2003
Midwest Conference on British Studies 
The Château hotel
and Ewing Manor, Bloomington, Illinois & Illinois State University, October
17-19, 2003
Co-sponsors include the College of Arts and
Sciences & Department of History, Illinois State University; British Consul
General, Chicago;
Heartland Community College; the McLean
County Historical Society; the Sister City Association of Bloomington-Normal;
Illinois Humanities Council
Friday, October 17
Noon
– 4 p.m. Registration: the Galleria
12
NOON – 1.30: Polemics and Politics in
Literature: Bonaparte 3
Chair: Hilary Justice, Illinois State University
Mark Amos, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
“Disciplining Noblewomen and Merchant Capitalists”
Christopher Strangeman, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale
“Shelley Unbound:
Exile in Italy”
Andrew Bynom, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
“The Unity Theatre 1936-1939: Radically Original or Predictably
Polemical?”
Comment:
Rebecca Saunders, Illinois State University
1.45
– 3.15: Family Values? Women and Children in Early Modern
England: Bonaparte 3
Chair:
Torri L. Thompson, Illinois State University
Susannah Ottaway, Carleton College
“The ‘unheaded woman’ as Executor: Women, Property and Custom in 18th
Century England”
Philip Hicks, St. Mary’s College (Indiana)
“Female Patriotism, Republican Rome, and the
Duchess of Devonshire”
John Ramsbottom, University of Illinois, Urbana
“Lost and Found?
The Case of Abandoned Children in England, 1600-1760”
Comment:
Jeffrey Chamberlain, University of St. Francis
3.30 – 5: British Studies in the New Millenium:
New Approaches for a New Generation:
Bonaparte 3
Chair: Chet
DeFonso, Northern Michigan University
Panelists:
Robert Butler, Elmhurst College, Ann Frank Wake, Elmhurst College, Jane
Vieth, Michigan State University
Comment:
the Audience
5.30
– 7.00
Reception: Ewing Manor, Illinois
State University
MWCBS bus leaves for Ewing from the Château at
5.15; returns at 7.15
Welcome to conference: Provost John W. Presley, Dean Roberta S. Trites; Andrew Seaton,
British Consul General
Performance by Illinois State University Madrigal
Singers
DINNER AT LEISURE
Saturday, October 18
8
a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration: the
Galleria
8.30
– 10 a.m.: Authors, Readers, and Publishers: A Discussion: Bonaparte 3
Chair:
Thomas McGeary, University of Illinois, Urbana
Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University
“Do You Remember the First Time? Choosing and Using Early Modern Documents
for the Classroom”
Robert Bucholz, Loyola University of Chicago
“Publishing a Textbook in the Twenty-first Century”
Michael Young, Illinois Wesleyan University
“Writing about James VI and I’s Homosexuality”
Comment:
the Audience
10.15
– 11.45 a.m. Women's Roles in the
Twentieth Century: at Home and
Abroad: Bonaparte 3
Chair: Michael Shirley, Eastern Illinois
University
Karen Yuen, University of Illinois, Urbana
“Slave, Servant, or Adopted Daughters: The Hong Kong Mui Tsai Controversy,
1919-1950”
Jessica Thurlow, University of Michigan
“‘The welfare of mothers and children should come
first': The Women's Movement, the New
Welfare State, and Feminism, c. 1940-1950”
Comment:
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, University of Illinois, Chicago
12.00
– 1 p.m.: Buffet luncheon: Bonaparte 2
1
– 2.15 p.m.: Plenary: Queen Victoria as Movie Star: Auditorium
Chair:
Marjorie Morgan, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Panelists:
Walter L. Arnstein, University of Illinois, Urbana; Steven C. Shafer,
University of Illinois, Urbana
2.30
– 4.15: Law, Crime and Labor in
England, 1800-1850: Auditorium
Chair:
Earl Reitan, Illinois State University
Richard Soderlund, Illinois State University
“Industrial Policing and Petty Producers in the
Yorkshire Worsted Industry, 1820-1850”
Bruce Smith, University of Illinois, Urbana
REGISTRATION FORM
Name:_____________________________________________
Affiliation:_________________________________________
Address:___________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
E-mail:_____________________________________________
Conference registration $50
Students $20
Saturday lunch $22
Students $12
Saturday banquet $36
Students $20
Saturday lunch is buffet-style with a choice of meats,
vegetables, and dessert. The evening
banquet, featuring a chicken dish, will be served with wine. Additional bottles are available for
purchase. Please indicate any special
dietary requirements on this registration form.
Make checks payable to Illinois State University.
Return a copy of this form and your check
to:
Lee Beier, Department of History
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4420
Registration for meals must be received by October 2, 2003.
