Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance 

Conference Program 2011

 

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Romanticism and the Tyrannies of Distance 

Thursday 10 February 2011

 

 

Time

 

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)

 

 

8.30 – 9.30

 

 

Registration: New Law School Foyer

 

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

 

 

11.00 – 11.30

 

Morning Tea

 

 

11.30 – 1.00

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

1.00 – 2.00

 

Lunch

 

 

2.00 – 3.30

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

3.30 – 4.00

 

Afternoon Tea

 

 

4.00 – 5.30

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Time

 

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)

 

 

9.00 – 9.30

 

 

Registration: New Law School Foyer

 

 

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’

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

11.00 – 11.30

 

Morning Tea

 

 

11.30 – 1.00

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

1.00 – 2.00

 

Lunch

 

 

2.00 – 3.30

 

 

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

 

 

3.30 - 4.00

 

Afternoon Tea

 

 

4.00 – 5.30

 

 

RSAA’s AGM: New Law School Lecture Theatre 101

 

 

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

 

 

Time

 

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)

 

 

9.00 – 9.30

 

 

Registration: New Law School Foyer

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

11.00 – 11.30

 

Morning Tea

 

 

11.30 – 1.00

 

 

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

 

 

1.00 – 2.00

 

Lunch

 

 

2.00 – 3.30

 

 

(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

 

 

(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

 

 

(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

 

 

 

 

 

 

(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

 

 

3.30 – 4.00

 

Afternoon Tea

 

 

7.00

 

Conference Dinner: The Grandstand, University of Sydney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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