The North American

Conference on British Studies

in Conjunction with

The Pacific Coast Conference

on British Studies

 
 
 

Annual Meeting

13th-15th October 2000

Pasadena Hilton

Pasadena, California

NACBS Council

President
Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University)

Vice President
Martin J. Wiener (Rice University)

Immediate Past President
Fred M. Leventhal (Boston University)

Executive Secretary
 Brian P. Levack (University of Texas)

Associate Executive Secretary
Patty Seleski (California State University, San Marcos)

Treasurer
Marc Baer (Hope College)

Program Chair
Angela Woollacott (Case Western Reserve University)

Elected Council Members
Eric J. Carlson (Gustavus Adolphus College)
James Cronin (Boston College)
James Epstein (Vanderbilt University)
Barbara J. Harris (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Robert Tittler (Concordia University)


PCCBS Executive Committee

President
Barbara Shapiro (University of California, Berkeley)

Vice-President
Joe Block (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

Secretary
Douglas Haynes (University of California, Irvine)

Treasurer
Buchanan Sharp (University of California, Santa Cruz)
 

THURSDAY 12th OCTOBER, 10:00 P.M.

GRADUATE STUDENT RECEPTION


Room: San Marino

FRIDAY 13th OCTOBER, 8:45-10:30

(PANELS 1-6)

 
 
 
1
HISTORY, THE NEW HISTORICISM, AND THE RENAISSANCE LITERATURE OF ROGUERY: NEW PERSPECTIVES
Room: Pacific A
 
Chair: Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

 
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 Beier (Illinois State University)

 
Making Vagrancy (In)Visible: The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets
Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 
Commentator: David Harris Sacks (Reed College)

 
2
WHO BELONGS? FORMATIONS OF COMMUNITY AND SUBJECTHOOD IN THE IMPERIAL CONTEXT
Room: Pacific B
Chair: Susan Pedersen (Harvard University)

 
The Irish Exclusion from 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)

 
Commentator: Dane Kennedy (George Washington University)

 
 
3
WOMEN, WORK, AND THE PROFESSIONS--PART I
Room: Pacific C
Chair: Carla H. Hay (Marquette 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. Krueger (Marquette University)

 
Commentator: Elizabeth Langland (University of California, Davis)
 
4
REPRESENTING MATERNITY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Room: San Diego
Chair: Marjorie McIntosh (University of Colorado, Boulder)

 
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)

 
Commentator: Kathryn M. McPherson (Utah Valley State College)

 
 
5
'DAMNABLE TRAITORS' OR HONOURABLE CAPTIVES? THE BRITISH STATE AND REBEL PRISONERS OF WAR 1642-1746
Room: Pasadena
Chair: Daniel Szechi (Auburn 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)

 
Commentator: Tim Harris (Brown University)
 
6
TELLING WAR STORIES: HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND WORLD WAR
Room: Monterey
Chair: Susan Schweik (University of California, Berkeley)

 
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

 
Commentator: J.M. Winter (Pembroke College, Cambridge University)

FRIDAY 13th OCTOBER, 10:45-12:30

(PANELS 7-12)

7
'NEW ENGLISH HISTORY': THE STUART MONARCHIES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ENGLAND, 1637-1658
Room: Pacific A
Chair: Arthur H. Williamson (California State University, Sacramento)

 
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)

 
Commentator: James Scott Wheeler (University of Montana)
 
8
NARRATING GENDER AND CRIME IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON
Room: Pacific B
Chair: Amy L. Froide (University of Tennessee)

 
'The Unfortunate Maid Exemplified': The Criminality of Domestic Servants in Eighteenth-Century London
Amy L. 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 (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

 
Commentator: Randall McGowen (University of Oregon)

 
 
9
WOMEN, WORK, AND THE PROFESSIONS--PART II
Room: Pacific C
Chair: Margot Finn (University of Warwick)

 
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)

 
Commentator: Barbara J. Blaszak (LeMoyne College)
 
10
READING EAST/WEST: ORIENTALIST ASSUMPTIONS IN THE WORK OF LORD BYRON, WALTER SCOTT, AND WRITERS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Room: San Diego
Chair: Alison Harvey (University of California, Los Angeles)

 
'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
Katarina Gephardt (Ohio State University)

 
Commentator: Barry Milligan (Wright State University)

 
11
SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS NEGOTIATION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH COMMUNITIES
Room: Pasadena
Chair: Muriel McClendon (University of California, Los Angeles)

 
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)

 
Commentator: Joseph Ward (University of Mississippi)
 
 
12
CULTURAL AND RACIAL EXPRESSION OF THE EXTREME RIGHT IN 20TH CENTURY BRITAIN
Room: Monterey
Chair: Mansour Bonakdarian (Arizona State University (West))

 
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)

 
Commentator: Elizabeth Harvey (University of Liverpool)

FRIDAY 13th OCTOBER, 12:30-2:30

LUNCH

Room: California



 
 

PLENARY SESSION

Co-Chairs:

Linda Levy Peck (President, NACBS; George Washington University)

Barbara Shapiro (President, PCCBS; University of California, Berkeley)

Plenary Address:

