Moralité, amoralité, immoralité des Lumières /
Morality, Amorality, Immorality of the Enlightenment

17-20 octobre 1991 / October 17-20, 1991
Université de Calgary / The University of Calgary

Jeudi 17 octobre / Thursday, October 17

9:00 - 10:30

Section A : Les moralistes

Président / Chair : Henri Mydlarski, University of Calgary

Judith Spencer, Camrose Lutheran College
"Vauvenargues' Rhetoric of Disjunction, or the Disintegration of Understanding in the Integration of Knowledge"

Paul G. Meagher, Royal Military College
"Vauvenargues, a Moralist in Search of a Moral Philosophy

Marcelo Epstein and Stephanie Treloar, University of Calgary
"The Unnatural Philosophy of Maupertuis"

Section B : Épistolarité

Président / Chair : Santé A. Viselli, University of Winnipeg

Sygin Minier, University of Montana
"Des héros qui se trahissent : formules de politesse dans les romans épistolaires de Mme de Charrière"

Magdy Gabriel Badir, University of Alberta
"Rémond de Saint-Mard et le genre épistolaire galant au début du XVIIIe siècle"

John W. Howland, Oklahoma State University
"The Predominance of the Letter Form in Eighteenth-Century French Literary Expression"

Section C : Exploring Desire: Pope and Johnson

Président / Chair : J. E. Svilpis, University of Calgary

Raymond Stephanson, University of Saskatchewan
"Pope and the Ambiguities of Desire and Presence in Eloisa to Abelard"

Marion Hollings, University of Arizona
"The Economy of Desire in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas"

Alexander M. Forbes, Cariboo College
"Johnson and the Psychology of Motivation: The Vanity of Human Wishes"

Section D : Reading Rousseau

Président / Chair : Brenda M. Baker, University of Calgary

Nancy Senior, University of Saskatchewan
"How do Julie's Children Learn to Read?"

Claire Grogan, University of Calgary
"The Seductive Dangers of La Nouvelle Héloïse"

Nicholas Hudson, University of British Columbia
"Rousseau, Writing, and Jacques Derrida's Misreading History"

11:00 - 12:30

Séance plénière / Plenary Session

Présentation / Introduction : Ronald B. Bond, University of Calgary

Terence M. Penelhum, University of Calgary
"Human Nature and Truth: Hume and Pascal"

14:00 - 15:30

Section A : Roman et moralité

Présidente / Chair : Judith Spencer, Camrose Lutheran College

Glen Campbell, University of Calgary
"Lesage et l'embourgeoisement du picaro"

Isabel Herrero, Universidad del Pais Vasco
"Le discours moral dans l'oeuvre de Rétif de la Bretonne"

Lydia Vazquez, Universidad del Pais Vasco
"Moralité du portrait physiognomonique dans les récits de fiction français de la fin des Lumières"

Section B : Voltaire polémique ; le "moi" despotique

Président / Chair : Alexandre L. Amprimoz, Brock University

Margarete G. Smith, Memorial University
"La publication des Lettres de Mme de Maintenon en 1752 par Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle"

Leonard Rosmarin, Brock University
"Était-ce la faute à Voltaire ? Le patriarche de Ferney devant le tribunal des intellectuels juifs"

Santé Viselli, University of Winnipeg
"Représentantion et sens du "moi" despotique"

Section C : Writing Women : Courtesans and Prostitutes

Président / Chair : Anne McWhir, University of Calgary

Katherine Quinsey, University of Windsor
"Lillo's and Johnson's Prostitutes: 'Autobiographical' Feminist Counter-Statements"

Gary Kelly, University of Alberta
"Prostitution and Revolution: Ideology, Culture and Class Conflict in Britain during the 1790s"

Rhoda Zuk, Mount Saint Vincent University
"The Self-Representation of Courtesans"

Section D : Images of the East

Président / Chair : William R. Gilby, University of Calgary

Adrian Hsia, McGill University
"Elements of the Chinese Orphan in Nathan der Weise and Iphigénie"

Hans-Günther Schwarz, Dalhousie University
"The Sensuous East"

J. E. Svilpis, University of Calgary
"Hay ibn Yaqzan and Eighteenth-Century Narratives of Legitimation"

16:00 - 17:45

Section A : Diderot, l'Encyclopédie et le corps

Président / Chair : Pierre Gobin Queen's University

Anthony Wall, University of Calgary
"Les indiscrétions bavardes du corps dans les Bijoux indiscrets"

Michael Cartwright, McGill University
"La santé du corps humain dans l'oeuvre de Diderot"

Thierry Belleguic, Queen's University
"Pour une lecture gastrosophique de l'Encyclopédie"

Section B : Morale des Lumières

Président / Chair : Eric Annandale, University of Manitoba

David J. Langdon, University of Alberta
"Diderot's Views on Great Criminals and Moral Heroes"

Marie Laure Girou Swiderski, Université d'Ottawa
"Les méchants dans l'oeuvre de Robert Challe"

Jacques Domenech, Centre d'études françaises -- Le Caire
"L'accusation d'immoralité et d'immoralisme : censeurs et détracteurs des Lumières"

Martin S. Staum, University of Calgary
"The Moral and Political Sciences in the French National Institute"

Section C : Writing Women : Behn, Aubin, Haywood

Président / Chair : Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University

R. S. Krishnan, North Dakota State University
"'Nothing but gold shall charm my heart': Behn's The Rover and the Progress of Womanhood"

Catherine Nelson-McDermott, University of Alberta
"Narrative Positioning in Aphra Behn's Fiction"

Katherine Zelinski, University of Calgary
"Dismantling Moral Superstructures: Aubin's Subversion of Ideological Insularity in The Life of Madam de Beaumount and The Adventures of Count de Vinevil"

Catherine Ingrassia, University of Texas at Austin
"The Theory and Practice of the Feminized Novel: Eliza Haywood and her Detractors"

Section D : Music and Its Contexts

Présidente / Chair : Marilyn Engle

Alan Lessem, York University
"The 'Sublime' as an Aesthetics and Moral Category in the English Reception of Haydn"

Kenneth DeLong, University of Calgary
"From Affect to Topos: Some Observations on Musical Expression in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba"

Richard Arnold, University of Lethbridge
"'Bull Roar' versus 'Natural Tone': Music and Singing in the Eighteenth-Century Worship Service"

Vivien Bosley, University of Alberta
"Tom Jones -- The Musical"

18:00

Réception du doyen de la Faculté des humanités / Reception by the Dean of Humanities

Vendredi 18 octobre / Friday, October 18

Section A : Intertextualité

Président / Chair : Anthony Wall, University of Calgary

Pauline Wahl Willis, University of Calgary
"L'abbé Rollin, l'abbé Prévost et le petit abbé Sorel"

Alexandre L. Amprimoz, Brock University
"Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron : Voltaire, Diderot, Grimm et l'Avesta"

Louis Lanoix, Université de Paris VII
"La naissance de la tolérance sous l'obscurantisme du Roi-Soleil : la petite flamme de l'Aufklärung dans la correspondance allemande de la duchesse d'Orléans, princesse palatine, Liselotte von der Pfalz"

Section B : Échos de l'Aufklärung

Président / Chair : Juergen Jahn, University of Calgary

Christa Fell, Queen's University
"The Enigma of 'Aramena': Searching for the Writer"

Angela Borchert, Princeton University
"'Oh, was ich ein Kind bin !': Two Perceptions of Childhood in Die Leiden des jungen Werther"

Erk Grimm, Queen's University
"Grammatical Irritations in 'Wandrers Sturmlied': A Reconstruction of Communicative Syntax Patterns in Goethe's Hymn"

Section C : Politics and Morality

Président / Chair : John Stephen Martin, University of Calgary

John D. Baird, Victoria College, University of Toronto
"Poets against the Slave Trade: Cowper and More"

Liang Wenqi, Dalhousie University
"Luxury and Utilitarianism: A Reinterpretation of Hannah More's Works"

Deborah Wills, University of Alberta
"Sarah Trimmer's Oeconomy of Charity: Politics and Morality in the Sunday School State"

Section D : Narratees and Narrators

Président / Chair : Adrienne Kertzer, University of Calgary

Patricia Donaher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Pamela: The Case of the Nagging Narratee"

Anne-Louise Gibbons, University of Ottawa
"A 'great noise': Consciousness, Personal Identity and Inanimate Narrators"

Barbara K. Seeber, Queen's University
"The Push-Me-Pull-Me-Pull-You in Mansfield Park"

11:00 -12:30

Séance plénière / Plenary Session

Présentation / Introduction : Anne McWhir, University of Calgary
Paula Backscheider, University of Rochester

"Sex, Sin, and Inherited Ideology: Drama's Gift to the Genesis of the Novel"

12:30 - 14:00

Section A : Voltaire et la sexualité; l'Écumoire de Crébillon fils

Président / Chair : Neal Johnson, University of Guelph

Hope M. Leith, University of British Columbia
"Voltaire et 'Maman': Female Sexuality, Maternity, and Incest in the Tragedies"

Eric Annandale, University of Manitoba
"Inceste et famille dans quelques contes de Voltaire"

Carmen Ramirez-Gómez, Universidad de Sevilla
"L'émergence du corps et la rêverie du moi dans l'Écumoire : fonction narrative et fonction symbolique"

Section B : Writing Women: Letters, Journals, Fiction

Président / Chair : Jeanne Perreault, University of Calgary

Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta
"Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's 'Italian Memoir'"

Philip E. Baruth, University of California at Irvine
"The Seal of Feminine Pleasure: Ways of Establishing an 'Elsewhere' in Elizabeth Sheridan's Journal"

Lorraine McMullen, University of Ottawa
"Writing Women: Relationship of Fact to Fiction in Frances Brooke's History of Emily Montague"

Section C : Shadows of the Enlightenment: Body and Mind

Président / Chair : Robert Merrett, University of Alberta

John P. Wright, University of Windsor
"Appetite, Self-Control, and the Body Machine in Eighteenth-Century England"

Brigitte J. Glaser, McMaster University
"'Limbs so supple; will so stubborn!': Power, the Body, and Discourse in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa"

David C. Hensely, McGill University
"Lovelace as Masochist: Dynamics of 'Self-Punishment' in Clarissa"

Section D : Spaces and Letters: Italy, Germany, Russia

Président / Chair : Christa Fell, Queen's University

Thomas R. Cleary, University of Victoria
"Illusion, Truth and the Rhetoric of Baroque Fideism: Andrea Pozzo and the Roman Jesuit Church of Sant'Ignazio"

Matthew Pollard, Queen's University
"The Spatial Imagery of Love in Schiller's Kabale und Liebe"

Allan Reid, Calgary Insitute for the Humanities
"Russians Literature in the Eighteenth-Century: A Historiographical Characterization"

16:00 - 17:45

Section A : Politique des Lumières

Président / Chair : Roland Bonnel, Dalhousie University
""Le soc s'est ennobli sous les mains d'un bon roi": Lumières, nature et bonheur à la veille de la Révolution française ou réaction nobiliaire ?"

Michel L. Bareau, University of Alberta
"Identité nationale et ludisme polémique chez Montesquieu"

Pierre Gobin, Queen' University
"Rutlidge, baronet et citoyen : la monarchie démystifiée"

Serge-Dominique Ménager, University of Natal
""Qu'un sang impur...", la trilogie de Beaumarchais"

Section B : Shadows of the Enlightenment: Sensation, Repression and Superstition

Président / Chair : Roderick McGillis, University of Calgary

Marc W. Redfield, Claremont Graduate School
"Triste Paideaia: Irony and Materiality in Tristram Shandy"

Steven Bruhm, McGill University
"Aesthetics and Anaesthetics in Matthew Lewis's The Monk"

