Automne 2002 / Fall 2002

Marc André Bernier
Département de français
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
C.P. 500
Trois-Rivières (Québec)
Canada G9A 5H7
Tél. : (819) 376-5011 (poste 3868)
Téléc. : (819) 376-5173
Courriel : marc-andre_bernier@uqtr.ca

Kathleen James-Cavan
Department of English
University of Saskatchewan
9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)
Canada S7N 5A5
Tel.: (306) 966-5501
Fax: (306) 966-5951
Email: jamescav@duke.usask.ca

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / REMERCIEMENTS

The editors of the Bulletin gratefully acknowledge the assistance of
Les rédacteurs du Bulletin tiennent à remercier chaleureusement pour leur collaboration

Thierry Belleguic (Université Laval), Stéphanie Massé (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) et Benoît Melançon (Université de Montréal).

FROM THE PRESIDENT / MOT DU PRÉSIDENT

Chers amis, Dear Friends,

Qui dit rentrée dit bien sûr cours, réunions, tâches diverses. Mais la rentrée, c’est aussi l’approche du congrès annuel de notre Société. Placé sous la responsabilité de Thierry Belleguic et de Peter Sabor, ce congrès se tiendra cette année à Québec du 23 au 26 octobre. Le programme comporte près de 200 communications, en plus des conférences de nos invités d’honneur : Bernadette Fort, Bertrand Binoche et Isobel Grundy. Tout un programme en perspective !

Not only will we have the pleasure of seeing old friends and of listening to stimulating papers, but we will also discuss the future of our Society. The Executive will submit to all its members present at the conference a series of modifications to our Constitution. You will receive in the mail a list of these modifications in early October. We will also discuss our future conferences, after Vancouver in 2003.

En plus des changements à nos Statuts qui seront soumis à l’Assemblée générale, des postes seront à combler au sein du Bureau. La liste de ces postes sera incluse avec la liste des modifications proposées à nos Statuts. Vous recevrez le tout par la poste au début d’octobre. Il y a toujours de la place pour du sang neuf au Bureau. À vous de jouer.

Au plaisir de vous retrouver à Québec.

Benoît Melançon

P.S.--Je profite de l'occasion pour remercier de leurs infatigables efforts nos deux rédacteurs, Marc André Bernier et Kathleen James-Cavan. / Many thanks -- once again -- to our editors, Marc André Bernier and Kathleen James-Cavan.

OUR CONFERENCE IN FALL 2002 / NOTRE CONGRÈS DE L'AUTOMNE 2002

Les Lumières en mouvement : circulation, échanges, transferts / The Enlightenment in Motion: Circulation, Exchanges, Transmission

Hôtel Loews Le Condorde, Québec

23-26 octobre 2002 / 23-26 October 2002

Conference Organizers / Responsables du congrès : Thierry Belleguic et / and Peter Sabor (Université Laval, Québec)

Le programme / The programme

LUMEN XXI

Actes du congrès de Toronto (2000) / Proceedings from the Toronto Conference (2000)

Éditeurs / Editors : John D. Baird, Chantel Lavoie, Andreas Motsch

To be published / À paraître

Table des matières / Table of Contents

Preface / Préface

Mark Salber Phillips
Hume and Historical Distance

Réal Ouellet
Français canadiens ou Canadiens ? Construction et mutation d’une identité originale au XVIIIe siècle

Sébastien Charles
Existence et temporalité au siècle des Lumières : Turgot lecteur de Maupertuis et Berkeley

Patricia C. Simmons
John Locke, Memory, and Narratives of Origin

Sharon Alker
The Geography of Negotiation: Wales, Anglo-Scottish Sympathy, and Tobias Smollett

Corey Andrews
The Clubbable Bard: Sentimental Scottish Nationalism and Robert Burns

D.R. Gamble
“Des sentiments si nôtres”: Stylisation and Dramatisation in the Bucoliques of André Chénier

Allan Ingram
Identifying the Insane: Madness and Marginality in the Eighteenth Century

Natasha Lee
The Necessity of Amnesia: Naturalized Identities in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse

Benoit Léger
Les notes du traducteur des Voyages de Gulliver : détonation et «détonnement»

Monique Moser-Verrey
Topoï des identités nationales dans la nouvelle française du XVIIIe siècle

Sylvia Sebastiani
Conjectural History vs. the Bible: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Historians and the Idea of History in the Encyclopaedia Britannica

NEWS FROM MEMBERS / NOUVELLES DES MEMBRES

Bernard Andrès a, en 2001, été élu membre de l'Académie des lettres et des sciences humaines de la Société royale du Canada ainsi que directeur du Centre d'études et de recherches sur le Brésil (CERB), à l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Page Web: <http://www.unites.uqam.ca/bresil/>.

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Marc André Bernier a obtenu le Prix du Mérite en enseignement, section Études supérieures, décerné par l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; avril 2002.

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Frédéric Charbonneau (Université McGill) a obtenu une subvention «Établissement de nouveau chercheur» (FCAR) pour un projet de recherche intitulé «La Peinture sociale dans les Mémoires de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle en France» (2002-2005). Son ouvrage récent, Les Silences de l'histoire, a été finaliste (catégorie essai) pour un prix Odyssée 2002.

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Sébastien Charles a reçu le prix Mark-Madoff (meilleure communication étudiante) décerné par la Société canadienne d'études du dix-huitième siècle lors de son congrès annuel (Toronto, octobre 2000). En juin 2002, il a été promu au rang de vice-doyen à la recherche de la Faculté de théologie, d'éthique et de philosophie de l'Université de Sherbrooke.

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Prof. Jane V. Curran is currently President, Atlantic Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. She was Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee for the 25th Anniversary Meeting of NEASECS/AtSECS, held in Halifax, Nov. 1-4, 2001.

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Polly Fields: Distinguished Scholar Award (first time awarded) Inaugural Distinguished Scholar Award, LSSU, April 2002.

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En juin 2002, Benoît Melançon a été nommé professeur titulaire au Département d'études françaises de l'Université de Montréal et directeur scientifique des Presses de l'Université de Montréal.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS / PUBLICATIONS RÉCENTES

Alix, Julie, «Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810) ou la littérature des marges à la fin de l'Ancien Régime et sous la Révolution», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 109-118.

Andrès, Bernard et Marc André Bernier, (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, 511 p.

Andrès, Bernard et Bernier, Marc André, «Introduction. De la génération de la Conquête à celle des Patriotes», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 15-48.

Andrès, Bernard, «Du haut fourneau au bistouri : itinéraire de Pierre de Sales Laterrière (1743-1815)», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 141-152.

Andrès, Bernard et Nancy Desjardins, (sous la dir. de), Utopies en Canada (1545-1845), Montréal, UQAM, Département d'études littéraires, «Figura. Textes et Imaginaires», 2001, 296 p.