Special dietary
requirements:________________________
___________________________________________________
“Summary Proceedings, Lawyerization, and Bounded
Discretion: The Strange Case of John
William Adams, Silk-weaver”
Chris Frank, University of Manitoba
“'Let but one of them come before me and I'll
commit him': The Magistracy and Trade
Union Resistance to Master and Servant Prosecutions, 1843-1851”
Comment:
Theodore Koditschek, University of Missouri, Columbia
4.30
– 6: Organizational Success and Failure
in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain:
Auditorium
Chair:
Todd E. A. Larson, Xavier University
Aaron Hoffman, University of Aberdeen
“Temperance,
Cholera, and the Medical Profession in Aberdeen, Scotland in the 1830s”
Eric Tenbus, Central Missouri State University
“'Bad to organize and consequently feeble in times
of danger': The Long, Strange Trip of
the Catholic Poor School Committee in Victorian Britain”
James Murray Cornelius, University of Illinois,
Urbana
“Better Read than Dead: A Short History of a Conservative Newspaper, 'The Realm,' 1864”
Comment:
Marsh Jones, Parkland College
6.30 –
8.30 DINNER AND PLENARY SESSION
Ewing
Manor: MWCBS bus leaves for Ewing from
the Château at 6.15; returns 8.45
Plenary
lecture: Frances
E. Dolan, University of California, Davis:
“Sharing the Rod, Fighting for the Breeches: Gender, Authority, and Violence in Early Modern Texts”
Sunday, October 19
8.30
– 10: Parallel sessions
1. Making an Urban Legend: the Renaissance Literature of Roguery
Reconsidered: Bonaparte 3
Chair:
Ronald L. Strickland, Illinois State University
Lee Beier, Illinois State University
“Reading Theories:
An Overview of Recent New Historicist Perspectives on the Early Modern
Literature of Roguery”
Craig Dionne, Eastern Michigan University
“Commonplace Rogues: the Cony-Catching Pamphlet as Domestic Handbook”
Steve Mentz, St. John’s University, New York City
“Magic Books:
Robert Greene's Cony-Catching Pamphlets and the Romance of Early-Modern
London”
Comment:
Carol Neely, University of Illinois, Urbana
2. Irish and British Immigrants in
Michigan: Clemenceau/Talleyrand room
Chair: Mark
Wyman, Illinois State University
William H. Mulligan, Murray State University
“Irish Miners in the Michigan Copper Country,
1845-1915”
Jane L. Nordberg, Finlandia University
“'You're hired - Now act like the rest of us': Language Prestige and Discrimination Against
Brits in the American Workplace”
Eric Nordberg,
Michigan Technological University
“At the Bottom of Any Mine Shaft: Cornish Miners in Michigan”
Comment:
Russell Magnaghi, Northern Michigan University
10.15 – 11.45: Roundtable: What the
Tourist Seldom Sees: History on – and
below – the Ground in the British Isles and Beyond: Bonaparte 3
Chair:
Helen McKay Katz, Heartland Community College
Panelists:
Roger B. Beck, Dagni Bredesen, Eastern Illinois University; Tony Adedze,
Subho Basu, Lucinda McCray Beier, E. Joan Miller, Charles Orser, Illinois State
University
Comment: the Audience
12
– 1.00: MWCBS BUSINESS MEETING: Talleyrand/Clemenceau room (lunch service)
ACCOMMODATION
A block of rooms
has been reserved at the Château for October 16, 17, and 18 at the MWCBS discount
rate of $84.00 for single or double occupancy; $94.00 for triple occupancy
(‘phone 1-800-285-8637; 1-309-662-2020; fax 309-662-6522). Reservations must be made no later than
three weeks before the meeting. Participants are strongly advised to book early,
because this is homecoming weekend for Illinois State University and because there is an Irish studies
conference meeting the same weekend.
TRAVEL, PARKING, RESTAURANTS
Bloomington is well
connected to the world. It has Amtrak,
a major regional airport, the Peoria charter bus service to and from O’Hare and
Midway airports (a real bargain), and is the hub of three interstate
highways. The Château is located at
1601 Jumer Drive, Bloomington, IL 61704-0902, just off Business I-55 (old Route
66), which intersects with I-74 about three miles to the south and I-55 three
miles to the north. There is a free hotel shuttle service from and to the
Central Illinois Regional airport (courtesy ‘phone available in the
airport). Hotel parking is also
free. A variety of restaurants is
within easy walking or driving distance of the hotel. At check-in the Château will provide a coupon worth $6.00 a day
towards breakfast in their dining room.
MWCBS Officers 2003:
President: Marjorie
Morgan, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Vice-President: Melinda Zook, Purdue University
Secretary-Treasurer: Robert Butler, Elmhurst
College
Web-Master: Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University
Program Committee 2003:
Chet
DeFonso, Northern Michigan University (Chair)
Anne
Frank-Wake, Elmhurst College
Janelle
Greenberg, University of Pittsburgh
Hilda
Smith, University of Cincinnati
Phyllis
Soybel, College of Lake County, Chicago
Local arrangements: Lee Beier, Illinois State University (albeier@ilstu.edu)
Further Information: