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

Chères amies, Chers amis dix-huitiémistes,

Ce Bulletin va vous rejoindre en pleines affres de correction de travaux, dans la tourmente des examens, dans l'excitation, mais aussi dans l'épuisement de ces fameuses dernières semaines. Avec aussi, j'en suis sûre, tout au fond de vous, le tenace espoir de voir s'ouvrir bientôt ce temps béni au cours duquel on est censé rattraper son retard sur tous les plans, lire (enfin) des livres qui ne sont pas au programme, faire des recherches, travailler pour soi, toutes perspectives réjouissantes, à n'en pas douter.

I am sure that among the pleasant tasks you have alread planned is the submission of your paper for the Edmonton conference. No doubt that with such an exciting program as the one Rob Merrett, Magdy Badir, Vivien Bosley and their staff have organized for us, you are looking forward, as I am, to being there, seeing old friends, meeting new ones and enjoying the excitement and the boost of shared intellectual experiences.

Comme vous le savez, notre Société est spéciale: elle a déjà fait ses preuves pendant plus de vingt-cinq ans, ce qui contribue à son indéniable qualité, non seulement académique mais humaine aussi tout simplement. En outre, nous avons toujours réussi à notre manière, c'est-à-dire en organisant nos congrès annuels en dehors du grand rassemblement des anciennes Sociétés savantes. Nous ne l'avons pu que grâce à la fidélité des dix-huitiémistes de toutes disciplines qui mettent leur point d'honneur à être là, chaque année, et à prouver leur attachement à cet organisme en restant membres.

Aujourd'hui, où l'on ne parle que de coupures et presque plus jamais de subventions et d'aide, cette fidélité et la qualité de nos rencontres sont des atouts plus importants que jamais. En effet, même si, grâce au dévouement et à la débrouillardise de notre ex-président et de notre incomparable trésorière, nous nous sommes vus accorder en 1997 le statut d'association charitable, cela ne doit pas être pour nous le signal du relâchement, mais au contraire une incitation à redoubler d'efforts pour que les organismes subventionnaires et les mécènes éventuels voient en nous un bon investissement.

To convince them, our annual conferences, year after year, tend to be increasingly successful, more inventive and exciting, and a real challenge for other similar associations. The volumes of Lumen, publishing a selection of the best papers presented in each conference, are appreciated for their value. The bibliography that Benoît faithfully provides us with every month on the Internet is a living proof of the vitality, the creativity, the originality of Canadian 18th-century research and scholars. So, please, join the crowd, come and enjoy the event. Let us all be proud and bring our fair share to a common achievement.

See you in Edmonton. Have a wonderful, productive and pleasant summer.

À toutes et tous, un superbe, fécond et agréable été.

Votre présidente,
Marie Laure Girou Swiderski
Université d'Ottawa

********** CONGRÈS D'EDMONTON / EDMONTON CONFERENCE

University of Alberta, 16-20 September 1998
"Material Productions and Cultural Construction"

Members of the Society are invited to see the program as it evolves and is represented on the home page of the conference at:

www.ualberta.ca/%7Ecsecs/.

We'd like to remind everyone who has made proposals that they should have current membership in the Society.

The planning is going well. The entertainment events are going to be exciting. If members have missed the deadline, they should contact me by e-mail (robert.merrett@ualberta.ca) or fax (403-492-8142) immediately. There are ten slots left on the current program intended for 130 participants.

Best wishes,

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»

Les membres de la Société sont invités à suivre les progrès du programme du congrès sur notre site web:

www.ualberta.ca/%7Ecsecs/.

Les participants au congrès ne doivent pas oublier qu'ils doivent être membres en règle auprès de la Société s'ils veulent pouvoir y donner leur communication.

La programmation avance à grands pas et elle sera bientôt complétée; elle promet d'être excitante. Ceux qui auraient raté la date de tombée doivent entrer immédiatement en communication avec moi soit par courriel (robert.merrett@ualberta.ca) soit par télécopieur (403-492-8142). Il reste une dizaine de places sur les 130 prévues.

Amitiés,

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

********** Announcements from the Secretary-Treasurer

Good news! I am pleased to inform members of CSECS that our application for Charitable Status has recently been approved by Revenue Canada. Members who donate $10 or more will now receive income tax-deductible receipts. On next year's dues form, I will include an optional category for such (generous) donations.

Reminder: Members are reminded to send in their 1998 dues as soon as possible. I have to send an updated list of our members which will be used to prepare the next ISECS directory 1999. Members can list up to three areas of research in the directory, as well as an e-mail address, and a web home page address, if they have one.

Messages de la secétaire-trésorière

Bonne nouvelle! J'ai le plaisir d'annoncer à tous que le ministère du Revenu nous a accordé récemment le statut d'organisme de bienfaisance. Les membres qui feront des dons de 10$ ou plus recevront dorénavant un reçu pour fins d'impôt. Sur le formulaire d'adhésion de l'année prochaine, j'ajouterai une rubrique spéciale pour tenir compte de tous ces (généreux) dons.

Rappel: n'oubliez pas de vous réinscrire le plus tôt possible pour l'année 1998. Je dois faire parvenir à la SIEDHS une liste à jour de nos membres pour son répertoire de 1999. Chacun peut indiquer trois champs de recherche et une adresse électronique, voire l'adresse de son site web

********** NEWS FROM MEMBERS / NOUVELLES DES MEMBRES

Publication récentes / Recent Publications

Andrès, Bernard, «Archéologie de la comédie et du théâtre lyrique au Québec: Joseph Quesnel (1746-1809)», Artexto, Revista do Departamento de Letras et Artes, Fondaçao Universidade do Rio Grande, 8, 1997, p. 11-26.

Andrès, Bernard, «Nature et frontières du récit dans un corpus en émergence (1764-1839)», dans Alain Bélanger, Nubia Hanciau et Sylvie Dion (édit.), l'Amérique française. Introduction à la culture québécoise, Porto Alegre (Brésil), FURGS, 1998, p. 369-384.

Austen, Jane, Catharine, or The Bower, Edmonton, Juvenilia Press, 1996, xvi/66 p. Ill. Édition de Juliet McMaster et al.

Austen, Jane, Henry and Eliza, Edmonton, Juvenilia Press, 1996, xx/24 p. Ill. Édition de Karen L. Hartnick et al.

Austen, Jane, The History of England, Edmonton, Juvenilia Press, 1995, xii/40 p. Ill. Édition de Jan Fergus et al.

Austen, Jane, Love & Friendship, Edmonton, Juvenilia Press, 1995, xii/48 p. Ill. Édition de Juliet McMaster et al.

Bernier, Marc André, «Bibliographie analytique et critique», Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies/La revue canadienne de rhétorique, 9, à paraître en septembre 1998.

Bernier, Marc André, «La conquête de l'éloquence au Québec. La Rhetorica in Seminario Quebecensi (1774) de Charles-François Bailly de Messein», Voix et images, 22: 3, 66, printemps 1997, p. 582-598.

Bernier, Marc André, «Des mouvements de la nature à la mise en scène du corps libertin: la savante éloquence d'une Fille de joye», Tangence, à paraître en septembre 1998.

Bernier, Marc André, «Enseignement de la rhétorique et théories de l'elocutio: l'invention d'une prose militante dans le Québec des Lumières», Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies/La revue canadienne de rhétorique, 9, à paraître en septembre 1998.

Bernier, Marc André, «Pour une histoire de la rhétorique au Québec au XVIIIe siècle: enjeux et perspectives de recherche», Canadian Journal of Rhetorical Studies/La revue canadienne de rhétorique, 9, à paraître en septembre 1998.

Black, Moishe, "Lucretius's Venus Meets Diderot," Diderot Studies 27 (1998): 29-44.

Bongie, Laurence L., «Hume and Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century France», dans J. van der Zande et R.H. Popkin (édit.), The Skeptical Tradition around 1800, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, p. 15-29.

Bonnel, Roland et Catherine Rubinger (édit.), Femmes savantes et femmes d'esprit. Women Intellectuals of the French Eighteenth Century, New York, Berne, Berlin, Francfort, Paris et Vienne, Peter Lang, coll. «Eighteenth Century French Intellectual History», 1, 1997 (1994), xiv/449 p. Ill.

Boulad-Ayoub, Josiane, «"Le moyen le plus sûr" ou les partis pris de Condorcet, président du premier Comité révolutionnaire d'instruction publique», dans Anne-Marie Chouillet et Pierre Crépel (édit.), Condorcet. omme des Lumières et de la Révolution, Fontenay-aux-roses, ENS éditions, coll. «Theoria», 1997, p. 109s.

Crimmins, James E., Utilitarians and Religion. Part One. Religious Utilitarians. Part Two. Secular Utilitarians, Bristol, Thoemmes, 1998. Part One includes writings by John Gay, John Brown, Soame Jenyns, Edmund Law, Abraham Tucker, William Paley; Part Two includes writings by Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and John Stuart Mill.

Gallouët-Schutter, Catherine, «De la séduction à la contrainte: la dégradation d'un topos dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle», dans Martine Debaisieux et Gabrielle Verdier (édit.), Violence et fiction jusqu'à la Révolution, Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, coll. «Études littéraires françaises», 66, 1998, p. 313-325.

Gallouët, Catherine, «Les Fausses Confidences de Marivaux: magie et scandale», l'École des lettres II, 88, 8, février 1997, p. 149-158.

Gallouët, Catherine, «Marivaux Pariensis», dans l'Individu et la ville dans la littérature française des Lumières, Strasbourg, Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, coll. «Travaux du groupe d'études du XVIIIe siècle», 8, 1996, p. 125-136.

Gallouët-Schutter, Catherine, «Les personnages féminins dans les romans de jeunesse de Marivaux», dans Henri Coulet (édit.), Marivaux et les Lumières. L'éthique d'un romancier, Aix-en Provence, Presses de l'Université de Provence, 1996, p. 21-34.

Graffigny, madame de, Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny. Tome V. 3 janvier 1744 - 21 octobre 1744. Lettres 636-760, Oxford, Taylor Institution, The Voltaire Foundation, 1997, 578 p. Préparé par par Judith Curtis, avec la collaboration de P. Bouillaguet, J.A. Dainard, M.-P. Ducretet-Powell, English Showalter et D.W. Smith.

Maistre, Joseph de, An Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon, Montréal et Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Traduction et édition de Richard A. Lebrun.

Melançon, Benoît, «Les limites du dialogue: Lahontan, les Jésuites, Bougainville», dans Jean M. Goulemot (édit.), Dialogisme culturel au XVIIIe siècle, Tours, Université de Tours, U.F.R. de Lettres, coll. «Cahiers d'histoire culturelle», 4, 1997, p. 15-30.

Moser-Verrey, Monique, «Intérêt (all. Interesse, angl. Interest)», dans Michel Delon (édit.), Dictionnaire européen des Lumières, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1997.

O'Neal, John C., The Authority of Experience: Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, coll. «Literature and Philosophy Series», 1996, viii/284 p.

O'Neal, John C., «The Perceptual Dimensions of French Culture in Voltaire's Essai sur les moeurs», dans Actes du Congrès international Oxford-Paris 1994, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1997, p. 1315-1325.

O'Neal, John C., «The Uses of Analogy in Condillac's Sensationist Theory of Language», dans Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1996, p. 387-391.

Ouellet, Réal, Alain Beaulieu et Mylène Tremblay, «Identité québécoise, permanence et évolution», dans Laurier Turgeon, Jocelyn Létourneau et Khadiyatoulah Fall (édit.), les Espaces de l'identité, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 1997, p. 62-97.

Samuel Richardson's Published Commentary on Clarissa 1747-1765, Londres, Pickering and Chatto Publishers, 1997, 3 vol. Édition de Florian Stuber, Margaret Anne Doody, Jim Springer Borck, O.M. Brack, Jr., John A. Dussinger, Jocelyn Harris, Tom Keymer, Peter Sabor et Ann Jessie Van Sant.