Andrès, Bernard, «Sobre as utopias quebecenses : das Luzes ås revoluções continentais», dans Laura P. Zuntini de Izarra (éd.), A literature da virada do século: fim das utopias?, São Paulo, Brésil, Humanitas FFLCH/USP-FAPESP, 2001, p. 15-33.

Andrès, Bernard, «Pamphlets et écrits polémiques», L'Encyclopédie canadienne 2001/The 2001 Canadian Encyclopedia, Edmonton, Alberta, McClelland & Stewart, CD Rom.

Andrès, Bernard, «Joseph de Nancrède et la presse française d'Amérique au temps de la Gazette de Montréal (1780-1800)», Cahiers des Dix, Québec, n° 55, 2001, p. 175-190.

Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey, Claire Grogan ed., Peterborough, Broadview Press, coll. "Broadview Literary Texts", 2002 (2nd edition).

Bage, Robert, Hermsprong or, Man as he is Not, Pamela Perkins ed., Peterborough, Broadview Press, coll. "Broadview Literary Texts", 2002, 387 p. See <http://www.broadviewpress.com/bvbooks.asp?BookID=523>.

Beaudoin, René, «L'énigmatique Laterrière : le personnage et ses mémoires», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 119-140.

Bernier, Marc André, «Entre diablerie et fabrique du corps : les éclipses de l'âme dans l'histoire de Silvie», dans Marie-Laure Girou-Swiderski (sous la dir. de, avec la collaboration de Pierre Berthiaume), Robert Challe et/en son temps, Paris, Champion, 2001, p. 180-192.

Bernier, Marc André, «Censure/procès», «Correspondance», «Cosmopolitisme», «Contexte», «Tragi-comédie», dans Paul Aron, Denis Saint-Jacques et Alain Viala (sous la dir. de), Le dictionnaire du littéraire, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2002, 672 p.

Bernier, Marc André et Bernard Andrès (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, 511 p.

Bernier, Marc André et Bernard Andrès, «Introduction. De la génération de la Conquête à celle des Patriotes», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 15-48.

Bernier, Marc André, «Portrait de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840)», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 411-424.

Berthiaume, Pierre, «Exercices spirituels et quiétisme dans Les Confessions du comte de *** de Charles Pinot Duclos», Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2001, n° 12, p. 57-68.

Berthiaume, Pierre, "Louisiana, or the Shadow Cast by French Colonial Myth" (translated from French by Florence Ciret and Cécile Accilien, Tulane University, New Orleans) dans Dalhousie French Studies, printemps 2002, vol. 58, p. 10-25.

Berthiaume, Pierre, «Amour-propre et libertinage dans Les Illustres Françaises, dans Marie-Laure Girou-Swiderski (sous la dir. de, avec la collaboration de Pierre Berthiaume), Challe et/en son temps, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2002, p. 47-64.

Berthiaume, Pierre, «Prévost traducteur de Frances Sheridan», dans Annie Rivara (recueil préparé par), La Traduction des langues modernes au XVIIIe siècle ou «La Dernière Chemise de l'Amour», Paris, Honoré Champion, 2002, p. 57-84.

Budd, Adam, "`Merit in Distress': The Troubled Success of Mary Barber", The Review of English Studies, 53 no. 210 (May 2002): 204-227.

Charbonneau, Frédéric, «L'écriture du singulier. Saint-Simon et quelques mémorialistes», Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, vol. CII, n° 2 (mars-avril 2002), p. 191-209.

Charles, Sébastien, "Ocasionalismo y Modernidad : Berkeley, lector critico de Malebranche", Praxis filosofica, 13, 2001, p. 27-42.

Charles, Sébastien, "De Pirro a Rousseau : estudo sobre o ceticismo das Luzes", Philosophica. Revista de Filosofia da História e Modernidade, 2, 2001, p. 11-34.

Charles, Sébastien, "Hume and Berkeley in the Prussian Academy: Louis Frédéric Ancillon's Dialogue Between Berkeley and Hume of 1796" (en collaboration avec R. Popkin, J. C. Laursen et A. Zakatistovs), Hume Studies, 27, 1, 2001, p. 85-127.

Conway, Alison, Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001, 293 p.

Conway, Alison, "The Protestant Cause and a Protestant Whore: Aphra Behn's Love-Letters", Eighteenth-Century Life, n.s., 25, 3, Autumn 2001, p. 1-19.

Crimmins, James E. (ed.), Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon and Related Writings, Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2002.

Curran, Jane, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Reader's Commentary, Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2002. 322 pp.

Curran, Jane, "Goethe's Helen: A Play Within a Play", International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 7/2. 2000. 165-176.

Curran, Jane, "Goethe and Schubert: Songs and Settings", Germanic Notes and Reviews, vol. 32, n° 2. 2001. 159-163.

De Bruyn, Frans, "Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France", Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34, 3, Spring 2001, p. 577.

Desjardins, Lucie, «Quand "l'art qui nous copie semble aussi nous multiplier". Théorie et pratique du portrait dans une littérature en émergence», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 425-436.

Doyon, Nova, «Valentin Jautard, un critique littéraire à la Gazette littéraire de Montréal (1778-1779)», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 101-108.

Fields, Polly, "Samson Occom And/In the Missionary[`s] Position: Consideration of the Post Colonial Preacher", Special Issue of the INCS Conference, Yale 2000, The Wordsworth Circle 32.1, Winter 2001, p. 14 - 20.

Frank, Tema, "Baby Steps", University Affairs / Affaires universitaires, 43, 2, février 2002, p. 20-23. L'article porte sur les Juvenilia Press.

Fulton, Gordon D., Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson's "Clarissa", Montréal et Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999, xiv/250 p.

Hare, John E., «Le rôle des salons littéraires à Montréal au tournant du XIXe siècle», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 167-180.

Geng, Li-Ping, "The Loiterer and Jane Austen's Literary Identity", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 13.4, July 2001, p. 579-592.

Girou Swiderski, Marie Laure, avec la collaboration de Pierre Berthiaume (édit.), Challe et/en son temps. Actes du Colloque de l'Université d'Ottawa 24-26 septembre 1998, Genève, Slatkine, coll. «Colloques, congrès et conférences. Le dix-huitième siècle», 5, 2002, 528 p.

Lipovetsky, Gilles, Métamorphoses de la culture libérale. Éthique, médias, entreprise, Montréal, Liber, 2002, 120 p. Préface de Sébastien Charles.

London, April, Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ix/262 p.

Melançon, Benoît, «Histoires de lire : demain, aujourd'hui, hier», Les futurs possibles du livre, 2002. Actes numériques du colloque des 15 et 16 novembre 2001, Montréal, Grande bibliothèque du Québec, 16 p. URL : <http://www.bnquebec.ca/fr/biblio/bib%5Facte.htm>.

Melançon, Benoît, «Naissances du drame bourgeois», Jeu. Cahiers de théâtre, 101, décembre 2001, p. 80-86.

