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| Papers read at the annual meeting of the North American Conference on
British Studies, Pasadena, California 12-15 October 2000
"Jest Books, the Literature of Roguery, and the Vagrant Poor in Early Modern England" Linda Woodbridge, Pennsylvania State University "New and Old Historicisms: Thomas Harman and the Literature of Roguery" Lee Beiers, Illinois State University "Making Vagrancy (In)Visible: The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets" Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara "The Irish Exclusion for Empire: State-Assisted Emigration Policies in Late-Victorian Britain" Alison Pion, Northwestern University "Are You My Brother? Freemasonry, Imperialism, and the Idea of Global Brotherhood" Jessica Harland-Jacobs, University of Florida "`Relieving, Repatriating, or Otherwise Disposing' of Subjects: Imperial Classification and Colonial Mobility in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" Amy E. Robinson, Stanford University "The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women" Ellen Jordan, University of Newcastle, New South Wales "Life Narratives of Victorian Working-Class Women Poets (`Forgot by...Tradition's Garrulous Tongue')" Florence Boos, University of Iowa "Making History: Mary Anne Everett Green's Career at the PRO" Christine L. Kreueger, Marquette University "Great Expectations: Women Sowing Seed and Reaping Fruit in Early Modern Gender Debates" Naomi J. Miller, University of Arizona "`She is Spread of Late in to a Goodly Bulk': Representing the Pregnant Body on the Early Modern Stage" Kathryn M. Moncrief, Washington College "Conceiving Wonders: the Creative Power of Maternal Imagination" Caroline Bicks, Ohio State University "Punishment and Profit: The Treatment of Monmouth's Rebels and the Development of the English State" Paul Monod, Middlebury College "Soldiers, Traitors, and Criminals: Britain and the Prisoners of the `15" Margaret Sankey, Auburn University "Prisoners, Countrymen, and Traitors: The Dilemmas of Civil War" Barbara Donagan, The Huntington Library "The Creation of Disillusionment: History, Memory, Literature, and the Great War" Janet Watson, University of Connecticut "Effects of the Real: Diary, Memoir, and Fiction about World War I" Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut "Conflicting Stories: Literary Representations of Women's Military Experience in World War I" Krisztina Robert "Contexts and Causes, OR, Putting the English Back into the British Civil Wars, 1637-1642" Jason Peacey, History of Parliament Trust "The Wars for the One Kingdom, 1642-1649" David Scott, History of Parliament Trust "English Revolution or British Problem, 1649-1658?" Sarah Barber, University of Lancaster "The Unfortunate Maid Exemplified': The Criminality of Domestic Servants in Eighteenth-Century London" Amy Masciola, University of Maryland "`False-Courage' or `Manly Resolution'? Re-Reading the Early Eighteenth-Century `Game' Criminal" Andrea McKenzie "Bodies of Evidence, States of Mind: Infanticide, Emotion, and Sensibility in the Eighteenth Century" Dana Y. Rabin, Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Women, Work, and Disease in the Victorian Period" M. Jeanne Peterson, Indiana University "`In One Guise or Another': Voice, Profession, and the Dilemma of the Victorian Woman Journalist" Dallas Liddle, Augsburg College "Professional Authority, Authorial Professions: Elizabeth Gaskell and Women's Work" Jacqueline Chambers, University of Missouri "Performing Management: Memoirs of "`Public Headmistresses'" Heather Julien, City University of New York Graduate Center "`Celto-Orientalism': Scottish Enlightenment Discourse on the Highlands, 1760-1803" Kenneth McNeil, Eastern Connecticut State University "`Into the Woof, a Little Thibet Wool': Narrative and Imperialist Discourse in Walter Scott's The Surgeon's Daughter" Molly Youngkin, Ohio State University "Byron's Orientalist Authority and His Reading Public: From the `Eastern Tales' to Don Juan" Katrina Gephardt, Ohio State University "Sacrifice, Venison, and Social Order in Waltham Forest, c.1605-1634" Dan Beaver, Pennsylvania State University "Social Interactions of Servants in Early Modern England, 1560-1640" Patricia L. Carney, University of Colorado, Boulder "Negotiating Conformity: Local Articulations of Orthodoxy in the Diocese of Gloucester in the Early-Stuart Era" Gary Sandling, Yale University "British Fascists and the Hollywood Movie" Thomas P. Linehan, Brunel University "British Fascist Interpretations of Race, Culture, and Evolution" Richard Thurlow, University of Sheffield "The Aestheticization of Fanaticism and Brutality: Masculine Cultures in British Fascist Propaganda" Julie V. Gottlieb, University of Manchester "The Palace of