Smith, David, «Voltaire's Micromégas: In Search of the First Edition», dans Parth Bhatt (édit.), Essais en l'honneur d'Henry Schogt / Essays in Honour of Henry Schogt, Toronto, Canadian Scholars' Press, 1998, p. 231-239.

Smith, Greg T., Allyson N. May et Simon Devereaux (édit.), Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J.M. Beattie, Toronto, Centre of Criminology, 1998.

Sokalski, Alex, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Single Illustrations of Bouffler's Reine de Golconde," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10 (1998): 341-62.

Vargo, Lisa, "The Case of Anna Laetitia Barbauld's "To Mr. C[olerid]ge,"" The Charles Lamb Bulletin, April 1998, 55-63.

Woodward, Servanne, «Effets de mimétisme: Sophie Volland: un monde de demoiselles», Diderot Studies, 27, 1998, p. 169-180.

Woodward, Servanne, «Marivaux et Diderot: un théâtre des Lumières», dans Marivaux et les Lumières; l'homme de théâtre et son temps, Aix-en-Provence, Publications de l'Université de Provence, 1996, p. 93-105.

The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1798, Londres, Pickering and Chatto Publishers, 1998, 5 vol. Introduction de Peter Sabor.

Worvill, Romira, «Recherches sur Paul Landois, collaborateur de l'Encyclopédie», Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, 23, octobre 1997, p. 127-140.

********** 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

Il y a de nombreux changements de personnel à l'Université Laval. Réal Ouellet a pris sa retraite, mais il continue à oeuvrer en recherche comme professeur associé. Raymond Joly partira à la retraite cet été. Le Département des littératures doit pourvoir un poste de dix-huitiémiste dans les mois qui viennent.

Bernard Andrès a remporté le prix de l'Association des professeurs de français des universités et collèges du Canada (1997) pour le meilleur article publié en 1995-1996: «La génération de la Conquête: un questionnement de l'archive» (paru dans Voix et images, 59, hiver 1995, p. 274-293, dans le dossier «Archéologie du littéraire au Québec»). Le 27 mars 1998, il a co-organisé avec Micheline Cambron (Université de Montréal) un forum sur «L'utopie dans l'histoire culturelle québécoise», dans le cadre des travaux de l'Institut interuniversitaire de recherches sur les populations (IREP), à l'Université du Québec à Montréal (sa communication portait sur «La circulation utopique au Québec: de Lahontan au Canadien»).

Thierry Belleguic has been awarded the 1998 Queen's University Governor General's Gold Medal for the best graduating doctoral student in the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Queen's University. Thierry's dissertation was co-directed by Béatrice Didier (Paris 8, École normale supérieure) and Elizabeth Zawisza (Queen's) and is entitled "Météores. Diderot ou l'écritre de la passion".

Marc André Bernier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) a reçu récemment deux subventions de recherche. La première, dans le cadre du Programme d'établissement de nouveaux chercheurs du Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche du gouvernement du Québec, couvre les années 1998-2001 et s'intitule «La conquête de l'éloquence au Québec. La rhétorique et son enseignement (1740-1800)». La seconde, du Fonds institutionnel de recherche du Décanat des études avancées et de la la recherche de l'UQTR, doit lui permettre, en 1997-1998, de traduire et d'éditer La Rhetorica in Seminario Quebecensi (1774) de Charles-François Bailly de Messein. Il a présenté diverses communications au cours des derniers mois: «La Lettre sur les sourds et muets (1751) de Denis Diderot: une rhétorique du punctum temporis» (University of Western Ontario, 16-19 octobre 1997); «Théorie et pratique de la sententia au XVIIIe siècle: Charles-François Bailly de Messein et la conquête de l'éloquence au Québec» (Université du Québec à Montréal, 27 novembre 1997); «Enseignement de la rhétorique et théories de l'elocutio: l'invention d'une prose militante dans le Québec des Lumières» (Université Carleton, 17 avril 1998); «Le voluptueux murmure du corps sonore» (North-East American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, décembre 1997); «Entre progrès et inquiétude: les figures de la fin de la civilisation au siècle des Lumières» (Université Laval, 12 mai 1998); «Des mouvements de la nature à la mise en scène du corps libertin: la savante éloquence d'une Fille de joye» (Université Laval, 13 mai 1998).

Roland Bonnel vient d'être nommé professeur titulaire à l'Université Dalhousie.

Isabelle Cassagne vient d'obtenir un poste de professeur adjoint à l'Université de North Texas (UNT) située à Denton, au nord de Dallas. Le poste couvre les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

Isobel Grundy, while on study leave in England, writes that "The conference "Women and Literary History', held in Edmonton by the Orlando Project in September 1997, produced a number of outstanding papers in our period (Jane Spencer, Valerie Rumbold, Gary Kelly, Antonia Forster, James Raven, Felicity Nussbaum, and many others)." Her edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Selected Letters was published by Penguin in 1997.

Peter Loptson is moving from the University of Saskatchewan to the University of Guelph. He becomes Chair of the Philosophy Department there from July 1st of this year.

Rod Milne has successfully defended his dissertation (February 1998). Its title: "Line of Desire: The Body and the Spirit in the Pre-Erotic Texts of Christoph Martin Wieland."

David Smith a été nommé en novembre 1997 à la Société royale du Canada (Académie 1).

Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan) becomes Chair of the History Department in July. He is also the new editor of the Canadian Journal of History.

********** Mémoires et thèses / Theses and Dissertations

Amchou, Nadia, «La pensée utopique en France depuis la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle jusqu'à la Révolution», Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeur: Bernard Andrès.

Cassagne, Isabelle, «Quand le rideau des conventions se lève: Diderot et la problématique des genres littéraires», East Lansing, Michigan State University, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeur: Herbert Josephs.

Duggan, Maryse Madeleine Elisabeth, «Les contes de Mlle de Lubert: les textualités du ludique», Vancouver, University of British Columbia, thèse de doctorat, 1996, 274 p. Directrice: Olga Cragg. Résumé dans DAI 57, 1996-1997, 2506A.

Gagnier, Joanne, «Charles-François Bailly de Messein (1740-1794) et le discours des Lumières au Québec», Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, mémoire de maîtrise, en cours. Directeur: Bernard Andrès.

Jones, Leah, ""Stitches in My Breast"": The Role of Sensibility in Tobias Smollett's Travels Through France and Italy," Saskatoon, University of Saskatchewan, M.A. Supervisor: Peter Hynes.

Kallel, Raoudha, «Les procédés théâtraux dans les romans de Mme Riccoboni», Halifax, Dalhousie University, mémoire de maîtrise, 1998. Directeur: Roland Bonnel.

Lafontaine, Valérie, «La séduction comme instrument de pouvoir social dans les Liaisons dangereuses de Choderlos de Laclos», Québec, Université Laval, mémoire de maîtrise, en cours. Directrice: Monique Moser-Verrey.

Lespérance, Pierre, «Le récit de voyage comme traversée des discours: naissance d'un genre au Québec (1762-1829)», Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeur: Bernard Andrès.

Magrath, Jane, "Reading the Female Body in the Eighteenth Century," Edmonton, University of Alberta, Department of English, Ph.D. dissertation, September 1997. Advisor: Isobel Grundy.

Masse, Caroline, «Anonymat, pseudonymat et problématique de l'attribution du texte dans une littérature en émergence (1764-1839)», Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeur: Bernard Andrès.

Milne, Roderick, "Line of Desire: The Body and the Spirit in the Pre-Erotic Texts of Christoph Martin Wieland," Toronto, University of Toronto, doctoral thesis, February 1998, 255 p. Advisor: A. Solbach.

Péloquin, Dominique, «Libertinage et art de la conversation dans Margot la Ravaudeuse de Fougeret de Monbron», Trois-Rivières, Université du Québec àTrois-Rivières, mémoire de maîtrise, en cours. Directeur: Marc André Bernier.

Rehm, Stefan G., "Emotion and Morality in the Tragic Theories of Lessing," Kingston, Queen's University, Ph.D. Supervisor: David V. Pugh.

Richard, Monik, «Pour que la réalité dépasse la fiction. Étude de la fiction en tant que procédé pédagogique dans l'Émile de Jean-Jacques Rousseau», Québec, Université Laval, mémoire de maîtrise, en cours. Directrice: Monique Moser-Verrey.

Roy, Julie, «Stratégies épistolaires et écritures féminines: les Canadiennes à la Conquête des Lettres (1759-1839)», Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Directeur: Bernard Andrès.

Trégouët, Annick, «La poétique du regard dans le Tableau de Paris de Louis Sébastien Mercier», Montréal, Université de Montréal, Département d'études françaises, mémoire de maîtrise, mars 1998, vii/150 p. Directeur: Benoît Melançon.

Turcotte, Pierre, «Reconstitution archéologique du livret de Lucas et Cécile de Joseph Quesnel (1746-1809)», Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, mémoire de maîtrise, en cours. Directeur: Bernard Andrès.

********** Séminaires / Graduate Classes

À l'automne 1998, Bernard Andrès (Université du Québec à Montréal) a donné un séminaire de maîtrise-doctorat intitulé «Topique et utopie du Canadien dans les premiers écrits littéraires au Québec (1759-1839)». À partir d'un corpus de textes journalistiques ou littéraires repérés dans les premiers imprimés, mais aussi d'archives nouvellement mises au jour, il s'agira d'étudier comment le canadien devient un lieu commun dans la rhétorique de l'époque, à quelles fins argumentatives l'ethnonyme canadien/ne est utilisé dans les toutes premières oeuvres diffusées au Québec et au Bas-Canada. Au moment où les «grands récits» du XVIIIe siècle cherchent à se réaliser dans des sociétés nouvelles, comment s'élabore l'utopie canadienne et quel rôle y joue l'ethnonyme en question, qu'il désigne le négociant, le journaliste ou le poète, le clerc, le parlementaire ou le pamphlétaire? Quels sont les rêves communautaires de ces nouveaux acteurs de l'espace public et comment nourrissent-ils le discours social du temps? À travers les idéaux formulés autour du canadien, on examinera les processus d'«utopisation» qui se mirent en place (ou qui avortèrent), des plaines d'Abraham au mouvement patriote, en passant par la fondation de la «Province of Quebec», l'Acte de Québec, les échos des révolutions américaine et française, les débats parlementaires et les grands combats identitaires des années 1820-1830.

********** SOCIÉTÉS SAVANTES / RESEARCH GROUPS

********** Nouvelles de la SIEDHS / News from ISECS

Nouvelles de Dublin: La 2e circulaire a été envoyée. Ceux qui ne l'auraient pas reçue peuvent en prendre connaissance sur divers sites Internet:

Voltaire Foundation: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk

ou

C18: www.C18.org.

On peut aussi contacter par courrier électronique Andrew Carpenter à:

acarpet@ollamh.ucd.ie

On peut rappeler que le congrès sera en deux parties à Dublin, puis à Naples.

Les droits d'inscription de 100/120 livres irlandaises donnent droit aux deux congrès. Pour Naples seulement, c'est 75 000 lires à payer par chèque postal à Società Italiana, Roma no 847 46 007.

Séminaire Est-Ouest: Faute de fonds, celui-ci est déplacé pour 1999 d'Irlande en Allemagne, sans doute à Sarrebruck.