Melançon, Benoît, «Notice sur la précarité romanesque ou ANPE, ASSEDIC, CDD, CV, DDASS, HLM, IPSO, RATP, RMI, SDF, SMIC et autres TUC», dans Pascal Brissette, Paul Choinière, Guillaume Pinson et Maxime Prévost (édit.), Écritures hors-foyer. Actes du Ve Colloque des jeunes chercheurs en sociocritique et en analyse du discours et du colloque «Écritures hors-foyer: comment penser la littérature actuelle ?». 25 et 26 octobre 2001, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Université McGill, Chaire James McGill de langue et littérature françaises, coll. «Discours social / Social Discourse», nouvelle série / New Series, 7, 2002, p. 135-158.

Nadeau, Martin, «La politique culturelle de l'an II: les infortunes de la propagande révolutionnaire au théâtre», Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 1, 2002, p. 57-74.

Nana Kamga, Osée Sylvain, «Plessis et la sécularisation de l'éloquence sacrée : une approche discursive», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 227-238.

North, Roger, Notes of Me: The Autobiography of Roger North, Peter Millard ed., Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001, 353 p.

Rice, Paul F. (School of Music, Memorial University) has published his editions of six symphonies by the 18th-century English composer, John Abraham Fisher (1744-1806). The scores, published by Artaria Editions of Wellington, NZ, are available as full orchestral scores as well as performing parts. More information on these scores (as well as a biography of Fisher prepared by Rice) can be found on the Artaria website.

Roy, Julie, «Le genre prétexte : récit de soi et critique sociale dans les correspondances féminines au tournant du XIXe siècle», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 181-202.

Roy, Stéphane. «"Un Panthéon des personnages qui ont éminemment marqué dans la Révolution, soit en bien, soit en mal" : les portraits des Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française», dans Alain Chevalier et Claudette Hould (sous la dir. de), La Révolution par la gravure. Les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française, une entreprise éditoriale d'information et sa diffusion en Europe (1791-1817), catalogue de l'exposition présentée au Musée de la Révolution française (Vizille) du 21 juin au 4 novembre 2002, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002, p. 50-75.

Roy, Stéphane. «Le retentissement de Brumaire en images : rupture ou continuité ?», dans Jean-Pierre Jessenne (éd.), Du Directoire au Consulat. Brumaire dans l'histoire du lien politique et de l'État-nation, actes du colloque organisé à l'Université de Rouen les 23 et 24 mars 2000, Lille, CRHENO, 2001, p. 581-593.

Roy, Stéphane. «L'édition d'imagerie populaire pendant la Révolution : piratage ou entente tacite ? Paul-André Basset et ses contemporains», Nouvelles de l'estampe, no 176, mai-juin 2001, p. 5-19.

Roy, Stéphane. "Von der Edition zum Monument : Die Repräsentation des Bürgersinns in den Portraits der Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française", dans Christoph Danelzik-Brüggemann et Rolf Reichardt (sous la dir. de), Bildgedächtnis eines welthistorischen Ereignisses. Die Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française, actes du colloque organisé à la Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen les 24, 25 et 26 juin 1998, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001, p. 213-258.

Ruelland, Jacques, «Les Canadiens et la science au Québec et au Bas-Canada (1760-1840)», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 153-164.

Sabor, Peter, "Feasting and Fasting: Nouishment in the Novels of Samuel Richardson", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 14, 2, January 2002, p. 141-158.

Saint-Germain, Annie, «De héros révolutionnaire à héraut pamphlétaire : le cas de Pierre Du Calvet (1735-1786)», dans Bernard Andrès et Marc-André Bernier (sous la dir. de), Portrait des arts, des lettres et de l'éloquence au Québec (1760-1840), Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «République des Lettres», 2002, p. 213-226.

Schellenberg, Betty A., "From Propensity to Profession: Female Authorship and the Early Career of Frances Burney", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 14, 3-4, April-July 2002, p. 345-370.

Schwarz, Hans-Günther and Jane V. Curran, eds., Denken und Geschichte. Festschrift für Friedrich Gaede, München, Judicium, 2002. 299 p.

Smith, David, «Diderot et Helvétius : une amitié sans atomes crochus», dans Ulla Kölving et Irène Passeron (édit.), Sciences, musiques, Lumières. Mélanges offerts à Anne-Marie Chouillet, Ferney-Voltaire, Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, coll. «Publications du Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle», 11, 2002, p. 349-358.

Spielmann, Guy, Le Jeu de l'Ordre et du Chaos. Comédie et pouvoirs à la Fin de règne, 1673-1715, Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. «Lumière classique», 36, 2002, 608 p., relié. ISBN 2-7453-0446-1.

Waterman, A. M. C., "Economics as Theology: Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations", Southern Economic Journal, vol 68, n° 4, April 2002, p. 907-21.

Wilputte, Earla, "`Room to fable upon': The History of Charles XII in Eliza Haywood's The Fortunate Foundlings", The Eighteenth-Century Novel, vol. 2, 2002.

Worvill, Romira, "Roger de Piles' Theory of Art and New Techniques for Opening Scenes in Molière, Landois and Diderot", British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 24, 2001, p. 77-89.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION

VIENT DE PARAÎTRE / JUST PUBLISHED

"FICTION AND PRINT CULTURE" / «GENRE ROMANESQUE ET CULTURE DE L'IMPRIMé»

The April-July 2002 number of ECF (vol. 14:3-4), a special number on "Fiction and Print Culture" / «Genre romanesque et culture de l'imprimé», has just been published. It contains the following articles:

AUTHOR AND BOOK

Mladen Kozul et Jan Herman, «Entre l'éthique et l'esthétique: séduction et préface de roman dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle», p. 251-70.
Martine Nuel, «La question de la publication dans le roman français de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle», p. 271-88.
Shaun Regan, "Print Culture in Transition: Tristram Shandy, the Reviewers, and the Consumable Text", p. 289-309.
Ann Bandry, "Tristram Shandy, the Public Ledger, and William Dodd", p. 311-24.
Maureen Harkin, "Goldsmith on Authorship in The Vicar of Wakefield", p. 325-44.
Betty A. Schellenberg, "From Propensity to Profession: Authorship and the Early Career of Frances Burney", p. 345-70.
Aileen Douglas, "Maria Edgeworth's Writing Classes", pp. 371-90.