Westminster" David Cannadine, Institute of Historical Research "The Invention of Shorthand and the Creation of Calvinist `Style': Timothy Bright's Characterie in Religious and Cultural Context" Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Technology "News, Trials, and Shorthand: The Information Revolution of the Seventeenth Century" Michael Mendle, University of Alabama Shorthand and the Army Secretariat During the English Civil Wars" Frances Henderson, Worcester College, Oxford University "`No Master Save Nature': P.H. Emerson's Naturalistic Photography and the Anthropology of the Vanishing Peasant" Thomas Prasch, Washburn University "Working Figures, Working Landscapes: P.H. Emerson's Photographs, East Anglia, and the Construction of Place" Ellen Handy, International Center of Photography "Epic Vs. Lyric in Julia Margaret Cameron's Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the Kings and Other Poems" Jeff Rosen, Columbia College "Haunted by Shadows: Dickens, the Photograph, and the Construction of Celebrity" Joss March, Indiana University "Aliens: Emigrants and Naturalization in Conservative Opinion" Stuart Semmel, American University "Coleridge and the Cult of Independence: Property, Pantisocracy, and the Party of Liberty, 1794-1796" Pamela Edwards, Ouachita University "`Not Merely a Political, But an Anti-Social Monster': The Counter-Revolution in Culture" Kevin Gilmartin, California Institute of Technology "History's Stormy End? Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants" Stephen Bernstein, University of Michigan, Flint "Child Ambassadors and the Empire in the 18th and 20th Centuries" Patricia Y.C.E. Lin, University of San Francisco "Marriage at the Imperial Margins: Matrimony, Sexuality, and the Military in Colonial India, c.1780-1850" Douglas M. Peers, University of Calgary "Soldiers' Sexuality and Imperial Governance" Philippa Levine, University of Southern California "`Not the Work of Artizans, but Men of Education': School Attendance Officers and Working-Class Parents in London, 1870-1904" Sascha Auerbach, Emory University "Policing Queer London: Space Class, Gender, and the Limits of the Heterosexist City, 1918-1940" Matthew Houlbrook, University of Essex "Class and the Conscientious Objector to Vaccination, 1898-1907" Nadja Durbach, University of Utah "The Rise of The Policeman-State?: Policing and the Police Courts in London's East End" Victor Bailey, University of Kansas "The Early Life and Writings of Richard Overton, 1640-42" David Adams, Pembroke College, Cambridge University "John Lilburne and the `Leveller' Language of Citizenship" Rachel Foxley, Cambridge University "The Agreements of the People in Their Political Contexts, 1647-1649" Ian Gentles, Glendon College, York University "Milton's A Masque at Ludlow (Comus) and the Popish Plot" James Knowles, Stirling University "Legal Wrangling: The Inns of Court in the 1630s, Theater, and Politics" Julie Sanders, Keele University "Two Taverns and a Church: Place-Realism in The Weeding of Covent Garden" Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University "Celts, Boers, and the Bantu: Art, Ethnography, and Modernism in South Africa" Jordanna Bailkin, Columbia University "Can the Postmodern Scholar Speak Chila?" Bryan Callahan, Johns Hopkins University "Nation and Empire at `The End of History': Hong Kong" Karen Fang, Johns Hopkins University "Conservatism, the State, and Civil Society in the 20th Century" E.H.H. Green, Magdalen College, Oxford University "Conservatism and Gender in the 20th Century" David Jarvis, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University "Conservatism and National Identity in the 20th Century" Philip Williamson, University of Durham "Negotiating Gender in the Small Metals Industries in the 1880s" Carol E. Morgan "`The Law is a Bachelor': Oliver Twist, Bastardy, and the New Poor Law" Susan Zlotnick, Vassar College "What Do Women Do? Identity, Skill, and the Working Woman in Industrializing England" Susie L. Steinbach, Hamline University "The Mystery of Mallory and Masculinity, 1924-2000" Peter H. Hansen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute "Heroic Women in Wartime Britain" Sonya O. Rose, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "Heroism, Domesticity, and Empire: Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and the `Flight from Commitment'" Martin Francis, Royal Holloway, University of London "The Politics of Divinity in Eighteenth-Century England" William Gibson, Basingstoke College of Technology "Thomas Secker (1693-1768), High Churchmanship, and the Defense of Anglican Orthodoxy in the Mid-Eighteenth Century" Robert G. Ingram, University of Virginia "Russia at the Great Exhibition" Anthony Swift, University of Essex "Contests of Value: Henry Mayhew, the