Le thème pour 1999 est «Les Lumières européennes dans leur relation avec les autres grandes cultures et religions du XVIIIe siècle». Les dossiers des candidats (âgés de moins de 40 ans au 1er janvier 1999, bilingues et détenteurs d'un doctorat ou de l'équivalent) doivent parvenir avant le 1er septembre 1998 à:

Jochen Schlobach
8.2. Romanistik
Universität des Saarlandes
D 66123 Saarbrücken
Allemagne
Téléc.: 49-681-302-4588

Le dossier doit comprendre les informations ou pièces suivantes: nationalité; date de naissance; C.V. avec date d'obtention du Ph.D. et liste des publications; description de la proposition en accord avec le thème du séminaire; lettre de recommandation; indication du niveau de compétence dans les langues étrangères.

Répertoire des dix-huitiémistes: En vue de sa préparation, on peut faire parvenir tous les renseignements électroniquement (par courrier électronique, «attachment» ou disquette Mac ou PC) à la Voltaire foundation avant le 1er juin 1998.

********** The History of Reading Special Interest Group ListServ

HRSIG (short for "History of Reading Special Interest Group") is a discussion forum for those who share a common interest in the history of literacy. For the most part, discussion focuses on a broad range of historical topics related to literacy (e.g., uses of reading/writing, classroom pedagogy, instructional texts, children's literature, libraries and historical societies, community and family literacy). But HRSIG also serves as a bulletin board for posting job announcements, meetings, and publications of interest to those who do historical research on literacy. In addition, it enables researchers to ask questions of the Listserv membership that relate to their own research topic.

The forum is overseen and managed by Doug Hartman of the Language & Literacy Program in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. His e-mail address is dkh+@pitt.edu. Address inquiries to him.

Subscribing to the list

When you are prompted to enter the e-mail address, you should type:

MAISER@FS1.SCHED.PITT.EDU

In the message area, you should write:

SUBSCRIBE HRSIG

Do not include punctuation, your name, or any other information in the body of this administrative message. The only text that should appear in the body of the message is SUBSCRIBE HRSIG.

About the History of Reading Special Interest Group

Founded in 1975, the purpose of the History of Reading Special Interest Group, as outlined in its constitution, is "to encourage historical research in the field of reading and literacy; to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information about the history of reading and reading instruction; and to promote the development of a body of historical knowledge about reading and literacy."

While membership in the Listserv is free, we encourage all subscribers to join the History of Reading SIG and its parent, the International Reading Association. To join the SIG, send a check for $7.50, made out to the "History of Reading SIG," with your name, address, e-mail, fax, work and home (optional) telephone numbers, to the current SIG treasurer:

Douglas K. Hartman
Dept. of Instruction & Learning
4H01 Forbes Quad
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
U.S.A.  15260
Tel.: 412-648-7348
Fax: 412-648-7081
Internet: dkh+@pitt.edu

In addition to featuring papers at its annual meeting (always held during the convention of the International Reading Association), the History of Reading SIG publishes two newsletters a year. They include book reviews, memoirs by key figures in the reading community, as well as news. The SIG offers an "Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award" annually. For a free sample newsletter, send a SASE (legal-size) to:

Luther B. Clegg
Coeditor, History of Reading News
School of Education, TCU Box 297900
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX
U.S.A.  76129
Internet: L.Clegg@TCU.edu

The History of Reading SIG functions within the larger structure of the International Reading Association (IRA). The IRA is a nonprofit professional organization of some 90,000 members dedicated to the improvement of reading instruction and promotion of the lifetime reading habit. It is located at:

800 Barksdale Road
P.O. Box 8139
Newark, DE
U.S.A.  19714-8139
Tel.: 302-731-1600.
Internett: www.reading.org/

********** Hume Society Moves to Iceland

With the election of Mikael M. Karlsson as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Hume Society for a term of five years, the address of the Society the moves to Iceland. John Biro of the University of Florida is the newly-elected President.

Founded in 1974, the Hume Society is an international organization with approximately 500 members around the world. The purpose of the Society is to stimulate scholarship on all aspects of Hume's writings. The Society organizes conferences each year; as a rule, these alternate between North America and sites outside of North America (generally in Europe).

The Hume Society invites all persons interested in the philosophy and writings of David Hume to join. Members of the Hume Society receive an annual subscription to Hume Studies, published twice yearly in April and November. Members also receive the Bulletin of the Hume Society, which includes information pertaining to activities of the Society, associated organizations, and other items of interest to its members.

Membership is US $20 per year for regular members (US $100 for 5 years) and $15 per year for students. Additional information is available at the Hume Society's website (new address):

www.hi.is/%7Emike/hume.html.

It is possible to join the Society by using the electronic membership application form available on the website.

The 25th Hume Conference will be held in Stirling, Scotland, July 20-24, 1998.

The 26th Hume Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland, July 19-23, 1999.
Papers may be submitted until November 1, 1998.

The Hume Society
University of Iceland
Main Building
IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland
Internet: hume@rhi.hi.is

********** «Le personnage du Canadien dans les premiers écrits littéraires au Québec (1759-1839)»

Responsable: Bernard Andrès, Université du Québec à Montréal. Ce projet fait suite au projet de recherche sur «L'archéologie du littéraire au Québec» (ALAQ), projet subventionné par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada. Il s'agit d'analyser la figure du Canadien français, de 1759 à 1839. À partir d'un corpus de textes nouvellement mis au jour et souvent inédits, on examine la façon dont le Canadien est représenté dans les toutes premières oeuvres diffusées au Québec et au Bas-Canada (par «Canadien», nous entendons aussi bien la Canadienne, comme en témoigne l'importance que nous accordons dans ce projet aux écrits féminins). Analyser les multiples facettes du Canadien comme personnage, c'est comprendre le jeu identitaire sur lequel s'est fondée une population, comment s'est construite une nouvelle culture en Amérique du Nord au tournant du XIXe siècle.

********** Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Saskatchewan

ECS at U of S concluded a fine year of visiting speakers with Hugh Torrens (Geology, University of Keele) speaking on "James Hutton (1726-1797): Was He "the Ultimate Theorist'?" and Anne Goldgar (History, King's College London) on "The British Museum and the Virtual Representation of Culture in the Eighteenth Century." Our line-up for the autumn series includes Peter Sabor (Université Laval) on Joseph Highmore's scenes from Pamela; Ellis Sandoz (Louisiana State University) on Enlightenment and tradition in the founding of the American Republic. The new year will include Timothy Fulford (Nottingham Trent University) on Sir Joseph Banks, and David Oakleaf (University of Calgary). Contact: Alexander Sokalski (French) at sokalski@duke.usask.ca or Raymond Stephanson (English) at stephanr@duke.usask.ca.

********** CONFERENCES / COLLOQUES

NEMLA 1999

NEMLA welcomes session proposals in all areas of scholarly study in languages and literature for our 1999 Convention in Pittsburgh.

The deadline for proposals is May 18, 1998.

You may write for a session proposal form or fill out a form at our website at:

www.anna-maria.edu/nemla.

Michael Tomasek Manson
Executive Director, NEMLA
Department of English
Anna Maria College
50 Sunset Lane
Paxton, MA
U.S.A.  01612-1198
Tel.: 508-849-3481
Fax: 508-849-3362
Internet: nemla@anna-maria.edu

International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Amsterdam
July 13-17th, 1999

The Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric will be held in Amsterdam at the Free University from Tuesday, July 13, until Saturday, July 17, 1999. Council will meet the day before, Monday, July 12. Registration also will begin Monday afternoon.

The theme of the conference is the history and theory of rhetoric from the classical period to its adaptations in our age, including western and other traditions. A part of the program will be devoted to special sessions. Proposals have already been received for sections on Rhetoric and the Arts, Rhetoric and Emblematics, Rhetoric and Preaching, and Rhetoric and Philosophy. A focus on particular authors is of course also invited. Other suggestions, as well as group proposals, are welcome. Prospective participants should keep in mind that by "rhetoric" herein is meant an art or discipline with a textual and/or institutional history, and that the Program Committee does not seek proposals that extend the term indiscriminately to include all forms of verbal or pictorial communications.

Proposals for 20-minute papers in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, should be submitted by May 15, 1998 to:

Prof. Marijke Spies
Department of Literature
Vrije Uniersiteit
De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: 31-20-444-6467
Fax: 31-20-444-6500
Internet: spies@let.vu.nl

Histories of the Eighteenth Century

A one-day interdisciplinary post-graduate conference, to be held at the School of English, University of Leeds, Saturday 5th September, 1998. Supported by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Papers of 30 minutes are invited on any subject of study from the long eighteenth-century (1660-1830). Send a 200 word abstract by Monday 15th
June to:

Stephen Gregg
School of English
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
Tel.: 0113-233-4739
Fax: 0113-233-4744
Internet: engshg@english.novell.leeds.ac.uk

"Revolutions in Print" / 13th Annual DeBartolo Conference on 18th-Century Studies
February 18-20, 1999
University of South Florida, Tampa

Plenary Speakers: Robert DeMaria (Vassar College), Jeremy Popkin (U. of Kentucky) and Pat Rogers (U. of South Florida).

We look for papers that examine aspects of the changes in technology and forms of print in 18th-century studies. Topics might include history of the book, illustrations, print-making and typography, but they also might explore the effect such revolutions had on the reception of information, the transmission of literary, artistic, religious or political texts. We are interested in studies of particular works, such as Pope's translation of Homer or the variorum editions of Shakespeare, as well as studies in genre, such as the role of poetry in the periodical press. Papers might pursue social questions such as how the availability of new forums in print affected the writing of women and other previously under-represented authors. Or, they might pursue specific revolutionaries who exploit print-matter in a conspicuous way. We are also very interested in hearing from people who are studying contemporary revolutions in print in various electronic forms as they relate to the dissemination and scholarship of 18th-century texts.

Regina Hewitt, Conference Director
Dept. of English
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave., CPR 107
Tampa, FL
U.S.A.  33620-5550
Fax: 813-974-2270
Internet: rhewitt@chuma.cas.usf.edu

Abstracts must be received by Sept. 10, 1998. Transmission by e-mail is encouraged.

Second Annual History and Theory Conference
November 14-15, 1998
University of California, Irvine

Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for an interdisciplinary conference, to be held on November 14-15, 1998, that will examine the connections between history and theory. The conference will take up issues and ideas raised by many contemporary theories available to us--critical theory, cultural studies, feminism, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, among others--examining their usefuleness in the study of the past as practiced in various disciplinary settings. The conference aims to explore the ways various theories reshape historical inquiry, as well as the contexts in which these theories have developed. We encourage submissions which stress the dialogic relationship between history and theory, by applying theoretical models in the analysis of a historical problem or by historicizing the development of a theory or body of theories.

Possible avenues of investigation might include:

Labor and the production of value in the university Public history and the State
Migrations and post-colonial theories
Gender and Empire
The Êsthetics of history
History and memory
Narratives and counter-narratives of nationalism
Interventions of marginalized communities in the academy
Visual culture and theories of spectatorship

Papers addressing other aspects of the relationship between history and theory are also encouraged.

One-page abstracts (with no information identifying the submitter) and accompanying cover letter should be submitted by July 15, 1998, to:

History and Theory Conference, Steering Committee
History Department
University of California
Irvine, CA
U.S.A.  92697
Internet: VivianDeno@aol.com
Internet: www.hnet.uci.edu/hgsa/conference

British Society for C18 Studies
1999 Conference
4-6 January
St. John's College, Oxford

Papers are invited on any aspect of C18 studies, but there will be some specially designated sessions as listed below. Normally there will be 3 papers at each session, and papers should not exceed 30 minutes in duration.

If you wish to submit to a designated session, please send your proposal, including a short precis, to the person whose initials are attached to it below. If your proposal does not fit into a designated area, you may send it to any member of the organising team. If you would like either to (1) propose a topic not listed below and/or (2) chair such a session or chair one of the sessions that are designated, please let a member of the organising team know.

The deadline for all proposals is 20 June 1998. Draft final programmes will be sent out as soon as possible thereafter.

