2000 Midwest Conference on British Studies,

October 27-28, 2000

University of Cincinnati

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President: Gary De Krey, St. Olaf College

Vice-President: Robert Bucholz, Loyola University of Chicago

Secretary-Treasurer: Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University

Chair, Program Committee 2000: Melinda Zook, Purdue University

Members of the Conference Program Committee are: Melinda Zook, (Chair), Purdue University; David Cressy, The Ohio State Univesity; Maura O'Connor, University of Cincinnati; Phyllis Soybel, Elmhurst College; Richard Spall, Ohio Wesleyan; Melinda Zook, Purdue University.

Local Arrangements: Hilda Smith, University of Cincinnati

Friday, October 27

9:30 - 10:30 Registration

• Continental Breakfast Mt. Storm Room

Session I - 10:30-12:00

Early Sixteenth-Century Theatre History (Ampitheater I)

• "Traveling Players under Henry VIII and Edward VI," James H. Forse and Christine Williams, Bowling Green State University
• "John Bale's Kynge Johan as Tudor Propaganda," Gerald D. George, Bowling Green State University
• "John Bale and the Reshaping of Late Medieval Drama for Protestant Purposes," Mary Kate Riddell, Bowling Green State University
• Chair/Commentator: Edmund Taft, Marshall University

Crime, Punishment and Penance in Medieval and Early Modern (Ampitheater II)

• Chair: Gary De Krey, St. Olaf College
• "The Market place as a cultural site: public penance, c. 1250-1600," Dave Postles, University of Leicester
• "Bodies and Souls in Early Modern Norwich: Practices and Principles of the Public Punishment of Misdemeanours, 1560-1700," Paul Griffiths, University of Leicester
• "Patterns of Criminal Behavior and Justice within the Verge of the English Royal Household, 1660-1750: A Quantitative Study," Matthew P. Szromba, Loyola University of Chicago
• Commentator: Audience

Gender and Domesticity in Victorian Literature (Mt. Storm Room)

• "Anne Brontë: Eighteenth-Century Connections," Kristin A. Le Veness, St. John's University, New York
• "Contesting Public and Private Spheres in Shirley," Tara McGann, Columbia University
• "Waiting at Home: The Limits of Domestic Ideology in Wood's East Lynne," Kathleen Malony, Purdue University
• Chair/Commentator: Ann Frank Wake, Elmhurst College

(Bistro Buffet Lunch on your own, Kingsgate Conference Center)

Session II - 1:30-3:00

Kings, Saints and Crusaders in the High Middle Ages (Ampitheater I)

• "The Return of the English Crusaders, 1095-1195," Theodore D. Petro, University of Cincinnati
• "Confessor, Martyr, Warrior-Saint: The Cult of Saint George in England at the end of the Eleventh-Century," James B. MacGregor, University of Cincinnati
• "The Kinship Network of Henry I and the Expansion of the Congregation of Tiron in the Twelfth-Century," Ruth Harwood Cline, Georgetown University
• Chair/Commentator: Marta VanLandingham, Purdue University

Rape, Rakes, and Slaves in Restoration Drama (Ampitheater II)

• "Aphra Behn and Thomas Southerne: Rape, Slavery and Oroonoko" Susan Wiseman, Birbeck College, University of London
• "Lucretia's Legacy: Rape in Restoration Drama, 1660-1714," Deborah Hughes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• "George Etherege's Dormant: The Rake Figure and the Carnivalesque," Mardy Philippian, Jr., Purdue University
• Chair/Commentator: Julia Rudolph, Bucknell University

Domestic Aspects of Empire, 1807-1910 (Mt. Storm Room)

• "Imperial Ceremony in a Domestic Context: Victoria, Edward II and the Indian Honor Guard, 1876-1910," A. Martin Wainwright, University of Akron
• "The African Institution of London: Africa and British Anti-Slavery, 1807-1827," Wayne Ackerson, Salisbury State University
• Chair/Commentator: Michael Shirley, Eastern Illinois University

(Beverage Break)

Session III - 3:30-5:00

Gender and Politics at the end of the Eighteenth-Century (Ampitheater I)

• "Women and Republicanism: The Case of Catherine Macaulay," Philip Hicks, Saint Mary's College
• "Music, Meaning, and Politics - The 1784 Handel Commemoration Reconsidered," Thomas McGeary, Champaign, IL
• "Refusing the Royal Pardon: Male and Female Convicted Thieves and the Reactions of the Court, 1787-1789," Lynn MacKay, Brandon University
• Chair/Commentator: James J. Sack, University of Illinois at Chicago

British Travelers to the Boundaries of Europe and Asia (Ampitheater II)

• "Lousy 'Glibbs' and White 'Turbents:' Seventeenth-Century English Travelers and Perceptions of Foreign Cleanliness," Anna Suranyi, UCLA
• "'In the barbarous regions to be traversed:' British Travelers in Montenegro," Natasha Margulis, University of Cincinnati
• "She went…Where?!!" Joan Gaughan, University of Michigan
• Chair/Commentator: Maura O'Connor, University of Cincinnati

A Special Relationship in the Making? Anglo-American Relations Since 1895 (Mt. Storm Room)

• Before the Great Rapprochment: Anglo-American Relations and the U.S. Navy in the Caribbean, 1895," Kenneth Blume, Albany College
• "Crusading Against the Cartel: Power, Profits, and Patriotism in the Global Information Market, 1927-1934," Alexander Nalbach, Wayne State University
• "The Necessary Relationship: The Changing Nature of the Anglo-American Relationship," Phyllis L. Soybel, Elmhurst College
• Chair/Commentator: Jane Vieth, Michigan State University

5:30-7:00 Social Hour (Salon A)

7:00 Dinner (Salon A)

• Plenary Speaker: Anna Clark, University of Minnesota, "Gender and Neo-Whiggism: Women in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Politics"

Saturday October 28

Session IV - 8:45-10:15

The Isles Online: A Roundtable on H-Albion and the Virtual Community of British Historians (Ampitheater I)

• "Editing H-Albion," Richard Gorrie, University of Guelph
• "The History, Practice, and Future of Editing Electronic Reviews," Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University
• "H-Albion Yesterday and Today," Terry L. Taylor, Shoreline Community College, Urbana-Champaign
• Chair/Commentator: Dave Postles, University of Leicester

Honor and Masculinity in Early Modern England (Ampitheater II)

• "'Keep the Widower Waking:' Vulnerable Masculinity in Early Modern England," Barbara J. Todd, University of Toronto
• "Cross-Dressing Women and Ideas of Masculinity in England, 1578-1835," Ed Burton, University of Cincinnati
• "Honor and Martial Culture in late Tudor and Stuart England," Roger Manning, Cleveland State University
• Chair/Commentator: Michael Young, Illinois Wesleyan University

Twentieth-Century Perspectives: Baldwin, Churchill and Empire (Mt. Storm Room)

• "James Bryce, Alfred Zimmern and the Classical Apology for Empire," J. Rufus Fears, The University of Oklahoma
• "'How Rome Dwarfs Everything!' Stanley Baldwin and the Classical Tradition," Robert Butler, Elmhurst College
• "'A Terrible Tangle' (Harold Macmillan): The Churchill Government's Transport Bill, 1952," Charles Loft, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
• Chair/Commentator: Walter Arnstein, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Coffee

Session V - 10:30-12:00

Writing the New Court History for England and Europe (Ampitheater I)

• "Queenship and the Building of Empire in the Thirteenth-Century Crown of Aragon," Marta VanLandingham, Purdue University
• "Henrietta Maria: Establishing the role of consort," Caroline Hibbard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• "'Wisdom Hath Built her House:' Gender and the Politics of Panegyric at the Court of the early Romanovs," Elizabeth Zelensky, Georgetown University
• Chair/Commentator: Robert Bucholz, Loyola University of Chicago

Victorian Outsiders (Ampitheater II)

