Rédacteurs / Editors:

Benoît Melançon
Département d'études françaises
Université de Montréal
Tél.: (514) 343-5665
Téléc.: (514) 343-2256
Internet: melancon@ere.umontreal.ca

Raymond Stephanson
Department of English
University of Saskatchewan
Tel.: (306) 966-5511
Fax: (306) 966-5951
Internet: stephanson@duke.usask.ca

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE / MOT DE LA PRÉSIDENTE

Chers amis / Chères amies dix-huitiémistes,

C'est bien agréable pour la première fois où je m'adresse à vous dans ce Bulletin d'avoir à le faire à ce moment-ci de l'année quand tout le monde a le coeur à la fête. J'ai donc le plaisir de commencer par vous souhaiter à toutes et tous une superbe année 1998, et ce malgré toutes les raisons qui pourraient nous donner un peu moins le coeur à la fête pour peu que nous regardions autour de nous.

Is there any better way to start a new mandate than to laud friends and colleagues? First and foremost I wish to thank Thierry Belleguic for a tremendous conference in London last October. As everyone present will acknowledge, the excitement of the conference was not only intellectual: it was also great fun! Those who could not make it to Western Ontario will be able to read a few selected papers in one of the next volumes of Lumen, but they have missed a truly excellent conference. To Thierry and his team, from all members of the Society, kudos!

Je ne peux pas commencer non plus sans remercier mon prédécesseur, Peter Sabor (dure succession!) qui a su si bien remplir et avec quelle efficacité son mandat de président. J'espère, du moins, qu'il n'aura pas à rougir de la suite! Avec tous nos remerciements et nos louanges, qu'il trouve ici des voeux sincères de réussite de tous les projets qu'il va enfin pouvoir mener à bien, délivré de sa charge de président. À notre chère Eleanor Ty, qui a généreusement accepté de rester trésorière, qui assure ainsi avec toute l'efficacité qu'on lui connaît la continuité et dont j'ai déjà pu apprécier le soutien et la vigilance, un très grand merci et des voeux pour notre collaboration future.

As for our incomparable Bulletin editors (let them blush!), we should never forget the importance of their role in our Society. It is through the Bulletin that we pull together people from all corners of that vast country that is Canada, and that we show other specialists all over the world how active Canadians are in our discipline. Ray and Benoît, please receive our warmest thanks and keep up the essential work you have been doing for the last three years.

Le dernier congrès a su remarquablement mettre en évidence l'importance du caractère bilingue de notre société, l'espoir que représente la présence en nombre grandissant d'étudiants des cycles supérieurs faisant des présentations de grande qualité et l'accroissement des disciplines que nous sommes capables d'intégrer à nos rencontres annuelles. L'ingéniosité dont Thierry a su faire preuve pour trouver des moyens d'aider les étudiants à venir au congrès, l'importante participation francophone qu'il a su rendre possible, la variété des disciplines présentes, toutes solidement amarrées au thème central de la rencontre qu'il avait su si magistralement nous «vendre», autant de caractéristiques à retenir pour les années à venir et qui augurent bien du futur de notre société.

From what I have heard from Robert Merrett and Vivien Bosley, the Edmonton conference should be as exciting as our last one. What a challenge!

C'est sur ces perspectives enthousiasmantes que je vous renouvelle à tous mes meilleurs voeux pour 1998 et vous remercie de votre fidélité et de la qualité de votre participation qui donnent à notre société ce caractère propre auquel nous tenons tous, d'être à la fois le lieu de rencontre d'un groupe d'amis de longue date en même temps qu'une occasion d'échange entre chercheurs canadiens, tous également «mordus du XVIIIe siècle».

Votre présidente,

Marie-Laure Girou Swiderski
Université d'Ottawa

CONGRÈS SCEDHS / CSECS CONFERENCE
16-20 SEPTEMBER 1998
University of Alberta

"Material Productions and Cultural Construction"
«Culture matérielle et constructions discursives»

For complete details see "Conferences / Colloques" below.
Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez consulter la rubrique «Conferences / Colloques» ci-dessous.

CSECS / SCEDHS Annual General Meeting
Delta Armouries Hotel, University of Western Ontario
17 October 1997

Peter Sabor opened the meeting at 17:45 by thanking Thierry Belleguic for organizing such a splendid conference on aspects of time. He was delighted at the number of graduate students presenting papers, and at the outstanding list of plenary speakers.

1. Conference President's Report
Thierry Belleguic thanked his institution, his colleagues, his students, and the various people who helped him with the conference for financial and administrative support. He was happy to be welcoming about 120 members to the conference. He organized free accommodation for graduate students by pairing them up with students from his university.

2. President's Report
Peter Sabor was happy to report that we have an increase of members with the membership drive. Peter Sabor and Eleanor Ty had sent out approximately 250 letters to people and about 35 new or lapsed members joined or rejoined our society this year. Our application for Charitable status has been sent to Revenue Canada.

3. Secretary-Treasurer's Report
Eleanor Ty reported that there were 207 members currently which is up from last year. However, expenses, such as those for the Bulletin, are increasing. We are not sure if we will continue to receive the SSHRC travel grant for students. Income for last year exceeded the expenses only by a small margin (about $90). On behalf of the executive, she proposed an increase in membership dues. Our dues have not been raised for 15 years, and have not kept up with inflation. The fees would be as follows: $45 for regular members, $35 for part-time members with Lumen, and $20 for graduate students. Robert Merrett moved, seconded by Katherine Quinsey. The motion was unanimously carried.

4. Lumen--Executive Editor's Report
Alex Sokalski reported that there was good sales of Lumen volumes last year (108 vols). Saskatoon Volume 15 has appeared; Windsor Volume 16 is set to go to the printer by the end of the month. The essays for Victoria Volume 17 are out with readers. Alex suggested that perhaps we might do a 30th anniversary issue for the year 2001 as we have some funds available.

5. Bulletin--Editors' Reports
Ray Stephanson noted that there have been three issues of the Bulletin so far. The costs for these have been shared by CSECS and the Eighteenth-Century Studies Group at the University of Saskatchewan. Around 300 copies of the Bulletin are printed per issue, with approximately 225 going to members, and the rest sent free to increase our profile. Ray has found a way to decrease the costs of production, and will have a smaller version on hard copy for the next issues. Benoît Melançon reported that the number of people subscribing to the electronic version of the Bulletin has increased to 90. He encouraged people to read the fuller version of the newsletter by e-mail which would also cut our costs. He stressed the advantages of continuing to send out free copies of the Bulletin to maintain our profile.

6. Future Conferences
1998: Robert Merrett announced the dates of the Alberta conference to be 16 - 20 September 1998. Air Canada will be the official airline, and will give a free ticket (for the Montréal conference) for every 30 tickets sold. The theme is "Material Productions and Cultural Construction" and the plenary speakers will address the history of gardening, the culinary arts, and the popular systematisation of knowledge in encyclopedias. The registration is set at $120 but will include 4 meals, including one 18th century affair. It promises to be an exciting media event.
1999: Benoît Melançon of Université de Montréal will host the 1999 conference. The theme will be announced in the near future.
2000: John Baird will organize the meeting in conjunction with the International Scottish Studies conference at the University of Toronto.

7. New Executive
President: Marie Laure Girou Swiderski (University of Ottawa)--Moved by Alex Sokalski, seconded by Monique Moser-Verrey. Carried unanimously.
French representative: Thierry Belleguic (University of Western Ontario)--Moved by Kenneth Graham, seconded by Robert Merrett. Carried unanimously.
Fine Arts representative: Ursula Rempel (University of Manitoba)--Moved by Christa Fell, seconded by Katherine Quinsey. Carried unanimously.

8. Madoff Prize
The essays are still with the readers.
[EDITOR'S NOTE:
The University of Victoria Selection Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of the 1996 Madoff Prize is Richard Pickard (University of Alberta) for his essay "Gender, Class Environment(alism): the Cutting of Trees in Augustan Poetry." He will receive $150 plus a book of his choice, and his essay will be appearing in the Victoria volume of Lumen. The Committee would like to congratulate Mr. Pickard, and it would also like to thank all those who submitted papers for consideration.]

9. ISECS
Marie Laure Girou Swiderski announced that Andrew Carpenter has a campaign to raise money for fellowships (to pay for accommodation and registration of members from countries with weak currencies, graduate students, and retired staff) for the next ISECS conference in Dublin 1999. The ISECS Executive committee is willing to match contributions raised. The members of our executive had voted to give $25 each for this fellowship, and encouraged members to donate whatever they could. Cheques can be sent to Eleanor Ty.
CSECS is nominating Benoît Melançon for the position of Associate Vice-President in the executive committee of ISECS, and twenty signatures were gathered in support of this.

10. Other Business
Website: The CSECS website, created by Benoît Melançon, is up and running. Feel free to visit it: index.html.

Present

Eleanor Ty, Peter Sabor, Alex Sokalski, Ray Stephanson, Claire Grogan, Jay Macpherson, Thierry Belleguic, Patrica Debly, John Rempel, Jeanne Wood, Garry Retzleff, Kathleen James-Cavan, Grant Campbell, David John, Rosena Davison, Paul Rice, Christa Fell, John Baird, Robert Merrett, Kenneth Graham, Katherine Quinsey, Monique Moser-Verrey, Nancy Senior, Marie Laure Girou Swiderski, Roland Bonnel, Marc André Bernier, Bernard Andrès, Benoît Melançon.

Submitted by: Eleanor Ty

CSECS / SCEDHS ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE ANNUELLE
Hôtel Delta Armouries, University of Western Ontario
17 octobre 1997

L'assemblée est ouverte à 17 h 45 par Peter Sabor, qui remercie Thierry Belleguic pour un splendide congrès consacré au temps et à ses représentations. Il souligne la forte participation des étudiants des cycles supérieurs et la qualité des invités d'honneur.

1. Rapport de l'organisateur du congrès
Thierry Belleguic remercie son Université, ses collègues, ses assistants-étudiants et les nombreuses personnes qui lui ont apporté leur soutien aussi bien financier qu'administratif pour l'organisation du congrès. Il est heureux d'annoncer la présence d'environ 120 membres de la Société au congrès. Les étudiants des cycles supérieurs ont été hébergés gratuitement par des étudiants de son Université.

2. Rapport du président
Peter Sabor est heureux d'annoncer un accroissement du nombre de membres de la Société. Lui et Eleanor Ty ont envoyé environ 250 lettres à des individus, et 35 nouveaux et anciens membres se sont inscrits ou réinscrits cette année. La demande de reconnaissance du statut d'organisme de bienfaisance pour notre Société a été soumise au ministère du Revenu.

3. Rapport de la secrétaire-trésorière
Eleanor Ty annonce que la Société compte actuellement 207 membres, ce qui est plus que l'année dernière. Cependant, les dépenses sont aussi en hausse, notamment celles liées au Bulletin. Il n'est pas sûr que la Société continue à recevoir une aide financière du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada en ce qui concerne les frais de voyage des étudiants. Le surplus des revenus sur les dépenses pour la dernière année n'est que de 90$. Au nom du bureau, Eleanor Ty propose d'augmenter les cotisations, celles-ci n'ayant pas augmenté depuis quinze ans et n'ayant pas suivi l'inflation. La nouvelle grille de cotisations serait la suivante: 45$ pour les membres réguliers, 35$ pour les membres occupant un emploi à temps partiel (et recevant Lumen), et 25$ pour les étudiants aux cycles supérieurs. Sur proposition de Robert Merrett, appuyée par Katherine Quinsey, l'Assemblée accepte à l'unanimité la nouvelle grille de cotisations.

4. Lumen--Rapport de l'éditeur
Alex Sokalski indique que les ventes de Lumen ont été bonnes l'année dernière (108 volumes). Les Actes de Saskatoon (vol. XV) ont paru, ceux de Windsor (vol. XVI) devraient être chez l'imprimeur à la fin du mois. Les textes des Actes de Victoria (vol. XVII) sont en cours d'appréciation. Alex évoque la possibilité d'un numéro spécial pour le trentième anniversaire de la Société en 2001, nos fonds nous le permettant.

5. Bulletin--Rapport des rédacteurs
Ray Stephanson rappelle qu'il y a eu trois livraisons du Bulletin à ce jour. Les coûts de ces livraisons ont été partagés par la Société et par le 18th Studies Group de l'Université de la Saskatchewan. Le tirage approximatif du Bulletin est de 300 copies: 225 sont envoyées aux membres, le reste servant à des fins publicitaires. Ray a trouvé des ressources qui feront diminuer les coûts de production des prochains numéros; de plus, les versions imprimées des prochaines livraisons seront plus courtes que les versions électroniques. Benoît Melançon annonce que le nombre de membres recevant la version électronique du Bulletin est de 90. Il encourage les membres à demander cette version, puisqu'elle est plus longue que la version papier et coûte moins cher. Il insiste sur la nécessité de continuer à envoyer des copies gratuites du Bulletin à des fins publicitaires.

6. Prochains congrès
1998: Robert Merrett annonce que le congrès d'Edmonton se tiendra du 16 au 20 septembre 1998. Air Canada sera la société aérienne officielle du congrès et elle offrira un billet gratuit pour le congrès de Montréal pour tout ensemble de 30 billets achetés pour le congrès d'Edmonton. Le thème retenu est «Culture matérielle et constructions discursives» et les conférences plénières porteront sur l'histoire du jardinage, les arts culinaires et la popularisation des savoirs grâce aux encyclopédies. Les frais d'inscription seront de 120$ et incluront quatre repas, dont l'un à partir de recettes du XVIIIe siècle. On espère en faire un événement médiatique.
1999: Benoît Melançon, de l'Université de Montréal, est en charge du congrès de 1999. Le thème en sera bientôt annoncé.
2000: John Baird, de l'Université de Toronto, organisera le congrès conjointement avec la Société internationale d'études écossaises.

7. Nouveau bureau
Présidente: sur proposition d'Alex Sokalski, appuyée par Monique Moser-Verrey, l'Assemblée élit à l'unanimité Marie Laure Girou Swiderski (Université d'Ottawa).
Représentant disciplinaire, langue et littérature françaises: sur proposition de Kenneth Graham, appuyée par Robert Merrett, l'Assemblée élit à l'unanimité Thierry Belleguic (University of Western Ontario).
Représentant disciplinaire, art, musique et théâtre: sur proposition de Christa Fell, appuyée par Katherine Quinsey, l'Assemblée élit à l'unanimité Ursula Rempel (University of Manitoba).

8. Prix Madoff
Les textes sont en cours d'appréciation.
[NOTE DES RÉDACTEURS:
Le Comité du prix Mark-Madoff de l'Université de Victoria est heureux d'annoncer que le lauréat du prix 1996 est Richard Pickard (Université de l'Alberta). Pour son texte «Gender, Class Environment(alism): the Cutting of Trees in Augustan Poetry», il recevra un prix de 150 $ accompagné d'un livre de son choix. Le texte sera publié dans le volume de Lumen contenant les Actes de Victoria. Le Comité félicite M. Pickard et remercie tous les autres participants.]

9. SIEDHS
Marie Laure Girou Swiderski annonce qu'Andrew Carpenter organise une campagne pour amasser des fonds en vue d'aider les participants au congrès de Dublin en 1999; il s'agit de payer l'inscription et le séjour des membres venant de pays à devises faibles, des étudiants des cycles supérieurs et des retraités. Le bureau de la SIEDHS s'est engagé à verser dans ce fonds une somme équivalente à celle que verseront les sociétés nationales. Les membres de notre bureau ont décidé de verser chacun 25$ à ce fonds et encouragent les membres à y verser ce que bon leur semble. Les chèques peuvent être adressés à Eleanor Ty.
La SCEDHS propose la candidature de Benoît Melançon au poste de vice-président adjoint de la SIEDHS: vingt signatures ont été réunies pour appuyer cette candidature.

10. Questions diverses
Site web: le site de la Société, qu'a créé Benoît Melançon, est accessible à l'adresse suivante: index.html.

Étaient présents

Eleanor Ty, Peter Sabor, Alex Sokalski, Ray Stephanson, Claire Grogan, Jay Macpherson, Thierry Belleguic, Patrica Debly, John Rempel, Jeanne Wood, Garry Retzleff, Kathleen James-Cavan, Grant Campbell, David John, Rosena Davison, Paul Rice, Christa Fell, John Baird, Robert Merrett, Kenneth Graham, Katherine Quinsey, Monique Moser-Verrey, Nancy Senior, Marie Laure Girou Swiderski, Roland Bonnel, Marc André Bernier, Bernard Andrès, Benoît Melançon.

Secrétaire: Eleanor Ty
Traduction: Benoît Melançon

QUE FONT-ILS? / NEWS OF MEMBERS

Remerciements

Les rédacteurs du Bulletin tiennent à remercier chaleureusement Sharon Ford, de l'Universite de la Saskatchewan, dont l'aide a été précieuse.

Acknowledgements

The editors of the Bulletin gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Sharon Ford, University of Saskatchewan.

Publications récentes / Recent Publications

Bonnel, Roland, «L'Iphigénie en Tauride de Guimond de La Touche: l'herméneutique d'un mythe grec au temps des Lumières», Dalhousie French Studies, 38, printemps 1997, p. 69-76.

Campbell, Glen, «L'enchâssement dans Gil Blas», dans Jacques Wagner (édit.), Lesage écrivain, Amsterdam et Atlanta, Rodopi, coll. «Faux titre», 128, 1997, p. 219-229.

Fields, Polly S., "Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Mary Davys," in Research Guide to Anglo-American Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Doreen Saar and Mary Anne Schofield (New York: G.K. Hall, 1998).

Girou Swiderski, Marie Laure, «Une chambre à soi: le thème du logement dans la correspondance de Mme Belot (Durey de Meinières)», dans Servanne Woodward (édit.), Altered Writings followed by Public Space of the Domestic Sphere, London, Mestengo Press et The Eighteenth-Century French World Centre at the University of Western Ontario, 1997, p. 15-31.

Guthrie, Neil, "`No Truth or Very Little in the Whole Story': A Reassessment of the Mohock Scare of 1712", Eighteenth-Century Life, 20, 1996, p. 33-56.

Heller, Lane, «Jean-Philippe Rameau: musique privée, musique publique», dans Servanne Woodward (édit.), Altered Writings followed by Public Space of the Domestic Sphere, London, Mestengo Press et The Eighteenth-Century French World Centre at the University of Western Ontario, 1997, p. 33-40.

James-Cavan, Kathleen, with Peter Sabor, "Anna Lefroy's Continuation of Jane Austen's Sanditon, Point and Counterpoint," forthcoming in Persuasions: The Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America.

London, April, "Historiography, Pastoral, Novel: Genre in The Man of Feeling", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 10, 1, octobre 1997, p. 43-62.

Maistre, Joseph de, Against Rousseau: On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People, Montréal et Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Traduction et édition de Richard A. Lebrun.

Merrett, Robert James, «Le discours sur le vin dans la presse régionale et l'identité nationale (1750-1790)», Dix-huitième siècle, 29, 1997, p. 117-124.

Plumptre, Anne, Something New, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 1996, xxix/349 p. Édition de Deborah McLeod.

Raynor, David, "Adam Smith: Two Letters to Henry Beaufoy, MP", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 43, 1996, p. 579-589.

Reul, Barbara. Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft, ed. "J.F. Fasch und sein Wirken für Zerbst" / "J.F. Fasch at Zerbst". Conference Proceedings of the International Scholarly Conference held from 18-19 April 1997 on the occasion of the Fifth International Fasch Festival 1997. Dessau: Anhaltische Verlagsgesellschaft, forthcoming. ISBN 3-9101-92-62-9.

Selles, Otto, «Recherches sur Antoine Court (1695-1760)», Courrier du Groupe d'études du XVIIIe siècle, 15, mai 1997, p. 65-67.

Smith, David, «Stratégies de publication. Le cas de l'Homme d'Helvétius», Dix-huitième siècle, 29, 1997, p. 483-494.

Van Crugten-André, Valérie, le Roman du libertinage (1782-1815). Redécouverte et réhabilitation, Paris, Honoré Champion, 1997, 510 p.

Viselli, Santé A., «Droit des gens et mythe du Sauvage canadien chez Montesquieu: "Il y a même des occasions, où il est contre le devoir de pardonner"», dans Hisayasu Nakagawa, Shin-ichi Ichikawa, Yoichi Sumi et Jun Okami (édit.), Ici et ailleurs: le dix-huitième siècle au présent. Mélanges offerts à Jacques Proust, Tokyo, Comité coordinateur des Mélanges Jacques Proust, 1996, p. 359-376. Distribué par la Librairie France-Tosho (Tokyo).

Wilputte, Earla, "Wife-Pandering in Three Eighteenth-Century Plays", Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, forthcoming, Summer 1998 The article examines Behn's The Lucky Chance, Haywood's A Wife to be Lett, and Fielding's The Modern Husband.

Woodward, Servanne (édit.), Altered Writings followed by Public Space of the Domestic Sphere, London, Mestengo Press et The Eighteenth-Century French World Centre at the University of Western Ontario, 1997, xviii/142/xix/96 p. Ill.

Woodward, Servanne, "Foreword", dans Servanne Woodward (édit.), Altered Writings followed by Public Space of the Domestic Sphere, London, Mestengo Press et The Eighteenth-Century French World Centre at the University of Western Ontario, 1997, p. vii-ix.

Woodward, Servanne, "Preface", dans Servanne Woodward (édit.), Altered Writings followed by Public Space of the Domestic Sphere, London, Mestengo Press et The Eighteenth-Century French World Centre at the University of Western Ontario, 1997, p. vii-xviii.

Worvill, Romira, «Qui a le droit à la parole? Quelques réflexions sur le débat concernant les tragédies en prose», Voltaire et ses combats. Actes du congrès international Oxford-Paris 1994, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1997, p. 159-171.

The following to be published in Lumen XVI / À paraître dans Lumen XVI:

Baird, John, "Whig and Tory Panegyrics: Addison's The Campaign and Philips's Blenheim Reconsidered".

Cragg, Olga, «Courants et contre-courants dans le roman des Lumières: Célianne de Benoist».

Didicher, Nicky, "Mapping the Distorted Worlds of Gulliver's Travels".

Diffey, Norm, "The Uses of Empiricism: Ernst Christian Trapp and the Tribulations of an Educational Reformer in Eighteenth-Century Germany".

Ferguson, Moira, "Anna Maria Falconbridge and the Sierra Leone Colony: `A Female Traveller in Conflict.'"

Halford, Peter W., «Le vocabulaire de la frontière: emprunts lexicaux amérindien/français et français/anglais au XVIIIe siècle».

MacLeod, Deborah, "Doth a Single Monk a Gothic Make? Constructing the Boundaries to Keep the Fictional Hordes at Bay".

Melançon, Benoît, «La configuration épistolaire: lecture sociale de la correspondance d'Élisabeth Bégon».

Merritt, Juliette, "`That Devil Curiosity Which Too Much Haunts the Minds of Women': Eliza Haywood's Female Spectators".

Paul, Nancy, "Is Sex Necessary? Criminal Conversation and Complicity in Sarah Fielding's Ophelia".

Sgard, Jean, «Exils et frontières dans l'oeuvre de Prévost».

Toupin, Robert, «Pierre Potier à Windsor: une nouvelle frontière de la culture française au XVIIIe siècle».

Wood, Marcus, "Imaging the Unspeakable and Speaking the Unimaginable: The `Description' of the Slave Ship Brookes
and the Visual Interpretation of the Middle Passage".

Woodward, Servanne, «Scènes du mariage et populationnisme dans le Supplément au voyage de Bougainville».

Zawisza, Elisabeth, «Pour une analyse informatisée du nom propre titulaire: l'exemple du roman français des Lumières».

Autres nouvelles / Other News

Thierry Belleguic n'a pas seulement organisé un magnifique congrès à London en octobre. Il a aussi soutenu sa thèse en septembre 1997: «Météores. Diderot ou l'écriture de la passion». Toute une année!

Polly Fields (Lake Superior State U) was awarded a Clark-UCLA post-doctoral fellowship (1997-98) to research "Rhetoric of Decency: Evangelism as Social Engineering and the Effects on Late-18th-Century Women's Literature."

Benoît Melançon a remporté le prix de l'Association des professeurs de français des universités et collèges du Canada (1997) et le prix Raymond-Klibansky de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines et sociales (1996-1997) pour son Diderot épistolier (Fides, 1996). Il a aussi été invité à donner un séminaire sur «L'épistolaire au XVIIIe siècle» à l'Université McGill à l'automne 1997.

Earla Wilputte is editing Eliza Haywood's Adventures of Eovaai (1736) for the Broadview Literary Texts series. It should be available in 1999. The edition will include a critical introduction, explanatory notes and selections of writings by Haywood's contemporaries, and other background materials.