General Topics: Literature & Politics (PK); Teaching the C18 (BH); Music and its Publics (JD); Visual Arts (ML); Performance (BH); Publishing and the Book Trade (JD); Bibliography and Textual Studies (JD); Empire and Colonialism (ML); Opera (PK); Generic Mutation (GR); Gender Identity (GR); The Sublime, the Beautiful and the Picturesque (ML).

Themed Topics: Theatrical Aesthetics (BH); Law & Literature (PK); Reviewing the Rococo (ML); Education in C18 (ML); Adaptation (PK); Childhood (GR); the "Low" and the "Popular" (GR); the Supernatural (BH); Mysticism (JD).

ML: Dr Mark Ledbury
Lecturer in Cultural History
School of Social and Historical Studies
University of Portsmouth
Tel.: 01705-846092
Fax: 01704-842174
Internet: Mark.Ledbury@port.ac.uk

BH: Professor Brean Hammond
Pro Vice-Chancellor
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Old College
King St.
Aberystwyth SY23 2AX
Tel.: 01970-622008
Fax: 01970-622007
Internet: bbh@aber.ac.uk

PK: Dr Paulina Kewes
Department of English
The University of Wales
Hugh Owen Building
Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth SY32 3DY
Tel.: 44-0-1970-632535
Fax: 44-0-1970-622530
Internet: ppk@aber.ac.uk

JD: Dr John Dukley
Department of French
School of Modern Languages
King's College
University of Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen AB9 2UB
Tel.: 01224-272148
Internet: j.dunkley@abdn.ac.uk

GR: Dr Glynis Ridley
Department of English (St Peter's)
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield HD1 3DH
Tel.: 01484-478430
Fax: 01484-478428
Internet: g.ridley@hud.ac.uk

"The Fair Sex?" Women in the Arts: 1660-1830
Aphra Behn Society 1998
October 29-31, 1998
El Caribe Hotel and Conference Center Oceanfront, Daytona Beach, Florida

Please note that we have extended the deadline for submissions to our annual conference. The Aphra Behn Society is dedicated to the advancement of research on gender and/or women's roles in the arts of the eighteenth century. Our meetings are structured to minimize academic hierarchies; we encourage interaction between established scholars and those entering the field. We especially encourage graduate student participation.

At the 1998 ASECS meeting at Notre Dame, the Aphra Behn Society sponsored a syllabi exchange that resulted in a lively discussion of teaching and course materials. The Women's Caucus panel at ASECS also initiated an important discussion of teaching and methods. These two panels suggest the need for more opportunities to discuss our pedagogy at professional meetings. Let me suggest that Aphra Behn society meeting in October would be such an opportunity; we encourage you to submit panels devoted to issues of teaching as well as research.

Note that the deadline for panels is extended until May 15. If you have any questions, please contact Laura Runge at runge@chuma.cas.usf.edu or Phoebe Smith--see below.

The conference welcomes papers on the theme "The Fair Sex?" that address: general investigation of women in the arts throughout the long eighteenth century; specific examinations of issues of beauty and justice as they relate to gender; visual representations of women--in theatre, painting, prints, and literature; as well as questions of what it means to be "the fair sex."

Who determines what is fair? What values are imputed to women in the century and through what means? How is justice meted out to women--in courts, in novels, in poetry, in allegory? What role do women play in the construction of notions of justice and beauty? How do concepts of "the fair sex" enter larger cultural questions of education, law, virtue, family, employment? How do women respond to expectations of fairness, especially when other cultural prescriptions--like race or class--dictate their conspicuous unfairness?

Send one-page proposals to:
Dr. Phoebe Smith
Department of English
Stetson University
DeLand, FL
U.S.A.  32720
Internet: psmith@stetson.edu

SHARP 99
Madison, Wisconsin

The seventh annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing will take place July 14-17, 1999, in Madison, Wisconsin, under the auspices of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, a joint program of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In keeping with SHARP tradition, we welcome proposals from researchers interested in the creation, diffusion, and/or reception of the written or printed word in any historical period and in any region of the world. Because of the multi cultural, geographic and chronological focus of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, however, we especially welcome proposals for papers and sessions that investigate: print culture history in the United States since 1876; the role print has played in and among groups historically outside dominant cultures; traditions of the written word in non-English languages in the Western Hemisphere.

Keynote addresses will be delivered by Dr. Nicholas Kanellos, Director of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston, and Dr. Janice Radway of the Literature Department at Duke University. Conference proceedings will be in English. We encourage submissions from graduate students and members of all scholarly communities interested in print culture studies. We welcome proposals for individual papers, or for complete sessions. While in Madison conference attendees will have access to the superb collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Proposals (one page maximum per paper) and inquiries about the conference should be sent to:

SHARP 1999
c/o Maureen Hady
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
816 State Street
Madison, Wisconsin
U.S.A.  53706-6598
Fax: 608-264-6520
Internet: printcul@macc.wisc.edu.

Although submissions by e-mail and fax will be accepted, original hard copy is greatly preferred. Deadline for submission of proposals is November 19, 1998. Proposals will be considered by an interdisciplinary subcommittee of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Studyof Print Culture in Modern America.

For information about the Center for the Study of Print Culture in Modern America, visit our website at slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/printcul/

or contact:

Wayne A. Wiegand, Co-Director
Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
4226 Helen C. White Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
U.S.A.  53706

Romanticism and the New

Announcing "Romanticism and the New", the seventh annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, to be held August 12-15, 1999 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In hospitable, historical, waterfront surroundings, Romanticists will collectively reconsider and reconfigure their origins, recollect and redirect their energies, and hear the latest word(s) in Romantic studies.

We welcome presentations from a variety of disciplines, methodological perspectives and media that explore the technological, pedagogical, literary and ideological innovations, renovations and transformations of Romanticism. Topics include (but are not limited to): Romanticism and Technology; Romanticism and the New World; Romanticism and Millennialism; The "New Romantics"; Romanticism and the Contemporary; The Romanti Postmodern/The Postmodern Romantic; Romantic Beginnings; Romanticism and the Avant-Garde; Romanticism and the News; The Romantic and the Novel; W(h)ither Romanticism.

For open sessions, please submit papers (of 15-20 minutes) or detailed proposals (of 2 pages) by December 15, 1998 to:

NASSR'99
c/o Judith Thompson
Dept. of English
Dalhousie University
Halifax (Nova Scotia)
Canada  B3H 3J5
Fax: 902-494-2176
Internet: jthompso@is.dal.ca

There will also be special sessions on:
Romantic Renewals of the Past; (Regina Hewitt: rhewitt@chuma.cas.usf.edu);
Romantics as News: Authorship, Celebrity & New Media Technologies; (Lisa Wilson: lwilson17@aol.com);
Romanticism and the New Psychology; (Alan Richardson: alan.richardson@bc.edu);
Romantic Fevers (Patricia DeMeo: pdemeo@is.dal.ca);
Romanticism and the New Gothic; (Jerrold Hogle: hogle@ccit.arizona.edu);
Romanticism and the Technology of the Book; (Dino Felluga: felluga@omni.cc.purdue.edu);
The Cenci Today; (Mark Bruhn: mbruhn@regis.edu);
Romantic Dramatic Forms & the Victorian Dramatic Monologue; (Marjorie Stone: mistone@is.dal.ca); Romanticism and
Chaos (Hugh Roberts: hugh.roberts@clear.net.nz);
New Texts & Textual Scholarship in British Literature 1780-1830 (Anthony J. Harding: harding@duke.usask.ca).

For special sessions, please contact session organizers, but also send a copy of your paper or proposal to NASSR'99 at the address above. Papers that cannot be accommodated in special sessions will be considered by the general conference committee for open sessions. All participants must be members of NASSR.

In addition to plenary speakers (including Alan Bewell and Glennis Stephenson Byron), a variety of special events have been planned for participants in "Romanticism and the New", including a floating banquet/tour of Halifax harbour, and a performance of "Beatrice Chancy", a new adaptation of the Cenci story set in Black Loyalist Nova Scotia, by prize-winning poet and playwright George Elliott Clarke. Vacation packages will be available for participants who wish to bring families and extend their stay in Nova Scotia. In addition, "Romanticism and the New" will dovetail with "Gothic Spirits, Gothic Flesh," the 1999 meeting of the International Gothic Association, sharing a day of special sessions and events. Registrants for both conferences will be charged a reduced fee.

The steering committee for "Romanticism and the New" includes:

Steven Bruhm (Mt. St. Vincent University) steven.bruhm@msvu.ca
Andrew Seaman (St. Mary's University) aseaman@shark.stmarys.ca
Ron Tetreault (Dalhousie University) tetro@is.dal.ca
Judith Thompson (Dalhousie/Kings) jthompso@is.dal.ca

SCSECS 1999
Shreveport, Louisiana
February 25-27, 1999

All scholars of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are invited to propose conference panels and seminars for the upcoming SCSECS (South-Central Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies) meeting in Shreveport, Louisiana, February 25- 27, 1999 (the call for papers will be issued after the list of panels and seminars is compiled). Panels on any and all aspects of Restoration and eighteenth-century studies are invited. Whatever your topic or however extraordinary your temperament--whether you are a hard-boiled egghead investigating the problematization of difficulty or a freewheeling dilettante rambling through all the posies in the garden of study--the Shreveport SCSECS will offer you a prominent place on one of 1999's most promising programs.

Already a fascinating matrix of panels is in place. Conferees will hear the latest on "Artificial Postures for Natural Acts," "Eighteenth-Century Women Authors," "Henry Fielding at his Bawdy, Bold, and Bodacious Best," "Satire and Cynicism," "Editing in the Eighteenth Century," court patronage, rhetoric, and more! And, we at SCSECS hope that "more" will soon be emanating from you!

Additionally, SCSECS 1999 will feature an utterly amazing maiden plenary presentation by a renowned speaker who has never before graced our or any other meeting. There will be no repetition at SCSECS 1999; no one will growl that "we've heard this same canned plenary speech before." This plenary address will be fabulously original and unremittingly multidisciplinary! Negotiations are still underway, but wait with confidence for the announcement of a plenary speaker who will surely "beat the band."

Many potential conferees will wonder about Shreveport. Is this the venue to end the millennium? The answer is emphatically and enthusiastically "YES"! First, Shreveport has a major if undervisited scholarly resource: The James Noel Memorial Collection, a vast connoisseur's library primarily of first editions containing over 200,000 volumes, at least 30,000 of them from our period of study. A gala reception with a special extra plenary introduction will introduce conferees to this immense, largely uncharted resource--this Tierra del Fuego to the Magellans of eighteenth-century scholarship. Even better, Shreveport, a charming city on the neck of the Red River, has something to offer to everyone, no matter how refined or rambunctious the taste, from armadas of gambling boats to the National Garden of the American Rose Society to magnificent upper delta scenery to burgeoning new restaurants. Shreveport stands at the nexus of Louisiana's colorful culture and Texas's economic dynamism; it couples the boisterousness of cow country with the potentialities of a place formerly beyond the geographical imaginations of most dix-huitiémistes.

Please direct your panel proposals either to:

Conference Director
Professor Robert Leitz
Internet: rleitz@pilot.lsus.edu

or to:

Program Co-Chair
Kevin L. Cope
Internet: 72310.3204@compuserve.com

Transformations: Natural and Social (EC/ASECS)
Salisbury State University, Maryland
October 9-11, 1998

May 22 is the revised deadline for submitting paper proposals for the EC/ASECS meeting at Salisbury State University in Maryland on October 9-11, 1998. The theme for the conference is "Transformations: Natural and Social." Please keep in mind that "social" is meant to include cultural and aesthetic shifts. A number of sessions are already in place:
Developments in Social Reform in the Eighteenth Century; Mid-Century Poetry: Transformations in Poetic Style as an Indicator of Cultural Change; "It's You I Lust": Shifts in Desire in the French Enlightenment; Preromantic Poetry: A Transformative Force in Society's Understanding of Nature; Representations of Black Power in the Eighteenth Century; Transformations in Children's Literature; Wilderness and Landscape: Transformations in the Natural World; Wives: Real and Imagined; Women Playwrights in the French Enlightenment.

We also welcome paper proposals for the following possible sessions treating transformations in: Eighteenth-Century Scholarship; Eighteenth-Century Theatre; Eighteenth-Century Theories of Education Jane Austen; Johnson and Boswell; Shakespeare (Spenser, and Milton) in the Eighteenth Century; Swift; Travel and Exploration Literature; Views of non-European Societies.

We will continue an EC/ASECS tradition with Jim May's Research in Progress and with a final Round table session on Transformations in Teaching the Eighteenth Century. To initiate an EC/ASECS tradition, Arch Elias will chair a session on New Documentary Evidence. To propose a paper for any of the above sessions (except for Jim May's and Arch Elias'), please submit one-page proposals in hard copy to Wm. C. Horne, Department of English, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.  21801. The e-mail address for inquiries only is wchorne@ssu.edu. The program committee will be meeting during the last week in May, and responses to proposals will be sent out in early June. We welcome offers to chair sessions or to participate in the Round Table on Teaching the Eighteenth Century. As participation in Jim May's and Arch Elias' sessions will be more impromptu and will not be noted in the program, please submit proposals directly to them at jem4@psu.edu and 73014.2445@compuserve.com respectively.

Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Milwaukee
24-28 March 1999

The thirtieth annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place in Milwaukee WI, 24-28 March 1999. The list of approved session topics will be published in the ASECS newsletter and posted on the ASECS web page. Individuals will submit proposals for papers to the session organizers. The deadline for paper proposals is 1 September 1998.

To request a proposal form or additional information, contact:

Jeffrey Merrick
History
UW-Milwaukee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee WI
U.S.A.  53201
Tel.: 414-229-4924
Internet: jmerrick@csd.uwm.edu

L'éloquence du corps dans les romans et récits des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Colloque dans le cadre de l'Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences
13 mai
Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-de-Koninck

9 h 00 - 10 h 30
Signes et symptômes

11 h 00 -12 h 30
Le corps libertin

14 h 30 - 16 h 00
Lecture et maîtrise des signes

Avec la collaboration de Francine Belle-Isle, Marc André Bernier, Jeanne Bovet, Frédéric Charbonneau, Lucie Desjardins, Paul Fortier, Monique Moser-Verrey, Emmanuelle Sauvage et Éric Van der Schueren.

Monique Moser-Verrey
Pavillon Charles-de-Koninck, bureau 3308
Université Laval
Sainte-Foy (Québec)
Canada  G1K 7P4
Tél.: 418-656-2131, poste 2945
Internet: Monique.Moser-Verrey@lit.ulaval.ca

Colloque Challe et son temps
Université d'Ottawa
23-26 septembre 1998

Programme préliminaire

Mercredi 23 septembre 1998

19h Conférence inaugurale par F. Deloffre (Paris IV)
Robert Challe, romancier philosophe

Jeudi 24 septembre 1998

9 h L'univers romanesque des Illustres Françaises

C. Lafarge (Bryn Mawr), L'énigmatique M. de Contamine
M.A. Bernier (Trois-Rivières), Entre la diablerie et la fabrique du corps: les éclipses de l'âme dans l'histoire de Silvie
P. Berthiaume (Ottawa), Amour propre et libertinage dans les Illustres Françaises
H. Cussac (Clermont-Ferrand), Voix et bruits dans l'univers romanesque des Illustres Françaises

11h L. Versini (Sorbonne), L'humour de Challe

14h Les Illustres Françaises et l'écriture romanesque du temps

P. Koch (Paris), Art et vérité: points de vue sur les Illustres Françaises
R. Worvill (Université Acadia), Challe adapté par Landois sous l'influence de la peinture
Yu Wen Wang (Boston College), Les Illustres Françaises et la Voiture embourbée de Marivaux: deux exemples d'encadrement du récit
J. Wagner (Université Blaise-Pascal), La dialectique du dedans et du dehors d'après les Illustres Françaiseset Gil Blas de Lesage
L. Imperiale (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Don Quichotte et la caverne de Montésinos chez R. Challe

Vendredi 25 septembre 1998

9h Challe et l'histoire acadienne et coloniale

M. Bosher (émérite, U. d'Ottawa), Challe et le milieu d'affaires transatlantique à la fin du XVIIe siècle
P. Villiers (Littoral), Robert Challe et la marine royale dans la Manche en 1692
W. Trappnell, Éléments d'un projet de colonie en Louisiane
C. Martin (Boston), Modèles d'émancipation: de l'Illustre Française à la colonie

11h J. Cormier (Bruxelles), Les Mémoires de R. Challe et Annales de la Cour et de Paris de Courtilz de Sandras: convergences et divergences

14 h Le Journal de Voyage de Challe et la littérature de voyage

F. Moureau (Paris IV-Sorbonne), Chiffre et déchiffrement dans le Journal
S. Linon-Chipon (Paris IV-Sorbonne), Challe, voyageur et fabulateur parmi d'autres sur la route maritime des épices
M.C. Pioffet (Montréal), Robert Challe sur la route des Indes: de la célébration bacchique à la fascination du macabre.
B. Fink, Du salut de l'âme à celui du corps: les nourritures maritimes dans le Journal de voyage

16h T. Belleguic (Western Ontario), Savoirs du texte: lecture épistémocritique du Journal de voyage
I. Requemora (Paris IV), Les journaux de Challe
R. Le Huenen (Toronto), R. Challe et l'écriture du Journal de voyage

Samedi 26 septembre 1998

9h Challe, la philosophie et la religion de son temps: Difficultés sur la religion présentées au père Malebranche

F. Bessire (Strasbourg), Voltaire et le Militaire philosophe
M. Benitez (Séville), La religion de Challe dans le miroir des Difficultés sur la religion
M. Doueihi (Paris, Hautes études), Bayle et Challe: autour de quelques difficultés adamiques
A. N'Diaye (Montréal, FICU), L'idée de Dieu chez Malebranche et le Militaire philosophe

10 h 45 Challe et l'écriture de son temps

S. Menant (Paris IV-Sorbonne), Challe et les poètes de son temps
F. Martineau (Lettres françaises, Ottawa), La langue de Challe des Illustres Françaises aux Mémoires
D. Aissaoui (Ottawa), La tentation autobiographique chez Challe

14 h G. Artigas-Menant (Paris XII-Créteil), La Bible dans l'oeuvre de Challe

15 h Challe, entre tradition et contestation religieuses

Ph. Stewart (Duke University), Challe et la question protestante
R. Ouellet (Laval), La contestation religieuse dans les Voyages de Challe et de Lahontan
A. Mosh (Toronto), Altérité religieuse, altérité politique. Critique civilisatrice ou utopie politique chez Robert Challe?
M. Weil (Montpellier), Autorité et hiérarchie dans le Journal de voyage et dans les Difficultés sur la religion

Association Rousseau
(Association nord-américaine des études Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Onzième colloque biennal «Rousseau et les Anciens»
Duke University
20-23 mai 1999

Quoique l'homme préhistorique à «l'état de nature» soit hors de portée, toute trace écrite de l'homme prémoderne est potentiellement importante pour Rousseau, qui puisait constamment dans la pensée et le modèle moral des Anciens. Les héros, philosophes et légendes grecs et romains en particulier apparaissent fréquemment dans ses écrits, souvent à travers le prisme de médiateurs plus récents, notamment Plutarque et Montaigne. Il faut y ajouter la culture biblique encore, en termes à la fois de sources originales et d'interprétations modernes, qui informa tant la pensée de cet ancien calviniste. Toutes les dimensions du rapport, direct ou médié, entre les écrits de Rousseau et le monde antique sont matière appropriée pour ce colloque.

Philip Stewart
Professor of French and Literature
Department of Romance Studies
Duke University
Durham, NC
U.S.A.  27708-0257
Tél.: 919-660-3122
Téléc.: 919-493-9598
Internet: jjrousseau@duke.edu

"The Book"
Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
November 1998

The Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles will hold its annual conference at the Sorbonne on November 20th and 21st, 1998. The theme of the conference will be "The book".

Proposals should be sent before May 10th, 1998 to:

Françoise Deconinck-Brossard
Université de Paris X
U.F.R. d'études anglo-américaines
200, avenue de la République
92001 Nanterre CEDEX
France

France: History and Story
Department of French Studies
University of Birmingham
1st-3rd July 1999

An interdisciplinary investigation of the concept of French national identity: its construction and representation. The conference has a double aim: to add to historical knowledge of the transformations of the concept, and to consider larger theoretical issues concerning the intersections of history and culture that arise in its study. Workshops will be thematically-based, and papers are invited from colleagues working in any relevant area of history, art history, literary or cultural studies, on any period early modern to post-colonial, on themes such as the following: memory and history, commemoration, national identity in revolution/counter-revolution, the exiled subject, la guerre franco-française, the politics of cultural policy, inheritance and heritage, the topography of nationhood (borders and boundaries, centre and periphery, urban/rural, public buildings and private spaces), iconography, visual culture (painting, photography, film, television), nation and family, engendering nationality, French dressing, education and nationhood, character and cuisine, defining language, marketing identity, popular culture, history in performance, France and its Others, France in Europe.

Organised by the University of Birmingham French Department in conjunction with colleagues in History and History of Fine Art, and in collaboration with the French Embassy in London.

The Barber Institute will mount a special exhibition of French prints and drawings from its own collection for the duration of the conference: "Images of France from Callot to Cézanne."

In addition to plenary speakers, there will be a number of workshop presentations. If you would like to offer a paper (20 minutes) on any of the above themes, or a similar topic, or if you would like further information, please contact the Conference Organiser:

Professor Jennifer Birkett
French Department
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel.: 0121-414-5964
Fax: 0121-414-5966
Internet: j.birkett@bham.ac.uk
Internet: artsweb.bham.ac.uk/artsFrenchStudies/research/histconf.htm

1999 SEASECS
Knoxville, Tennessee
March 4-6, 1999

The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) invites proposals for papers and full sessions on all aspects of the "long eighteenth century" for its 25th Anniversary meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, March 4-6, 1999. The theme of the conference will be "Reunions, Celebrations, and Anniversaries." The program organizers are especially interested in papers that focus on anniversaries of inventions, events, births, and milestones. For graduate students we offer prizes of $500, $300, and $100 for the best papers presented at the conference. One highlight of the program will be a panel discussion retrospective of the last 25 years in eighteenth-century studies moderated by J. Paul Hunter. Also planned is a "Play Upon Play," an evening of scenes from the late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stage performed by the UTK Theater Department, an exhibition on early Knoxville history at the East Tennessee Historical Society, and a tour of late eighteenth-century frontier buildings. Please send proposals for single papers or sessions together with a c.v. for each participant by September 15, 1998 to:

Dr. Barbara Schnorrenberg
3824 Eleventh Ave. South
Birmingham, AL
U.S.A.  35222
Fax: 205-595-2191

To be added to the mailing list or for questions about local arrangements write or email:

Dr. Peter Hoeyng
Department of Germanic Languages
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
U.S.A.  37996
Internet: hoeyng@utk.edu

1999 WSECS
California State University, San Bernardino
February 19-21, 1999

The organizers of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1999 annual conference, to be held at CSUSB the weekend of February 19-21, 1999, invite proposals for sessions and roundtable discussions on all aspects of the "long eighteenth century" (1660-1832). We anticipate having panels on English, French, German, and Spanish literature; British, American, and French history; British and continental philosophy; art history; music history; fashion, and so on. We would be delighted also to receive proposals for panels on the eighteenth century in Africa, South or Central America, or Asia.

The plenary speakers will be: Terry Castle, Professor and Chair of English at Stanford University, speaking on "Hating Defoe: An Experiment in Criticism" (tentative title); and Dena Goodman, Professor of History at LSU, speaking on "Epistolary Matters: Women, Writing, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century France."

Please send your proposals by May 15th to:

Treadwell Ruml
Associate Professor of English
UH-334
California State University, San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA
U.S.A.  92407-2397
Tel.: 909-880-5886
Fax: 909-880-7086
Internet: truml@wiley.csusb.edu

First International Congress on Ancient Thought: Plato's Laws and their Historical Significance
University of Salamanca
24 to 27 November 1998

There will be three sections:

1) The text of the Laws and its transmission
2) The Laws in their historical context
3) Reception of the Laws

The conference will have plenary sessions (45 minutes reading time) and free papers of 20 minutes reading time. Up to date the following scholars have already agreed to participate: T.J. Saunders (New Castle-Upon-Tyne), Luc Brisson (Paris), Thomas Robinson (Toronto), Carlos García Gual (Madrid), Tomás Calvo (Madrid), John Cleary (Boston College-Maynooth College), C. Bobonich (Stanford), K. Schˆpsdau (Saarbrücken), Jean-François Pradeau (Toulouse), M. I. Santa Cruz (Buenos Aires), John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin), Livio Rossetti (Peruggia), A. Laks (Lille) and S. Dusanic (Belgrad).

Participants are kindly requested to submit an abstract of their papers by 30 June 1998. Final papers are expected to reach Salamanca before September 15 1998.

For further information, please visit our website at:

www.usal.es/leyes

or contact us by ordinary mail:

Departamento de Filología Clásica e Indoeuropeo
Universidad de Salamanca
Plaza de Anaya s.n.
37008 Salamanca
EspaÒa
Tel.: 34-23-294445, ext. 1706
Fax: 34-23-294657
Internet: flis@gugu.usal.es
Internet: jlga@gugu.usal.es

New Dawns: The French Experience from Republic to Monarchy (1793-1824)
University of Sheffield
26-27 March 1999

In a relatively short space of time, France and her colonies in the early 1800s had lurched forward from the revolutionary end of the Ancien Régime, to a Restoration of the Monarchy, which heralded a new era of political thought, philosophical innovation and a flourishing of artistic romanticism. The contrast of continuity and social stability with the changes which took place throughout the early decades of the century merits a fresh exploration of an interdisciplinary nature. For this conference we propose to explore in a relatively neglected period a unique combination of three distinct areas where continuity and change were apparent, and yet which are not often addressed together in traditional conferences, namely: philosophical and political developments; creativity in music, literature and art; scientific discoveries and economic changes. The conference organisers propose to publish the proceedings of the conference as an edited book We welcome proposals to fit in three overarching themes, 1) Rights, 2) Use of Space, 3) Inventiveness and Infrastructures.

Rights: Philosophy, Religion and Politics, slavery in the colonies, property rights and poverty, religious revival and persecution, construction of nationhood, construction of gendered citizenship, constitutional reform, centralisation and regional identity.

Use of Space: Arts, Literature and Music, creation of new arts consumers, women as writers and readers, development of press, culture, theatre and musical performance, furniture and fashion, architecture.

Inventiveness and Infrastructure: Science, Economics and Medicine, industrial technology, commercial initiatives, urban growth, inventions, public health, rural and urban relations, demography, transport

Please submit proposals before September 30, 1998 in approximately 400 words to:

Professor David Williams
Dr. Moire Cross
Department of French
University of Sheffield
UK S10 2TN
Tel.: 0114 2224386
Fax: 0114 275 1198
Internet: d.williams@shef.ac.uk
Internet: m.f.cross@shef.ac.uk

The Second International Margaret Cavendish Conference and General Meeting
"Margaret Cavendish and her Milieu"
University of Paris VIII
11-12 June 1999

Papers will bear on various aspects of Cavendish's works and career, but they can also focus more broadly on her (and others') connections with the Royal Society, on her husband William, on Royalists in exile, or on women writing and reading in the 17th century. Priority will be given to papers offering a new light on Cavendish's cultural milieu.

Plans for conference activities are still underway and will include side trips and tours related to the Cavendishes, the Stuart Court, and Royalists in France.

Send 300-word abstracts (2 copies please) before 31 December 1998 to:

Line Cottegnies
Departement des études littéraires anglaises
UFR 4
2, rue de la Liberté
93520 Saint-Denis
France
Internet: Cottegnies@aol.com

Fatima Zenati
Fax: 33-1-49-40-68-20
Internet: fzenati@univ-paris8.fr

Women Writing 1550-1750
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
July 10 and 11, 1999
Convenors: Kate Lilley (Sydney University); Paul Salzman (La Trobe University)

This two day conference will explore all aspects of women's writing from 1550 to 1750. We welcome offers of papers from people working in any discipline and hope to include one or two colloquia which will specifically address interdisciplinary issues. Contributions from postgraduate students are welcome.

Please send a brief outline for either a 20 minute paper or a five minute contribution to a colloquium by 1 December 1998 to:

Paul Salzman
School of English
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Victoria
Australia, 3083
Internet: P.Salzman@latrobe.edu.au
Internet: www.latrobe.edu.au/www/english/wwconf.html

Deux siècles dans la Contre-Révolution en France et en Europe, XVIIIe-XXe siècles
Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France
Novembre 1999

Alors que les années 1980 ont été marquées par un grand nombre de travaux et de colloques consacrés à la Révolution, la Contre-Révolution, qui n'est pas seulement un mouvement inverse, a peu retenu l'attention. Sa complexité, mais aussi la vitalité de ses diverses formes méritent mieux, ne serait-ce que pour comprendre le monde dans lequel nous vivons aujourd'hui (dans lequel l'ère de l'idée révolutionnaire serait close?).

Les grands axes du colloque

Il paraît souhaitable que, sans a priori, deux cents ans après les événements qui marquèrent la France, les multiples formes et les avatars d'un courant qui n'a pas cessé d'agir sur le monde dans les domaines militaire, politique, intellectuel, artistique et social soient étudiés. Le colloque a pour but d'explorer l'histoire de la Contre-Révolution, dans ces différents registres, autour de la question centrale qui serait: quelles définitions donner à «Contre-Révolution»?

L'ambiguïté du terme est manifeste, de ses premiers usages jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Son histoire, comme celles des adjectifs et du verbe qui lui sont liés doivent être retracées, en suivant les emplois de l'époque révolutionnaire en France comme à l'étranger, chez les acteurs de la politique comme chez les observateurs. Les variations de sens méritent d'être interrogées, pour comprendre le sens des mutations selon les contextes et les époques. La difficulté prévisible tient à l'usage du terme dans la durée et dans l'espace. Qu'est-ce que la Contre-Révolution revendiquée par les fondateurs de l'Action française, ou dénoncée par Marcuse? Quels liens établir avec les autres mouvements «contre-révolutionnaires», avec les «révolutions conservatrices», ou des contre-révolutions de fait se disant cependant «révolutionnaires»? Dans ce cadre se pose la question des traductions dans les différents pays, selon leurs traditions intellectuelles propres. Le mot Contre-Révolution ne doit pas être employé indistinctement pour amalgamer toutes les résistances à toutes les révolutions: les différences de sens et d'emploi du mot sont essentielles, notamment dans l'entre-deux guerres au XXe siècle. Les réponses à la question passent par des études de cas dans différents champs historiques.

1) Relations entre Contre-Révolution et Révolution et acteurs de la Contre-Révolution. La Contre-Révolution naissant dans l'opposition à la Révolution, la question des relations entre Révolution et Contre-Révolution est centrale, notamment parce que le mot contre-révolution a été employé polémiquement par les leaders révolutionnaires. Une Contre-Révolution «fantasmée» a joué un rôle essentiel dans cette histoire, qu'il convient de comprendre. L'emploi des termes n'a pas cessé d'évoluer en fonction des affrontements entre ces deux blocs, que ce soit en France ou en Europe. La façon dont les individus et les groupes engagés dans des rivalités se retrouvent catalogués en «révolutionnaires» ou «contre-révolutionnaires» mérite l'attention, que ce soit en France, en Italie, en Espagne, ou au Portugal au XIXe siècle.

Cependant, la Contre-Révolution bien réelle doit être comprise dans les différents groupes qui la représentent. Les émigrés devront être particulièrement étudiés, qu'ils soient nobles ou prêtres réfractaires, en insistant sur leur unité comme sur leurs différences d'opinions et de visées politiques.

Les formes de Contre-Révolution populaire en France ou en Europe peuvent être l'objet de synthèses, à partir des nombreux travaux déjà réalisés sur ce sujet depuis une dizaine d'années. Les multiples résistances à la Révolution et les chouanneries, notamment, méritent d'être présentées. En Europe, les réticences et les refus de la Révolution ont débouché dans des formes clairement contre-révolutionnaires. Les mouvements de résistances populaires qui se produisent dans les républiques soeurs doivent être présentés, de la guerre des paysans en Belgique aux Viva Maria d'Italie. Les réticences et les oppositions des intellectuels, des artistes (notamment les caricaturistes anglais) et des élites, en Allemagne, en Italie, en Angleterre méritent l'attention. Enfin, l'organisation des forces militaires contre-révolutionnaires autour des gouvernements européens, comme autour des groupes des émigrés et des conspirateurs est à étudier dans sa complexité et dans ses diverses formes d'action. Les coalitions et le contrôle européen exercé sur la France jusqu'au congrès de Vienne relèvent de cette organisation contre-révolutionnaire qui marque l'Europe de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, justifiant même l'intervention française en Espagne en 1823. Dans cette perspective, les luttes armées, aux résonances internationales, qui se déroulent dans toute l'Europe, et notamment en Italie et en Espagne sont un des aspects essentiels du XIXe siècle. Les «guerres carlistes» avec leurs émigrés (notamment en France) sont à étudier.

2) Penser la Contre-Révolution? La pensée contre-révolutionnaire est connue et illustrée par de grands noms, qui ont eu des renommées internationales. Cependant leur influence réelle, les réseaux dans lesquels ils ont été inscrits, leurs résonances à terme doivent retenir l'attention. La position des critiques libéraux de la Révolution doit être appréciée dans cet ensemble aux limites floues, dépendantes des points de vue.

À l'ombre de ces grands noms, des publicistes, des romanciers et des artistes ont, notamment en France, exercé une activité importante, quoique mal connue dans la diffusion de l'histoire de la Contre-Révolution. Les débats intellectuels, notamment en France à la fin du XIXe siècle, autour des figures de Taine, de Maurras, sont essentiels, comme, plus largement, l'examen des positions de l'Église, et des papes Pie IX, Léon XIII, Pie X doit être évoqué, ne serait-ce que pour savoir en quoi ils s'articulent avec la Contre-Révolution et en quoi ils relèvent d'autres systèmes de pensée. La constitution de doctrines contre-révolutionnaires, sur le plan religieux, politique ou social, comme l'élaboration de corpus artistiques dédiés à la Contre-Révolution (y compris dans des courants romantiques français) sont des éléments indispensables à la compréhension d'une sensibilité et d'une conscience politique vive.

3) Des sociétés inspirées par la Contre-Révolution. La mise en oeuvre de politiques sociales et économiques pour préserver les populations des contagions révolutionnaires, liées souvent à la menace urbaine, au libéralisme, a conduit à des créations de bastions régionaux, dont la Vendée peut servir d'exemple, et qu'il conviendrait de recenser et d'analyser. L'action des légitimistes -- et certainement des différents courants à l'intérieur du légitimisme -- est à présenter, y compris pour en comprendre les inflexions, puisqu'une noblesse «restitutionniste» serait à repérer dans sa spécificité. Une sensibilité «contre-révolutionnaire» est repérable à l'oeuvre en France comme dans les pays voisins au XIXe siècle. Enfin, les modes de diffusion et les catégories sociales visées doivent être envisagés, puisque les idées contre-révolutionnaires passent par des institutions scolaires, des maisons d'éditions, des circuits de commercialisation ou des associations. La place des femmes dans ces processus est souvent spécifique et doit être appréciée, selon les contextes historiques et les cultures nationales et régionales.

4) Les enjeux récents de la Contre-Révolution (depuis 1917). La Révolution russe fait basculer le sens des mots. Peut-on parler de Contre-Révolution quand le référent n'est plus 1789 mais 1917? Les rapports entre contre-révolution, révolution nationale, conservatisme sont à examiner pour explorer les amalgames, les jeux des lignes de faille. De la même façon, la relecture du totalitarisme comme descendant naturel de la Révolution, et la constitution d'un courant intellectuel puissant qui va de Talmon à Soljenystine, en passant par Aron, doit être analysé, en même temps que les débats mondiaux des années 1970 dénonçant la Contre-Révolution. La pensée d'A. Hirschman estimant que la Contre-Révolution est une façon de se situer dans le monde est un exemple de cette extension des mots et des débats. Les multiples conflits qui mettent face à face des mouvements révolutionnaires et contre-révolutionnaires (des «contras») peuvent être examinés, dans leurs aspects idéologiques, militaires et diplomatiques. Le renversement de perspectives intellectuelles sur la «révolution» dans les années 1980 serait enfin à étudier.

Organisation du colloque: Les communications souhaitées devraient être centrées sur des études de cas précis, documentés, dans le respect d'une problématique comparatiste et globale. Elles doivent être proposées avant la fin octobre 1998 (titre et bref résumé). Le Comité scientifique bâtira l'organisation du colloque au début de 1999. Le colloque se tiendra à Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) au début de novembre 1999, sur cinq séances. Une publication est envisagée, les intervenants auront à remettre ultérieurement un texte, calibré autour de 35000- 40000 signes.

Comité scientifique:

Ana Maria Rao, Université de Naples
Jordi Canal, Université de Gerone
Roger Dupuy, Université de Rennes II
Gérard Gengembre, Université de Caen
Jean-Pierre Jessenne, Université de Rouen
Colin Lucas, Vice-chancelier, Université d'Oxford
Jacques-Guy Petit, Université d'Angers
Bernard Plongeron, CNRS
Jean-Joseph Chevalier, Cholet

Les demandes de renseignements et les propositions sont à adresser à:

Jean-Clément Martin
Professeur d'histoire contemporaine
Université de Nantes
Chemin de la Censive du Tertre
BP 81227
44312 Nantes Cedex 3
France
Tél.: 02-40-14-11-09
Téléc.: 02-10-14-10-05
Internet: jcmartin@humana.univ-nantes.fr

Regional Conference of the Jane Austen Society of North America
Jasper, Alberta
May 14-16, 1999

Proposals are invited for "Jasper JASNA," a conference organized by northwest chapters of the Jane Austen Society of North America, to be held in the spectacular mountain setting of Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, Alberta, Canada, on May 14-16, 1999. Speakers include Jan Fergus, Isobel Grundy, Juliet McMaster, and Claire Tomalin. The conference theme is "The Talk in Jane Austen," and papers should mainly address the dialogue in the six novels and the minor works. Suitable topics might include different genres in speech in Austen's fiction, idiolects, colloquial or formal conventions, what may and may not be spoken, what constitutes "conversation," adaptations in dialogue in the movie versions, and so on.

Proposals should be 300-600 words (1-2 pages or less); and speakers should address an audience that includes informed non-academics as well as academics, with a view to entertaining as well as enlightening.

Please send your proposal, to arrive by October 15, 1998, to:

Jeffrey Herrle
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton (Alberta)
Canada  T6G 2E5
Fax: 403-492-8142
Internet: jherrle@gpu.ualberta.ca
Internet: www.ualberta.ca/%7Ehjanz/jj-index.htm

Conference on Christian Democracy
Notre Dame
April 9-11, 1999

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame invites proposals for papers on the history and current significance of Christian Democratic parties for a conference to be held at Notre Dame on April 9-11, 1999. The Conference expects to organize its sessions around five major themes: the historical roots of Christian Democracy; Christian Democracy and the establishment of constitutional government; Christian Democracy and welfare policy; Christian Democracy and the international community; the prospects for Christian Democracy after the Cold War. The Conference will focus on Europe, but will also cover Christian Democracy in Latin America and welcomes submissions that that adopt a comparative perspective.

Proposals of one page (250 words) are due by June 30, 1998, and should be sent to:

Program Committee - Christian Democracy
Nanovic Institute for European Studies
G023 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
U.S.A.  46556
Internet: www.nd.edu/%7Enanovic/

Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain
The 32nd Annual Comparative Literature Symposium
Texas Tech University
February 4-6, 1999

The primary focus of the conference will be on the interplay between psychological, philosophical, and literary approaches to examining the central role of narrative in the formation and function of consciousness. Following from the work of the philosopher Owen Flanagan, our intent will be to engender a collaborative examination of consciousness that is sensitive to phenomenological seeming, yet constrained by empirical findings in psychology.

Send one-page abstracts for 20-minute presentations or panel proposals by
October 31, 1998, to:

Ted E. McVay
Classical & Modern Languages
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
U.S.A.  79409-2071
Internet: t-mcvay@ttu.edu
Internet: www.ttu.edu/%7Ecomplit/LitPsych.html

AULLA XXX 1999
Australasian Universities Language & Literature Association
The University of Auckland
30th Congress
Monday 8-Thursday 11 February 1999
"The Lengths Behind?"

This theme, a phrase drawn from Pope's Essay on Criticism, is intended to open up options for scholars considering offering a paper.

Taken alone, "The Lengths Behind?" may point towards thoughts about the interface of past and present, tradition and the factors which act on the people of today as they develop and amend tradition.

Encounter with literature is life-changing: the mind starts flat and fenced in ("the bounded Level") but is confronted with ever higher peaks and an expanding horizon (later: "Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise").

We stand at a point in time between past, present, and the changing visions of the new millenium--a time to reflect on understandings and approaches to scholarly work in languages and literatures.

"The Lengths Behind?" is given a question mark in the conference theme. Is Pope's young critic heading, as studies advance, for the clear mountain air of liberation, or for winding paths of more-than-Alexandrian complexity? In Auckland in 1999, should we speak with Pope's essential optimism about the languages and literatures we study and teach, or is "what the Muse imparts" today just another Greek gift?

Call for papers: closing date Friday 21 August 1998

Paper offers should be addressed to:

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

Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art

Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks will hold its 1999 symposium on the topic "Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art."

We invite papers that focus on the impact of changing relationships between bourgeois and aristocrats upon the development of garden art. How did changes in the art of gardens, in their use and their cultural reception reflect political, economic or cultural changes that resulted from conflict and cooperation between bourgeois and aristocrats, and how did they contribute to them?

These questions call for a theoretical approach to relations between social change and cultural change. Contributions could address any period since the Renaissance, in any part of the world where bourgeoisies and aristocracies have been competing.

We are especially interested in cultural change during periods when either the aristocracy or the bourgeoisie is politically dominant, and in particular in the American scene during the 19th century.

The symposium will be held at Dumbarton Oaks on May 14 and 15, 1999.

Those interested in presenting a paper should request more detailed information from:

Director of Studies in Landscape Architecture,
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd St. NW
Washington, DC
U.S.A.  20007
Tel.: 202-339-6460
Fax: 202-625-0432
Internet: landscape@doaks.org

Abstracts of no more than three pages describing (1) the scope and content of the work and (2) its significance for the symposium theme must be received by May 30, 1998.

Nuestra Amirica: Inscribing Latinos/as in the National Discourse
University of Houston (Main Campus)
December 4-5, 1998

The Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project is a comprehensive national program to locate, identify, preserve, and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the United States. In doing so, it will have an immediate and long-term impact on the study and teaching of language, literature, cultural studies, and history. It will, no doubt, reconstitute these and other disciplines, as well as broaden and enrich all levels of curriculum.

In short, the emergence of recovered texts presents problems and challenges for current scholars. Besides recovering literature, scholars must constantly research, analyze, and theorize about the effects these texts have on the canon, culture, history, language, folklore, the archive, library and information sciences, and other concerns across the humanities.

Papers are invited on any of the following themes:

Analytical Studies of Recovered Authors and/or Texts
Folklore/Oral History
Historiography
Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Recovered Texts
Language and Linguistics
Preservation/Access Issues
Preparation of Critical Editions
Library and Information
Curriculum/Pedagogy/Canon
Science

Presenters will be asked to provide a publication-ready paper in hard copy and on diskette with Word Perfect 5.1 prior to the conference. Submit a 150-word abstract and curriculum vitae by August 15, 1998 to:

Lynn Cortina, Coordinator
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project
The University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun
E. Cullen Performance Hall, Room 254
Houston, TX
U.S.A.  77204-2172
Tel.: 713-743-3128
Fax: 713-743-3142
Internet: artrec@jetson.uh.edu

The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France
University of Exeter
19-21 April 1999

It is intended to hold a three-day colloquium on the above topic at the University of Exeter in April 1999. It will provide an opportunity to discuss more fully issues raised by the celebrations surrounding the quatercentenary of the Edict of Nantes. The organisers (Mark Greengrass, Sheffield; Penny Roberts, Warwick; and Keith Cameron, Exeter) invite you to submit abstracts of papers for consideration as soon as possible.

This colloquium is to be held in the year which follows the 400th anniversary of the pacification at Nantes in 1598 which brought the French "wars of religion" to a close. It cannot be termed however, a conventional "commemorative" conference (as the date suggests), for there are many, lavishly conceived conferences of this kind currently being planned for 1998 in France. Simple commemoration is not a sufficient reason for studying a historical--and cultural--event. A significant historical and cultural problem (and one that is currently exercising the minds of historians and literary historians) is, however, worth defining and studying collectively. This is planned as a working colloquium where the atmosphere will be convivial and informal. It will aim to publish subsequently a volume of studies.

The "problem" is one that has been created by strong historiographical traditions. On the one hand, there is a residual and powerful protestant, confessional tradition that interprets the Edict of Nantes as one of the defining moments in its history. The pacification was the moment when legitimate protestant rights of identity were recognised. At the same time, the edict contained within it the seeds of the later, and inevitable, betrayal and revocation. Bourbon and royalist traditions interpret the edict as a triumphal "politique" act that enabled the absolute monarchy to reunite France at a critical moment and lay the foundations for the consolidation of the French state in the seventeenth century. The difficulty with these traditions is that they rely for their interpretative weight upon a retrospective writing of the past. Our problem is to recreate the sense of "adventure" into the unknown that was associated with the edicts of pacification. How was it that the largest and most coherent monarchy in Europe could possibly contemplate the acceptance and integration of a substantial religious minority into the realm? It would have been much easier to have attempted the kind of religious pluralism afforded by the German Reich after 1555, or later in the Netherlands, where religious diversity was eventually secured by degrees of political separation. Integrative pluralism of the kind attempted by the French state was a much more ambitious adventure altogether.

The fact that the French state embarked upon such an adventure leads us to ask complementary questions about the nature of that state as well as early-modern French society and its cultural life. How were the edicts of pacification enforced in practical terms? We know that everything in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe was mediated and "brokered". How did this process work for the edicts of pacification? Were there greater degrees of pluralism in its intellectual life than we have previously imagined? What comparisons can be drawn between the privileges granted to other groups in society and those granted to the Huguenots? Can regional or local examples tell us more about the practical degrees of toleration that existed and upon which the edicts of pacification built? Can cultural and literary historians explain more clearly for us how the conservative legal traditions of France managed to justify to themselves and others this extraordinary adventure into what must have seemed like dangerous plurality?

