IXTEENTH ANNUAL

MARCH 30,31 & APRIL 1, 1995

1994.95 SENCSA Officers and Board Members

PRESIDENT:

Jadviga da Costa Nunes. Muhlenberg College

VICE-PRESIDENT:

Jack Rhodes. The Citadel

SECRETARY:

Marilyn J. Kurata. U of Alabama at Birmingham

TREASURER :

Joseph H. Gardner. U of.Kentucky. Lexington

JOURNAL EDITOR :

Suzanne Ozment, The Citadel

NEWSLIITT6R ED1T.oR:

Carole Kruger. Davidson College

BOARD MEMBERS :

Sri1ekha BeU. U of New Haven

Roberl M. Craig. Georgia Institute of Technology

Barbara Gribble. Gulf Coast Community College

Regina Hewilt. U of South Florida

Paul Lubes. Loyola College in Maryland

Gayla McGlamery. Loyola College in Maryland

Palrieilz O'Hara. Franklin & Marshall College

William H. Scheuerte. Hillsboro Community

College; Emeritus. U of South Florida

Shaw Smith. Davidson College

Andre Spies. Hollins College

CONSU LTANTS:

Hugh B. Andrews. Northern Michigan U

David J. Bradshaw. Warren Wilson College

AdiJress inljuires about membership and send changes

of address, etc., to: , Jack Rhodes

SENCSA Vice President

Department of English

The Citadel

Charleston. SC 29409

Address information to b.,! included in the next newsletter to:

Carole A. Ktuger

SENCSA Newsletter Editor

p. O. Box /364

Davidson. NC 28036

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ANN U AL

SOUTHEASTERN

TH CENTURY

S TUDIES C ONFEREN C E

CONF LIC T & RE SOL UTI'oN I

M ARCH 30,31, & A PRIL 1, 1995

HOSTED BY- LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND '

CHARLES STREET AND COLDSPRING LANE

1995 PROGRAM DIRECTOR :

Regina Hewitt, U of South Florida

1995 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS DIRECTORS:

Gayla McGlamery, Loyola College in Maryland

Paul Lukacs, Loyola College in Maryland

SPONSORED BY:

SENCSA

Th,e !-oyola Center for the Humanities

Student Activities·

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The Departments of English, Fine Arts, & History

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Thursday, Mar c h 30 '

T HURSDAY, MAR'CH 30, 19~5

1O:001t - 12:00n BOA R D 0 FAD Y ISO R S M E E TIN G Humanities 103 Conference Room

.' 12:00n-4:00 ,p R.EGISTRATloN Humanities Building, 2nd Floor Conference Area

1 :00 p - 2:30 pRo 'u N D TAB L E :

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Trends in Scholllrly Publishing - Humanities 201

Discussion header:

,Patricia O'Hara, Franklin & Marshall College

Featured Participants : William H. Scheuerle, Dean Emeritus

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University of South Florida, District Vice President for .

Academic Affairs, Hillsborough COl1llT!unity College

Heidi Burns, Acquisitions Editor, Peter-Lang Publishing

Suzanne Ozment, Editor, Ninteenth-Century'Studies

2:45 p - 4:15 p SESSION l a: Encountering the French Revolution - Humanities' 203

Mo'derator: \

Grant F. Scott, Muhlenberg College,

''The Destruction of Marie-Antoinette: On the Meaning of

VISUal Djscourse," Anne Frances Collins, University of Texas at Austin

''Making Fictiods, Making Histories: Charlotte Smith:s

Desmond," Susan Allen Ford, Delta Stat~ University

''Between Sa~c Revolution and Divine Providence: Maistre's Theory of Sacriftc~ and Histo,rieal Change," Owen Bradley, University of Tennessee .

''History, Hysteria and the (counter)Revolutionary Subject

in Thomas Carlyle's French R'evolutioPJ, Scott Dransfield, West Virginia University

2:4Sp-4: ISp SESSION IB: Panel:

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Thursday Murch 30 I

''From Loathly Lady 'to Comely Maiden: The Beauti-

fication of Arthurian Women in the Nineteenth Century,"

Margaret O'Shaughnessey, St. Mary's College, Raleigh, NC

''Portraiture and Gender Politics: Charlotte Bronte's The P,,-ofessor," Beverly Taylor, University of North,Carolina at Chapel Hili

4:30p-5:30p OPENI NG ADDRESS Knott Hall 05

Speaker;: Roger Lane, Havc;rford College

"Whodunit - and Who Does It - and How Often: Crime and Criminals in the 19th Century and the late 20th"

5:30 p - 6:30 p RE C E P T ION

Hug Facult L,ounge, Humanities Buildin.g

6:30 p - 7:00 pRE CIT A L

I Loyola Art Gallery, College Center Pia n i s t: David Kushner, U.niversity of Florida

F RIDAY, M ARCH 31, 1995 ...

