Mr Peter Chien-Yu Kao National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Transgression in Byron’s Manfred
Dr Judith Barbour University of Sydney The Island (1823): Byron’s Green Submarine
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Chair: Prof. Gillian Russell
Dr Ingrid Horrocks Massey University, Wellington, NZ A Poetics of Exile: Burney’s The Wanderer
Dr Christine Owen Murdoch University Reading Fanny Burney’s The Wanderer (1814) as a Migration Text
Dr Olivia Murphy Mrs Parker, Mrs Croft, and the Romantic-era Naval Romance |
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Morning Tea
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11.30 – 1.00
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Plenary: Professor James Chandler (University of Chicago, USA), Neither Here nor There: The Romanticism of the Middle Distance
Venue: New Law School Lecture Theatre 101
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1.00 – 2.00 |
Lunch
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2.00 – 3.30
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(Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 022)
Chair: Dr Peta Beasley
Mr Anthony Laube State Library of South Australia A Lady at Sea: Agnes Grant Hay
Ms Melinda Graefe Flinders University The Figure of the Romantic Reader in the Journal of Annie Baxter
Dr Erica Hateley Queensland University of Technology Byron’s Back from the Dead?: Revenants of Romanticism in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
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(Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 028)
Chair: A/Prof. Will Christie
Prof. Simon Haines Chinese University of Hong Kong Spontaneity in the Kantian Self: the Tyranny of Distance
Ms Jane Thomson University of Western Australia Flying ‘like an unbodied joy’: Flight in the Romantic Imagination
Prof. Peter Otto University of Melbourne Beckford on the Holodeck: Fonthill Abbey, Romantic Imagination-Machines, and the Commodification of Transport
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(Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 030)
Chair: Dr Olivia Murphy
Dr Maureen Harkin Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA Traveling Back in Time: Goldsmith, Mackenzie and the Geography of the English Sentimental Novel
Ms Amelia Dale University of Sydney Mad Readers and Moonites in Eaton Stannard Barrett’s The Heroine
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(Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 020)
Chair: Dr Carol Anderson
Ms Kate Matthew University of New England From Civilisation to the Colonies: the English Governess’ Journey into Australian Colonial Culture
Ms Rose Sneyd Victoria University of Wellington, NZ ‘I do not think of thee…I am too near thee’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Disruption of Conventional Tropes of Distance in Sonnets from the Portuguese
Dr Rieko Suzuki Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Browning’s Articulation of Romanticism as a Distant Event
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3.30 – 4.00 |
Afternoon Tea
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7.00 |
Conference Dinner: The Grandstand, University of Sydney
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