Oct 16-18, 1998
WCBS Executive Committee
Friday 16th October
Saturday 17th October
Sunday 18th October
Registration Form
President
Fred M. Leventhal (Boston University)
Vice President
Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University)
Immediate Past President
Walter L. Arnstein (University of Illinois)
Executive Secretary
David Harris Sacks (Reed College)
Associate Executive Secretary
Joseph Block (California State Polytechnic University)
Treasurer
Marc Baer (Hope College)
Program Chair
Chris Waters (Williams College)
Elected Council Members
Linda Colley (Yale University)
James Cronin (Boston College)
James Epstein (Vanderbilt University)
Thomas Green (University of Michigan)
Margo Todd (Vanderbilt University)
President
Roy T. Matthews (Michigan State University)
President-elect
R.J.Q. Adams (Texas A&M University)
Treasurers
Robert McJimsey (The Colorado College); Jane Veith (Michigan State University)
Publicity Chair
Larry L. Witherell (University of Maine at Presque Isle)
Program Co-chairs
Thomas Kennedy (University of Arkansas); J. Robert Baker (Fairmont State College)
Local Arrangements Chair
Robert McJimsey (The Colorado College)
Room: Carson
Chair: Ralph V. Turner (Florida State University)
Lord of Ireland, King of England:
King John's Political Ideas in Action
Sandra K. Johnson (University of Chicago)
John and the Cloister:
Royal Justice and the Monastic Honorial Court, 1199-1216
Kevin Shirley (Florida State University)
All Quiet on the Western Front?
King John, the Marchers and the Celtic Fringe, 1207-1216
Brock Holden (Exeter College, Oxford University)
Commentator: Thomas Keefe (Appalachian State University)
Room: Summit II
Chair: Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University)
'Everie man almost is a builder':
Bess of Hardwick and Hardwick Hall
Sara L. French (State University of New York at Binghamton)
Anna of Denmark, Architecture and Decorative Arts:
Royal Patronage in Scotland and England, 1589-1619
Maureen M. Meikle (University of Sunderland)
The Countess of Arundel at Tart Hall
Elizabeth V. Chew (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Commentator: Lena Cowen Orlin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Room: Summit I
Chair: Barbara Allen (Siena College)
Legal Institutions and Children:
Juvenile Perpetrators, Victims and Witnesses at Old Bailey, 1780-1800
Kathy Callahan (Marquette University)
The Rules of Ablebodiedness:
Gender, Health and the New Poor Law in the 1830s and 1840s
Marjorie Levine-Clark (University of Wisconsin - La Crosse)
If the Law of Utility is Applied, the Workhouse Will Be Like the Inferno of Dante:
Women and Children in London Workhouses, 1830-1870
Jessica A. Sheetz (Marquette University)
Commentator: Anthony Brundage (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Room: Heritage E
Chair: Peter Marsh (Syracuse University)
The Poor and the 'Ins-and-Outs' of the Victorian Social Body
Lydia D. Murdoch (Indiana University)
Representing Journalists:
Journalists' Memoirs and the Public Sphere in Late-Victorian
and Edwardian Britain
Mark Hampton (Vanderbilt University)
The Uses of Secrecy:
Policing Sodomy in Nineteenth-Century London
Harry Cocks (Manchester University)
Commentator: Susan Kingsley Kent (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Room: Heritage F
Chair: Barbara J. Blaszak (LeMoyne College)
Female Physicians and Women's Health Care
in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain
Shirley M. Eoff (Angelo State University)
Normalizing Victorian Freaks:
British Narratives Alongside Medical Progress
Heather McHold (Northwestern University)
Writing Wartime Recovery/Recovering Wartime Writing:
British Soldier-Patients and Military Hospital Magazines
in the First World War
Jeffrey S. Reznick (Emory University)
Commentator: Nicoletta F. Gullace (University of New Hampshire)
Room: Heritage D
Chair: Kirk Willis (University of Georgia)
Abortion, Working-Class Women and Socialism, 1937-1967
Stephen Brooke (Dalhousie University)
Labour and the Land, 1945-1970
Peter Weiler (Boston College)
Masculinity and Emotional Control in Public Life, 1945-1963:
Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan
Martin Francis (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
University of London)
Commentator: Ewen Green (Magdalen College, Oxford University)
Room: Summit I
Chair: Brian P. Levack (University of Texas)
'The Bishop's Ministers':
The Office of Coroner in Late Medieval Durham
Cynthia J. Neville (Dalhousie University)
Spousal Abuse in Fourteenth-Century Yorkshire:
What Can We Learn from Coroners' Rolls?