8:30 a - 4:00 p R B GIS T RAT ION Humanities Building, Second Floor Conference Ar.ea

8:30a-lO:ooa SESSION lIa: Local Cultures and Expansionist Agendas

. Humanities 202

Moderator:

Howard Mayer, Hillyer College, University of Hartford

"'Wisely forgetful': The Post-Colonial Politics of

Pantis'pcracy," James C. McKusick, University of Maryland

"Imperial ConDicts of the Mid-'l9th Century an.d the

'Solution' of Responsible Government," Susan H.

Farnsworth, Trinity College. Washington, DC

"The Crimean War and William Morris' The Defense ofGuenevere, and Other Poems," Ros~ A. Wastvedt. Westminster College

"The Tra~formation 01 the Hawaiian Feather Cloak. Desigil and Social Change," Elena Ermolaeva, Johns

Hopkins University

8:30 a- 10:00 a SESSION lIb: Art and Cultural Identity - Humanities 203

Moderator : Carole Kruger, Davidson College

''Identity in Crisis: Pisarro as Painter and Pariah,"

Karl F. Volkmar. Southeastern Louisiana University

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Friday, March 31

"Remembering, Forg~tting and Constructing History:

Fremiet's Jeanne d'Arc and De Nittis' Place des Pyramides,:' Gary Wells .. lthaca .College

. "The Sacred and the Profane: The Paritheon Murals and

Religious Jrolitics during the French Third Republic,"

KimberlS' Jones, University of Maryland

8:30 a - 10:00 a SESSION lic: Re~tio,!'s tQ Progress -Humanities 201 Moderator: Kathryn A. Neeley, Division of Technology, Culture and

Communication, University of Virginia

"Creative Conflict in Schubert's 'UnC"mished' Symphony,"

Diana S. Brown, Valencia Community ,Col~ege

''Nineteenth-Century ArChitectural Thought and the

Concept of Modernity as Rev~f;d in the Views of John

Ruskin and Eugene VioUet-Ie-Duc," Samia Rab, Georgia

Institute bf Technology

"Art Versus Technology and the De~te over New Building

Materials," Robert M. Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology , , "Progress in Victorian Advertisements: Productive Engine

and Consuming .ConnagnJtions,~' Lori Loeb, University of South Carolina

10:15 a - 11 :45 a SESSION IlIa: Panel:

"Searching/or Vrable Identitks: The Role 0/ the Press in Political and Social Conflicts Humanities 202

Moderator : James D. Stant, Valparaiso University ,

"The 'Woman Question ': Disparate Definitions of Being

Fe~ale in the English Press; 1832-67," E.M. Palinegiano, Saint Peter's College- '.

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"The Late Nineteenth-Century D~dent Canadian Press and the Struggle lor a Democratic Society," David Spencer,

Graduate School of Journalism, University of Western Ontario

"Edwardian Political Journalism and the Search for an

Imperial Future," James D. Startt,Valparaiso University .

10: 15 a-II :45 a SESSION Illb: East an4 West - Humaniyes 203

Moderator: Maureen 1,.. Egan, Elms College

. "Aubrey Beardsley and the Japanese Grotesque," Linda

Zatlin, Morehouse College

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"Cultural Confrontations: American Perceptions of Far

Eastern Art," PhyJis 'Floyd, Michigan State University

"Urban Strife and the Breakdown of Confucian Morality:

/ Conflict and Res,olution in Nineteenth·Century China," Judith Wyman, Loyola College in Maryland

12:00 n - 2:00 p LUNCHEON AND BUSINESS MEETING The Refe~tory, HQmanities Building Welcome: Rev. Harold E. Ridley, S.J., President Loyola College in Maryland

2:30 p - 4:00 p SESSION IVa: Novel Sympat~ies and Antipathies - Humanitios 20 I

Moderator: Maureen Andrews, NortHern Michigan University

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"Between Women: Female Friendships and the Narrative

Structure in' CharloUe Bronte's Shirley," Maryellen Burke, UniverSity of Florida "

"Problems of Life and Mind: The Philosophy of George

Eliot and George Henry Lewe;, .. Rosalind De Sailly, Sydney

University

"VISited Tombs:.The Heroic in George Eliot," Jerome Beaty,

Emory University

"Thackeray and Bulwer: A DynaQlic'of N~ative Influence," Nancy J.1)tson, University of South .Florida

2:30 p - 4:00 p SESSION !Vb: Complexitie~ of American Culture - ~umanities 203

. Moderator: Andre Spies, Hollins College

"Harri~t A. Jacobs's Critique bf Polite Discourse: Incidents in the Life of a S14"1 Girl mitten by Herself (1861) as Incipient MulticuJtur!ll Discourse," Mark S. Clinton, Holyoke Community College .

