Call for Papers: MWASECS November 2011
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, 4-6 November 2011
Proposals due by 19 August 2011
We are pleased to announce that the annual conference of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will be held jointly with the Midwest Conference on British Studies at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, November 4-6, 2011. Our plenary speaker will be Paula Backscheider, Phillpott-Stephens Eminent Scholar of English Literature at Auburn University, and author of Eighteenth Century Women Poets and Their Poetry.
MWASECS invites contributions on all aspects of the eighteenth century. We welcome traditional 20-minute paper presentations as well as more innovative formats such as round table discussions, performances, etc. Please send individual abstracts and/or proposals for complete sessions to mwasecs2011@gmail.com by August 19, 2011. For an early response, please submit your abstract/proposal by July 30.
New Title: ‘Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange’
David Marshall, Susan Russell, and Karin Wolfe, eds., Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome (London: British School at Rome, 2011), 374 pages, ISBN 9780904152555, £35.00.
Important as the Grand Tour was, there was much more to the cultural relationship between Britain and Rome in the eighteenth century than this. The contributions to this volume look at this relationship from the perspective of the Italian, as well as the British and other European visitors: Rome in the eighteenth century stood for cosmopolitanism rather than national rivalry, and had moved beyond being the centre for the renaissance of antiquity to being a place where the cross-pollination of the modern with the ancient allowed the culture of Europe to flower in new and unexpected ways.
Introduction
- David R. Marshall and Karin Wolfe, Roma Britannica
- Christopher M.S. Johns, Visual Culture and the Triumph of Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Art for Religion: Catholic Britain and Jacobites in Rome
- Carol M. Richardson, Andrea Pozzo and the Venerable English College, Rome
- Edward Corp, The Stuart Court and the Patronage of Portrait-Painters in Rome, 1717–57
- David R. Marshall, The Cardinal’s Clothes: The Temporary Façade for the Investiture Celebration of Cardinal York in 1747
- Peter Björn Kerber, The Art of Catholic Recusancy: Lord Arundell and Pompeo Batoni
Culture for Sale: British Patrons, Collectors, Agents, and the Roman Art Market
- Karin Wolfe, Acquisitive Tourism: Francesco Trevisani’s Roman Studio and British Visitors
- James Holloway, John Urquhart of Cromarty: A Jacobite Patron in Rome
- Alastair Laing, Giovanni Paolo Panini’s English Clients
- Francis Russell, John, 3rd Earl of Bute and James Byres: A Postscript
Confrontations with the Antique: The British Reception of Egypt and Rome
- Edward Chaney, Roma Britannica and the Cultural Memory of Egypt: Lord Arundel and the Obelisk of Domitian
- Elizabeth Bartman, Egypt, Rome and the Concept of Universal History
- Edgar Peters Bowron, From Homer to Faustina the Younger: Representations of Antiquity in Batoni’s British Grand Tour Portraits
- Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Romanizing Frescoes: From the Villa Negroni to Ickworth
Constructing the Future on the Ruins of the Past: The British and the Roman Practice of Architecture
- Tommaso Manfredi, Roma Communis Patria: Filippo Juvarra and the British
- Katrina Grant, Planting ‘Italian Gusto’ in a ‘Gothick Country’: The Influence of Filippo Juvarra on William Kent
- John Wilton-Ely, ‘My Holy See of Pleasurable Antiquity’: Robert Adam and His Contemporaries in Rome
- Letizia Tedeschi, Vincenzo Brenna and His Drawings from the Antique for Charles Townley
Universal Neoclassicism: Old Rome and New Britain
- Malcolm Baker, Commemoration ‘in a More Durable and Grave Manner’: Portrait Busts for the British in Early Eighteenth-Century Rome
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor, ‘The Modern … Who Recommends Himself’: Italian Painters and British Taste in Eighteenth-Century Rome
- Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Between ‘Old Tiber’ and ‘Envious Thames’: The Angelica Kauffman Connection
- Kevin Salatino, Fuseli’s Phallus: Art and Erotic Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Rome
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Orders should be sent to: The British School at Rome, at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH.
Electronic Enlightenment, Part II
After a few minutes exploring the ‘classroom’ resources at Electronic Enlightenment (free until the end of June), I was impressed by the possibilities. So often amazing electronic resources are presented (or at least perceived) as if the value lay simply in the information that’s been digitized. It’s nice to see EE thinking about the pedagogical potential (I really like Meghan Roberts’s lesson plan for ‘Inoculation in the Age of Enlightenment’).
Perhaps at some point, Enfilade could feature a series of lesson plans generally. Members’ contributions are most welcome. -CH.