D. L. McDonald, University of Calgary
"Reversal, Repression, and Revenge in The Monk"

Mervin Nicholson, Cariboo College
"The Fate of Superstition"

Section C : Voices and Silences

Président / Chair : Eric Savoy, University of Calgary

Lyndsay A. Lock, McMaster University
"She Speaks: Rochester's Articulate Woman"

Barbara Darby, Queen's University
"Speaking Silences: The Politics of the Elegy and Eighteenth-Century Verse by Women"

Carol A. Hart, University of Alberta
"Gothicism: The Sentimental Subtext"

Kathleen James-Cavan, Trent University
"Closure and Disclosure: The Art of Conversation in Jane Austen's The Watsons"

Section D : Mozart: Texts and Connections

Président / Chair : Kenneth DeLong, University of Calgary

Mark Morris, University of Calgary
"Mozart's Magic Flute as a Hero Myth"

Jay McPherson, Victoria College, University of Toronto
"The Magic Flute (Text): The Danish Collection"

David P. Schroeder, Dalhousie University
"Mozart and Voltaire"

Margaret Duggan, South Dakota State University
"Mozart and Near-Contemporary Writers, English and Continental"

20:00

Récital de piano / Piano Recital

Interprète / Performer : Marilyn Engle

Au programme / Featuring : Mozart

Samedi 19 octobre / Saturday, October 19

9:00 - 10:30

Président / Chair : Nicholas G. Zekulin, University of Calgary

Elizabeth Zawisza, Queen's University
"La République des lettres ou l'empire de la rhétorique"

Alex Sokalski, University of Saskatchewan
"On the Two Early Versions of Aline, Reine de Golconde of Bloufflers"

Muriel Usandivaras-Mili, Université laurentienne
"La fonction du texte érotique pendant la Révolution française : le cas du théâtre anti-aristocratique"

Section B : Les femmes et la maladie : un médecin polonais

Président / Chair : Martin S. Staum, University of Calgary

Rannveig Yeatman, Mount Saint Vincent University
"La maladie dans le monde féminin des romans du XVIII^e siècle"

Catherine Rubinger, Mount Saint Vincent University
"La maladie dans le milieu de Mme du Deffand en France et dans celui de Mme Bégon en Nouvelle-France"

Janina M. Konczacki, Mount Saint Vincent University
"An Eighteenth-Century Polish Medical Practitioner: The Travels and Medical Exploits of Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa"

Section C : Books: Copyright, Styles, Motives

Président / Chair : Robert C. Carnie, University of Calgary

Donald W. Nichol, Memorial University
"Boswell, Booksellers, and Copyright"

Diana Patterson, Mount Royal College
"A Style of Learning: The Rhetoric of Instructional Manuals"

Anne B. Shteir, Lehigh University
"Flora Feministica: Reflections on the Culture of Botany"

Section D : Empire and Colonies

Président / Chair : Victor J. Ramraj, University of Calgary

K. Jane Watt, University of Alberta
"'Strange and False Notions': Eighteenth-Century Women's Response to the World 'Out There'"

Louis Lanoix, Université de Paris VII
"The Concept of Empire: British Literary Bastards and Their American Heirs from Moll Flanders and Roderick Random down to The Scarlett Letter and Wild Palms"

John Stephen Martin, University of Calgary
"Timothy Dwight: The Morality of Connecticut, The Amorality of Europe, and the Triumph of Infidelity"

11:00 - 12:30

Séance plénière / Plenary Session

Présentation / Introduction : Henri Mydlarski, University of Calgary

François Moureau, Université de Bourgogne
"Le tableau libertin ou la morale de la peinture"

14:00 - 15:30

Section A : L'immoralité du code moral : les belles infidèles

Présidente / Chair : Marie Laure Girou Swiderski, Université d'Ottawa

Jeanne Hageman, Georgia Southern University
"Death: Men's Punishment for Women's Infidelity in the French Enlightenment"

Brigitte Nicolet, Skidmore College
"Les immorales décapitées"