MÉMOIRES ET THÈSES / THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Allen, Jennifer Crista, «Collectionner, collectionneurs. La collection en histoire, littérature et critique», Montréal, Université de Montréal, Département de littérature comparée, thèse de doctorat, septembre 1997, vii/282 p. Directrice: Johanne Villeneuve.

Belleguic, Thierry, «Météores. Diderot ou l'écriture de la passion», Kingston et Paris, Queen's University et Université de Paris VIII, thèse de doctorat, 1997. Directrices: Béatrice Didier et Elizabeth Zawisza.

Boisvert, France, «Le développement des genres littéraires chez La Hontan», Montréal, Université de Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeur: Guy Laflèche.

Dalton, Susan, "Identity in Eighteenth-Century French and Italian Salon Women's Letters", Montréal, Université de Montréal, Département d'histoire, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directrice: Dominique Deslandres.

El Himdy, Ilhame, «Discours de l'identité et de l'altérité féminines chez Voltaire, Montesquieu et Mme de Sta'l», Montréal, Université de Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directrice: Christie McDonald.

Fizet, Marianne, «Les voix/voies de l'altérité dans la correspondance de madame Belot (1718-1804)», Ottawa, Université d'Ottawa, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directrice: Marie Laure Girou Swiderski.

Grenier, Chantal, «La notion de civilisation dans le discours historique de Voltaire», Montréal, Université de Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeurs: Jean M. Goulemot et Benoît Melançon.

Guénette, Catherine, «Les textes scientifiques adressés aux femmes au Siècle des lumières (1730-1810)», Montréal, Université de Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeurs: Jean-Claude Guédon et Michel Pierssens.

Guse, Anette, "Zu einer Poetologie der Liebe in Textbüchern der Hamburger Oper (1678-1738)", Kingston, Queen's University, Ph.D. thesis, 1997. Advisor: Christa Fell.

Hoffmann, Berenike, "Goethes Die Mitschuldigen", Kingston, Queen's University, MA Thesis, in progress. Advisor: Christa Fell.

Jacek, Eva Margaret, "From Cliché to Conundrum: The Net of Language in the Satires of Jonathan Swift and Flann O'Brien", Montréal, Université de Montréal, thèse de doctorat, août 1996, xiii/339 p. Directeur: William Kinsley.

Kingsbury, Fanny, «La critique de l'idéalisme dans les romans et les contes de Diderot», Montréal, Université McGill, mémoire de maîtrise, 1997. Directeur: Alain Tichoux.

Laflamme, Marc-Olivier, «Rhétorique et historiographie dans les Mémoires de Casanova», Montréal, Université McGill, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeurs: Diane Desrosiers-Bonin et Benoît Melançon.

Marien, François, «Idées politiques et littérature française du XVIIIe siècle: le cas du Siècle de Louis XIV de Voltaire», Montréal, Université de Montréal, mémoire de maîtrise, février 1997, iv/121 p. Directeur: Antoine Soare.

Phillips, Cassandra, "My Family and My Self: The Growth and Development of Female Subjectivity in the Context of Family Experience in Jane Austen's Emma and Persuasion," Saskatoon, University of Saskatchewan, Department of English, M.A. Completed August 1997. Advisor: Kathleen James-Cavan.

St. Martin, Armelle, «Sade: Justine et Juliette ou dé-finir la femme», Winnipeg, Université du Manitoba, mémoire de maîtrise, mars 1994. Directeur: Eric Annandale.

Séminaires / Graduate Classes

Christa Fell taught two graduate classes at Queen's in 1997-1998: Goethe I (The Young Goethe); Goethe II (Goethe in Weimar).

David Oakleaf (English, University of Calgary) is currently teaching "Engendering the Novel," a full year course focussing on question of "origins" or "rise" and gender in 18th-century British fiction.

Last fall, Lisa M. Zeitz taught a graduate half-course entitled "Reading the Languages of Nature, 1660-1750" at the University of Western Ontario.

NÉCROLOGIE / OBITUARY

Donald Greene died on 13 May 1997. Eighteenth-century studies then lost one of its most valuable and vibrant friends and one of Canada's most distinguished academics. Donald Greene was to eighteenth-century what Northrop Frye was to Blake studies and literary theory.

Donald Greene was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1916. He came from a literary family, some of whose adventures and achievements Donald Greene noted in his brief autobiographical memoir, "Miscellaneous Early Writings." That appeared in the festschrift in his honor, Greene Centennial Studies (1984), a large and handsome volume that well attested to the respect and affection Donald Greene evoked throughout the academic community.

But Donald Greene's roots always were resolutely Canadian, and some of his first publications concerned Saskatchewan and its history. He taught in Western Canadian elementary schools from 1934-39 and began a correspondence degree at the University of Saskatchewan where he received his general B.A. degree in 1941 and his honors B.A. in 1946. The delay was a consequence of World War II, during which time Donald Greene served four years in the Royal Canadian Artillery and the Paratroopers. After the war he received a two year Graduate Overseas Fellowship from the I.O.D.E. for study at University College, London, from which he received an M.A. in 1948. He then returned to the University of Saskatchewan, where he taught as an Instructor and Lecturer until 1952, when he attended Columbia University and worked with the then dean of Johnson studies, the late James M. Clifford. That shrewd judge of intellectual talent pronounced that Donald Greene would be a major force in the profession. He was right.

Between 1954 and 1968 Donald Greene taught at Brandeis University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Toronto, the University of Wisconsin and, finally, from 1968 until his retirement at the University of Southern California. At Wisconsin he was appointed to the university's highest chair--The William Freeman Vilas Research Professorship in the College of Letters and Science. At the University of Southern California he was Leo S. Bing Professor. He also was awarded that rarest of rare honors--two Guggenheim Fellowships, among numerous other honors and awards.
Donald Greene deserves permanent recognition merely for his service to eighteenth-century studies as an energetic and visionary colleague and friend. He was one of the founders of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He helped to organize the David Nichol Smith eighteenth-century conferences in Australia and New Zealand. He was the most important founder and financial patron of the fledging American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He was a warm supporter of the idea of the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies and its first Book Review Editor and encouraged the journal to become the Society's official publication. He was the Society's first Secretary and helped to write its constitution. In 1996 the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies took great pleasure in presenting Donald Greene with a plaque as a token of gratitude for his permanently valuable and valued efforts on its behalf.

Such achievements were not only made possible by Donald Greene's vision and love of eighteenth-century studies. They also were made possible by the extraordinary respect his published work and public lectures evoked within other students. His Politics of Samuel Johnson (1960; 1990) liberated Johnson from Macaulay's self-interested portrait of him as a rabid reactionary unworthy of the inevitably triumphant great Whig tradition and triumph. Donald Greene's new and "liberal" interpretation of Johnson became so dominant that it has only recently been seriously challenged but with more heat than light. Donald Greene also edited Johnson's political writings for the Yale Johnson (1977), wrote a splendid Twayne introduction to Johnson (1970; 1989), an important Johnson anthology for Oxford (1984), and that invaluable basic guide to the eighteenth century, The Age of Exuberance (1970). All this is in addition to his bibliographies of Johnson-studies, his annotations of Johnson's library, and his numerous reviews and articles. In several of these Donald Greene insisted that Johnson must be read through his works rather than through Boswell's putative recording of Johnson's putative remarks.

Donald Greene indeed always was at his best in resisting orthodoxies and commonplaces, and in doing so with an abundance of evidence brilliantly organized and brilliantly expressed. His essays attacking the reliability of Boswell as a biographer, of the concept of "logical structure" as adequate to describe eighteenth-century poetry, of "neoclassicism" or "Augustanism" as guiding concepts for the eighteenth century, and of "the burden of the past" as an appropriate way to view later eighteenth-century literature all forced readers to reconsider received apparent truths.

As the 1984 festschrift for Donald Greene made plain, however, his achievement was not only administrative or professional. He evoked deep friendships and deep loyalty from his friends, to whom he also was deeply loyal. Like his admired Samuel Johnson, Donald Greene always insisted on excellence, showed one the way to excellence, and encouraged junior colleagues to be their best. Johnson was equally at home speaking to George III or a child. Donald Greene was equally at home debating the most senior professor and encouraging the most junior graduate student.
Donald Greene moved to Claremont, California, a few months before his death. He died there, apparently from a heart attack and apparently without pain, while surrounded by his books, page proof, and the fruits of a continuing controversy regarding Johnson's politics. Donald Greene died as he lived--a vigorous advocate of Samuel Johnson, the eighteenth century, and the highest standards of professional and human integrity.

Donald Greene's achievements were extensive, his friendships deep, and his memory indelible.

Howard D. Weinbrot
The University of Wisconsin, Madison

C'est avec une grande tristesse, avec une grande émotion que je viens rendre hommage ici à la mémoire de Michel Grenon. Avec une rapidité inouïe, stupéfiante, brutale, Michel n'est plus, Michel qui débordait d'idées, de projets, de pistes enthousiasmantes; je l'avais quitté cet été, après l'Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences, nous venions de faire notre numéro habituel: le duo académique que nous formions depuis plus de dix ans avait chanté, encore une fois, à deux voix alternées, le grand air des Lumières -- cette fois, c'était à propos de la tolérance à la veille de la Révolution française. C'était ensuite pour le revoir, hélas, à l'hôpital, en novembre, et lui apporter le tiré à part de notre article commun dans la revue de Marc Angenot, un article sur la tolérance encore, puisque c'était le chantier que nous venions d'ouvrir, très riche, très prometteur, traversé de débats comme nous les aimions, débats triples, et même quadruples, entre les protagonistes familiers de ce siècle qui nous passionnait et sur lequel nous travaillions avec un plaisir égal à notre intérêt.

Nous nous sommes rencontrés, Michel et moi, sous les auspices conjuguées de Clio et de Minerve. À l'occasion du bicentenaire de la mort de Diderot, en mai 1984, pour une table ronde interdisciplinaire que j'organisais et à laquelle Michel avait accepté de participer avec une communication remarquable, de la manière qu'on lui connaît, incisive, souriante et contrôlée. Son ouverture à des multiples champs de savoir, les liens qu'il aimait tisser entre les disciplines avec lesquelles il avait des affinités, philosophie, histoire de l'art, communications, sociologie, science politique, littérature, ces disciplines au sein desquelles il se mouvait à l'aise en raison de ses connaissances, de sa culture inépuisable, le regard qu'il promenait, les nombreuses facettes du prisme qui le composait, cela est peut-être la première caractéristique de cet esprit brillant et fin. On dit, et c'est un cliché, un historien distingué, mais nul plus que Michel, grand lettré, profond humaniste, réussissait à faire résonner ces mots vides d'un son plein, d'un son juste. Michel demeure une figure achevée, une figure très pure d'intellectuel, inlassablement curieux des êtres, des mots et des choses.

Loin de lui pourtant abstractions, tour d'ivoire et stérile érudition. Michel aimait trop la vie pour cela; comme il savait la goûter avec raffinement, avec élégance, avec sensibilité, avec raison, c'est dans la même mesure qu'il savait la partager, la faire savourer, attentif à tout et à tous, et d'une inlassable courtoisie. Cette politesse du coeur et de l'esprit, cette manifestation subtile des vrais grands, Michel la manifestait envers tout, marque exquise de cette valeur primordiale, le respect; le respect de la pensée, le respect de soi, le respect des autres.

Au cours de nos échanges intellectuels, au cours de nos recherches, c'est avec bonheur que je l'écoutais développer ses intuitions, toujours fertiles, perspicaces, établir des relations originales, provocantes, s'interrompre pour prendre des notes sur ces petites fiches qui ne quittaient jamais la poche de son veston, avancer ses idées avec l'air de n'y pas toucher, sans pression indue, ironique, séduisant; il blaguait avec indulgence mes emballements, disons, théoriques, me ramenant doucement sur terre avant que je ne m'égare trop loin et que je ne transforme en magie la raison; il souriait devant mes emportements contre Bouquier, par exemple, cet affreux Bouquier, ma bête noire, et reprenait avec équanimité le fil du discours. Tolérant et généreux, critique et d'une prudente lucidité, profondément démocrate, épris d'universalité et de cosmopolitisme, ces grandes valeurs que nous a léguées le XVIIIe siècle, il transportait ces qualités dans la recherche, dans l'enseignement, dans sa vision de l'Université et de sa mission, celle de l'Université et la sienne propre. Surtout, je garde de Michel, du chercheur et de l'intellectuel engagé, l'image d'un esprit souverainement libre, fier et indépendant, à l'égal de nos maîtres à nous deux, les philosophes des Lumières, s'identifiant à leur combat pour détruire le plus possible ces obstacles à la liberté, que sont partout et toujours le fanatisme, l'ignorance, les préjugés, l'esprit de clocher et de parti.
La semaine de sa mort, je le revois encore sur son lit d'hôpital, un douloureux souvenir, mitigé par la noblesse de son attitude. Il me faisait penser au tableau de David, Socrate buvant la cigu' et, la main levée, dissertant de sujets élevés; et, comme Socrate, nous avons parlé des choses qui nous occupaient; hélas, c'était la dernière, nous avons parlé de Révolution, de république, d'éducation et de nation. En particulier, il évoquait Thomas Paine et sa fameuse suggestion: au lieu de condamner à mort Louis XVI, pourquoi ne pas l'envoyer aux États-Unis apprendre sur la ferme les vertus d'une vie simple et les moeurs démocratiques? C'est d'une triste ironie qu'il s'en soit allé au moment même où nous achevions enfin notre grand projet commun et que nous nous apprêtions après un travail acharné de près de sept ans à livrer à la publication sous le double format traditionnel et électronique (CD-ROM et site de consultation Internet) notre édition révisée, mise à jour et augmentée de l'oeuvre monumentale de James Guillaume, cette oeuvre qui constitue l'une des sources les plus précieuses pour l'histoire intellectuelle de la Révolution.