Sara M. Butler (Dalhousie University)
Sanctuary and the Coroner:
The Changing Face of Royal Justice in the Tudor Period
Krista Kesselring (Queen's University)
Commentator: Ben R. McRee (Franklin & Marshall College)
Room: Summit II
Chair: Caroline Hibbard (University of Illinois)
The Social Costs of War in Early Seventeenth-Century London
Claire S. Schen (Wake Forest University)
Appeals to the People:
The Propaganda War Between the English Crown and Parliament in 1642
Anthony B. Thompson (University of Kentucky)
Knowing Best Where the Shoe Pinches:
Allegiance, Conscience and Implications for Honor in the First English Civil War
Anne St. John (Cleveland State University)
Commentator: Michael J. Braddick (University of Sheffield)
Room: Carson
Chair: J.C.D. Clark (University of Kansas)
The Law of Libel and the Limits of Repression, 1790-1830
Philip Harling (University of Kentucky)
The 'General Safety of the State':
Treason from 1816 to 1820
Lisa Steffen (University of Kansas)
Robert Peel and the Conduct of Capital Punishment
Simon Devereaux (University of British Columbia)
Commentator: James J. Sack (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Room: Heritage D
Chair: Denis Paz (University of North Texas)
The Virgin Mary and Victorian Masculinity
Carol Marie Engelhardt (Clarion University)
Multiple Masculinities and the (Re)Gendering of High Anglicanism
Lori M. Miller (Indiana University)
Aelred of Rievaulx, Same-Sex Desire and the Victorian Monastery
Frederick S. Roden (New York University)
Commentator: James Eli Adams (Indiana University)
Room: Heritage E
Chair: Dorothy Helly (Hunter College, City University of New York)
Wilderness, Peripheries and Imperial Ideologies of the Authentic
Benedict Fullalove (Duke University)
'Our Scottish lads are willing and our Scottish limbs are strong':
Romanticization of Highlanders and the Highlands in British Imperial Ideology
Heather Streets (Duke University)
Plunging Down a Gravel Road with J.B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes: The Prehistoric Southwest and the Postwar Geography of Tourism
Reuben Ellis (Hope College)
Commentator: Dane Kennedy (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Room: Heritage F
Chair: Lyle McGeoch (Ohio University)
'To maintain the racial qualities of the empire':
Population, Race and Migration in the British Empire, 1918-1962
Karl Ittmann (University of Houston)
Emigrants or Exiles? Children Abroad, 1945-1967
Kathleen Paul (University of South Florida)
Sean Lemass and the Politics and Image of Emigration
Robert Savage (Boston College)
Commentator: Laura Tabili (University of Arizona)
(Room: Heritage A/B/C)
PLENARY SESSION
Chairs: Roy T. Matthews (President, WCBS; Michigan State University) Fred M. Leventhal (President, NACBS; Boston University)
Plenary Address:
Ancient and Modern: Culture and Capitalism in Victorian Britain
Martin Daunton (University of Cambridge)
(Professor Daunton appears with the generous assistance of the British Council)
Room: Heritage D
Moderator: Lawrence Stone (Princeton University)
Class Antagonim Without Class
Paul Seaver (Stanford University)
Class and...?
Markers of Identity in the First British Empire
Susan Amussen (The Union Institute)
Plebeians, Patricians, 'Cits' and Citizens:
Cutting Classes in the Long Eighteenth Century
Nicholas Rogers (York University)
Class, Gender and Marital Status in the Law Courts
in the Eighteenth Century
Margaret Hunt (Amherst College)
Comment: The Audience
Room: Heritage E/F
Moderator: James Epstein (Vanderbilt University)
Class in Context:
Categories of Identity at the Threshold of Modernity
Dror Wahrman (Warwick University)
The Colonial Context(s) of Class Struggles in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Susan Thorne (Duke Universty)
Rethinking the Subjects and Contexts of Class Analysis
Sonya O. Rose (University of Michigan)
Social Mobility and the Prospects for Class Analysis in Modern British History
Andrew Miles (University of Birmingham)
Comment: The Audience
Room: Heritage D/E/F
Moderators: James Epstein and Lawrence Stone
A joint, summary meeting of the participants on panels 13 and 14 to draw some conclusions from their respective discussions.