Great Exhibition, and 1851" Lara Kreigel, Florida International University "`Seeing into the Life of Things': Telescopic Peepshows and the Great Exhibition" Laura C. Berry, University of Arizona "The South Kensington Complex: A Case Study of Art, Science, and Government in Mid-Victorian Britain" Timothy Barringer, Yale University "The Imperial Imagination in Post-War British Political Culture" Stuart Ward, University of Southern Denmark "Wandering in the Wake of Empire: British Travel and Tourism in the Post-Imperial World" Hsu-Ming Teo, Macquarie University "Children's Literature in Post-Imperial Britain" Kathryn Castle, University of North London "Incest in the Courts: Families, The Law, and Social Boundaries" Seth Denbo, University of Warwick "Provisional Parenting: Illegitimate Mothers and Fathers in Seventeenth-century England" Laura Gowing, University of Hertfordshire "Plebeian Domesticity and the Carceral Archipelago of Eighteenth-Century London" Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire "Mapping the Vicious: Victorian Social Cartography and London" Pamela Gilbert, University of Florida "Brutal Husbands or Slovenly Wives: Competing Narratives in Victorian Spousal Murders" George Robb, William Paterson University "Criminal Spaces: Locating Vice in the Victorian Theater" Heidi Holder, Central Michigan University "`Such a Time Have We Fallen into of Lukewarmnesse': Thomas Edwards and the Construction of Presbyterianism" Ann Hughes, University of Keele "London: English Republican Identities in 1649" Sean Kelsey, King's College, London University "The Figure of The Atheist: Drama and Apologetics in the Seventeenth Century" Roger Pooley, University of Keele "Reading Radicalism/Reading Resistance: Transformations and Accommodations in Suffragist Discourse, 1890-1918" Laura E. Nym Mayhall, Catholic University of America "The Pro-Boers: War, Empire, and the Uses of Nostalgia in Turn-of-the-Century England" Stewart A. Weaver, University of Rochester "Dangerous Mercies" Cynthia Herrup, Duke University "The Postcolonial Subject Divided between East and West: Kurieshi's The Black Album as an Intertext of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses" Frederick Holmes, Lakehead University "London as the Site of Postcolonial Flaneurie in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses" Lynn Wells, The University of Regina "Tony Last and the Travails of Imperial Identity in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust" Nalin A. Jayasena, University of California, Riverside "Dispersal Politics and the Suburban Reconstruction of Post-War Britain, 1945-1970" Mark Clapson, University of Luton "City Planners in British Reconstruction after 1945: Context and Constraints" Nick Tiratsoo, University of Luton "Post-war Urban Modernization: A Case Study of the Barbican Development in the City of London, 1955-1970" Tatsuya Tsubaki, Chukyo University "Charter-Writing and the Exercise of Lordship in Celtic Scotland" Cynthia J. Neville, Dalhousie University "Knights and Knighthood in Scotland, c.1093-1286" R. Andrew McDonald, University Collge of Cape Breton "Robert Bruce, Judas Machabeus, and the Destiny of the Stewart Kings," Mary Robbins, Georgia State University "Feminism and `Freakish' Women in the 1790s" Amanda Gilroy, University of Groningen "W. H. Ireland, the Shakespeare Forgery, and New Forms of Romantic Authority" Robert Miles, Sheffield Hallam University "Romantic Primitivism and American Emigration in the 1790s' Anti-Jacobin Novel" Wil Verhoeven, University of Groningen "`The Peculiarities of the Womanly Make': Public Health, Employment Legislation, and the Female Body, 1831-1847" Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado, Denver "Hodge and His Historians: The Parliamentary Debates and the 1893 Parliamentary Blue Books on Agricultural Labor" Patricia O'Hara, Franklin and Marshall College "Acting Like an Alien: Immigration Law and the Jew, 1901-1918" Lara Trubowitz, University of Iowa "Marriage, Consumption, and Crisis: Reinventing the Middle-Class Family in Late-Victorian England" Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara "Gender and the Public Voice of the Consumer in Early Twentieth-Century Britain" Matthew Hilton, University of Birmingham "Domesticating the `Fantasy Machine': The Beginnings of Home-Movie Making in Britain and Germany" Bernhard Rieger, Iowa State University "Education, Socialization, Association, and the Construction of a Clerical Masculine Identity in London, 1870-1914" Geoffery Spurr, McMaster University "`Lady Demons' and `Well-Dressed Men': Sales Professionals and the English Gas Industry, 1900-1935" Anne Clendinning, University of Toronto "Masculinity, Class, and Community in Victorian Leicester: The Clerk Reconsidered" Christopher P. Hosgood, University