Je voudrais un peu m'attarder, avant de conclure, sur ce travail qui, même si Michel n'aura pas eu la joie et la fierté de le présenter à la république des savants, maintiendra le plus solidement (et le plus dynamiquement) qui soit sa mémoire parmi eux. Michel a d'ailleurs commencé ses recherches universitaires, et du reste a continué toute sa vie, jusqu'à la fin de ses jours, à les polariser sur la question de l'éducation sous la Révolution. C'est en 1990 qu'il me décide à combiner nos ressources disciplinaires et à entreprendre de concert l'étude des interrelations discursives entre philosophes des Lumières et orateurs de la Révolution française. C'est que dès les premiers jours de la Révolution on constate une préoccupation aigu' pour cette question d'un nouveau régime d'enseignement, instruction publique ou éducation nationale qui se trouve également au centre des préoccupations des Lumières. Il s'agissait, ni plus ni moins, que de définir la manière de former un nouveau peuple. Nous sommes intervenus non seulement dans la manipulation du corpus, mais en travaillant à part -- nos recherches se retrouvant dans un volume qui s'ajoute à notre édition critique présente, et aussi dans des articles divers, signés en commun comme dans nos trois volumes antérieurs -- les principales dimensions du débat sur l'orientation de l'instruction publique, ainsi qu'en faisant l'analyse des différentes institutions créés par le Comité d'instruction publique: les cérémonies et «fêtes»; le travail scientifique et technologique du Comité, dont le mandat comprenait les brevets d'invention, par exemple le télégraphe de Chappe; les liens aux débats antérieurs à la Révolution, soit parmi les philosophes, soit parmi les enseignants, oratoriens surtout, fort loquaces à la veille de la Révolution; les concepts, les valeurs, les enjeux véhiculés au cours de ce débat public (pendant toute la Révolution et même après la chute de Robespierre, une masse considérable d'adresses et de pétitions, rédigées par des sociétés populaires ou bien par des citoyens isolés fut acheminée vers Paris) et du débat parlementaire qui évolua selon une trajectoire qui est celle de la Révolution elle-même; les effets sur le pays profond. Il est permis de penser que l'ampleur, mais aussi la limite de l'entreprise révolutionnaire en général se trouve condensée dans ces projets de décret, de même que dans les débats auxquels ils donnèrent lieu. Finalement, mais sur un tout autre plan, idéologique et symbolique celui-là, le corpus Guillaume introduit le lecteur à un autre débat: celui qui oppose la représentation que Guillaume avait de la Révolution avec la Révolution telle que d'autres peuvent la percevoir.

Michel Grenon se sentait fort proche de Romme, ce républicain austère et vertueux à l'antique dont le travail fut le plus considérable et le plus cohérent dans le Comité. Quant à sa démarche historique, Michel se sentait le plus d'affinités, je crois, avec Roger Chartrier dont on connaît les études sur les origines culturelles de la Révolution française. Il a fait à ce sujet une étude remarquable de même qu'une plaquette à l'usage de nos séminaires, plaquette très complète sur les interventions importantes aux Assemblées révolutionnaires de différents députés sur la question de l'instruction publique.
Permettez-moi de conclure comme j'ai commencé, sur la rencontre entre une philosophe et un historien, en empruntant à Hegel cette remarque sur les bénéfices à faire oeuvrer ensemble Histoire et Philosophie, tel que l'exemplifie la Révolution. Nul mieux que Hegel n'a formulé le lien qui unit la Révolution française à la philosophie. La Révolution qui a tenté de soumettre la politique à la raison est sortie, écrit-il, de la philosophie; elle a été ainsi un superbe lever de soleil qui a donné lieu au spectacle le plus prodigieux depuis que l'humanité existe. Adieu Michel, merci Michel: la mémoire de ton travail restera avec nous, telle, elle aussi, un superbe lever de soleil qui continuera à nous éclairer.

Josiane Boulad-Ayoub
Département de philosophie
Université du Québec à Montréal

RESEARCH GROUPS / SOCIÉTÉS SAVANTES

Centre de recherche sur les représentations artistiques et littéraires en Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle (1688-1815)
Responsable: Frédéric Ogée

Afin de reconstituer un séminaire de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le XVIIIe siècle britannique tel qu'André Parreaux l'avait créé à l'Institut Charles V à la fin des années 1970 avec son Centre d'étude de la Grande-Bretagne à l'époque pré-industrielle, ce nouveau Centre se donne pour but de réunir plusieurs fois par an tous ceux (universitaires, doctorants, etc.) qu'un travail de recherche approfondi sur un thème suivi intéresse.

Le thème choisi pour 1997-1998 (et sans doute au-delà) est «Échanges».

Après avoir, lors d'une première séance, défini les grandes lignes du sujet et établi un programme de travail, le groupe se réunira environ une fois par mois, périodicité exigeante mais qui devrait permettre un véritable approfondissement. Au cours de chaque séance, selon le thème du jour, plusieurs formes de travail seront possibles: point bibliographique; écoute et discussion d'une ou plusieurs interventions (qui pourront être de nature et de longueur très variées); lecture analytique collective d'un texte précis choisi à l'avance.

À l'occasion, et autant que les modestes ressources du Centre le permettront, un intervenant extérieur (chercheur étranger et/ou d'une autre discipline, etc.) pourra être invité afin d'apporter un éclairage complémentaire sur une question.
Un Bulletin pourra être rédigé à l'issue de chaque séance, qui servirait à la fois de compte rendu et de bloc-notes d'information, et assurerait un lien avec ceux qui ne pourront assister à toutes les séances. L'équipement informatique de l'Institut Charles V nous permettra d'annexer régulièrement ces informations au site Internet de l'UFR d'études anglophones de Paris 7 ce qui facilitera aussi les contacts avec les universités étrangères (adresse actuelle: www.sigu7.jussieu.fr/comm/list_UFR_dipl.htm#UFR Angl).

Selon la nature et la progression de notre travail au fil des mois, nous pourrons envisager une publication (plusieurs possibilités) et l'organisation d'un colloque (dans le cadre du plan quadriennal signé par Paris 7 avec le ministère, un colloque de notre Centre a été programmé pour l'année 2000).

Sauf modification, les réunions auront lieu le lundi de 17h30 à 19h30, en salle C40 à l'Institut Charles V.

La première réunion est fixée au lundi 27 octobre 1997. Les réunions suivantes auront lieu (à confirmer) les 17 novembre, 15 décembre, 12 janvier, 9 février, 9 mars, 6 avril et 4 mai.

Frédéric Ogée
Tél.: 01-44-78-34-04 ou 34-13
Téléc.: 01-42-78-12-47
Internet: ogee@paris7.jussieu.fr

Centre de recherche sur les représentations artistiques et littéraires en Grande-Bretagne au XVIIIe siècle (1688-1815)
Échanges

Dans l'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle, l'échange est à la fois une pratique consciente et une structure profonde, ce que Umberto Eco appellerait une «métaphore épistémologique». Recherché et présenté comme indice de modernité dans les comportements sociaux, les démarches scientifiques, les théories et les réalisations artistiques, c'est aussi une «forme» d'esprit induite par la prédominance croissante d'une économie de marché et la diffusion des idées empiristes.
L'échange a de tous temps été au coeur de la vie sociale et de ses représentations ou métaphorisations. Ce qui, dans le XVIIIe siècle anglais, donne à cette pratique (à l'idée que l'on s'en fait comme à l'image que l'on s'en donne) un relief et une modernité remarquables, c'est précisément qu'après les turbulences du XVIIe siècle et avec l'avènement d'une période de stabilité et de prospérité sans précédent, les formes de comportement social, les «échanges» de l'individu avec les différents cercles de son entourage (conjoint, enfants, voisins, collègues, représentants civils ou religieux, Dieu) connaissent de profonds bouleversements et sont en complète re-définition et ré-évaluation. Trois grandes mutations accompagnent et encouragent ce phénomène: la mise en oeuvre progressive du «contrat» politique entre le peuple et ses gouvernants (éveil d'une conscience politique, émergence de la notion d'alternance, effacement du monarque); la pratique de plus en plus étendue, à tous les échelons de l'économie, du crédit et de la dette et, de Mandeville à Adam Smith, le développement d'une réflexion philosophico-économique sur la nature et la «valeur» des échanges entre intérêt particulier et bien collectif; enfin, la conviction grandissante, sous l'influence des philosophes et des moralistes empiristes autant que des scientifiques de la Royal Society, que la connaissance (des sciences, de soi, des autres) n'est pas une donnée absolue, un a priori abstrait, mais la résultante toujours instable d'un constant échange entre le «spectateur» attentif et la Nature («Consciousness is always consciousness of something», écrit Hume ).

Dès lors que l'on s'intéresse à cette question, on est vite submergé par les innombrables «traces» de ces nouvelles pratiques d'échanges, souvent frictionnels: «Whigs and Tories», «Country and City», «landed and moneyed interests» (et le formidable corpus de pamphlets et autres textes satiriques qui alimentent leurs rapports), «high and low» (Church, culture, etc.), mais aussi Kit Cat Club, «canal mania», voyages, émergence de la famille nucléaire, redéfinition des «territoires» masculin et féminin, etc.

Dans l'optique de notre Centre, telle qu'elle est définie par son nom, notre travail portera avant tout sur la façon dont cette pratique «moderne» de l'échange est, consciemment ou inconsciemment, mise en oeuvre dans les théories et pratiques artistiques au cours du siècle. Dans tous les cas, l'échange pourra être étudié comme pratique, comme thème ou comme forme, et ce sont bien les caractéristiques de sa «modernité» au XVIIIe siècle que l'on cherchera à mettre en évidence. Les champs d'investigation sont aussi vastes que variés. Par exemple:

* en littérature, on pourra s'intéresser à l'émergence du roman anglais, depuis la conversation des essais périodiques jusqu'à la façon très remarquable dont, de Defoe à Jane Austen, les auteurs y négocient avec leurs lecteurs les termes du «contrat» de fiction (et ainsi le «blanchiment» progressif de la notion même de fiction, concept problématique tout au long du siècle); la pratique de l'épistolarité; toutes les formes de dialogue poétique (imitation/importation des grands textes anciens; épîtres; échanges avec la nature, la ruine, etc.); l'énergie frictionnelle du «rhymed couplet» d'un Pope; les récits de voyage; le sentimentalisme et sa pratique de la «sympathie» émotionnelle; les transferts et échanges opérés grâce à la création du mythe gothique; etc.

* dans les arts visuels, le rôle primordial joué par la «conversation piece» dans l'émergence de la peinture anglaise, qui s'affirme ensuite dans deux voies personnelles (le portrait et le paysage) qui toujours représentent la conversation de l'Angleterre avec elle-même; le rôle de la peinture (voir la Hollande au siècle précédent) dans la valorisation d'un commerce et d'une prospérité moralement «corrects»; le travail d'éducation visuelle entrepris par Hogarth, dont toutes les oeuvres cherchent un échange perceptif (résumé par la ligne serpentine); le «Picturesque» et la vogue du tourisme pictural; etc.

* à la charnière entre littérature et peinture, mais aussi bien au-delà, la conversation complexe qu'entretiennent image et texte d'un bout à l'autre de la période, de l'interprétation fluctuante du «ut pictura poesis» horacien aux hiérarchisations académiques, de l'émergence d'une culture visuelle au sein d'une communauté très attachée à l'importance du Texte à la prise de conscience progressive de l'existence de l'imaginaire; etc.