(Room: Summit I)
Presiding: Fred M. Leventhal (President, North American Conference on British Studies)
BUSINESS MEETING, WCBS
(Room: Summit I)
Presiding: Roy T. Matthews (President, Western Conference on British Studies)
(Room: Summit III)
Announcement of NACBS Prizes
Room: Heritage F
Chair: Tim Harris (Brown University)
The Rhetoric of Crisis in the 1590s
David Dean (Carleton University)
News and the 1590s
Fritz J. Levy (University of Washington)
'Mirror of the times':
Popular Literature in the 1590s
Kathryn M. Brammall (Truman State University)
Managing Crisis in the 1590s:
Puritanism and the Civil Order in Henry Hardware's Chester
Robert Tittler (Concordia University)
Commentator: Margaret Sinclair Minor (Nicholls State University)
Room: Carson
Chair: Melvin J. Tucker (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Ireland and the English House of Lords:
Litigation and Royal Policy in the Seventeenth Century
Allen Horstman (Albion College)
His Missing Nose:
The Social, Political and Legal Ramifications of the Facial Mutilation
of Sir John Coventry by King Charles II
Jennipher A. Rosecrans (University of Michigan)
A Blueprint for Tyranny? Sir Edward Hales and the Catholic Jacobite Response to the Revolution of 1688
Daniel Szechi (Auburn University)
Commentator: Michael B. Young (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Room: Heritage E
Chair: Bruce Kinzer (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)
The Universal and the Anarchic in Wordsworth's Convention of Cintra
Brian Folker (Central Connecticut State University)
George Eliot's Felix Holt (1866) and Democratic Citizenship
Colene Bentley (McGill University)
Caleb Williams and the African American:
The Racialization of the Democratic Subject
Luciana Herman (University of California, Berkeley)
Commentator: Steven Goldsmith (University of California, Berkeley)
Room: Summit I
Chair: Walter L. Arnstein (University of Illinois)
Down Among the Dead:
Edwin Chadwick and Burial Reform Discourse in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
Mary E. Hotz (University of San Diego)
Reading the Dying Child:
Sentiment, Sensuality and Sacrifice in Two Victorian Periodicals
Naomi Wood (Kansas State University)
'Another Aristocracy of the Dead'?
The Cremation Society, Sir Francis Seymour Haden and Victorian
Sentiments Toward the Dead
Lisa Kazmier (Rutgers University)
Commentator: Stephen L. Keck (College of Charleston)
Room: Summit II
Chair: Martha Vicinus (University of Michigan)
Paideia and Power:
William Johnson (Cory), Oscar Browning and Their Sacking from Eton
William C. Lubenow (The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)
Onanism, Homosexuality and the Adolescent Boy:
The Case of Dr Arthur Sibly and Dr Ernest Jones
Chris Waters (Williams College)
Impelled to Mountain Heights:
The Sexual 'Invert' and the Reclamation of Masculinity, 1897-1925
Paul R. Deslandes (Sweet Briar College)
Commentator: Seth Koven (Villanova University)
Room: Heritage D
Chair: Janet Watson (University of Connecticut)
Time and Tide Wait for No Man:
Propaganda, Political Action and the Weekly Review
Michelle Tusan (University of California, Berkeley)
Keep the Flag Flying:
Anglo-Indian Women and Interwar Imperial Politics
Mary A. Procida (Temple University)
Citizen Housewife:
Women Under Austerity During the 1940s
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
'An ordinary woman citizen of this country':
Conservative Party Women and Criminal Justice Reform in the 1950s
Fiona Grigg (University of California, Berkeley)
Commentator: Deborah Gorham (Carleton University)
Room: Carson
Chair: Gordon R. DesBrisay (University of Saskatchewan)
'An echo of the multitude':
Poor Rates and the Government's Management of Private Poverty Initiatives in Early Modern Exeter
Connie S. Evans (Baldwin-Wallace College)
'Some for religion and some for bread':
Charity, Politics and the Huguenot Refugees in England, 1680-1705
John M. Hintermaier (Princeton University)
Disabled Veterans, the State and Philanthropy in England, 1585-1680
Geoffrey L. Hudson (The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,
University College London)
Commentator: Paul A. Fideler (Lesley College)
Room: Summit II
Chair: David Harris Sacks (Reed College)
Quo Warranto and Civic Corporations in the Early Seventeenth Century:
Royal Enforcement or Local Initiative?