• "Wooing Erin: The British Comic Press and Feminine Images of Ireland, 1879-1882," Michael de Nie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "The Other and Brother: The Idea of the Jew in Imperial Britain," Eric Reisenauer, University of South Carolina, Sumter
• "Two Paths: Cole vs. Ruskin and the Terms of English Design," Thomas Prasch, Washburn University
• Chair/Commentator: Dino Felluga, Purdue University

Gendered Shakespeare (Mt. Storm Room)

• Chair: Laura Yungblut, University of Dayton
• "The Gendered Poetics of Tragedy in Hamlet," Katharine Goodland, Cuny-Staten Island
• "'Such as we are made of, such we be': Courtship Ritual and Gender in Twelfth Night," Tamara Agnew, University of Michigan
• "Content, Form, and Gender in As You Like It," Neal Migan, Purdue University
• Commentator: Fran Dolan, Miami University

12:15-2:00 Lunch (Salon A)

• Plenary Speaker: Tom Cogswell, University of California, Riverside "London in Flames: Rumor, Retribution and the Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham"

Session VI - 2:15-3:30

Wee Women and Big Issues: Women's History and the Integration of Scottish Social History (Ampitheater I)

• "Female Spirituality in Pre-Reformation Edinburgh: Janet Rynd and the Magdalen Chapel," Mairi Cowan, University of Toronto
• "The Minister and the Unwed Mother: Individual and Community in Seventeenth-Century Peebles," Scott Moir, University of Guelph
• "Kirk and Control: The Impact on Women and the Family in Post-Reformation Scotland," Janay Nugent, Tri-University
• Chair/Commentator: Michael Graham, University of Akron

Subjects and Sovereigns in Tudor-Stuart England (Ampitheater II)

• "'This Phaeton cast downe:' The Earl of Essex and Thomas Heywood's The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject," Kevin Lindberg, The Ohio State University
• "From Sejanus to Tiberius: Sir John Eliot and the Evolution of Anti-Monarchic Sentiment in Parliament," Jeffrey D. Burson, George Washington University
• "The Re-presentation of Monarchy at the Stuart Restoration: The Image of the King" Carolyn A. Edie, The University of Illinois at Chicago
• Chair/Commentator: Janelle Greenberg, University of Pittsburgh

(Representing) Women in the Public Sphere (Mt. Storm Room)

• Chair: Beth Boehm, University of Louisville
• "'My Difficulties in Management:' Philanthropy, Professionalism, and Business in Isabel Fry's Diaries (1911-1936)," Heather Julien, University of Louisville
• "The Influence of the Theater on Late Eighteenth-Century British Women Novelists," Nora Nachumi, Indiana State University
• "Heroines or Hostesses: The Political Woman in British Fiction of the Reform Era," Lawrence Poston, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Commentator: Susan Griffin, University of Louisville

Beverage Break

Session VII - 3:45-5:15

Gender and Poverty in Early Modern London (Ampitheater I)

• "London's Poor Survivors of War: Disabled Veterans and War Widows, 1600-1800," Geoffrey L. Hudson, Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine
• "Five Shillings and a New Pair of Shoes: Settlement Law and the Deportation of Pregnant Women in London, 1662-1795," Kimberly Kippen, University of Toronto
• "Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse: A Study of Medical Provision Under the Old Poor Law," Kevin Siena, University of Toronto
• Chair/Commentator: Paul A. Fideler, Lesley University

Gender History and the Challenge to Women's History: A Pedagogical Roundtable (Ampitheater II)

• The Transition from Women's History to Gender History: A Cost Analysis" Melinda Zook, Purdue University
• "A Body of Knowledge vs. an Intellectual Perspective: Women and Gender History" Hilda Smith, University of Cincinnati
• Chair/Commentator: Barbara Todd, University of Toronto

Registration Information:

• registration fee: $45.00
• Friday banquet: $26.00 _____ (Please check where appropriate)
• Saturday lunch: $20.00 _____
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• Lunch is served buffet style with choice of meats, vegetables and salads Banquet will feature a chicken dish.
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