MIDDLE ATLANTIC CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES

Annual Meeting:  April 8, 2006

Rutgers University, University Inn and Conference Center

 

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 8:15-9:00

 

SESSION ONE 9:00-11:00

 

1) Expanding the Narrative: Using Women and Gender as Categories of Analysis in English History

Chair: Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 “Finding Women in Assize Records in the Fourteenth Century”

Alla Gaydukova, Rutgers University

“Cavaliers, Blades, Carnivals, and Masquerades:  Politics and Culture in Aphra Behn's The Rover”

Meagan Schenkelberg, Rutgers University

“Mayhem and Mussels: Elizabeth Cromwell and Her (De)Legitimizing Cookery.”

Amy Tims, Rutgers University

‘To be delyvered vnto oure welbeloved woman, Blanche Aparry’: A case study of a woman at the court of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603.”

            Catherine Howey, Rutgers University

Comment: Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University

 

2) Religion and Memory in Early Modern England, Ireland, and Scotland

 

Chair: Alastair Bellany, Rutgers University

“The Transformation of Scottish Presbyterianism in the Early Eighteenth Century:  British and European Contexts”

    Ryan K. Frace, Wellesley College

“Reading over William Laud's Shoulder:  Commonplacing the Book of Common Prayer”

    John M. Hintermaier, Mercer University

“Sir James Ware and the creation of a 'useable' Anglo-Norman past”

    Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut

Comment: Maurice Lee, Rutgers University

 

3) Nationalism and Liberalism

 

Chair: Nancy Ellenberger, U.S. Naval Academy

“More Glorious than the Rest, Thy Sister Nations”: Did Nationalism Exist in Seventeenth-Century England?

Anna Suranyi, Northeastern University

 “Roman Catholicism, Irish Nationalism, And the Shaping of Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century”

William C. Lubenow, The Richard Stockton College of New

 Jersey

“The United States and the fiscal debate in Britain, 1873-1913”

Edmund Rogers, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

“John Bright, Liberal Unionism, and the Narratives of Politics”

Wesley Ferris, McMaster University

Comment: Timothy Alborn, Lehman College, CUNY

 

MORNING BREAK 11:00-11:15

 

SESSION TWO 11:15-1:00

 

4) Economic Interests in Early Modern England

 

Chair: Lynn Botelho, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Middling Men of Trade, Patriarchy and the Common Weal in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool”

Brian Refford, DeSales University

 “A Private Interest in Publick Warr- An Analysis of English Privateering 1660-1689”

Richard Brabander, Brandeis University

“Winners and Losers: Contenders and the English Royal Forests during the Interregnum”

Sara Morrison, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Western

Ontario

Comment: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College

 

5) Family and Marriage, Gender and Identity

 

Chair: George Robb, William Patterson University

 

 “’One of those Delightful Tales You Know’: Marital Collaboration and the Victorian Reception of the Arabian Nights”

            Audrey Murfin, Binghamton University

 

“’Oh, Those Rude Soldier Boys’: British Civilians and Servicemen, 1940-1947”Alan Allport, University of Pennsylvania

 

Comment: John Kucich, University of Michigan

 

6) Negotiations with Authorities:  the Poor in the 19^th Century

 

Chair: Gail Savage, St. Mary’s College, Maryland

“The Irish Poor Law and the Boarding out of Pauper Children:  Governmentality and Two Concepts of Individuality in Victorian Culture”

Anna Clark, University of Minnesota

“Sighs and Groans and Bitter Plaints:” The Police Court Missionaries and Social Service in 19^th Century London

Sascha Auerbach, Virginia Commonwealth University

“Destitute Wives and the Poor Law Prosecution of Neglectful Husbands, 1871-1929”

Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado at Denver

Comment: Ellen Ross, Ramapo College

 

LUNCH 1:00-2:30

 

MACBS BUSINESS MEETING

 

SESSION THREE: 2:30-4:30

 

7) The Textual and the Visual in British Studies

 

Chair and Comment: Emma Winter, Columbia University

 “Digitizing Early Printed Medical Books, or: Robert Hooke Meets the Internet”

Stephen Greenberg, National Library of Medicine

“’Endless Their Labour’: Women in Blake’s Illuminated Works and the British Workforce”

Catherine McClenahan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Subversion in Wimpole Street and the National Art-Collections Fund”

Andrea Geddes Poole, University of Toronto

“Whose Britannia? Neo-gothic Landscape and the Question of British Modernity in the Art Photography of George Davison”

            Scott Lesko, Stony Brook University

 

8) The British Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

 

Chair and Comment: Barbara Blaszak, Le Moyne College

“Cremation as a ‘Tool of Empire’?”

Lisa Kazmier, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Resolving the Flesh: Britons, Identity and ‘the Orient’”

Stephen Jankiewicz, Colby-Sawyer College

 “False starts: British discussions over the partition of Palestine, 1932-38”

Penny Sinanoglou, Harvard University

 “Reading History in Reading in the Dark”

Elizabeth Hubbard, Fordham University

 

9) Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism in Britain

 

Chair and Comment: Rene Kollar, St. Vincent College

 “Preserving Peace amidst the Tumult of Change: Emotional and Physical

Restraint within Parish Churches, c.1450-1603”

Daniel Thierry, Iona College

“‘Good Jews and civilized, self-reliant Englishmen’: Crafting Nineteenth Century Anglo-Jews through Education by Class and Design”

Sara Abosch, Meredith College

“Irishness in a Pre-Famine Immigrant Community: Ethnicity, Religion, Gender and Representation in Glasgow, Scotland 1780-1845”

Amy Esther O’Reilly, University of New Brunswick

 “Thomas Carlyle on Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Britain”

Paul E. Kerry, Brigham Young University

 

AFTERNOON BREAK 4:30-4:45

 

PLENARY SESSION: 4:45-5:45

 

Dr. Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford

 

“The Material Culture of Royal Ceremonial in Early Modern London”

 

 

RECEPTION 6:00