BOOK ILLUSTRATION

Nicholas Cronk, "Picturing the Text: Authorial Direction of Illustration in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction", p. 393-414.
Nathalie Ferrand, «La mise en fiction de l'imprimé dans les romans du XVIIIe siècle (textes et illustrations)», p. 415-39.
Ann-Marie Thornton, "A Gift from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to George Simon Harcourt: Etchings and Proofs of the Illustrations to His Works", p. 441-63.
Janet E. Aikins, "Picturing 'Samuel Richardson': Francis Hayman and the Intersections of Word and Image", p. 465-505.
Robert Folkenflik, "Tobias Smollett, Anthony Walker, and the First Illustrated Serial Novel in English", p. 508-32.
W.B. Gerard, "Benevolent Vision: The Ideology of Sentimentality in Contemporary Illustrations of A Sentimental Journey and The Man of Feeling", p. 533-74.
Madeleine Blondel, «Les illustrations du Voyage sentimental de Laurence Sterne dans les livres du XVIIIe siecle», p. 575-624.

HISTORY OF THE BOOK

Christopher Flint, "In Other Words: Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Ornamants of Print", p. 627-72.
Janine Barchas, "Grandison's Grandeur as Printed Book: A Look at the Eighteenth-Century Novel's Quest for Status", p. 673-714.
James Raven, "An Antidote to the French? English Novels in German Translation and German Novels in English Translation 1770-99", p. 715-34.
Richard Frautschi and Angus Martin, "French Prose Fiction Published between 1701 and 1750: A New Profile of Production", p. 735-56.
Brigitte Louichon, «Éditer un roman à succes (1800-1830)», p. 757-70.
Martin Hall, "Gender and Reading in the Late Eighteenth Century: the Bibliothèque Universelle des Romans", p. 770-89.
Francoise Weil, «La présence des romans dans le colportage à la fin du XVIIIe siècle: les archives de Boisserand», p. 791-96.
Carl Spadoni, "Collecting Eighteenth-Century English Novels in the Twenty-First Century", p. 797-806.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION

Volume 14:2 of Eighteenth-Century Fiction has just been published:

ARTICLES

George A. Drake, "The Dialectics of Inside and Outside: Dominated and Appropriated Space in Defoe's Historical Fictions," p. 125-40
Peter Sabor, "Feasting and Fasting: Nouishment in the Novels of Samuel Richardson," p. 141-58
Malinda Snow, "Habits of Empire and Domination in Eliza Fenwick's Secresy," p. 159-76
Stephen Carl Arch, "`Falling into Fiction': Reading Female Quixotism," p. 177-98

REVIEW ESSAYS

Paul Alkon, "The Invisible Man Returns: New Defoe Editions," p. 199-214
Michael Gamer, "Gothic Origins: New Primary Scholarship," p. 215-22

REVIEWS

Alan J. Singerman on Brigitte E. Humbert, «De la lettre à l'écran. Les Liaisons dangereuses» p. 223-25

Ian Campbell Ross on Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale, introduction and notes, Claire Connolly and Stephen Copley; foreword, Kevin Whelan, p. 225-27

Clive Probyn on Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, ed. Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely; and Henry Fielding,Joseph Andrews, ed. Paul A. Scanlon, p. 227-29

Paul Keen on Miranda Burgess, British Fiction and the Production of Social Order, 1740-1830; and Angela Keane, Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s; and Adriana Craciun and Kari E. Lokke, eds., Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, p. 229-35

Aubrey Bilger on Barbara K. Seeber, General Consent in Jane Austen, p. 235-37

Everett Zimmerman on Devoney Looser, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670 to 1820, p. 237-40

Stephen Carl Arch on [Unca Eliza Winkfield], The Female American, ed. Michelle Burnham; and Olauday Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, ed. Angelo Costanzo, p. 240-42

Isabelle Brouard-Arends sur Marie-France Silver et Marie-Laure Swiderski, Femmes en toutes lettres: les épistolieres du XVIIIe siècle, p. 242-44

Monique Moser-Verrey sur Claire Jaquier, L'erreur des désirs: romans sensibles au XVIIIe siècle; et Denis Diderot, La Religieuse, éd. Claire Jaquier; et Antoine Prevost d'Exiles, Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, éd. Claire Jaquier, p. 244-46

Janet Todd on Maximillian E. Novak and Anne Mellor, eds., Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility, p. 247-48

For further information, to submit an essay, or to subscribe to ECF, please contact the editorial office: Eighteenth-Century Fiction
McMaster University
CNH 421
Hamilton (Ontario)
Canada L8S4L9

Sincerely,
Elaine Riehm
Managing Editor, ECF

MÉMOIRES ET THÈSES / THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Bélanger, Christine, «La lettre dans les Mémoires de ma vie de Casanova», Montréal, Université de Montréal, mémoire de maîtrise, en cours. Dir. : Benoît Melançon.

Busque, Anne-Marie, «La rhétorique de l'émotion dans les Essais sur les révolutions, le Génie du christianisme et la Vie de Rancé de François-René de Chateaubriand», Montréal, Université de Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Dir. : Benoît Melançon.

Castonguay, Marie, «Lecture de la pédagogie et pédagogie de la lecture : Émile de Jean-Jacques Rousseau», Montréal, Université de Montréal, mémoire de maîtrise, en cours. Dir. : Benoît Melançon.

Dionne, Ugo, «La voie aux chapitres. Poétique de la disposition romanesque, 1650-1870», Paris, Sorbonne nouvelle, thèse de doctorat, 2002, 799 p. Dir. : Philippe Hamon.

Doyon, Nova, «Valentin Jautard (1736-1787) et la Gazette littéraire de Montréal : vers un paradigme du littéraire au Québec», mémoire de maîtrise, 2001, Montréal, UQAM. Dir. : Bernard Andrès.

Doyon, Nova, «Étude comparée de l'émergence des littératures nationales dans le discours journalistique au Québec et dans les sociétés coloniales du Rìo de la Plata au tournant du 19e siècle», Thèse de doctorat, en cours, Montréal, UQAM. Dir. : Bernard Andrès.

Gariépy, Benoît, «Diderot et la pratique du dialogue dans Ceci n'est pas un conte et Madame de la Carlière», Montréal, Université de Montréal, mémoire de maîtrise, décembre 2001, x/144 p. Dir. : Benoît Melançon.

Klein, Felizitas. "Der ideale Zuschauer. Ein Vergleich zwischen Johann Christoph Gottsched und Bertolt Brecht", Dalhousie University. Supervisor: Prof. Jane Curran.

Lafrance, Geneviève, «Sociabilités concrètes, imaginées et théorisées chez Mme de Staël», Montréal, Université de Montréal, thèse de doctorat, en cours. Dir. : Benoît Melançon

Massé, Stéphanie, «Le destin du héros classique dans le théâtre érotique français du XVIIIe siècle. L'exemple de La Nouvelle Messaline (ca. 1752) de Grandval Fils» Mémoire de maîtrise, Trois-Rivières, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, avril 2002, iv-107 p. Dir. : Marc André Bernier.

Roy, Julie, «Épistolaire, écritures féminines : les Canadiennes à la Conquête des Lettres (1759-1839)», thèse de doctorat, en cours, Montréal, UQAM. Dir. : Bernard Andrès.

Roy, Stéphane. «De l'édition à l'édification : les portraits des Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française», thèse de doctorat en histoire de l'art. Université du Québec à Montréal, vendredi 20 septembre 2002. Dir. : Claudette Hould

Schroeder, Elfrieda, "Fragmented Identity: A comparative study of German Jewish and Canadian Mennonite Literature After WW II", doctoral thesis, 2001, University of Waterloo. Supervisor: Dr. Hildegard Nabbe.

Stewart, Suzanne, "Landscape and the Romantic Revisioning of Space in Poems by William Wordsworth and Paintings by J.M.W. Turner", University of Saskatchewan. Supervisor/Directeur: Anthony John Harding.

Veilleux, Martine, «Sade épistolier», Montréal, Université de Montréal, mémoire de maîtrise, en cours. Dir. : Benoît Melançon.

GRADUATE CLASSES / SÉMINAIRES

À l'automne 2002, Bernard Andrès donnera à l'UQAM le séminaire «Les aventuriers des Lettres à la fin du XVIIIe siècle québécois».

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL DE TEXTES

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION

The editors of Eighteenth-Century Fiction announce the following special number for July 2004.

ON THE BORDERS OF FICTION / AUX CONFINS DU ROMAN

We invite submissions for a special number of ECF (July 2004) dealing with the formal instability of fiction in the eighteenth century. We particularly encourage studies of works of fiction that crossed generic boundaries and borrowed the devices of other literary forms: imaginary voyages, spiritual guides and autobiographies, biographies and "histories," collections of letters, pornography, and so forth. We also encourage studies of non-fictional works that employ fictional devices or incorporate fictional episodes or passages. Submissions should reach us by 1 July 2003.

Pour le numéro spécial de juillet 2004, «Aux confins du roman», nous sollicitons des articles qui considèrent l'instabilité des formes romanesques, surtout des études d'oeuvres qui ne respectent pas les distinctions entre les genres et qui empruntent les procédés d'autres formes littéraires : récits de voyages, guides spirituels, mémoires, chroniques et histoires, recueils de lettres, pornographie, et ainsi de suite. Nous aimerions aussi recevoir des études portant sur des textes qui n'appartiennent pas aux genres de la fiction, mais qui emploient des modes romanesques ou comprennent des fragments imaginaires. Les manuscrits devraient nous parvenir avant le 1er juillet 2003.

Pour tout renseignement / For further information:

David Blewett Editor Eighteenth-Century Fiction
McMaster University
CNH 421
Hamilton (Ontario)
Canada L8S4L9
Email: blewett@mcmaster.ca

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THE ADAM SMITH REVIEW

A multidisciplinary annual review on Adam Smith is being set up by the International Adam Smith Society. The Adam Smith Review aims to provide a unique forum for vigorous debate and the highest standards of scholarship on all aspects of Adam Smith's works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings for the modern world. The Review will be open to all strands of research on Adam Smith and will encourage debate between scholars working from different perspectives.

Submissions to the Adam Smith Review are invited from any theoretical, disciplinary or interdisciplinary approach (max. 10,000 words). Contributors are asked to make their arguments accessible to a wide multidisciplinary readership without sacrificing high standards of argument and scholarship. It is planned that interdisciplinary articles will be sent to referees with different disciplinary expertise. Submitted articles will be double-blind refereed.

Each issue of the Adam Smith Review will contain a multidisciplinary symposium. The topic of the symposium for the first issue is `Contexts of Interpretation?'. Submissions are invited from any theoretical, disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective (max. 3,500 words).

Please send submissions, comments and suggestions for symposia to:

Vivienne Brown
Editor, the Adam Smith Review
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA, UK
Email: v.w.brown@open.ac.uk

Book Review Editors. Please send books for review to either

Anthony Brewer
Dept of Economics
University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Rd
Bristol BS8 1TN Bristol
UK
Email: a.brewer@bristol.ac.uk

James Otteson
Dept of Philosophy
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
U.S.A. 35487-0218
Email: jotteson@tenhoor.as.ua.edu

Editorial Board (as at March 2002)

Neil De Marchi (Duke, USA)
Douglas Den Uyl (Liberty Fund, USA)
Samuel Fleischacker (U. of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
Charles L. Griswold (Boston University, USA)
Knud Haakonssen (Boston University, USA)
Hiroshi Mizuta (Nagoya, Japan)
John Mullan (University College London, UK)
Takashi Negishi (Japan Academy, Japan)
Nicholas Phillipson (Edinburgh, UK)
D. D. Raphael (Imperial College, London, UK)
Emma Rothschild (Cambridge, UK)
Ian Simpson Ross (British Columbia, Canada)
Richard B. Sher (N. J. Inst. of Technology, USA)
Andrew S. Skinner (Glasgow, UK)
Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford, UK)
Keith Tribe (Keele, UK)
Gloria Vivenza (Verona, Italy)
Donald Winch (Sussex, UK)

The Adam Smith Review will be published by Routledge and will be available for sale in bookshops, but it will be available for purchase on preferential terms to members of the International Adam Smith Society. For details of membership of the Society please contact the Membership Secretary, Ryan Patrick Hanley (Email: rphanley@midway.uchicago.edu).

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CFP: NEW APPROACHES TO THE 18THC (9/1: JOURNAL ISSUE)

Articles are solicited for a special issue of College Literature dedicated to "New Approaches to the Long 18th Century." These new approaches may focus on relatively new areas of inquiry in the field (book history, queer studies, e.g.), on new ways of looking at more traditional 18th-century matters (the novel, drama, poetry, individual authors, etc.), or on more general issues such as theory, historicism, or interdisciplinarity. College Literature publishes essays that engage with matters of textual analysis, theory, and pedagogy (see mission statement below).

Interested contributors should send original essays of 7,500-9,000 words, prepared according to Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. (using parenthetical citations and a works cited page), to

Bonnie Gunzenhauser
English Department
Millikin University
1184 W. Main Streetà
Decatur, IL
U.S.A. 62522.

Please send four hard copies, with the author's name appearing only on a cover sheet.

Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2002. Please direct questions about this special issue to Bonnie Gunzenhauser at bgunzenhauser@mail.millikin.edu.

College Literature is a quarterly journal of scholarly criticism serving the needs of college/university teachers by providing access to innovative ways of studying and teaching new bodies of literature and experiencing old literatures in new ways. Its articles are designed to keep readers abreast of new developments and shifts in the theory and practice of literature by covering the full range of what is presently being read and taught as well as what should be read and taught in the college literature classroom.

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ITALY AND THE GOTHIC: SPECIAL ISSUE OF GOTHIC STUDIES

Italy provided Gothic writers with a major source of inspiration. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, The Mysteries of Udolpho and A Sicilian Romance, Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya and a host of minor novels used Italian characters and settings so extensively that the genre came to be entirely associated with Italy. Italy is indeed central in the definition of Gothic: a place of violence and passion, Italy is inhabited by a feudal and despotic nobility and a degenerate Catholic clergy, and its picturesque landscapes are disseminated with castles and monasteries whose labyrinthine and claustrophobic architecture offer the ideal physical and psychological setting of the novel's plots.

The editor would like to hear from perspective contributors to a special issue of Gothic Studies on Italy and the Gothic. We are interested in papers on any aspect of the Italian influence on, and presence in, the Gothic. For the Gothic novelists, Italy was, first of all, a concrete, real place, with very definite geographical, historical, cultural and religious features. Essay topics therefore include, but are not limited to, the historical and political underpinnings of the writers' use of violence in the Italian context; Italian art, architecture, and history; the role of Catholicism; the use of Italian geography and landscape. We would also welcome contributions on less obvious aspects of the Italian influence on the Gothic, for instance the Grand Tour, the picturesque, the sublime.

The editor would also be interested in discussions on the Gothic writers' use of Italy as a means to `de-familiarize' the domestic context of Britain and as a metaphorical space in which the narrative mapping of Italy hides more domestic concerns. The way Gothic writers employed Italy raises questions concerning the sense of distance and opposition between Britain and the Continent: the unruly historical features of the Middle Ages, the irrational and violent nature of Italians, the superstitious tenets and rites of Catholicism, Italy's scorching weather and intoxicating foods and drinks were all parts of a cultural ethos placed by Gothic writers in diametrical opposition to Britain's political, religious and moral stability. This often reflected the anxiety felt by writers for the threat posed to Britain by hostile cultural systems, particularly during the years of the French Revolution.

Please send proposals by 31 December 2002 to:

Massimiliano Demata
St Cross College
Oxford OX1 3LZ, England.
Email: massimiliano.demata@stx.ox.ac.uk

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CONTRIBUTORS WANTED: DICTIONARY OF BRITISH CLASSICISTS

The Dictionary of British Classicists 1500-1960 is seeking contributors for some of its for the period 1650-1850. This Dictionary of approximately 700 entries is scheduled for publication in 2004, with the deadline for submission 30 June 2003. The length of the entries identified below will be up to a maximum of 600 words. The publishers (The Thoemmes Press of Bristol) will pay an honorarium. The entries should provide essential biobibliographical information, with particular emphasis on the publishing history of editions and translations of Greek and Latin authors. Interested contributors should contact the General Editor:

Robert B. Todd
Classics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver (British Columbia)
Canada
Email: bobtodd@interchange.ubc.ca

Baxter, William (1659-1723)
Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)
Cramer, John Anthony (1793-1848)
Creech, Thomas (1659-1700)
Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688)
Davies, John (1679-1732)
Dibdin, Thomas (1776-1847)
Dodwell, Henry (1641-1711)
Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Forster, Nathaniel (1718-1757)
Gale, Thomas (c. 1635-1702)
Hare, Francis (1671-1740)
Harwood, Edward (1729-1794)
Hearne, Thomas (1678-1735)
Heber, Richard (1773-1833)
Homer, Henry (1753-1791)
Hudson, John (1662-1719)
Maittaire, Michael (1668-1747)
Martyn, John (1699-1768)
Mure William (1799-1860)
Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Potter, John (ca 1674-1747)
Shaw, Thomas (1694-1751
Taylor, John (1704-1766)
Toup, Jonathan (1713-1785)
Towne, J. (1711?-1791)
Walker, John (1732-1807)
Wasse, Joseph (1672-1738)
Warton, Thomas (1728-1790)
Winstanley, Thomas (1749-1823)

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL THEORY

Editors: Jeremy Jennings, University of Birmingham, UK and Peter Lassman, University of Birmingham, UK

The EJPT is being launched in July 2002 to provide a much needed and long awaited research forum for political theory in a European context. Broad in scope and international in readership, this new peer-reviewed journal will publish the very best articles in political thought and theory from top international scholars from Europe and beyond. Though contributions to political theory in the widest possible sense are welcomed, the EJPT will encourage a distinct emphasis on debates emerging from the development of national intellectual traditions of European scholarship, including such topics as the diverse traditions of republicanism; the changing nature of sovereignty; contrasting ideas of nation and citizenship; and methodological debates over approaches to the study of the history of political ideas.

The first issue includes contributions from:

Amitai Etzioni on Implications of the American Anti-Terrorism Condition for Global Architectures; David Kettler on Political Education for a Polity if Dissensus: Karl Mannheim and the Legacy of Max Weber; Stuart Jones on The Era of Tyrannies: Elie Halevy and Friedrich von Hayek on Socialism; John Maynor on Another Instrumental Republican Approach; Kari Palonen on The History of Concepts as a Style of Political Theorizing: Quentin Skinner's and Reinhart Koselleck's subversion of Normative Political Theory; Bernie Yack on Multiculturalism and Political Theorists

John McCormick on The Crisis of Constitutional Democracy in the Weimar Republic.

The EJPT will be edited from the European Research Institute--a major new centre of excellence currently under construction (funded by the UK research councils through the Joint Infrastructure Fund) at the University of Birmingham, which seeks to provide renewed impetus for European research within the School of Social Sciences.

For more information contact Jeremy Jennings

Email: J.R.JENNINGS@bham.ac.uk

More information about EJPT can be found at <http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/Details/j0388.html>.

CONFERENCES / COLLOQUES ET CONFÉRENCES

AUGUST-AOÛT 2002

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY INTERDISCIPLINARY GROUP AT THE CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL

The Eighteenth Century Interdisciplinary Group at the CUNY Graduate School invites paper proposals on various aspects of the long eighteenth century (the Restoration, eighteenth century proper, and Romanticism). We encourage interdisciplinary approaches embracing the fields of literature, drama, art history, history, philosophy, music history, and cultural studies. Meetings are usually the second Friday of every month. Tentative dates for the 2002-2003 academic year are September 13, October 11, November 8, December 13, February 14, March 14, April 11, and May 9.

Send paper proposals to Co-chairs
Vincent Bissonette (Ph.D. Program in English)
and James Hatch (Ph.D. Program in English)
at eighteenthcentury@gc.cuny.edu.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER / SEPTEMBRE-OCTOBRE 2002

NORTH WESTERN SECTION OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES: "ORDERING THE WORLD IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY"
SEPTEMBER 12-13.

Frank O'Gorman sends us word of the BSECS/NW next September:

Now that the programme has been finalised I would like again to draw your attention to the Fifth Conference of the North Western Section of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

The theme of the Conference is `Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century'. The two-day event is jointly organised by the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropoloitan University. It will be held on 12 and 13 September at Manchester Metropolitan University.

The Conference will focus on eighteenth century notions of order, hierarchy and subordination in the human and natural spheres, and on the connections betwen them. The Conference will discuss the links between concepts of the socio-political and of the natural order.

Speakers include Professors J.C.D. Clark, Peter Linebaugh and Frank O'Gorman.

Best Wishes,
Frank O'Gorman

(Registration details are at <http://www.bsecs.org.uk/ConferenceNW/confNWreginfo.htm> and the programme is given below )

Conference Programme: "Ordering the World in the 18th Century"

Thursday 12th September

10.30 a.m. - 12.00 noon Concepts of Race and European Supremacy
Professor Susan Deans Smith, University of Texas: `Creating the Colonial Subject: Patrons and the Genre of Casta Paintings in 18th Century Mexico and Spain'.
Dr. Rosalie McCrea, Academy of Fine Arts, Ontario: `The Voyage of the Sable Venus: Connoisseurship and the Trivializing of Slavery'.
Dr. Stephen Gregg, Edge Hill College, Liverpool: `The Order of the British Empire: teaching and editing the literature of Eighteenth Century Imperialism'.

12.00 noon - 1.00 p.m. Lunch

1.00 p.m - 3.00 p.m. The Political Order: Britain in the 18th Century
Dr. Philip Woodfine, University of Huddersfield: `Chief in Dignity and Office: the Order of Political Life in the Age of Walpole'.
Dr. Amanda Goodrich, Royal Holloway, University of London: `Social Structure and Hierarchy: Loyalism and the Debate on the French Revolution'.
Dr. David Thane: `John Reeves, Patriotic Debate and the Metaphor of Organization'.
Prof. Frank O'Gorman, University of Manchester: `Was the British Body Politic "Stable" in the Eighteenth Century?'.

1.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. Tea

3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Mapping the Antique: Topographies of the Levant
Dr. Ian Macgregor Morris, University of Exeter: `Robert Wood's Trojan Fancies'.
Mr. Kevin King, University of Manchester: `James Bruce and the "True" Source of the Nile'.
Dr. James Moore, University of Manchester: `W.M.Leake:Constructing the Levant'.

4.30 p.m. - 5.45 p.m. Religious Concepts of Order

Dr. Clotilde Prunier, University Paul-Valery, University of Montpellier: `Scottish Catholics and the French Revolution'.
Dr. William Scott, University of Aberdeen: `Pulpit versus Pamphlet in Late Eighteenth Century France'.

5.45 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Tea

6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. Plenary Lecture
Professor Peter Linebaugh, University of Toledo: `An Alternative Order: the Bi-Centennial of the Despard Conspiracy'.

Friday 13th September

9.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. The Hierarchy of Genres
Professor Barbara Anderman, Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania: `Felibien, Colbert and the Short-Lived Hierarchy of Genres in France'.
Dr. Aris Sarafianos, University of Manchester: `Johann Joachim Winckelmann and the Medical Ordering of Aesthetics'.
Orianne Smith, Loyola University, Chicago: Hester Piozzi and the Feminine Tradition of Prophetic Discourse'.
Dr. Jonathan Simon, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin `The Values of the Mineral Kingdom and the French Republic'.

11.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Coffee

11.30 a.m. - 12.30 a.m. Plenary Lecture
Professor J.C.D Clark, University of Kansas: Title to be announced

12.30 a.m. - 1.30 a.m. Lunch

1.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. The Social and Political Order: Languages of Politics
Matthew McCormack, Ph.D. Student, University of Manchester: `Dependence and Independence: Family, Polity and Society in Eighteenth Century Britain and America'.
Zillah Scott, University of Warwick: `The Control of Learning and the Church and King Riots in Birmingham, 1791'.
Dr. Marie Hockenhull-Smith: University of Wales: `Servants' Challenges to the Authority of their Masters'.

3.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. Tea

3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. The Great Chain of Being and the Principles of Order
Costica Bradatan, Ph.D. Student, University of Durham: `The Great Chain of Being in Berkeley's "SIRIS": A User's Guide'.
Stefka Ritche, Ph.D. Student, University of Central England: `The Scale of Existence from Infinity to Nothing cannot possibly have been: Samuel Johnson and the Great Chain of Being'.
Dr. Joel Richard, University of Bordeaux: `Handel's English Oratorios: Biblical Musical Dramas and the "Sound of Order"'.

5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Hierarchy and the Encyclopedie
Dr. David Adams, Department of French Studies, University of Manchester: `Order in the Encyclopedie'.
Dr. Judith Hawley, Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London: `Encyclopedias and the Effect of the French Revolution in the Long Eighteenth Century'.

6.00 p.m. - 6.15 p.m. Tea

6.15 p.m. - 7.15 p.m. Plenary Discussion: Ordering the World in the 18th Century

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HUME STUDIES IN BRITAIN
18-19th September 2002

Under the auspices of The British Society for the History of Philosophy in collaboration with The Mind Association The Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh and The Foundation for Intellectual History Venue The University of Edinburgh

The conference brings together the difference philosophical and historiographical traditions within which Hume is a canonical figure, providing a showcase for those working on Hume in the British academic community.

Speakers include

Simon Blackburn (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge) `TBA'
Roger Crisp (St Anne's College, Oxford) `Hume and utility as a moral property'
Marina Frasca-Spada (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) `Belief and Animal Spirits'
John Gaskin `Recent replies to Hume's demolition of the design argument'
James Harris (St Catherine's College, Oxford) `David Hume, Calvinist'
Peter Kail (University of Edinburgh) `"The Naturalism of David Hume": Kemp-Smith Revisited' Catherine Packham (Department of English, University of Leicester) `Animal economy and political economy, Hume and Adam Smith'
Tony Pitson (University of Stirling) `Hume on the problem of other minds'
M A Stewart (University of Aberdeen) `Murmurs among the zealots: The reception of Hume's writings on religion'

There will be a session of graduate students' papers.

For further details please consult the conference website at <http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/sem_html/Humeconferencewp.html>

or contact Peter Kail (Peter.Kail@ed.ac.uk) or Marina Frasca-Spada (mfs10@cus.cam.ac.uk).

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FRANÇOISE DE GRAFFIGNY: NOUVELLES APPROCHES
International Conference to be held in Trinity College, Oxford
19-21 September 2002

with the generous support of
The British Academy Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, Oxford
Society for French Studies
Trinity College, Oxford
Voltaire Foundation, Oxford

In 1752 Françoise de Graffigny, one of the most renowned women writers of the 18th Century, was at the height of her fame. In that year she published the second and significantly revised edition of her Lettres d'une Péruvienne, adding two new letters which intensified the critique of society and its reductive categorisation of women. She also republished Cénie, one of the century's most popular comédies sentimentales and one of the rare plays by a woman performed at the Comédie Française. Her salon in Paris was flourishing, and her correspondence offered a unique insight into the cultural life of the time. 250 years later, after a long period of neglect, Graffigny's importance is once again recognised. Her Lettres d'une Péruvienne have attracted many and diverse critical readings in recent years, and the ongoing edition of her correspondence is enabling scholars to discover new insights into her life and work.