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Electronic Enlightenment, Classroom
Through a collaboration with academics using EE in their teaching, EE is pleased to present a selection of lesson plans suitable for undergraduate classes. We would like to thank the academics involved, and also to extend an offer to others who would like to make their lesson plans available to get in touch with us.
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Dissonance in the Republic of Letters
Christopher Tozzi, Johns Hopkins University
Abstract: This lesson plan highlights the diversity of opinion within the Republic of Letters by presenting a few of the personal and intellectual conflicts in which thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries involved themselves. By reading letters exchanged by Enlightenment thinkers, students will gain an appreciation of the intellectual nuances of the period and the way in which knowledge was pursued.
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Inoculation in the Age of Enlightenment
Meghan Roberts, Northwestern University
Abstract: This lesson would be suited to courses that deal with the Enlightenment, the history of science and medicine, and could also be adapted to courses on early modern France and early modern Europe.
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National Identity and Otherness in the Eighteenth Century
Neven Leddy, University of Ottawa
Abstract: This session tackles the complexities of identity in 18thC Great Britain and Europe. The correspondence of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment is used to illuminate the personal experiences which structure 18thC theories of the Other. In this session EE can be productively interleaved with electronic texts from other sources to structure a dialogue between biography and philosophy. The aim of this session is to problematize the modern nation-state as a conceptual lens to view the past. Students will become familiar with the 18thC model of a multi-ethnic state, a well the many layers of national and human identity.
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Optimism and Cosmopolitanism in the Enlightenment
Neven Leddy, University of Ottawa
Abstract: This session introduces the Enlightenment through the Lisbon Earthquake of November 1st, 1755 focusing on the elements of Optimism and Cosmopolitanism. In the process it illuminates the diffusion of “news” through the eighteenth century Republic of Letters. The methodological thrust of the lesson plan is interdisciplinary, demonstrating the crossover and feedback between history, philosophy, religion and literature. It assumes a bilingual student body.
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The Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre World
Anne Greenfield, University of Denver
Abstract: This section will discuss the value of incorporating correspondence into courses on History and/or Literary History. Writers of letters tend to move from topic to topic far more readily and abruptly than do writers of more singularly-focused works (e.g., essays, poems, or political treatises). For this reason, correspondence gives students of History and Literary History a more expansive vision of the past, exposing them to writers’ insights into a wide variety of phenomena.
Free Access to the ‘Electronic Enlightenment’ til the End of June
Various announcements from Robert McNamee, Director of the Electronic Enlightenment Project:
Try Electronic Enlightenment Free Till the End of June
Electronic Enlightenment is being offered on a free trial till the end of June. Access this growing correspondence network, with over 7,100 distinct correspondents and nearly 60,000 letters. Simply go to www.e-enlightenment.com and login with:
Username: ee2011
Password: enlightenment
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EE Colloquium — Epistolary Quarrels: Matter and Manner
Oxford, 19 November 2011
Proposals due by 9 September 2011
I will not deprecate you with regard to our Quarrel, for if any thing escaped me (as you pretend) that seemed strong, that is, that hurt you a little, I am not conscious of any such meaning, & you would not have me apologize for mere words, or an ill-contrived expreſsion.
— Thomas Gray to Edward Bedingfield (10 August 1757)
The colloquium is intended to provide a forum for both academics and graduate students exploring correspondence in the early modern period. The papers given by academics will be 40 minutes; those given by graduate students will be 20 minutes. Conference papers can be in English or French. A selection of papers will be published electronically in the Electronic Enlightenment Project’s Letterbook. Please send us your proposals (max 250 words) by Friday 9 September 2011: eecolloquium@e-enlightenment.info
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Write a Lesson Plan and Win a Book from Oxford University Press
Submit a lesson plan to onlinemarketing@oup.com on a subject of your choosing, and if chosen you will win £40 worth of books from OUP’s catalogue of outstanding print publications. To see our current selection of lesson plans, go to www.e-enlightenment.com/classroom/
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The latest review of EE in The Charleston Advisor:
Jennifer Dekker, The Charleston Advisor 12.4 (April 2011): 28-31.
Electronic Enlightenment is a new-generation digital collection offered by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. It not only functions as a repository and access point for valuable correspondence and related documentation on the eighteenth century, but it is also an interactive community project continually building new resources into its database and encouraging external users to participate in its evolution. For example, readers are invited to correct information in the EE resource base and are even welcome to add letters that have not yet been included. This level of interaction is not often seen in commercial tools, but because EE is facilitated, hosted, and marketed by a major research library in collaboration with an established group of eighteenth century scholars, this database is more innovative and flexible than a typical commercial product. 4.750/5 stars.
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