THE LEGACY OF THE 19TH CENTURY BOURGEOIS FAMILY AND THE WOOL MERCHANT'S SON

Leonore Davidoff , University of Essex

(Professor Davidoff appears with the generous assistance of the British Council)
 

FRIDAY 13th OCTOBER, 2:30-4:15

(PANELS 13-18)

13
SHORTHAND AND CIVILIZATION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
Room: Pacific A
Chair: Mary Robertson (Huntington Library)

 
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)

 
Commentator: Steven A. Zwicker (Washington University)

 
 
14
VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Room: Pacific B
Chair: Norris Pope (Stanford University Press)

 
'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 Marsh (Indiana University)

 
Commentator: Jennifer Watts (Huntington Library)
 
 
15
ALIENS, INDEPENDENTS, AND ANTI-JACOBINS: THE CULTURE OF CONSERVATISM IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY ERA
Room: Pacific C
Chair: Philip Harling (University of Kentucky)

 
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)

 
Commentator: H.T. Dickinson (University of Edinburgh)

 
 
16
IMPERIALISM AND THE 'FAMILY'
Room: San Diego
Chair: James Epstein (Vanderbilt University)

 
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)

 
Commentator: Lisa L. Pollard (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)

 
 
17
PUBLIC AUTHORITY, PRIVATE LIVES: SOCIAL REFORM IN BRITAIN, 1870-1940
Room: Pasadena
Chair: Douglas Haynes (University of California, Irvine)

 
'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)

 
Commentator: Susan Pennybacker (Trinity College)

 
 
18
THE CASE OF THE LEVELLERS TRULY STATED: OR, RICHARD OVERTON, JOHN LILBURNE, AND THE AGREEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Room: Monterey
Chair: James J. Sack (University of Illinois, Chicago)

 
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)

 
Commentator: Paul S. Seaver (Stanford University)


FRIDAY 13th OCTOBER, 4:30-6:00

SPECIAL PANELS

BRITISH STUDIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD?

Room: Monterey
Chair: Sonya O. Rose, Departments of History and Sociology, University of Michigan
 
Panelists:
Laura Doan, Department of English, State University of New York, Geneseo
 
Marc W. Steinberg, Department of Sociology, Smith College

Dianne Sachko Macleod, Art History Program, University of California, Davis

Steven C.A. Pincus, Department of History, University of Chicago


 

LAWRENCE STONE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Room: Pacific
Chair: James Rosenheim, Texas A&M University
 
Panelists:
David Cannadine, Institute of Historical Research
Paul Seaver, Stanford University

Dror Wahrman, Indiana University

Rachel Weil, Cornell University


FRIDAY 13th OCTOBER, 6:00-6:30

BUSINESS MEETING OF NACBS

Room: San Diego

FRIDAY 13th OCTOBER, 6:30-7:45

RECEPTION

Room: California

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Historical Research

Announcement of NACBS Prizes

SATURDAY 14th OCTOBER, 8:45-10:30

(PANELS 19-24)

19
THE CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE 1630s
Room: Pacific A
Chair: Ian Atherton (Keele 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)

 
Commentator: Thomas Cogswell (University of California, Riverside)

 
 
20
REMNANTS OF EMPIRE, PART I: THE ‘BRITISH’ WORLD IN THE AMERICAN CENTURY
Room: Pacific B
Chair: Laura Tabili (University of Arizona)

 
Celts, Boers, and the Bantu: Art, Ethnography, and Modernism in South Africa
Jordanna Bailkin (Columbia University)

 
Present at Their Own Making: Writing the History of African Sexuality in Colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe
Bryan Callahan (Johns Hopkins University)

 
Nation and Empire at 'The End of History': Hong Kong
Karen Fang (Johns Hopkins University)

 
Commentator: Donal Lowry (Oxford Brookes University)
 
 
21
'THE TORY TRADITION IS NOT BEST UNDERSTOOD AS A TRADITION OF IDEAS'--WE BEG TO DIFFER
Room: Pacific C
Chair: Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 
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)

 
Commentator: James Cronin (Boston College)

 
 
 
22
NARRATING WORKING-CLASS WOMEN IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA
Room: San Diego
Chair: Marc W. Steinberg (Smith College)

 
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)

 
Commentator: Anna Clark (University of Minnesota)

 
 
23
MALE AND FEMALE HEROISM IN BRITAIN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Room: Pasadena
Chair: Susan Kingsley Kent (University of Colorado, Boulder)

 
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)

 
Commentator: Paul Deslandes (Texas Tech University)

 
 
 
24
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Room: Monterey
Chair: James Bradley (Fuller Theological Seminary)

 
The Politics of Divinity in Eighteenth-Century England
Brian Young (University of Sussex)

 
Unity and Accord in the Eighteenth Century Church of 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)

 
Commentator: J.C.D. Clark (University of Kansas)

SATURDAY 14th OCTOBER, 10:45-12:30

(PANELS 25-30)

25
THE CRYSTAL PALACE INSIDE AND OUT: REVISITING THE GREAT EXHIBITION
Room: Pacific A
Chair: Peter Hoffenberg (University of Hawaii)

 
Russia at the Great Exhibition
Anthony Swift (University of Essex)

 
Contests of Value: Henry Mayhew, the Great Exhibition, and 1851
Lara Kriegel (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)