of Manitoba "The Correspondence of Emily Davies: The Voice of the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement" Ann B. Murphy, Assumption College "From Critique to Consolation: Spinster Fiction in Interwar Women's Writing" Wendy Gan, University of Hong Kong "Odette, Nancy, Violette, and Noor: Constructing Heroines: Women SOE Agents and British Popular Consciousness after World War Two" Declan O'Reilly, University of East Anglia "From Bombay to Bloomsbury: The Stracheys and India" Barbara Caine, Monash University "The `Black Hole of Calcutta' in Vanity Fair" Corri Zoli, Syracuse University "Print Media in the Colonial Context: Women's Journals and their Publics in India" Michelle Tusan, Stanford University "Violence, Shame, Punishment, and Space in London, 1780-1820" Greg T. Smith, University of Manitoba "`That the Purposes of Justice Might Not be Defeated': Public Prosecution in the City of London, 1780-1850" Allyson N. May, University of Toronto "Working-Class Community and Gender in the 1950s" Stephen Brooke, York University "Consumers, Citizens, and Socialists: Affluence and the British Left, 1951-1964" Catherine Ellis, University of Victoria "Housebuilders and Homemakers: The Conservative Party and the British Housebuilders Federation's Criticisms of the Labour Government's Housing Policy, 1945-51" Matthew Hendley, McMaster University "The Crisis of Tudor Monarchy: The Coronations of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I" Dale Hoak, College of William and Mary "`A Woman Unskillful in Practice and Not Terrible to the Enemy'; The Gendered Politics of the Succession in Early Elizabethan England" Victoria De La Torre, University of San Diego "The English Accession of James I: Regendering the English Monarchy" Judith Richards, La Trobe University |
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| Papers read at the 2000 Western Conference on British Studies,, 20-21
October 2000 in Denver, Colorado
"The Actions of the Clerical Establishment of Durham and Anti-Church Sentiment, 1760-1832: Debating the Question: Anti-Clericalism or Social Hostility?" William Maynard, Arkansas State University "Civil Magistrates, Industrial Disputes and Urban Politics in England, 1780-1830" James Jaffe, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater "Caribbean Collisions: British and American Empire in the West Indies During World War II" Jason Parker, University of Florida "European Collusion: Britain, the US, and the Question of Aiding Civilians in Nazi-Occupied Territories, 1939-1945" Meredith Hindley, American University "Rape and Revenge in Late-Medieval England: Contextualizing Chaucer's `Reeve's Tale'" Jennifer McNabb, University of Colorado-Boulder "Prospero's Art' in Measure for Measure: Persuasive Gender and Gendered Persuasion" Teresa L. Nugent, University of Colorado-Boulder "Women's Sociability in Early Modern England, 1560-1640" Patricia L. Carney, University of Colorado-Boulder "The Politics of Exclusion in the Farce of Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery" Jeremy Webster, Ohio University "Barnwell's Epiphany of the Gallows: The Resurgence of Masculine Virtue in the London Merchant" John Pruitt, Ohio University "The Public and Private Sides of Male Sociability in Augustan England" James Rosenheim, Texas A&M University "Editing The Oxford History of the British Empire" William Roger Louis, University of Texas, Austin "The Modern Jane Austen" Kevin Stemmler, Clarion University "Bridget Jones and the Austen Tradition" Stacy Byers, Clarion University "Undue Influence: The Austen Legacy in the Works of Anita Brookner" Larry Dennis, Clarion University "Irish Amnesia: Reconstructing the Collective Memory of the Conservative Party, 1905-1911" David Hudson, Texas A&M University "Looking for Troubles: John Redmond, Nevil Macready and the Failure of British Military Policing in Ireland, 1916-1922" Stephen Duffy, University of Arkansas-Monticello "`In Dublin's Bright City': The Propaganda Phoney War and Eire Neutrality, September 1939-June 1940" Robert Cole, Utah State University "The London Merchant Community and Clerical Networks, 1580-1650" Randy Wood, Lee University "Anglican Self-Fashioning: The Autobiography of Henry Newcome II" Jim Benedict, Washington University "Oliver Heywood, Catholic Presbyterian: The Social World of a Restoration Nonconformist" Samuel S. Thomas, Washington University "Samuel Pepys: Devoted Theatre lover, Faithful Client, Semi-luxury Consumer or Ambitious Businessman?" C. Thomas Long, George Washington University "English History Abridged: John Stow's Shorter Chronicles" Barrett Beer, Kent State University "A Jacobean Exorcist Crosses the Atlantic" M.L. Ellison-Murphree, Auburn University "Arminianism and the English Separatists: Doctrine and Belief in