* dans les jardins, l'abandon de la géométrisation de la nature au profit d'un jardin de plus en plus en symbiose avec le paysage environnant, destiné à des expériences de parcours individuels, où le promeneur converse par association d'idées avec le lointain (dans le temps comme dans l'espace, entre ruines et pagodes) avant de se perdre dans le parc ouvert à l'infini.

* en musique, l'émergence d'une pratique recommandée (et représentée) de la musique de chambre, autre forme de conversation; les phénomènes de transfert et d'identification à la source du succès de l'oratorio haendelien; la forme «dialoguée» du concerto grosso; etc.

* guidant ou suivant toutes ces pratiques, l'émergence, de Addison à Coleridge (pour faire simple), de l'esthétique en tant que discours constitué et autonome, l'esthétique qui n'est autre que l'analyse des «effets» de l'art, c'est-à-dire les conditions qui président aux échanges (intellectuels, émotionnels) entre l'oeuvre et celui qui la perçoit. De surcroît, la figure et le rôle de l'artiste connaissent une mutation considérable. L'affaiblissement du mécénat et la commercialisation du travail de l'artiste entraînent une redéfinition de son rôle au sein de la communauté. Lui qui donnait son art contre des gratifications l'échange désormais contre de l'argent. Parallèlement (et parfois contradictoirement), on assiste à un véritable échange de rôles: après avoir conquis son indépendance artistique, l'artiste se pose de plus en plus en nouveau phare de la communauté, spectateur et lecteur privilégié des résonances mystérieuses de la Nature, médiateur poétique des échanges entre l'humain et le divin.

* on pourra aussi s'intéresser à l'émergence, dans la seconde moitié du siècle, et dans de nombreux domaines, d'une très nette volonté (idéologiquement suspecte) de mettre un terme à l'instabilité des échanges (ou aux fluctuations de leur valeur), perçue désormais comme pernicieuse. Après l'effervescence, l'heure est à la remise en ordre et au classement: histoires, biographies, encyclopédies, traités, recueils prolifèrent. Adam Smith, David Hume et Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, Joshua Reynolds, Charles Burney, Joseph Warton, et bien d'autres, tentent d'organiser (certains disent de contrôler) les nouvelles pratiques en codifiant et hiérarchisant les rapports entre tradition et modernité, d'une façon qui tend à figer l'échange, ou tout au moins sa «valeur».

La variété des sujets à aborder et la nécessité d'éviter l'éparpillement en restant bien centré sur le sujet tel qu'il se définira peu à peu (après tout, il s'agit bien d'un Centre de recherches) empêchent bien entendu l'établissement de toute bibliographie. Celle-ci prendra corps au cours du travail. À titre d'entrée aléatoire en matière, citons deux ouvrages récents, l'un très général et l'autre très spécialisé, qui mettront l'eau à la bouche aux plus impatients:

* John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination. English Culture in the Eighteenth Century, London, HarperCollins, 1997;

* Sandra Sherman, Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century. Accounting for Defoe, Cambridge, CUP, 1996.

Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Saskatchewan

ECS at U of S has been most fortunate in being able to organize a very strong program of speakers, beginning in September with the "Body Projects 1" conference (co-sponsored with the Humanities Research Unit), at which nearly twenty papers on Enlightenment subjects were delivered, including G.S. Rousseau's "Conquering the Penis: the Phallus and Body Criticism" and Roy Porter's "The Body Politic: Diseases and Discourses" (co-sponsored with HRU and the College of Medicine). Since then, the line-up includes Moishe Black (French, U of S) on "Lucretius Tells Diderot: Here's My Plan," Gary Kelly (English, U of Alberta) on "Bluestocking Feminism," Peter Hynes (English, U of S) on "Terence Without Tears? Some Questions of Genealogy in Diderot's Theatre," John Bender (English, Stanford University) on "Science and Pornography," and Anne Goldgar (History, King's College, London) on "Public Museums and Private Knowledge." Contact: Alexander Sokalski (French) at sokalski@duke.usask.ca or Raymond Stephanson (English) at stephanr@duke.usask.ca.

The University of Calgary Eighteenth-Century Studies Group

The University of Calgary Eighteenth-Century Studies Group (founded 1989) arranges an annual lecture series including invited speakers, established scholars on the Calgary faculty, and graduate students to present research, discuss recent scholarly initiatives, and to enrich the collegial atmosphere for all who study the eighteenth century. Contact person is Glen Campbell, Department of French, Italian and Spanish, U of C, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 / gcampbel@acs.ucalgary.ca.

The program for 1997-98 is a rich and busy one:

September 26, George Klosko (University of Virginia), "Montesquieu and the Idea of Value in the Social Sciences."

October 8, Daniel Maher (French, Italian and Spanish), "The Paradox of the Playwright: Diderot Rewritten by the Actors."

November 19, Anthony Russell (Biological Sciences), "Comparative Anatomy in the Eighteenth Century: The Emergence of the Unity of Plan."

January 21, Victor Ramraj (English), "A Far-Away Colonial's Exaggeration: V.S. Naipaul's Eighteenth-Century India."

February 13, John Bender (Stanford University), "Science and Pornography."

March 18, Michael Williams (Computer Science), "Computing Devices in the Eighteenth Century."

Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft e.V.
April 17-20, 1997. Fifth International Fasch Festival, Zerbst, Germany.
April 15-18, 1999. Sixth International Fasch Festival, Zerbst, Germany.
International Scholarly Conference "Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch and Contemporary Musical Life in Berlin." Contact: Dr. Barbara Reul, Gesch°/ooftsstelle: Wiekhaus, D-39261 Zerbst. Tel./Fax: 03923/784772. Postanschrift: B°/oockerstr. 11, D-39261 Zerbst. E-mail: IFaschG@t-online.de. Internet: www.islandnet.com/%7Efasch.

Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas / Société canadienne de l'étude des idées européennes

Dear Colleagues in CSECS / SCEDHS:

Allow me to call your attention to the Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas / Société canadienne de l'étude des idées européennes, a small society dedicated to intellectual history in its widest possible signification. We meet with the Learneds, and in recent years have had sessions on film and history (with a special panel at UQAM in 1995 on Spielberg's Schindler's List), on architecture and constructed space, on environmental ethics and ecological responsibility. This year at Ottawa, we plan to have sessions on the desirability of a Continental complement to the study of "English" literature, again on environmental ethics and on architecture and constructed space, and on Comedy, theory and practice. A formal call for themes and for papers will be issued soon. Meanwhile, if you are interested in further information, in receiving the Newsletter, or in joining us (cheap at $10 a year, $5 for students), write to any of the following:

Stuart Pierson, President
History, Memorial University
St. John's (Newfoundland)
Canada A1C 5S7
Tel.: 709-737-8431
Fax: 709-737-2164
Internet: spierson@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

Thom Heyd, Newsletter Editor
Philosophy, University of Victoria
Victoria (British Columbia)
Canada V8W 3P4
Tel.: 604-721-7211
Fax: 604-721-7511
Internet: theyd@uvvm.uvic.ca

David Murray, Secretary/Treasurer
Psychology, Queen's University
Kingston (Ontario)
Canada K7L 3N6
Tel.: 613-545-6005
Fax: 613-545-2499
Internet: murrayd@psyc.queensu.ca

CONFERENCES / COLLOQUES

CONGRÈS D'EDMONTON / EDMONTON CONFERENCE
University of Alberta, 16-20 September 1998
"Material Productions and Cultural Construction"

The 18th century is celebrated for its production of ideas. Yet the age was as revolutionary in industrial and agricultural innovations as in ideologies. Our conference will celebrate the practices of the century, its ingenious ways of testing, applying and mediating ideas in diverse material realms. Panels will be organised around products such as clothes, housewares, medicines, buildings and transportation. Other topics allow scholars to read cultural inscriptions in materials, processes and objects, be they cotton or steel, surgery or dancing, musical instruments or books. Given the Enlightenment's impulse to draw analogies between material and intellectual culture, our meeting will challenge participants to convey innovative ways of informing the general public about the vitality of the 18th century. The program will be designed to appeal to the public and to convey the relevance of liberal arts teaching and research to contemporary society.

Our plenary speakers are Michel Baridon (on gardening and the new Aesthetics), Beatrice Fink (on food as philosophy), James Marsh (on encyclopedias and the making of modern databases), and Paul Rice (on music and social structure at Vauxhall Gardens). Participants are invited to address one of the following topics:

1. The Physical and Material: physics, chemistry, biology
2. Mechanical and Technical: metallurgy, optics, mining, industrial machines
3. Agriculture/Farming Technology
4. Horticulture: food, cosmetics, herbs, medicines
5. Architecture: town planning, parks and garden design; building materials and techniques, plumbing and heating; municipal services, water supply/street lighting, sewage, sanitation; churches, graveyards
6. Domestic and foreign foods: cooking and eating; tableware, pottery, copperware, pewter, silverware; etiquette
7. Domestic Life: household management, servants, entertainment
8. Transportation: public and private, coaches and carriages; canals, bridges
9. Warfare: munitions, military service, duelling equipment
10. Performances: music; instrument making, concert promotion, charitable and ceremonial performance; balls and dancing; painting, portraits, printshops, engravings: the uses of art
11. Shopping: fashion, the display of goods, advertising, smuggling; fabrics, men's, women's and children's clothes
12. Drinking: beverages and stimulants, beer, wine, tea, coffee, opium and other drugs; anaesthesia
13. Book trade: production methods and technology; mechanization and style

Panels and papers are not restricted to the conference theme. Please send proposals for panels to the address below by the end of February 1998, and proposals for papers by April 15, 1998.

NB. Proposals are not accepted from tenured scholars who are not members of the Society. Membership forms may be obtained from Professor Eleanor Ty, English Department, Wilfrid Laurier University (e-mail: ety@worldy.com). The Society's journal, Lumen, will publish refereed presentations delivered at the conference in article form.

Conference Organizer
Robert Merrett
English Department
University of Alberta
Edmonton (Alberta)
Canada T5G 2E5
Tel.: 403-492-9134
Fax: 403-492-8142
Internet: rmerrett@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

Université d'Alberta, du 16 au 20 septembre 1998
«Culture matérielle et constructions discursives»

On a longtemps ramené le XVIIIe siècle à son seul contenu intellectuel: le Siècle des lumières aurait été caractérisé par son inventivité sur le plan des idées. Pourtant, l'innovation industrielle et agricole y fut aussi importante que les révolutions idéologiques. Le congrès mettra en relief ces innovations, les pratiques propres aux Lumières et l'ingéniosité qu'on a alors déployée pour expérimenter concrètement les idées et pour les mettre en application. Le comité organisateur souhaite la tenue de séances sur tous les aspects de la culture matérielle: vêtement, habitation, moyens de transport, vie domestique, soins de santé. Ces exemples n'épuisent pas la liste des sujets possibles; on peut espérer que les participants s'intéresseront aussi bien à des matériaux (le coton et l'acier) qu'à des activités (la chirurgie et la danse) et à des objets (l'instrument de musique et le livre), tout cela mis en relation avec le discours que la culture tient sur eux, et grâce à eux. De la même façon que les Lumières n'hésitaient pas à établir des analogies entre les mots et les choses, on essaiera de faire dialoguer grand public et spécialistes, les seconds devant démontrer au premier la vitalité de leurs objets d'étude et la pertinence de leur façon de transmettre leur savoir. En cette époque où la recherche et l'enseignement dans les humanités sont souvent appelés à justifier leur existence, on apportera un soin particulier à attirer le public le plus large possible et à lui faire partager le résultat de nos travaux.

Les conférenciers des séances plénières sont Michel Baridon (horticulture et esthétique nouvelle), Béatrice Fink (philosophie de la nourriture), James Marsh (encyclopédies et création de banques de données) et Paul Rice (musique et société: «Vauxhall gardens»).

Les intervenants sont invités à traiter l'un des sujets ou thèmes suivants:
1. Le monde matériel: physique, chimie et biologie.
2. Mécanique et technique: métallurgie, optique, exploitation des mines, industrie lourde.
3. Agriculture et technologie de l'exploitation agricole.
4. Horticulture: plantes nutritives, cosmétiques, plantes médicinales, médicaments.
5. Architecture: urbanisation, parcs et jardins, matériaux et techniques de construction, plomberie et chauffage, services municipaux, service des eaux, éclairage des rues, égouts, salubrité publique, églises et cimetières.
6. Aliments: produits locaux et étrangers; cuisine et consommation, art de la table et poterie, ustensiles de cuisine en cuivre, vaisselle d'étain, argenterie; usages.
7. Vie domestique: économie ménagère, serviteurs, art de recevoir.
8. Transport: public et privé, carrosses, coches, diligences, voitures; canaux et ponts
9. Guerre: munitions, services de l'armée, manufacture d'armes blanches.
10. Spectacles: musique, fabrication d'instruments de musique, organisation de concerts, représentations à des fins de charité et divertissements de Cour, bal, ballets; peinture, portraits, imprimerie, gravures. Utilité de l'art.
11. Emplettes: modes, présentation des marchandises aux clients, publicité, contrebande; tissus, vêtements pour hommes, femmes et enfants.
12. Boissons: bière, vin, thé, café. Opium et autres stupéfiants; anesthésie.
13. Commerce des livres: méthodes de production et technologie; imprimerie, art de la reliure.

Les tables rondes et les communications ne sont pas limitées aux thèmes du congrès. Prière d'envoyer vos propositions de participation aux tables rondes à l'adresse suivante avant la fin de février 1998 et les propositions de communication avant le 15 avril 1998.

N.B. Les propositions de communication de ceux et celles qui ne sont pas membres de la Société ne seront pas retenues. Pour obtenir le formulaire d'inscription, prière de s'adresser à Eleanor Ty, English Department, Wilfrid Laurier University (courriel: ety@worldy.com). La revue de la Société, Lumen, publiera sous forme d'article les communications retenues par le comité de lecture.

Organisateur du congrès
Robert Merrett
English Department
University of Alberta
Edmonton (Alberta)
Canada T5G 2E5
Tél.: 403-492-9134
Téléc.: 403-492-8142
Internet: rmerrett@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

Colloque international. 250 ans après l'Esprit des lois (1748). Le temps de Montesquieu
Université de Genève
29-31 octobre 1998

Organisation: Michel Porret (U. de Genève), Catherine Volpilhac-Auger (U. Stendhal, Grenoble)

Participants: Bronislaw Baczko, Guillaume Barrera, Jean Bart, Marc Belissa, Georges Benrekessa, Lorenzo Bianchi, Christophe Calame, Jean-Daniel Candaux, Christian Cheminade, Harvey Chisick, Véronique Costa, C.P. Courtney, Jean-Patrice Courtois, Charles Coutel, Louis Desgraves, Henri Drei, Biancamara Fontana, Graham Gargett, Dieter Gembicki, Stella Ghervas, Alain Grosrichard, André Gürr, Béla Kapossy, Alexis Keller, Alexandra Kratschmer, Rebecca Kingston, Catherine Larrère, Edna Lemay, Luigi Mascilli, Raymonde Monnier, Marc Neuenschwander, Eluggero Pii, Michel Porret, Alberto Postigliola, Claude Reichler, Peter Schroeder, Jay M. Smith, Gilles Susong, Ditlev Tamm, Dominique Varry, Catherine Volpilhac-Auger.

Informations:
Michel Porret
Université de Genève
Faculté des lettres
Département d'histoire générale
Genève 4
1211 Suisse
Tél.: 22.705.30.31, poste 80
Téléc.: 22.321.98.04
Internet: porret@uni2a.unige.ch

Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment / Dixième congrès international des Lumières
University College, Dublin
25-31 July / juillet 1999

Andrew Carpenter
English Department
University College
Dublin 4, Ireland
Fax/Téléc.: 353-1-706-1174
Internet: andrew.carpenter@ucd.ie
Internet: users.ox.ac.uk/%7Eabrown/dublin/index.html

Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America Colorado Springs, Colorado
October 8-10, 1999
Emma: Austen at her Peak

We are looking for papers on Jane Austen's Emma in the following formats:

panels involving 3-4 persons discussing aspects of a theme or issue;
point/counterpoint presentations between 2 persons;
20 minute papers with thematic or formal emphases;
roundtables on pedagogical issues;

Please send abstracts of papers or proposals for panels by July 14, 1998 to:

Professor Joan Klingel Ray
Department of English
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
P.O.Box 7150
Colorado Springs, CO
U.S.A. 80933
Tel.: 719-262-4005
Internet: jray@mail.uccs.edu
Internet: www.cc.colorado.edu/Dept/EN/Austen/

La ruse
Colloque organisé par SATORONTO
Centre canadien de la SATOR (Société d'analyse de la topique romanesque)
20 et 21 mars 1998
Université de Toronto

Ce colloque s'inscrit dans le cadre des recherches du Centre SATORONTO. Il se propose de marquer la fin de la deuxième année de ses travaux en faisant le bilan d'étape dans la constitution d'un thésaurus informatisé de topoï narratifs tirés du roman francais jusqu'en 1800. Il espère permettre à de jeunes collègues nord-américains de prendre contact avec nous et de découvrir ce que la SATOR peut leur apporter.

On sollicite des communications de 20 minutes. Le titre et un résumé d'une page doivent nous parvenir avant le 1er février 1998. La langue du colloque sera le français. Le Centre prévoit la publication des Actes du colloque.

Veuillez adresser la correspondance à:

Centre SATOR / SATORONTO
Robarts Library, Room 14080
130 St George St.
Toronto (Ontario)
Canada M5S 3H1
Tél.: 416-946-3190
Internet: centre.sator@utoronto.ca ou nicole.boursier@utoronto.ca
Internet: www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/french/sator/

XXIX Annual Meeting of the East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (EC/ASECS)
Salisbury State University, Salisbury, Maryland
October 8-11, 1998.
Conference theme: Transformations: Natural and Social

Plenary speaker: Christopher Ricks of Boston University

We invite papers and session proposals on evolutions in and developing attitudes toward aspects of nature or society in the long eighteenth century. We especially encourage papers and sessions on transformations in relationships between nature and society, nature and culture, or nature and art. To continue an EC-ASECS tradition, sessions on research in progress and on teaching the eighteenth century will be offered.

Session proposals and requests to chair a session should be submitted in hard copy by 1 February 1998 to:

Wm. C. Horne
Department of English
Salisbury State University
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, MD
U.S.A. 21801
Fax: 410-543-6068.
Internet: wchorne@ssu.edu

For papers, please send one-page abstracts in hard copy by 1 May 1998.

Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
1998 Annual Conference
October 8-10
Mackinaw City, Michigan

The theme of the 1998 conference, "Cultural Crossroads," is enhanced by its location in Mackinaw City. During the 17th and 18th centuries the Straits of Mackinac served as both a geographical and cultural crossroads for a large portion of the North American continent, and the settlements at Michilimackinac functioned as a gateway that opened into routes stretching for hundreds of miles in all directions from the juncture of Lakes Huron and Michigan. Cultural exchanges between Native Americans and Europeans included ideas, spiritual beliefs, material goods and lifelong commitments.
Particularly welcome are panel/paper topics which relate to the following: Cultural exchanges between Native people and the French/British in the western Great Lakes and Canada; European literary interest in Native people of the Americas; European imperial rivalries, especially their involvement with North America in eighteenth century literature and historical writing; European travelers' accounts of North America; Cultural exchange in Europe; Captivity accounts; the impact of economic changes in Europe upon Native Americans; Comparative studies of French-British relations in North America with French-British relations in Europe.

Deadline for submission of paper proposals is April 1, 1998.

Cinda May
Lilly Library
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
U.S.A. 47405
Fax: 812-855-3143
Internet: cindamay@indiana.edu
Internet: www.otus.oakland.edu/english/mwasecs/index.htm

First International Reid Symposium
King's College, University of Aberdeen
27-29 July 1998

The Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen has recently established a major new initiative entitled "The Reid Project". The aims of the Project are to stimulate, coordinate and support interest in Thomas Reid, the Philosophy of Common Sense, the extensive manuscript holding pertaining to them in the Aberdeen University Library, and their place within contemporary philosophical discussion and the intellectual traditions of Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain, Europe and America.

One of the main means in which these aims will be pursued is through a series of Reid Symposia, the first of which will be held at King's College Aberdeen on 27-29 July 1998.

Proposals for papers should be sent by 1 March 1998 to:

Dr M. Rosa Antognazza
Department of Philosophy
King's College
Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB
Tel./Fax: 44-0-1224-272366
Internet: reidproject@abdn.ac.uk
Internet: www.abdn.ac.uk/cpts/reidstu.htm

The 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society and The Dutch Society for 18th-Century Studies (Werkgroep Achttiende Eeuw)
Joint Conference
Scotland, The Netherlands, and the Atlantic World
3-7 July 1998
Utrecht, Netherlands
Hosted by the Utrecht Research Institute and the University of Utrecht

Contact: Kathleen Holcomb, Program Director, Department of English, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX 76909, USA. Tel.: (915) 942-2517; Fax: (915) 942-2155; e-mail: kathleen.holcomb@angelo.edu.

Cultural History after Foucault
Aberdeen
June 26-28, 1998

Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam and the Thomas Reid Institute and the English Department at the University of Aberdeen would like to announce an international conference. As the second of two, it is premised on the view that cultural studies, however much they may have gained from Foucault, are now moving further ahead by overcoming their Foucaldian heritage and seeking answers to the question "Where do we go now?"

The 1997 Amsterdam conference focussed primarily, though not exclusively, on theoretical issues; the Aberdeen is concerned with specific historical problems, brought forward in light of the previous year's theoretical discussions. There will be plenary speakers whose talks are open to the public. The conference will also hold group sessions closed to the public, in which the plenary speakers will be joined by twenty-five additional participants. In these group sessions shorter papers of approximately 20 minutes will be presented and general discussions will be held.

This conference is of considerable interest to 18th Century scholars. For more information, please visit the Thomas Reid Institute website at:

www.abdn.ac.uk/%7Etri016

Literary Modalities of Praise
Lakehead University English Department
October 2-4, 1998

What is praise? What linguistic modalities make it known? How do past or present authors effectively praise nature, the supernatural, people, or language itself? How is contemporary literary theory skeptical of praise? Is there a place for praise in literary studies that is not hagiographic, sentimental, or commercial? What is the role of epideictic rhetoric in the construction of literary or artistic discourse communities? How are praise and dialogical play interrelated? What might "constructive" praise look like in composition and pedagogy? If we deconstruct ideology far enough, will the absence at the center be affirming in any way? Why praise?

Please send abstracts (or papers) for 20 minute presentations before April 15, 1998 to:

A.G. den Otter, English
Lakehead University
955 Oliver Road
Thunder Bay (Ontario)
Canada P7B 5E1
Internet: adenotte@sky.lakeheadu.ca

Literature of the Sea
New York College English Association
Saturday, march 28, 1998

The New York College English Association invites papers (15 minutes in length) on topics appropriate to the conference theme. From Odyssean adventures to ancient mariners, from Renaissance voyagers to Melvillean whalers, from mutinies to middle passages, from Conradian fiction to John Casey's Spartina and E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, you are invited to explore the literature of schooners and explorers, of pirates and privateers, of military and commercial vessels.

Our "nautical" adventure takes place at SUNY Maritime College, with its picturesque fort; its training ship, S.S. Empire State; its uniformed cadets; and maritime museum.

Abstracts (15 words) should be sent no later than February 20, 1998 to:

Professor Kevin A. Boon
Humanities Department
SUNY Maritime College
6 Pennyfield Avenue
Fort Schuyler
Bronx, New York
U.S.A. 10465-4198
Tel.: 718-409-7247
Internet: Kevin@Boon.net

Scientific Implications of "Looking Up"
Santa Barbara, California
January 16 and 17, 1999

From observing the heavens to paging through an encyclopedia, "looking up" has been important to human societies throughout time. This conference intends to deal specifically with this phenomenon in Medieval, Renaissance, and Early-Modern European culture. Papers, performances, and organized sessions are invited which address any form "looking up" may manifest itself--as action, as event, as thought, etc. Creativity is encouraged as long as the presentation is rooted in reliable scholarship. Essays may be selected, with permission from the author, to be published in an internet journal with possible future publication in a printed format.

The deadline for submission of proposals is August 15, 1998.

"Looking Up"
Jason M. Kelly
Department of History
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA
U.S.A. 93106
Tel.: 805-967-3187
Internet: lookingup99@hotmail.com

18th international Conference on the History of Cartography Athens
11-16 July 1999
Organised by the Society for Hellenic Cartography and the National Hellenic Research Foundation, in collaboration with Imago Mundi Ltd.

Conference theme: "The Cartography of the Mediterranean World'"--and any other aspect of the history of cartography.

Languages: the conference will be conducted in English, French and Greek, with simultaneous translation.

Dr George Tolias
18th International Conference on the History of Cartography
The National Hellenic Research Foundation
48 Vassileos Konstantinou Avenue
Athens
Greece 116 35
Tel.: 301-721-0554
Fax: 301-724-6212
Internet: gtolias@eie.gr

Beggars Description: Destitution and Literary Genres
University of Groningen, Netherlands
11-13 November, 1998

Beggars, tramps, hobos, and gypsies have always evoked the most contrary emotions: guilt and censure, disgust and envy, pity and fear. Literature seems to abhor a beggar: at the end of many a story, her or she emerges as a king (in legends), and angel or fairy (in folktales), an heiress (in melodrama), an impostor (in pamphlets), or a successful member of society (in picaresques). Is the confrontation with penury too painful to be faced squarely? How do different literary genres attempt to negotiate this confrontation with the destitute other--or destitute self?

The conference will address such questions from various fields of literary study. Likely major areas of input are genre theory, the picaresque, Gypsy studies, oral and street literature; but medieval drama, contemporarary autobiography, Indian narrative and South African political fiction may also yield interesting texts and points of view. However, these are just suggestions: all those interested in English-language literature are invited to join.

Offers of papers (20-25 minutes' delivery time) are invited for this international conference. Papers should be given in English and focus on English-language literature dealing with the beggar theme. Abstracts of up to 400 words should be sent by the end of February 1998 to:

Beggars Description Conference
English Department
University of Groningen
P. O. Box 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
Fax: 31-50-363-5821
Tel.: 31-50-363-5850
Internet: beggar@let.rug.nl

1999 Berkshire conference on the History of Women

The 11th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Breaking Boundaries," will be held on June 4-6 at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA. The Program Committee welcomes proposals that transcend regional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries; that break traditional boundaries of academic presentation and explore innovative ways of presenting material and involving the audience. The Committee also seeks proposals that discuss pedagogy, public history, collaborative research, and feminist activism. The Committee encourages international participation and panels that represent a diversity of participants.

We prefer proposals for complete panels (normally two papers, one commentator, and a chair) or roundtables, especially those with cross-national and comparative themes. Individual papers will also be considered. The program Committee may rearrange panels; submission of a proposal will be taken as agreement with this proviso. No one may appear more than once on the program in any capacity.

Please submit proposals in triplicate, postmarked by January 31, 1998, in a single packet marked "ATTN: Berkshire Conference" to the appropriate co-chair. Each proposal must include: 1) panel title or roundtable theme; 2) title and one-page abstract of each paper or presentation; 3) name and address of contact person; 4) one-page vita for each participant, including current address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address; 5) a self-addressed, stamped postcard for return upon receipt of packet.

Send proposals on U.S. and Canadian topics to Nell Painter, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A. 08544101-1017; on European topics to Sharon Strocchia, Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. 30322; on Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Pacific, and all comparative topics (U.S./non-U.S.) to Teresa Meade, Department of History, Union College, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A. 12308-2365.
Internet: www-berks.aas.duke.edu

XVe Congrès de l'AFFSA (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa / Association des études françaises en Afrique australe)
University of the Western Cape, Bellville (Le Cap), Afrique du Sud
8-11 septembre 1998

Deux thèmes parallèles ont été retenus: Discours et violence; L'enseignement du français en Afrique du sud.

Le titre de la commuication devra être fourni au secrétariat du congrès avant le 28 février 1998, avec un résumé de 300 mots. Les communications orales n'excéderont pas 20 minutes. La langue officielle du congrès est le français.

La correspondance doit être adressée à:

XVe Congrès international de l'AFFSA
Department of Foreign Languages
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville
7535
South Africa
Tél.: 27-21-959 2368
Téléc.: 27-21-959 2376
Internet: bdemeyer@artsn.uwc.ac.za
Internet: www.uwc.ac.za/a_french

The American Society for Aesthetics: an association for aesthetics, criticism, and theory of the arts
56th Annual Meeting
Bloomington, Indiana
November 4-7, 1998

In addition to considering papers in any area of aesthetics, the Program Committee particularly invites submissions falling under the following headings: The New Musicology; Aesthetics Before the 17th Century; Political Criticism; Contemporary Art Strategies and Theory; Taste and Character; Romanticism and its Theories; Cultural Studies and Aesthetics; Principles of Film Theory; Aesthetic Unity/Aesthetic Provocation

Some funds are available to subsidize the participation of graduate students and of scholars from economically disadvantaged countries.

Papers, in triplicate, should be submitted together with a 100-word abstract and formatted for blind reviewing (author's name on separate cover page only). Papers should not exceed 12 pages (20-25 minutes reading time). Abstracts cannot be considered in lieu of papers.

Send submissions before March 1, 1998 to:

Professor Richard Eldridge
ASA Program Chair
Department of Philosophy
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA
U.S.A. 19081

AULLA XXX 1999
Australasian Universities Language & Literature Association
The University of Auckland
Monday 8-Thursday 11 February 1999

Paper offers should be addressed before August 21, 1998 to:

Barry Williams
Congress Administrator
Centre for Continuing Education
Tel.: 64 9 373 7599, ext. 8903
Fax: 64 9 373 7419
Internet: b.williams@auckland.ac.nz
Internet: www.cce.auckland.ac.nz/aulla

Going Native
The Art History Association and the University of South Florida present
"The 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium."

Addressing notions of the "Other" in art, literature, book arts, humanities, and communications. Open to graduate students and recent post-graduates.

Conference to be Held Friday, March 20, 1998 from 9:30am to 4pm in conjunction with the 22nd University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum's Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Sponsored by Graphicstudio/Institute for Research in Art. $200 prize for the best paper. Juried by Dr. Hank Hine of Graphicstudio and Dr. Bradley J. Nickels, Professor of Art History, University of South Florida.

One page abstracts due friday, February 6, 1998 to:

Going Native
C/O Noel Smith
Graphicstudio/USF
3702 Spectrum Blvd., Suite 100
Tampa, FL
U.S.A. 33612
Tel.: 813-974-3503
Internet: lovejoy@arts.usf.edu

History & Memory, 1998 Graduate Student Conference
Department of History, Yale University
April 18, 1998

Graduate students at Yale University announce a one-day, multidisciplinary conference. We invite graduate students to submit abstracts of papers that contribute to the growing body of scholarship on History & Memory.

We encourage topics that explore: the invention of tradition, collective memory, historiography and memory, uses of history, politics of memory, commemoration, memorialization, nationalism and memory, monuments and the sites of memory, cultural memory of the professions, literature and cultural memory, art and public memory, modernism and the memory crisis.

We are especially pleased to announce that Prof. Michael Kammen (Cornell University) will serve as keynote speaker at the conference.

Any person interested in presenting a paper is invited to submit a one-page abstract by March 1, 1998.

History & Memory
c/o George E. Haddad, MD
Dept. of History of Medicine & Science
L-130 SHM
PO. Box 208015
Yale University
New Haven, CT
U.S.A. 06520
Internet: memory@pantheon.yale.edu
Internet: www.yale.edu/memory

North East Popular Culture Association

The North East Popular Culture Association (NEPCA), an affiliate of the PCA and ACA, holds its 21st annual conference in Boston at Suffolk University on November 6-7, 1998. Proposed papers or panels on any culture studies or pop culture topics may be submitted (one-page abstract & brief cv) by July 1 to the program chair. An award (certificate and $200) is offered each year for the best paper by a graduate student. Contact the program chair:

Professor Joseph McCarthy
Suffolk University
Department of History
Boston, MA
U.S.A. 02114

Before We Revise, Where Are We? Near Misses, Contingency, and Disciplinary History
Indiana University
March 6-8, 1998

For the 1998 Indiana University Conference in the Humanities, we would like to investigate the problems inherent in the project of Revision, especially as Revision (of former modes of thought, of the canons, of declarations made in the far and recent past) seems to be the overwhelming thrust of much work in the humanities today.

We invite scholarship that explores the history and genealogy of particular methods and theories (including theorists), that explores traditional modes of reading, or that historicises the exegesis of particular literary works.

We are also soliciting papers and panels that examine how certain reading strategies have developed, that probe the difficulties of historical contextualization, or interrogate the formation of theories which grew out of contingency and now dominate large areas of certain disciplines.

Presentations of a more whimsical bent that refuse the constraints of standard critical approaches are also most welcome, as are works that trace how late-breaking discoveries of long-lost items already challenge those approaches.

Two 300 word abstracts due by February 1, 1998 to:

Chris Hokanson
c/o Indiana University Conference in the Humanities
English Department
Ballantine Hall 408
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
U.S.A. 47405
Internet: chokanso@indiana.edu

Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display

Announcing the second multidisciplinary Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, sponsored by the Bowling Green Center for Popular Culture Studies and the Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, U.S.A. 43403. The conference will be held on May 29-31, 1998, at Bowling Green State University.

Areas might include emergent traditions in the ritual genres, gender roles and ritual, women and festive resistance, media representations of festival and celebration, and festival and conflict.

Proposals for individualized papers and panels as well as film-video presentations are welcomed. Proposals should show original research and/or new theoretical perspectives and familiarity with existing scholarship.

Send 3 copies of your proposal before February 14, 1998 to:

Jack Santino
Department of Popular Culture
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH
U.S.A. 43403-0226
Tel.: 419-372-2983
Fax: 419-372-2577
Internet: jsantin@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Internet: seeing2020.com/holiday/

ANNOUNCEMENTS / ANNONCES

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowships at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

McMaster University Library announces that it grants two postdoctoral fellowships annually in Eighteenth-Century Studies. These fellowships are funded jointly by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and McMaster University.

The William Ready Division has major resource strengths in British and European literature and society of the eighteenth century (with additional special strengths in topics such as British social history, French drama, music and serial publications).

The Fellowships are for the Canadian equivalent of $1,750 US each. Fellows are expected to spend four weeks at McMaster University.

For an application, write the Chairman, ASECS Fellowship Committee, William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University Library, 1280 Main Street W., Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L6.

Applications should be received before January 31 annually.

Internet: STEWCH@MCMASTER.CA

RESSOURCES ÉLECTRONIQUES) / ON THE INTERNET

The Scriblerian

The Scriblerian now has an e-mail address of its own: belinda@blue.vm.temple.edu.

The Romantic Circles: Publications

The Romantic Circles: Publications section is up and running. It features databases with search engines and periodical indices (also with search engines). I've aimed to mark the period fairly broadly (1760-1850) in order to be fairly inclusive, and so Eighteenth-Century and Victorian specialists I hope will find the pages of some use.

In it, I've tried to compile as exhaustive a database of recent and past books published in Romantic Studies as is possible. The list obviously will be growing for some time to come. I've also installed a search engine for the entire section, so that you can do everything from getting a list of publications by a single author or a single press to finding out all the books on the list published in a single year. I've also, whenever possible, made it possible so that the search results themselves are linked--not only to the database pages, but also to the University Presses that publish the books. Whenever more information has been available--from jacket write-up to price and ISBN info--I've also linked it to the homepages of the various university presses that publish our work.

www.english.upenn.edu/%7Emgamer/Circles

Webmaster: Michael Gamer (www.english.upenn.edu/%7Emgamer)

Helpful Hints at the British Library

A list of tips for "Planning the research trip" (to Britain, and especially London) appears on the Victoria Research Web site, which also includes information about the BL.

www.indiana.edu/%7Evictoria/trip.html

Webmaster: Patrick Leary (pleary@indiana.edu)

Kant on the Web

www.hkbu.edu.hk/%7Eppp/Kant.html

Webmaster: Steve Palmquist (stevepq@hkbu.edu.hk)

Anthologies and Miscellanies

Rita Raley and Laura Mandell would like to announce the near completion of a web site devoted to 18th-century, Romantic, and 19th-century collections of poetry. For those of you who are interested in the history of the anthology, we have reproduced Tables of Contents, Prefaces and Advertisements from collections of poetry published roughly between 1740 and 1850, as well as contemporary anthologies containing poetry written during Romantic period. We have made some arguments about the material we present that allows us to organize it. You are welcome to visit the site and to print out tables of contents for use in your classes.

humanitas.ucsb.edu/depts/english/research/grad/anthologies

Webmasters: Rita Raley and Laura Mandell (lmandell@miamiu.muohio.edu)

18th Century History

history1700s.miningco.com

Webmaster: Rick Brainard (history1700s.guide@miningco.com)

A Machine-Readable Map of English and Welsh Historic Parish Boundaries

I am pleased to announce that the UK Economic and Social Science Research Council has agreed to fund the above project at Exeter University. Dr Richard Oliver will be employed as research fellow from 1st January 1998. The following is a copy of the ESRC press release:

"This project will reconstruct and make available in electronic map form the boundaries of all the pre-1850 parishes, townships and other local administrative districts of England and Wales (the so-called `ancient' or `historic' parishes). A comprehensive gazetteer recording the archival provenance of all the boundaries will accompany the map. The need of such a map has been long-felt but its production has only become realistic at relatively modest cost by the completion of recent Leverhulme Trust and ESRC funded work at Exeter University on tithe surveys (compiled after 1836 in the process of reforming the way that the Church of England was financed) and on enclosure maps (used to record land ownership as the process of enclosure brought about the change from communal to individual exploitation). These projects provide us with about 85 per cent of `ancient parish' boundaries. We will fill this gap by reference to other sources, compile a complete map on a National Grid base, and publish the map and accompanying gazetteer as a CDROM. This will serve both users who wish to download boundaries into a GIS platform and those who want to print a paper copy of the boundaries in a particular locality."