Catherine Cusset-Jenkins, Yale University
"Libertinage et responsabilité dans les Amours du chevalier de Faublas de Louvet"

Section B : "À vue de pays"

Président / Chair : Douglas C. Walker, University of Calgary

A. P. Dierick, Victoria University, University of Toronto
"Money and Morality in Diderot's Voyage en Hollande"

Robert James Merrett, University of Alberta
"The English in Eighteenth-Century Dijon"

Barbara Belyea, University of Calgary
"The Sea of Dreams"

Section C : Race, Class, Gender

Président / Chair : Pamela McCallum, University of Calgary

Anthony Stewart, Queen's University
"Reading in the Background: The Yahoo and the Discourse of racialism in Gulliver's Travels"

Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University
"'Bounded to a District Space': Robert Burns and the Gendering of the Margins of Romantic Poetry"

Jan Fergus, York University
"Jane and Cassandra Austen as Collaborators: Revising History and Interrogating Gender"

Section D : Taste, Morality, Letters

Président / Chair : Peter A. Schouls, University of Alberta

David Raynor, University of Ottawa
"A Matter of Taste: Berkeley versus Hutcheson"

Sandra L. MacPherson, Johns Hopkins University
"The Moral Skeptic and the Skeptical Moralist: Hume and Pamela"

Arnd Bohm, Carleton University
"Kant's 'Conflict of the Faculties' as a Constitution for the Republic of Letters"

16:00 - 17:45

Section A : Ombres des Lumières : Sade

Président / Chair : Glen W. Campbell, University of Calgary

Nancy L. Bolles, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"Narrative Functions of God, Jesus and Satan in the Marquis de Sade's Writings"

Maria Conceptiòn Pérez Pérez, Universidad de Sevilla
"La représentation sadienne : du miroir érotique au théâtre expérimental"

Neal Johnson, University of Guelph
"La morale sadienne : la faute à Voltaire"

Section B : Réécritures

Président / Chair : Muriel Usandivaras-Mili, Université laurentienne

Jean-Jacques Tatin-Gourier, Université de Poitiers et de Tours
"Réécritures théâtrales et romanesques du Mariage de Figaro : Figaro, héros du défi éthique et social"

Georges-L. Bérubé, York University
"Mise en forme romanesque et théâtrale d'un thème : les Guèbres en France au XVIIIe siècle"

Mary Ellen Ross, University of Victoria
"Amazones et sauvagesses : rôles féminins et sociétés exotiques dans le théâtre de la Foire"

Section C : Writing Women: Late Fiction

Président / Chair : Patricia Srebrnik, University of Calgary

William H. Magee, University of Calgary
"Circumstances and the Characterization of Heroines: Theory and Practice in the Late Eighteenth-Century"

Rebecca Bing Tunnacliffe, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
"Torments and Mentors: Fragmented Fathers and Female Autonomy in Frances Burney's Evelina"

Susan Hillabold, University of Alberta
"Frances Burney's Clever Women in Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla"

Jean Coates Cleary, University of Victoria
"'The Knife which Amputates the Morbid Limb': The Domestication of Female Desire in late Georgian Feminocentric Conduct-Book Fiction"

Section D : Self-Presentation

Président / Chair : James Black, University of Calgary

Jon Rowland, McGill University
"A Project for the Advancement and Reformation of Jonathan Swift?"

Stephen H. Dill, University of South Dakota
"Moral Currency: Transgression and Survival in Moll Flanders and Caleb Williams"

John C. Dolan, University of California at Berkeley
"Ode to Ambition: The Morality of the Struggle for Literary Fame in Boswell's Journals"

Ronald B. Hatch, University of British Columbia
"Moral Sanctions and Fictional Temporality in the Novels of Frances Sheridan and Jane Austen"

20:15 - 21:00

Récital de chant / Song Recital

Chants du XVIII^e siècle / 18th-century songs

Solist / Soloist : Julie Harris

Sous la direction de / Under the Direction of : Kenneth DeLong

Dimanche 20 octobre / Sunday, October 20

10:00

Assemblée générale / General Meeting

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