. "George Henry Hall's Boys Pilfering ¥olasses: Revisiting

the Compromise of 1850," Janice Simon, UnivclSity of Georgia

''Painting Dixie: Aspects of the Visual Culture in the American South," Shaw Smith, Davidson College

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2:30 p - 4:00 p 'SBSSION IVc: Sopial Justice and Soci4l Control - HUrt:lanities 202·

Moderator: -Hugh B. An&ew~, Northern Michigan University

''Pro-creative ConOict: Caroline Norton, Motherhood, and

Custody," Elisabeth Ros~Gruner, University of Richmond

Friday, March 31

''Men of Steel: Ttte Duel as a 'Civilizing' Agent in Nineteenth-Century Italy," Steven Hughes, Loyola College in Maryland

''Pensions and Privacy: Preventing Scandal in 19th-Century German Literary pontics,". Jere H. Link, Westminster Schools, Atlanta

4: 1Sp - S:lSp KEYNOTEADDRESS Knott Hall 02

Speaker :

Frederick Burwick, University of California at Los Angeles

"Ut Pictura Poesis vs. Ut Poesis Pictura: Boydell's Shakespeare Gal/t!ry and the Critics" , .

6:30 p - 7:30 pRE CIT A L The Jos6 Cueto Quartet, Hug Faculty Lounge, Humanities Building

7:4Sp-lO:oop DINNER AND VIEWING OF THE CONE CO LLECTION

Baltimore Museum of Art (Tickets required)

SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1995 1

. 8:30 a - 10:00 a SESSION Va: \

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Religious Transformations - Humanities 202 ,

Moderator: Roger L: Slakey, Georgetown University

"Milton and the Romantic Reformation," Robert M. Ryan, Ru.tgers Uni versity-Camden

"Victorian Religious CODtrove~y: /i. Genre ~f Human Activity," Josef L. Altholz, University of Minnesota

"Charles M. Davies: A Quest ror Faith," Thomas M. Costa, Clinch Valley College

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''Tess as Victim of the G~ and a Changing World: Tess Of the D'UrberviUes," Ray Ventre, Northern Michigan University

8:30 a - 10:00 a SESSION Vb: Aesthetic and Social Convergences - Hl!manities 20~

Moderator: Jack Rhodes, The Citadel

''Framing Originality: The Conception and Crea~on of Girodet's Ossian," Susan Houghton Libby, University of Maryland

"'The Finer Shades of Difference' : Images of Othello in ..... Nineteenth-Century British Painting," Nancy Rose Marshall, Yale UniveI!ity

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Saturday, April 1

"Daniel Maclise's The Story o{the NOrmlln Conquest: A Saga of Historical, Political and Personal Conftictt

. Rebecca Jeffrey Easby, Trinity College

"Keeping Wragg ~ Custody: Amol~ and the Criticism of Social Refonn,'~ David Goslee, University of Tennessee

8:3011- 10:00 II SESSION Vc: Open Session -,H!lmanities 201

Moderator: ~ .. Sril~kha Bell, University of New Haven

"Setting Words to Music: A Conftict of Interests," Lorraine I Gorrell, Winthrop University , .

"A Career in ,the Law: Clerkship and Professionalization in , {

Nineteenth-

Saturday, April I

"Beyond Beardsley: Confiict and Resolution at The . Yellow Book," Margaret D. Stetz, Georgetown University

)0:15 a - II :45' a SESSION VIC;:

2:00p

Engendering Political Controversy Humanities 203

Moderator: Karen V. Waters, Marymount University

"'Woman's Work': Social Reform, Mate~, and Married Women's Property in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and S'!uth," Kristin F1ieger Samuelian, George Mason University

"Hawthorne's Hester:- Conflict and Resolution of the . Woman Question," Nina Tassi, Morgan State University . \ \

"The Capital of the Comederacy and the Icon~graphy of the Lost Cause: A Woman's Place," Belle Pendleton, Christopher N~wport University

TOUR OF ARCHITECTURAL BALTIMORE Tour GU'ide:

Jack Breihan, Department of History Loyola College in Maryland

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