Roger Kain
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4RJ
United Kingdom
Tel.: 01392 263333 [+44 1392 263333]
Fax: 01392 263342 [+44 1392 263342]
Internet: r.j.p.kain@exeter.ac.uk

The Sickly Taper

This Gothic bibliography website is located at:

www.toolcity.net/%7Effrank

Webmaster: Fred Frank (ffrank@toolcity.net)

Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce the release of an alpha version of two on-line editions of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française.

As part of an on-going project, we have started with the 1st (1694) and 5th (1798) editions. Both allow searches by headword and are available for general use at the following URL:

humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/academie

We would appreciate reports of any difficulties that users may encounter.

Jack Iverson
ARTFL Project research assistant
Internet: jack@gide.uchicago.edu

The William Blake Archive

The editors of the William Blake Archive are pleased to announce that The Book of Thel, copy F, is now online in searchable form. This may seem a modest achievement, given that this is one of Blake's shorter works, and that its eight plates (with enlargements and accompanying transcriptions) have already been available on the site since November of 1996. In fact, however, this copy of The Book of Thel is a prototype for all future works to be added to the Archive (both illuminated books and other materials), and its appearance reflects the architecture and objectives of the Archive as they have taken shape over many months of development, testing, and refinement.

Unlike its previous version, and unlike the other illuminated books currently available in the Archive, this copy of Thel has been tagged using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). SGML tagging offers the Archive's users the opportunity to perform sophisticated searches, either on the text of the plates, or, more remarkably, on the content of their illustrations. Search results are retrieved and presented using DynaWeb, a product of the Inso Corporation. The text and image searching enabled by DynaWeb and the underlying SGML tagging is a powerful demonstration of the potential of electronic resources in the humanities.

However, there's more. Users with Java-capable browsers can now make use of Inote, Java-based software developed at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, to assist them in their study of the Archive's visual materials. Users may employ Inote to examine editorial annotations of a given image independently of a search, or else, following a successful image search, Inote may be used to open the image, zoomed to the specific area containing the object of the search, together with the relevant editorial commentary. This is IATH's first public implementation of Inote, and its release marks a major advance for image-based electronic editing.

Users with Java-capable browsers can also take advantage of a second, equally innovative Java program developed at IATH, the ImageSizer. This is a feature that allows one to view Blake's plates and images at their true size, reproducing the object's actual physical dimensions on the screen, regardless of the resolution of a particular monitor; indeed, users can calibrate this feature to consistently display the Archive's images at whatever proportions they may wish.
Finally, the Archive's selective bibliography of criticism, reference materials, and standard editions, with about 500 entries, is now available. We hope to have the bibliography searchable soon. We also hope to have David V. Erdman's Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake online and searchable by that same time.

The Blake Archive is located at:

www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/

RareBooks-L on listserv@listserv.indiana.edu

Formerly BOOKS@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu

A discussion list for those interested in the discussion of rare books and periodicals. This list is aimed primarily at publications connected to history and genealogy, although related publications, such as folklore or books our ancestors might have owned (e.g., the writings of James Whitcomb Riley) are welcome. While leads to purchases and discussion of sales between contributors is not forbidden, this is not a list for commercial businesses to advertise their wares.
To subscribe to RareBooks-L send

SUB RareBooks-L Your Name

in the body of a message to listserv@listserv.indiana.edu

For more information, check:

copper.ucs.indiana.edu/%7Estephenl/genealog.htm

Owner: Larry Stephens (stephenL@indiana.edu)

American Graduate

Phi Alpha Theta at the University of Southern Mississippi and the University's Department of History would like to announce the establishment of a cyber-journal of social and cultural history for graduate students, the American Graduate.

Publishing tri-annually, the journal will feature scholarly essays by graduate students, interviews with established historians in the fields of social and cultural history, book reviews, and notices of significance to graduate students such as conference and awards announcements. There are no subscription fees; the journal is free to all who can access the site via the World Wide Web.

Graduate students interested in submitting essays to the AG should see our Submissions policy and contact the Senior Editors (<theron.davis@mci2000.com> and <tjward@ocean.st.usm.edu>). Individuals who wish to submit unsolicited book reviews may contact the AG's Book Review Editor, Glenn Robins at <grobins@ocean.st.usm.edu>. Notices should be posted to the Senior Editors.

Address all material sent by snail-mail to:

American Graduate
Attn: Senior Editors
Department of History
College Hall
Univ. of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
U.S.A. 39406-5047

Philosophy-Literature List

Philosophy-Literature is an electronic forum where individuals may freely exchange ideas concerning philosophy, literature, and especially that questionable "space" of their encounter; historical, critical-theoretical, practical, "classical," as well as other foci are welcomed. No canon, "anti-canon," or other orthodoxy is presupposed or imposed. It is the hope of the initiators of this list that through open and thoughtful exchange participants may develop and deepen their enjoyment and appreciation of philosophy and literature, broadly conceived, and particularly of the issues and horizons of inquiry that these share. There will be ample room for the full spectrum of conversational modalities, from light-hearted aside to scholarly exegesis to "metacritical" discussions.

It is also hoped that list participants will treat each other with respect, humor, and a certain generousity of spirit; the administrators of the Philosophy-Literature list will not, except in the most extreme circumstances and with the greatest reluctance and remorse, intervene in the life of the list by unsubscribing individuals. Founded on the belief that discursive problems must find discursive solutions and that censure and philosophical discourse are incongruous, list members therefore must find within themselves the wherewithall to conduct the life of the list in a productive manner; self-governance is an experiment philosophers and literati too must perpetually suffer!

The list has open subscription; non-English language interventions are welcome.

The "moderator" or "list administrator" of Philosophy-Literature is Reg Lilly (rlilly@scott.skidmore.edu).

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H-Scholar -- H-NET List for Independent Scholars and Scholarship

H-Scholar is a moderated internet discussion forum sponsored by the National Coalition of Independent Scholars. Its purposes are: assisting independent scholars to share their work and research interests with the larger community, enhancing their productivity by promoting the sharing of information and resources, facilitating communication between independent and academically affiliated scholars with shared interests and concerns, providing information about issues of general interest to all working scholars regardless of their discipline or situation and creating a forum for discussion of specific scholarly issues across disciplinary boundaries. Its intended audience includes not only NCIS members, but anyone engaged in serious scholarly research that is not supported by institutional resources, academics interested in issues of concern to independent scholars, and persons interested in ways to build communication between scholars and the general public. Its editorial focus will be on encouraging scholars to assist each other to pursue their research interests. This includes discussions both of a) intellectual issues in scholarship and b) practical concerns. The editors will limit discussions of intellectual issues to those of general scholarly interest, or those of interest to scholars in more than a single field of work: where possible they will refer more specific issues to another H-Net list. The list also hopes to carry reviews of books and electronic/multi-media publications presenting intellectual issues in scholarship that are of general or broad interest, as described above. WWW and other Internet sites may be reviewed, along with print material, and, in any case, reviews will cover a wide diversity of resources.

The H-Scholar list is co-edited by Margaret DeLacy, Joanne Lafler, Barbara Bell, Anne Lowenthal, Neala Schluening, and Diane Calabrese. It is sponsored by the National Coalition of Independent Scholars and is advised by a board of scholars.

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Linguistics and Literature (Stylistics)

Linguistics and Literature is for persons interested in applying the methods of linguistics to the analysis of literature, and all schools of thought are welcome.

To subscribe, send the following command in the body of mail to:

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British Society for Ethical Theory

The webpages of the British Society for Ethical Theory are now at the following URLs:

Bset homepage

www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/bset.html

Conferences

www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/conference.html

Members

www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/members.html

Graduates

www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/grads.html

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPELS DE TEXTES

"Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction"

The modern Language Association of America announces that it plans to publish "Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction", a collection of essays devoted to a variety of issues related to the teaching of British, American, and Continental gothic fictions.

One-page summary of proposed paper topics should be submitted by February 1, 1998 to:

Diane Long Hoeveler
Department of English
P.O. Box 1881
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
U.S.A. 53201
Tel.: 414-288-3466

"Thomas Reid"
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
Volume 74, No 1, January 2000
Editor: John Haldane (St Andrews)

Thomas Reid (1710-96) is universally known as the founder of the Scottish "Common Sense School." His main works are the Enquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764) and the Essays on the Intellectual and Active Powers of Man (1785-86). In recent times there has been a great revival of interest in Reid's ideas and this has resulted in the editing and publication of additional works such as his Lectures on Fine Art (Nijhoff, 1973); Philosophical Orations (Southern Illinois, 1989); Practical Ethics (Princeton, 1990); and Animate Creation: Papers Relating to the Life Sciences (Edinburgh, 1995). Further material is being prepared for publication including Reid's Lectures on Natural Theology.

The great interest of Reid's work lies in its systematic response on behalf of epistemological, metaphysical and evaluative realism to the scepticism and subjectivism advanced by Hume. It has often been observed that there were two forms of reply to Hume: the Scottish one (Reid and his school) and the Prussian one (Kant and his followers). But Kantianism and its present day anti-realist and pragmatist variants themselves exhibit the marks of subjectivism; thus realists have good reason to explore the route followed by Reid. His work is therefore of historical and philosophical interest, addressing issues in aesthetics, ethics, jurisprudence, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of religion.

Essays for the ACPQ Special issue will explore something of the range of these concerns. Contributors will include Alexander Broadie (Glasgow); CAJ. Coady (Melbourne); Roger Gallie (Nottingham); Knud Haakonssen (Boston); Keith Lehrer (Arizona); Ralph McInerny (Notre Dame); William Rowe (Purdue); and Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale).
The Thomas Reid issue is scheduled as the first (January) number of the year 2000. The deadline for receipt of papers will be March 1999. Essays (inclusive of notes) must not exceed 30 pages US (8 1/2" x 11") or 28 pages A4. They should be typed in double spacing with wide margins, with footnotes (also in double spacing) collected at the end. Two copies of the typescript and of an abstract of 100-150 words should be sent to:

John Haldane
Department of Moral Philosophy,
University of St Andrews
Fife
Scotland KY16 9AL
Tel.: 0-1334-462488 (direct line)
Tel.: 0-1334-462486 (general office)
Fax: 0-1334-462485

The Eighteenth-Century Diary: Studies in Modes and Meanings

One of the most pleasurable but least explored genres of Eighteenth-Century literature is the diary/journal. Typically, diaries have been mined for social or literary history, or they have been the subject of "appreciations"--lists of the beauties or eccentricities of individual diaries. But there has been relatively little rigorous analysis, employing the strategies and techniques of literary and cultural studies.

We are seeking essays that examine the British and American Eighteenth-Century diary through such methodologies. The issues addressed might include definitions of the diary/journal genre: how is it different from the memoir, commonplace book, or autobiography? What were the models of diary writing available? Why do diaries emerge so strongly at this period? Who kept diaries? We also invite essays discussing matters such as methods of composition, Eigthteenth-Century editing practices, Twenthieth-Century editing of Eighteenth-Century diaries, construction of audience(s), self-reflexivity, epistolary/journal/diary novels. We are not primarily seeking essays on a single diary but rather more wide ranging analyses of the genre or its subgenres: travel, religion, medical/scientific, Parliamentary, literary, fictional, etc. The issues we seek to address are what a diary is, what its purposes are, and what its conventions and characteristic strategies were in the long Eighteenth Century.

If you are interested, please send a brief abstract by March 1998 to:

Dan Doll or Jessica Munns
English Department
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
U.S.A. 70148
Internet: dedeg@uno.edu or jxmeg@uno.edu

Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Works, Lives, and Culture
AMS Press
Linda Veronika Troost, Editor

Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Works, Lives, and Culture will publish notes, articles, and book reviews in the