the Early Seventeenth Century" Kenneth L. Campbell, Monmouth University "Elizabeth of the Palatinate: Women, the Jacobean Court, and Religious Policy in the Early Seventeenth Century" Matthew O'Brien, Monmouth University "Keeping the Faith: Anglical Calendar Customs During the Rule of the Saints, 1640-1660" Linda York, Auburn University "Thomas Rowlandson and the Origins of British Pornography" Bradford Mudge, University of Colorado-Denver "From Blake to Carroll: The Changing Child" Howard Mayer, University of Hartford "Pleasuring J.S. Mill: Utility, Hysteria and the Poetic Sublime" Jonathan York, American University in Bulgaria "Marriage Before Motherhood: Changing Values in the Eighteenth Century" Ingrid Tague, University of Denver "Morality and the Mean: George Berkeley and the Question of Luxury in the Eighteenth Century" Scott Breuninger, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Problems of Intervention and Collective Security in Anglo-American Diplomacy: The 1930s and the 1720s" Robert McJimsey, Colorado College "Myths and Misunderstandings: British Views of the American Presidency in the Late Twentieth Century" G. H. Bennett, University of Plymouth "FDR and Intervention: Building the British Partnership in 1941" George T. McJimsey, Iowa State University "Andrew Bonar Law and the Curious Matter of the Irish Union" R.J.Q. Adams, Texas A&M University "The Henry James-Jocelyn Persse Correspondence: The Rhetoric of Epistolary Intimacy" Susan E. Gunter, Westminster College "W. Somerset Maugham and the Three Gaities" J. Robert Baker, Fairmont State College "Biographer's Burdens: The Reflections of a Practitioner" R.J.Q. Adams, Texas A&M University "A Biographer';s Tale: The Dividends and Drawbacks of the Craft" Peter Marsh, Syracuse University "Scaremongers and Warmongers: Re-Appraising Lords Northcliffe and Milner" J. Lee Thompson, Lamar University "British Civil Liberties and the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act of 1939" Gerald Anderson, North Dakota State University "The Other Side: Conspiracy Theory and the Poliitcs of Persecution in Britain, 1941-2000" Marion Gibson, Exeter University "The British Boy Scout Migration Plan, 1922-39" Richard Voeltz, Cameron University "`A Day a Month for Official Duties, the Rest For Science': Sir Joseph Hooker's Botanical Agenda, the Colonial Service and the Career of Everard im Thurn in British Guiana, 1877-1896" Sara Sohmer, Texas Christian University "Peers, Piety and Power: Processes of Political Change in Modern Britain" William C. Lubenow, Richard Stockton College "Lord Willoughby De Broke and the Home Rule Crisis" Thomas Kennedy, University of Arkansas "Lord Salisbury's `Watching Committee' and the Politics of 1939-40" Larry Witherell, Minnesota State University Moorhead "Britain's Dual Monarchy: Its English and Scottish Parameters" Robin Melville, Ripon College "Dedicated Patriot and Despised Alien" Charles Meyers, Independent Scholar "Dissent and Politics Revisited: John Wilks and the Making of the National Registration Act, (1836)" Malcolm R. Thorp, Brigham Young University "`Greater Love Hath No Man Than This': Religious Attitudes to Death in the First World War: A Scottish Case Study" James Lachlan Macleod, University of Evansville "A Pilgrim's Progress: The Influence of Books on Frances Power Cobbe's Crisis of Faith" Sandra Peacock, Georgia Southern University "Methods in Her Madness: Polarities of Selfhood in Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria" Gloria S. Eastman, University of Colorado at Boulder "The Idea of Redemption: Ruth Meets Goblin Market" Elizabeth Battles, Texas Wesleyan University "Jean Rhys's Postcolonial Metafairy Tale, Wide Sargasso Sea" Sharon R. Wilson, University of Northern Colorado "The Macmillan Government and the North-South Divide" Charles Loft, Westminster College "Assessments of Blair's NHS in Major London Newspapers" Jerome Brown, New Mexico State University "The Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement 1965" Maurice Fitzgerald, University of Leicester "`Lawlessness is Rife': The Manchester Martyr Funeral Processions and the State of Policing in England, 1867" Padraic Kennedy, McNeese State University "Faces From the Carnage: The Victims of the 1920 Derry Riots" Tom Auffenberg, Ouachita Baptist University "The Gordon Riots, the Associations, and Some Thoughts on Police, 1780-1785" Suzanne Balch-Lindsay, Eastern New Mexico University "The Healing Power of Charles I: A Study in the Reception of Symbolic Power" Susan Quinn-Chapman, University of Colorado "Residual and Emergent: The Content of the Genre of Prodigy Pamphlets During the English Civil War" Susan Duncan, University of Colorado "Social Imperialism: The Missing Link in Early Twentieth Century British History" Alan Sykes, St. Andrews University "The Conservative Tradition and the Unionist Party in Edwardian England" Derek Blakeley, Washington University "An Hysterical City: London, Madness and the First World War" Angela K. Smith, Plymouth University "The Persistence of Opposition in Tony Harrison's `Working Marriage': Gender in v." Justin Jakovac, Duquesne University "St. Guthlac in the South English Legendary" Alexandra H. Olsen, University of Denver |
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| Papers read at the Northeast Conference on British Studies at Concordia
University, Montreal, October 27-28 2000:
"Masculinity and Legal Evidence in Later Medieval England' Derek, Neal, McGill University "Over-Hearing the Pastons: John II and John III About their Mother" Joel T. Rosenthal, SUNY Stony Brook "Sexual Misconduct and the London Clergy in the Late Middle Ages" Shannon McSheffery, Concordia University "Adultery and Anxieties about Paternity in Late Medieval England" Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania "`Lifted Out of Their Evil Environments': Religous Orphanages in Nineteenth-Century Britain" Susan Tananbaum, Bowdoin College "From Potential Paupers to Children in Need: Child Emigrants and the Welfare State" Kathleen Paul, University of South Florida "To People the Empire': Empire, Migration and British Population Science, 1890-1945" Karl Ittman, University of Houston "The British Left and the Soviet Union in the 1950s" John T. Callaghan, University of Wolverhampton "The Cold War, Government and the Mass Media, 1945-64" Tony Shaw, University of Hertfordshire "The Cold War and the Mainstream Political Right in Britain, 1945-64" Michael Kandiah, Institute of Contemporary History, University of London "Securing Allies: The Role of Arms Sales in British Cold War Foreign Policy, 1945-60" Mark Phythian, University of Wolverhampton "The Problem of Urban Crime: London, 1660-1760" John Beattie, University of Toronto "Nero Resuscitated: Quakers, Cameronians, and the Response to Punitive Violence, 1660-1689" Phillipe Rosenberg, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles "Profit and Principle: Religious Nonconformists in the Restoration Medical Marketplace" Elizabeth Lane Furdell, University of North Florida "`The Grand Controversie of the Time': Anglicans and Dissenters Defend the Church of England" Samuel S. Thomas, Washington University "Queen Victoria: The Myth and Reality Behind the Imperial Statuary" Mary Ann Steggles, University of Manitoba "Wyndham Lewis's Crowe: Mechanical Metaphors for Aesthetic (Social) Control" Kim Wahl, Queen's University "Changing Landscapes: The Effects of Social Reforms and the First World War on British Landscape Painting" Kirsty Robertson, Queen's University "Reconstructing Post-War Lives: Gender and Family in Men's and Women's Narratives of British Migration to Australia, 1945-1971" James Hammerton, La Trobe University "Making `Good' Mothers for Democracy?: British War Brides and the Gender Politics of Citizenship and Domesticity in Cold War Canada" Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto "Redefining Identity: Black Caribbean Women and Community Formation in Brixton and Notting Hill, 1958-1981" Julia Drake, University College, London "Saving Aborigines, Saving Britain: Ruin and Redemption in the Report of the House of Commons Select Committee on the Status of Aborigines in the British Empire, 1835-36" Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University "`The Credit of the House': Ruin, Reputation and Theatrical Commerce on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage" Susan Brown, University of Prince Edward Island "Swimming, Floundering or Sinking: Clerics in the Christianisation of Early Industrial England" Brian Lewis, McGill University "Henry or the Lawyers? Questions of Power and Authority in the Work of the Council Learned" Lisa Ford, University of St. Andrews "`A Mischief to the Lord': The Prerogative and the Problem of Uses" Margaret McGlynn, Wellesley College "Mercy and Authority in Tudor England: The Prerogative of Pardon" Krista Kesselring, Queen's University "The Role of the Communist Party in Labour Party Strategy, 1920-1945" Andrew Thorpe, Exeter University "Abortion and Labour Politics in the 1930s" Stephen Brooke, York University "Socialist Zionism and the Labour Party during the Interwar Years" Deborah Osmond, York University "William Hunter and William Cummin: the `Partisan' and the `Man of Science'" Miriam Jones, Univeristy of New Brunswick-Saint John "Lacemakers and Lunatics: The Social, Economic, and Demographic Origins of the Confinement of the Insane in Victorian England" David Wright, McMaster University "Pleasuring J.S. Mill: Utility, Hysteria, and the Poetic Sublime" Jonathan York, American University in Bulgaria "`Is There Another Script?': Women's Identities and the Great War" Karen Lewis, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY "`The Women's Way': Gender and Political Protest in Suffragette Hunger Strikes, 1909-1914" JuNelle Harris, Harvard University "`These Women are Doing Their Bit': Representations of Women in World War I British Posters" Marion Girard, Yale University |
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| British Studies papers read at the Social Science History Association
Annual Meeting, 27-29 October 2000, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Being Syphilitic: Experiences of Disease among Poor Women in Early Victorian England" Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado at Denver "Clean Children with Dirty Heads: Lice Inspection and Self-Identity in Early Twentieth-Century English Elementary Schools" Katy Rashid, University of Pennsylvania "Contagion, Policy, Class, Gender, and Mid-20th Century Lancashire Working-Class Health Culture" Lucinda McCray Beier, Illinois State University "Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion in England and Wales" Paul Ell, The Queen's University of Belfast "Religious Pluralism: Agent of Secularization or Religious Vitality? A Geographical Perspective on a Sociological Dispute" Alasdair Crockett, University of Oxford, Nuffield College "The Growth and Distribution of Latter Day Saints in Wales, 1840-1860" Michael Ratcliffe, British Bureau of the Census "The Old Dissent in the Diocese of Lincoln-Patterns of Distribution and Change, 1676-1715" John Broad, University of North London "Financing Freedom: The British Loan of 1835 to Compensate Former Owners of Slaves" Richard Lobdell, University of Manitoba "The Social Geography of Famine Fever in Liverpool 1847" Gary Kearns, Cambridge University and Paul Laxton, Liverpool University "Recollection, Recrimination, and Reconciliation: The Experiences of British Child Migrants in Canada, 1930-1960" Patrick Dunae, University of Victoria "The Sexual Politics of Sickness" Marie-Claire Balaam, University of Wolverhampton "Politics Matters. Gender and Citizenship in France, Britain and Denmark" Birte Siim, Aalborg University "Lost in Translation: Adaptive Family Networks and the Ironies of the Scottish Poor Law" Andrew Blaikie, University of Aberdeen, "Economic History and Post-Modernism: Making Sense of Industrialization in Eighteenth-Century England" John Smail, University of North Carolina "Wage Profiles of English Farm Workers in the Early Nineteenth Century" Joyce Burnette, Wabash College "Mortality in Long Fifteenth Century England, Patterns and Causes" Philip Schofield, University of Wale, Aberystwyth "Fickle Females and Effeminate Males: The Rhetoric of Gender in English Pamphlet Literature about the South Sea Bubble, 1720-1721" Sharlene Sayegh, University of California, Irvine "How to Control Felonious Females?: A Literary Quest for the Harmonious Household in Early Modern England and France" Lisabeth Robinson, University of Akron "London Spies: Late Seventeenth-Century Urban Informers and the Gendering of a Mannered Metropolis" Anne Wohlcke, University of California, Irvine "A Scottish Chicago? Street Gangs and Violence in Glasgow in the 1920s and 1930s" Andrew Davies, University of Liverpool "Overlappig Circles: Imagining Criminal Communities in London, 1545-1645" Paul Griffiths, University of Leicester "The `Criminal Class' in Mid-Victorian England: The Case of Mayhew's Convicts" Lee Beier, Illinois State University "To Die Like A Man: Plebeian Masculinity and the Cult of the `Game' Criminal in Early Eighteenth-Century England" Andrew McKenzie, University of Toronto "Age Structures, Net Migration and Economic Change in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England" Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth "Hidden Women: Finding Single Women in England's Marriage Duty Tax" Amy Froide, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga "Social Investment and Health in London, 1880-1914" Bill Lucklin, Bolton Institute, and Graham Mooney, Wellcome Institute "Alias Smith and Brown: Police, Prostitution and Corruption in Bombay, London, and New York, 1880-1920" Robert Gregg, Stockton College of New Jersey "Long-Term Changes in Household and Family Structure: England, 1600-2000" Kevin Schurer, University of Essex "Deportation, Relocation, and the Protection of White Australia" Tracey Banivanua Mar, University of Melbourne "Nations and National Identity in Historical Perspective: The Case of British/English National Identity" Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia "`Laudable Ambition and Character': Unwed Domestics in Victorian London, 1841-1891" Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Oklahoma City Community College "The Depression and Irish Migration Networks: Transatlantic and Cross-Channel Connections, 1920-1939" Matthew O'Brien, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Papers read at the Southern Conference on British Studies, 9-11 November
