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36th Annual CSECS Conference: Charting the 18th Century: Encircling Land & Sea
St. John’s, Newfoundland  & Labrador, Canada, 14-16 October 2010

Proposals due by 28 February 2010

Plenary Speakers:

• Isobel Grundy (Professor Emeritus, English & Film Studies, University of Alberta)
• Jean-François Palomino (Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, Montréal)
• Pat Rogers (Distinguished University Professor and DeBartolo Chair in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida)

The planning committee for the 36th annual CSECS conference welcomes papers on any aspect of the long eighteenth century. Selected papers will be published in Lumen. 2010 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Sarah Fielding, the Copyright Act, Swift’s Description of a City Shower and the 250th anniversary of the reign of George III, Diderot’s La religieuse, Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Voltaire’s Tancrède . . .

Proposals for sessions and papers have been received on:

• © @ CCC: The Copyright Act 300 years on
• Anna Barbauld and the Tradition of Sentimental Cartography
• Behn, Southerne, and the Treatment of Imoinda
• Brewing Trouble: Tea in the Transatlantic
• C21 Resources and C18 Texts
• Charting Dalmatia in the Late Eighteenth Century
• Chrysal 250 years later
• Cod, Tobacco, and Maps
• Digressions in Tristram Shandy and Fray Gerundio de Campazas
• Eighteenth-Century Shakespeare and the Romantic Comedy
• Elinor’s Madness in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer
• Frances Brook & New France
• Freemasonry and Some Analogues
• George III’s Influence on the Development of the American War of the Rebellion
• Gray’s Elegy and the Educational Contexts of Official Recognition
• Health, Tourism, and the Literature of Sensibility
• Historical Fiction’s Rewriting of the History of the Novel
• Jefferson’s History of the Dividing Line
• Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
• La Correspondance de la femme des Lumières
• Legal Language and Perceived Truth in Clarissa
• Liberty, Happiness, and the American War of Independence in English Fiction, 1770-1790
• Literary Responses to the Assassination Plot of 1696
• Lost & Foundling Literature
• Mapping the Museum in Eighteenth-Century Germany
• Mapping the New World
• Mental illness, public health and the single woman in Tissot
• Mercier & Political Corruption in Le Nouveau Paris (1798)
• Portuguese Letters or Five Letters by L’Estrange
• Reading in the Novels of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding
• Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
• Shakespeare, Chowder & the C18
• The Dying Nabob and the Birth of the British Body Abroad

Please submit your 1-page proposal for a 20-minute paper and brief bio before 28 February 2010 to: Dr. Don Nichol, Conference Organizer CSECS/SCEDHS 14-16 October 2010, Dept of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, CANADA A1C 5S7.

Email: csecs.2010@gmail.com

The Call for Papers in French is available here»