The sessions at the colloquium will depend to some degree on the papers that we secure. We shall invite participants to prepare outline synopses of papers of about 6,000 words in length which they will be asked to summarise in 20 minute presentations. Each session of two or three such papers will have a commentator who will have read the papers in their entirety and prepare a commentary on them to focus our discussion. Those who are interested in participating are also invited to submit synopses independently for consideration by the conference organisers. There may be limited funds available to defray the costs of post-graduate or post-doctoral students. The draft programme will be available in September 1998. The final programme will be circulated in January 1999.

Accommodation will be provided in the recently built Post-Graduate Centre situated on the main campus of Exeter University.

Keith Cameron
Queen's Building
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4QH
Tel.: 0.1392 264221
Fax: 0.1392 264222
Internet: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk

********** ANNONCES / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Alicia Monti Research Fellowship at Boston Public Library

The Boston Public Library is pleased to announce the availability of the Alicia Monti Research Fellowship for research in the collections of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department. The Department holdings encompass a wide spectrum of materials including literary papers and manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, history and the natural sciences. The fellowship is intended to stimulate the use of the rare books and manuscript collections at the Boston Public Library and to provide new or additional access to original sources.

APPOINTMENTS

Two separate fellowships are being offered for 1998 and 1999. The fellowship carries a stipend of $1000 and has a duration of one month. A brief report or informal talk related to the research completed is to be presented as part of the fellowship experience.

ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION

The Alicia Monti Fellowship supports doctoral, post-doctoral or equivalent research in the collections of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the Boston Public Library. Applicants from any country are welcome. No special application form is required.

Applicants are asked to submit a resume, two confidential letters of recommendation, and a brief research proposal. Research proposals should not exceed three pages. The proposed dates of research must be included.

Submissions should be forwarded to:

Office of the President
Boston Public Library
Copley Square
Boston, MA
U.S.A.  02117

The selection of candidates will be based on considerations involving the value of the project to the Library and to scholarship, the applicant's ability to complete the project based on the documentation submitted, and the project's timeline in relation to other proposals received.

As appropriate, the Library may seek the advice of an outside authority with academic qualifications or other equivalent expertise.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

For 1998 applications: June 30, 1998
For 1999 applications: June 30, 1999

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

SEASECS Perry Adams Annual Article Prize

The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies invites submissions for its annual article competition. The Society will give an award of $500 for the best article on an eighteenth-century subject published in a scholarly journal, annual, or collection between 1 September 1997 and 31 August, 1998. Authors must become members of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Articles may be submitted either by authors or by others acting in his/her behalf. Submissions written in a language other than English must include an English translation. The interdisciplinary appeal of the article will be considered, but will not be the sole determinant of the award. Please submit articles in triplicate, postmarked by 15 November 1998 to:

Sheila Skemp
Department of History
University of Mississippi
University, MS
U.S.A.  38677

The winning article will be announced at the annual meeting of SEASECS which will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, March 4-6 1999

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, 1999-2000

Applications are invited for the above Fellowship tenable for one year from 1 October 1999. The Fellowship is open to graduates of any nationality, and is linked to a non-stipendiary Research or Visiting Fellowship at Darwin College. Preference will be given to promising younger scholars at post-doctoral level or the equivalent. The stipend will be £15,000. The closing date for applications (no forms) is 31 July 1998. An election will be made in November 1998.

Further particulars are available from the

Deputy Librarian
University Library
West Rd
Cambridge CB3 9DR
England

********** Quelques librairies anciennes / Some Rare Books Stores

Les librairies dont les adresses suivent publient un catalogue ou ont un site Internet. / Bookstores listed below publish a catalog or maintain a website.

The Rare Book School website: poe.acc.virginia.edu/%7Eoldbooks.

The Book Chest ABAA
322 West 57th St. 34S
New York, N.Y.
U.S.A.  10019
Tel: 212-246-8955
Fax: 212-757-8817
Internet: bkchest@pipeline.com
Internet: www.bibliocity.com/home/BC.html

Librairie Jean-Paul Delon
74150 Marigny-Saint-Marcel
France
Tél.: 04-50-01-46-05
Téléc.: 04-50-01-45-66

Antiquariat Piermont
Postfach 2173
77611 Offenburg
Allemagne
Tél.: 0781-94-81-984
Téléc.: 0781-94-81-985

Librairie historique Le conservateur
98 bis, boul. de La Tour-Maubourg
75007 Paris
France
Tél.: 01-44-18-08-65
Téléc.: 01-44-18-34-77
Internet: yverts@club-internet.fr

Librairie Hatchuel
21, rue Saint-Jacques
75005 Paris
France
Tél.: 01-43-29-41-31
Téléc.: 01-46-33-25-90

Yves de Cagny
4, rue Drouot
75009 Paris
France
Tél.: 01-42-46-00-07
Téléc.: 01-45-23-33-21

Michel Villeneuve, libraire
2392, du Vieux-Moulin
Beauport (Québec)
Canada  G1E 6E1
Tél./Téléc.: 418-661-6907

Jean-Claude Veilleux, libraire
8, rue du Fort
Québec (Québec)
Canada  G1R 4M1
Tél.: 418-694-9949
Téléc.: 418-694-2121

Librairie Michel Morisset
C.P. 47098
Sillery (Québec)
Canada  G1S 4X1
Tél.: 418-681-5998

Thierry Bodin
45, rue l'abbé Grégoire
75006 Paris
France
Tél.: 01-45-48-25-31

Librairie historique F. Teissedre
102, rue de Cherche-Midi
75006 Paris
France
Tél.: 01-45-48-03-91
Téléc.: 01-45-44-35-52

Librairie Philippe Sérignan
15, rue Joseph-Vernet
84000 Avignon
France
Tél.: 04-90-86-57-40
Téléc.: 04-90-85-68-38

********** LE XVIIIe SIÈCLE SUR INTERNET / EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES AND THE INTERNET

OPERA-L

Effective immediately, OPERA-L has moved to a new address.

OPERA-L on LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

OPERA-L was founded for discussion of opera and related topics.

The address for subscriptions and other administrative tasks is:

LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

To subscribe to the list send LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU e-mail with the following in the BODY of the mail:

SUB OPERA-L yourfirstname yourlastname

The change of address now allows OPERA-L to be accessed on the web:

listserv.cuny.edu/archives/opera-l.html.

One can perform administrative functions (such as subscribing, posting, and changing subscription options) there as well.

Bob Kosovsky
Internet: rjkgc@cunyvm.cuny.edu or rkosovsk@email.gc.cuny.edu or bkosovsky@nypl.org

Aphra Behn Society

prometheus.cc.emory.edu/behn/

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Pour tout savoir sur le déménagment des collections et, surtout, sur son calendrier, voir www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/pratic/horaire.htm#calend.

Bibliothèque inter-universitaire de médecine (BIUM), Paris

Un site portant sur la médecine et son histoire en France, avec de nombreuses illustrations.

www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/

C18 web

C18 began to take recognisable form in May 1998 at Notre Dame and at Chicago. The first members of the Editorial Board are Kevin Berland (bcj@psu.edu), Jack Lynch (jl@c18.org), Mark Olsen (mark@barkov.uchicago.edu) and Andrew Brown (ab@c18.org). Send us your ideas on what C18 should do, and how it should do it, and we'll do our best to bring it about. Our present plans are summarised at:

www.C18.org/18/over.e.html.

One of the many sections of C18 will be devoted to the founding parents and grandparents of eighteenth-century studies. There will be formal obituaries, bibliographies, photos, personal memories, anecdotes, whatever you would like to set down about the scholars and teachers whose work, influence and personal qualities you feel deserve commemoration. Texts you have already published can be given a wider audience through C18 (subject of course to copyright clearance), and unpublished texts can be included without compromising their subsequent appearance in print.

Events too should live in our collective memory. C18 can archive conference programmes and the like, as well as reviews and recollections of meetings.

Please send email and email attachments to:

mail@c18.org

and disks, photos and scannable text on paper to:

4 Farndon Road
Oxford OX2 6RS
England.

Help us to build this part of the C18 site into a worthy record of our collective history.

Andrew Brown

Littérature québécoise

«La littérature québécoise en 600 titres» (bibliographie électronique avec une section XVIIIe siècle) par Bernard Andrès, Université du Québec à Montréal:

www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/litterature/litterature.quebecoise/.

Early Printed Collections

The new World Wide Web pages for Early Printed Collections in the British Library have been mounted on Portico, the British Library's Online Information Server, and are available at:

www.bl.uk/collections/epc/.

In addition to information on the new Rare Books and Music Reading Room at St. Pancras, they also provide a guide to our collections and catalogues in the following areas:

Incunabula
British Printed Collections, 1501-1800
English Short Title Catalogue
British Printed Collections, 1801-1914
Dutch Printed Collections, 1501-1850
French Printed Collections, 1501-1850
German Printed Collections, 1501-1850
Hispanic Printed Collections, 1501-1850
Italian Printed Collections, 1501-1850
Scandinavian Printed Collections, 1501-1850
Bindings and Decorated Papers

For further information, please contact:

Dr. Christopher Skelton-Foord
Digital Library Co-ordinator
Early Printed Collections
Lower Ground Floor
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London  NW1 2DB
UK
Internet: christopher.skelton-foord@bl.uk

Site sur l'esclavage

Nous voudrions vous informer de la création d'un site sur les questions de l'esclavage. Nous travaillons à partir d'articles, de sources multiples, de photographies. Les enseignants et les élèves pourront y recueillir de nombreuses informations. Adresse:

perso.wanadoo.fr/aceme/aceme.

Site de la SATOR à Toronto

«Tout en insistant fortement sur le caractère "en chantier" et inachevé de l'initiative, le Centre SATOR de Toronto a le plaisir d'annoncer l'élargissement de son site WWW, consultable librement par navigateurs du type Netscape ou Explorer sur la Toile. Nous invitons tous les abonnés de Sator-L à visiter notre site en pleine expansion pour se tenir au courant du travail de la SATOR. Projet collectif, international et désormais interactif, l'établissement d'un thésaurus informatisé de topoi narratifs anime de nombreuses activités corollaires (colloques, publications, échanges d'informations, aide technique pour le logiciel TopoSator...) dont nous essayerons de faire état au fur et à mesure du rassemblement et de la saisie HTML des données que nous voulons afficher.

D'ores et déjà, vous pouvez suivre l'évolution du site WWW de SaToronto en consultant l'adresse suivante:

www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/french/sator/.»

Sites web sur la Révolution française

www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/french-rev/chron.html

sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/david/

history.hanover.edu/modern/frenchrv.htm

www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/french-rev/bibliog.html

indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/%7Esgj/STILE/t0000028.html

ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Philippe_Royet/opening.htm

Studies in Bibliography Online: 50 Years of Bibliographical Scholarship Available on the Web

The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia is pleased to announce a major new website for literary study, textual scholarship, and bibliographical analysis, which can be accessed on the Internet at

etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/.

In addition to information about the society, visitors will find several large electronic text resources.

In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Bibliographical Society has made freely available in electronic form the first forty-nine volumes of its flagship journal, Studies in Bibliography, a premier publication of bibliographical studies worldwide. Users may search the entire contents of all the volumes published 1948-1996, making this a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, and research institutions alike.

Studies in Bibliography is "a virtual encyclopedia of scholarly work on the history of books and editing over the past 50 years," according to Thomas Tanselle, President of the Society and Vice President of the Guggenheim Foundation. The online database will serve a wide variety of pedagogical and research needs, reaching audiences who do not now have ready access to the print versions:

the high school student and teacher can find out more about the early printings of Hamlet and the bearing they have on the play;

the community college teacher can call upon the database to collect material for a le