2000, Louisville, Kentucky
"Imperial Economies and Dickens's `Melancholy-Mad' Menagerie" Kurt M. Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve University "George Eliot's Use of Animals as Measures of Moral and Sexual Maturity" Constance Fulmer, Pepperdine University "Horses in Victorian Children's Literature" A. Waller Hastings, Northern State University "Manly Patriotism Transformed: Republicanism, Gender, and Mrs. Macaulay, 1763-1783" Philip Hicks, Saint Mary's College "Plotters Three: Coleridge, Thelwall and Wordsworth at Nether Stowey, 1797" Alan G. Steinberg, Concordia College "Radical Opinion in the Age of Reform: Thomas Perronet Thompson and the Westminster Review" Michael J. Turner, University of Sunderland "Irish Eloquence and English Indifference: Coleridge, Partisanship, and the Irish Parliament" Pamela Edwards, Ouachita Baptist University "Long Shadows of an Irish Tragedy: Gladstone's Liberals and the Limits of Laissez-Faire in Indian Famine Planning" James Patterson Smith, The University of Southern Mississippi "Through a Partisan Eye: Local Press Coverage of the Derry Riots, 1920" Tom Auffenberg, Ouachita Baptist University "The Greening of Isaac Penington: Civic and Political Transformation in Civil War London" Daniel Roberts, The University of Richmond "Army and Gentry in Cromwellian Hertfordshire" Paul J. Pinckney, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville "Political Alliances in the Reign of Charles II: Ormonde's Role in Anglo-Irish Affairs" Rebecca Hayes, Florida State University "Public Perceptions of Victorian Police and Detectives in Fiction and the Press" Anna R. Holloway, Fort Valley State College "From the `Penny Dreadful' to `The Sandman': The British Horror Comic Takes Over the World!" B. Keith Murphy, Fort Valley State College "Working-Class Hegemony: Working-Class Figures in Early British Silent Films" Richard Schellhammer, University of West Alabama "Until Such Time as He Be Confirmed': Laudian Enforcement of Confirmation in the Church of England" James F. Turrell, Vanderbilt University "`A Payre of Compasses': Charles Herle and Attempts at Accommodation in the Westminster Assembly, 1643-45" Alana Cain Scott, Morehead State University "Lord Lisle's Expedition to Ireland, January-April 1647: The Conflict between the Presbyterians and the Independents Revisited" Joyce E. Sampson, Florida State University "Queen Victoria and the Americans: The First Encounter" Walter L. Arnstein, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Tyler Administration, Britain, and Texas Annexation" Dan Monroe, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency "Imperial Gentlemen: Edwardians View `The Negro Problem' in the American South" M. Montgomery Wolf, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Strikes and Citizenship: The Socialist and Syndicalist Press and the Cambrian Combine Strike of 1910-11" Robert H. Woodrum, Georgia State University "H.G. Wells and Women: Ideals of Womanliness in Two Edwardian Novels" Julie A. Nelson, Georgia State University "Association Football and the Formation of Regional Identities in Britain, 1880-1994" Jeremy Rowan, Louisiana State University "God, Queen Victoria, and Football: British National Identity Through American Eyes, 1876-1909" Erik S. Schmeller, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale "Empire Over Nation: The Great War and English Canadian Identity, 1914-1919" Eric Jarvis, King's College, The University of Western Ontario "Labour's Rise and the Liberal Demise: A Quantitative Perspective on the Great Debate, 1906-1918" John D. Fair, Georgia College and State University "Neville Chamberlain and British Public Opinion" Van Michael Leslie, Union College "British Comedy Film during the Cold War: Signs of Discord in the Anglo-American Special Relationship" Neal R. McCrillis, Columbus State University |
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| October 27-29: "New Imperial History: Transculture, Commodities, and Identities in the First British Empire," conference at the Huntington Library, an exploration of the impact of empire on culture, consumption, and identity in Britain and its colonies in the eighteenth century. | ||
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| December 2: "Christopher Isherwood: Private Faces," conference at the Huntington Library. Through personal reminiscence, photographs, diaries, and scholarly analysis, this conference will illuminate Isherwood's private identity and its relation to his public works. | ||
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