Catherine Patterson (University of Houston)
War and the Pattern of Central-Local Relations:
The Case of the Second Dutch War
Victor Stater (Louisiana State University)
Royal Writs and Provincial Politics:
The Uses of King's Bench in the Seventeenth Century
Paul Halliday (Union College)
Commentator: James Rosenheim (Texas A&M University)
Room: Summit I
Chair: Patty Seleski (California State University, San Marcos)
Ambivalent Patriots:
The Paradoxes of British Loyalism During the War of American Independence
Eliga H. Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Recruiting the Nation:
War and the Creation of the British National Welfare System
for Soldiers' and Sailors' Families, 1793-1815
Patricia Y.C.E. Lin (University of California, Berkeley)
A 'Sinking' Nation and a 'Sunken' People:
Fears of National Degeneracy c.1810
Stuart Semmel (Harvard University)
Commentator: Marc Baer (Hope College)
Room: Heritage E
Chair: Reba N. Soffer (California State University, Northridge)
The Commodification of Health:
Doctors and Patent Medicines in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Britain
Lori Loeb (University of Toronto)
The Pathologization of Old Age and Its Impact on Poor Law Policy
for the Aged Workhouse Pauper, 1880-1913
Andrea Smith (University of Toronto)
A Woman Doctor on the Frontier of Empire
Jane Thompson (University of Toronto)
Commentator: Margaret Barnett (University of Southern Mississippi)
Room: Heritage D
Chair: Peter H. Hansen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Colonial Travellers and Imperial Subjects?
The Gendered Representations of Canada's First Nations in Britain, 1890s-1900s
Cecilia Morgan (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education)
The Pan-African Conference of 1900
Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Feminist Activism in the Early Twentieth-Century Imperial Metropolis:
Australian Women's Challenges to Masculinist Institutionalized Colonialism
Angela Woollacott (Case Western Reserve University)
Commentator: Mansour Bonakdarian (Arizona State University-West)
Room: Heritage F
Chair: Larry L. Witherell (University of Maine at Presque Isle)
Gypsy Petulengro and the BBC's Search for Authenticity
Caitlin Adams (University of Michigan)
The BBC and Indian Broadcasting Cosmopolitans
Joselyn Zivin (Drake University)
The BBC and the Invasion of Rock-'n'-Roll
Julie E. Smith (University of Arkansas)
Commentator: Fred M. Leventhal (Boston University)
(Room: Heritage A/B/C)
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Linda Levy Peck (Vice President, NACBS; George Washington University)
Plenary Address:
Violence in the Domestic Milieu of Late Medieval England
Barbara A. Hanawalt (Ohio State University)
Room: Carson
Chair: Joan Kent (Sweet Briar College)
Fissures in the Soul:
Rage, Honor and Personal Identity in the English Elite
Linda Pollock (Tulane University)
Keeping the Peace:
Parochial Arbitration of Quarrels in Early Modern Britain
Margo Todd (Vanderbilt University)
Crime or Culture?
Women Before the Town Courts in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Elizabeth Ewan (University of Guelph)
Commentator: Kenneth L. Parker (Saint Louis University)
Room: Heritage D
Moderator: Frank Trentmann (Princeton University)
The State and Political Economy in the Seventeenth Century
Steven Pincus (University of Chicago)
The Diffusion of Economic Practices in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Deborah Valenze (Barnard College)
Imperialism as Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain:
The Return of the Repressed
Kathleen Wilson (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Consumption, Gender and Social Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Margot Finn (Emory University)
Comment: The Audience
Room: Summit II
Chair: Lynn Zastoupil (Rhodes College)
In Search of Eden:
Natural History and the Art of the Picturesque in British India
Romita Ray (Yale University)
Between Black and White:
The Discourse of 'Race' and the Art of Empire
Jeffrey A. Auerbach (Stanford University)
The Ironies of Mimicry:
Indian Art Collecting and Display in the Raj
Julie F. Codell (Arizona State University)
Commentator: Lynn Zastoupil (Rhodes College)
Room: Heritage E
Chair: John D. Fair (Georgia College and State University)
Elizabeth Canning and the Legibility of Countenance
Cara Robertson (Law Clerk to Justice Byron White, United States
Supreme Court)
Circumcisional Evidence:
The Case of Adolf Beck
Deborah Cohen (American University)
Bones of Contention:
The Repatriation of the Remains of Roger Casement
Kevin Grant (Hamilton College)
Commentator: Kali Israel (University of Michigan)
Room: Heritage F
Chair: Harold L. Smith (University of Houston - Victoria)
Constructions of Masculinity in the British Royal Navy, 1890-1931
Ronald H. Spector (George Washington University)
'In Whitehall, as in heaven...':
Women, Sex, Gender and the Home Civil Service, 1925-1947
Gail Savage (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
Commentators: John F. Beeler (University of Alabama) Dina Copelman (George Mason University)
Room: Summit I
Chair: Susan Kingsley Kent (University of Colorado, Boulder)
The Politicization of Domesticity:
The Development of the Ideology of Feminine Fascism
in the British Union of Fascists
Julie V. Gottlieb (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University)
'To keep me all my life':
British Widows of the First World War in Correspondence with the State, 1914-1925
Ingrid H. James (Jesus College, Cambridge University)
Courting Happiness, Courting Disaster:
Marriage Choices and Women of the English Working Class
Natalie Higgins (Downing College, Cambridge University)
Commentator: John F. Naylor (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Room: Summit III
Moderator: Roy T. Matthews (Michigan State University; President, WCBS)
'We shall gladly teach':
Public Expectations and the Professoriate
Charles R. Middleton (Bowling Green State University)
'You really want me to teach twelve hours per term?'
Employment Prospects and the Future of British Studies
from a Dean's Perspective
Neil Kunze (Southern Oregon University)
British Literature in a Multicultural Age
John A. Stevenson (University of Colorado, Boulder)
'The Madness of George III':
A Sequel?
John Severn (University of Alabama, Huntsville)
Comment: The Audience
Room: Summit I
Chair: Susan Wabuda (Fordham University)
Early Elizabethan Pamphleteering:
John Hales and the Gendered Politics of the Succession
Victoria de la Torre (Loyola Marymount University)
Robert Beale and the Elizabethan Monarchy, 1563-1587:
A Succession or Exclusion Crisis?
Mark Taviner (University of St. Andrews)
Francis Alford, Parliament Man:
Familial Catholicism and Parliamentary Activity in Elizabeth's Reign
Norman Jones (Utah State University)
Commentator: Dale Hoak (College of William and Mary)
Room: Heritage E
Chair: William Kuhn (Carthage College)
Credit, Risk and Honor in Eighteenth-Century Commerce
John Smail (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Manufacturers and the Creation of Political Credit in the Late Eighteenth Century
Vivien Dietz (Davidson College)
Princely Debt, Public Credit and British Royal Family Honor in the Decade of the French Revolution
Marilyn Morris (University of North Texas)
Commentator: Thomas W. Laqueur (University of California, Berkeley)
Room: Summit II
Chair: Christopher Kent (University of Saskatchewan)
Mid-Century Respectability:
The Pendulum Swung Too Far
Elizabeth M. Tollers (University of Tennessee)
Benjamin Disraeli and the Silver-Fork Novel:
The Condition-of-England's Ruling Class
Maria K. Bachman (University of Tennessee)
Servants and Sensibility
Sara Melton-Sumner (Hiwassee College)
Commentator: Jamie Bronstein (New Mexico State University)
Room: Carson
Chair: Trevor Lloyd (University of Toronto)
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire:
Fictions of Apocalypse at the Fin de siecl
Kelly Hurley (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Constructing Affinities:
The Victoria League and the 'Colonial Encounter' in Britain
During the First World War and the 1920s
Matthew Hendley (University of Toronto)
Strategies for Surviving as a Great Power:
Cultivating the Commonwealth During the Second World War
Francine McKenzie (University of Toronto)
Commentator: Richard A. Rempel (McMaster University)
Room: Heritage F
Chair: J. Lee Thompson (Texas A&M University)
'The integrity of Ireland':
John Redmond and the Struggle Against Partition
Stephen M. Duffy (University of Arkansas at Monticello)
'"Ulster, Ulster" all the time':
Andrew Bonar Law and the Irish Union, 1912-1914
R.J.Q. Adams (Texas A&M University)
'Hereditary enemies':
Home Rule, Unionism and The Times
Thomas Kennedy (University of Arkansas)
Commentator: Stanley H. Palmer (University of Texas, Arlington)
Room: Heritage D
Chair: Sonya O. Rose (University of Michigan)
Uitlanders No More:
The South African War in Suffragist Discourse, 1899-1914
Laura E. Nym Mayhall (The Catholic University of America)
Closing the Divide Between the Fronts:
Rethinking Gender, Warfare and Citizenship in the Aftermath
of World War I
Susan R. Grayzel (University of Mississippi)
'Heroes' and 'Stoics':
Modes of Feminine Identification in Britain in the Second World War
Penny Summerfield (University of Lancaster)
Commentator: Richard Price (University of Maryland)
Room: Summit I
Chair: Owen Cramer (Colorado College)
A French Connection?
A Testing of Holmes's Thesis Regarding the Relationship Between
Elizabethan Catholic and French Ideas on Political Resistance
Glen Bowman (University of Minnesota)
Putting Antichrist to Flight:
Recollections of Elizabethan Anti-Catholicism in Stuart England
John Watkins (University of Minnesota)
Commentators: Ann Weikel (Portland State University) DeLloyd Guth (University of Manitoba)
Room: Carson
Chair: Lawrence Klein (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
'A torrent of abuse':
Patient-Practitioner Relationships and the Struggle for Authority
in the Sickroom, 1688-1820
Alexandra M. Lord (Montana State University)
Redefining Responsibility:
The Courtroom Dialogue and Legal Reform in England, 1750-1830
Dana Rabin (University of Illinois)
The Transformation of Legal Authority in the City of London,
c. 1780-1840
Andrew T. Harris (Bridgewater State College)
Commentator: Elaine Reynolds (William Jewell College)
Room: Heritage D
Chair: Robert Cole (Utah State University)
Boudicca and Britannia:
Rivals in the National Symbol Contest
Roy T. Matthews (Michigan State University)
From Indian Maiden to Liberty to Rosie the Riveter to Wonder Woman:
The Invention of the Female American National Symbol
Peter Mellini (Sonoma State University)
In Defence of Albion:
National Identity in Crisis in the First and Second World Wars
Anthony Lacey Gully (Arizona State University)
Commentator: Michael T. Saler (University of California, Davis)
Room: Summit II
Chair: Jeffrey N. Cox (University of Colorado, Boulder)
'They meet, each in the other lost and found':
Landscape Aesthetics in Coleridge's Notebooks and 'The Picture'
Jill Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado, Boulder)
The Plaided Picturesque:
Romanticizing Scott's Landscape
Charles Snodgrass (Texas A&M University)
Domestic Imperialism:
Thomas Hardy's Use of Landscape in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
and The Woodlanders
Wm. Scott Rode (University of New Mexico)
Commentator: Lori Kula Mehl (University of New Mexico)
Room: Heritage E
Chair: Neil Petrie (Colorado State University)
Undemocratic Traditions in the Anglo-American
Homosexual Emancipation Movement
Gregory A. Barton (Northwestern University)
Oscar Wilde and Queer Values
Jonathan Alexander (University of Southern Colorado)
Maugham's 'Little Story' of the Homosocial
J. Robert Baker (Fairmont State College)
Commentator: Samuel L. Gladden (Texas A&M University)
Room: Heritage F
Chair: Thomas G. McGuire (United States Air Force Academy)
Behind Orwell's Back:
Reconstructing British Anti-Fascist Radical Writing
Kristin Bluemel (Monmouth University)
The Clandestine Operations of Sylvia Townsend Warner's
After the Death of Don Juan
David A. Boxwell (United States Air Force Academy)
'My private battle with my nerves':
John Cornford, Margot Heinemann and the Fight Against Fascism
Patrick Deane (University of Western Ontario)
Commentator: Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University)