This conference will examine the multiple facets of Graffigny's writing in the light of this recent critical attention. Forty scholars from both sides of the Atlantic will be speaking, and the list includes (from France) Béatrice Didier, Annie Rivara, Jean Sgard, Catherine Volpilhac-Auger and (from North America) Perry Gethner, Marie-Laure Girou Swiderski, English Showalter, David Smith, Joan Hinde Stewart. A full list of speakers and a provisional programme are available at the Conference website (<http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/colloque-graffigny.html>). The programme will include a concert of 18C French music to be performed on period instruments by Charivari agréable, an exhibition of Graffigny editions from the Taylor Institution, and a tour of the Christ Church Picture Gallery and Library.

A downloadable Registration form, and details of special discounts for registrations before 30 June are available on the website. All enquiries about the conference should be addressed to:

Dr Jonathan Mallinson
Trinity College Oxford
OX1 3BH
Email: jonathan.mallinson@trinity.oxford.ac.uk
Tel.: [00 44] 18 65 27 99 19
Fax: [00 44] 18 65 27 99 11

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER /NOVEMBRE-DÉCEMBRE 2002

COLLOQUE LIRE LA CORRESPONDANCE DE ROUSSEAU

Les Universités Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle et Paris VII-Denis Diderot organisent, sous le patronage scientifique de l'Association interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l'épistolaire et de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau, avec le soutien du Centre culturel suisse, un colloque LIRE LA CORRESPONDANCE DE ROUSSEAU les 27, 28 et 29 novembre 2002 à Paris.

Les personnes désireuses d'obtenir plus de précisions sur cet événement trouveront un texte de présentation et tous les renseignements nécessaires à l'adresse électroniquez suivante :

<http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article3150.php>

Yannick Séité

JANUARY-FEBRUARY / JANVIER-FÉVRIER 2003

32nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE of THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES
3-5 JANUARY 2003
ST. HUGH'S COLLEGE, OXFORD

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference will feature plenary addresses by Nicholas Boyle, (Magdalene College, Cambridge), Peter Jupp (Queens University, Belfast) and Susan Staves (Brandeis University), who will be this year's speaker in the annual exchange with ASECS.

We invite proposals for 25 minute papers on all aspects of life in the long eighteenth century not only in Britain but in Europe and the wider world. Such proposals might relate to, inter alia, art, architecture, history, literature, music, political thought, politics and society. Please submit a 200 word abstract or a brief description of the proposed panel (including the names of the speakers and summaries of their papers), via the BSECS website at <http://www.bsecs.org.uk>. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is 15 September 2002.

All enquiries regarding the academic programme of the conference should be addressed to the Programme Co-Ordinator, Frank O'Gorman (Email: fog@man.ac.uk). You will be notified whether your proposal has been accepted by 30 September 2002. In the case of scholars from outside the U.K. we shall endeavour to reach decisions earlier in order to facilitate travel arrangements. The deadline for registration will be 17 November 2002. To attend the conference without giving a paper, download the registration form from our website or request one direct from the Venue Organiser, Chris Mounsey (Email: CMouns@aol.com). You can also find out more about BSECS from our website.

Five bursaries of £100 each will be available for graduate students whose abstract has been accepted for presentation at the Conference and who are registered for a higher degree at a UK institution of higher education. Applications for bursaries, including a CV and an indication of other sources of financial support, should reach Frank O'Gorman by 20 October 2002.

St. Hugh's College (<http://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk>) is set in fourteen acres of self-contained grounds surrounded by lawns, borders and mature trees, making this one of the loveliest hidden delights of Oxford in which Conference delegates can relax within easy reach of lecture and seminar rooms and living accommodation. It offers both en suite accommodation and rooms with shared facilities. The College is within ten minutes walking distance of Oxford city centre, from which there are a number of very frequent bus services.

CONTACT ADDRESSES

For matters relating to accommodation,

For matters relating to and attendance without giving a paper:

conference papers:

Dr. Chris Mounsey
Professor Frank O'Gorman
King Alfred's College
17 Oughtrington Lane
Sparkford Road
Lymm, Winchester
SO22 4NR Cheshire WA13 OQY

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CALL FOR PAPERS: 2003 DEBARTOLO CONFERENCE
THE HISTORY OF MANNERS

Papers are invited on the History of Manners in the Eighteenth Century, the topic of the Seventeenth-Annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies, which will meet February 20-22, 2003, in Tampa, Florida. The keynote speakers will be Joan Landes and Pat Rogers.

In literature, art and culture, the eighteenth century has been noted for the prominence of manners. Whether celebrated as a minor artistic development--as in the comedy of manners--or touted as the hallmark of modern civility, the development of manners constitutes a varied and important field of history. Our topic encompasses literature, society, art, music, politics, comparative cultures and more. Manners may be simply (or perhaps not so simply) the accustomed way of doing things by a particular group of people at a particular time and place; or, they may serve as normative standards of a group. As such, manners reflect national, cultural, sub-cultural, religious, gendered, and/or class identities. Some potential areas of investigation include--but are not limited to--manners as manifested in:

· Business and Trade

· Civility, etiquette, and politeness

· Conversation (conversation clubs, circles, pieces, portraits, etc.)

· Material Culture

· Food, Dining and Dancing

· Hygiene, clothing, hairstyles

· Print Culture--representations of manners

· Conduct literature

· Satire (both written and etched)

· Travel--cultural comparisons

· Education (children, men, women)

The DeBartolo Conference is an annual meeting devoted to the interdisciplinary treatment of a theme in eighteenth-century studies. It follows a single-session, discussion-oriented format; consequently we are interested in scholars who are willing to share their research and to participate in the ongoing discussion. In order to sustain this seminar quality, we ask conferees to attend as many sessions of the conference as possible. We invite single presentation abstracts or complete panels with individual abstracts for each paper. If you are interested in serving as a moderator, please contact the director.

Due date for submissions: September 30, 2002

Dr. Laura Runge
DeBartolo Conference Director
Department of English
University of South Florida
4202 E Fowler Avenue, CPR 107
Tampa, FL
U.S.A. 33620-5550
Fax: (813) 974-2270
Email: runge@chuma.cas.usf.edu
Website: <http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/debartolo>

USF is committed to all affirmative action/equal opportunity policies.

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SOUTHEASTERN AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
FEBRUARY 28-MARCH 1, 2003

Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will meet in Columbia, South Carolina, February 28-March 1, 2003 at the University of South Carolina.

Conference theme : "Saints and Sinners: Subversion and Submission in the Eighteenth Century".

Plenary speakers:

Paula Backscheider (Auburn University) and Heather McPherson (University of Alabama-Birmingham).

Other events: 18th century exhibit at rare book room Thomas Cooper Library and reception; readings from Lessing's Nathan the Wise; Graduate Student Prize for best conference essay.

Send proposals for panels or papers relating to the conference theme or any other aspect of the long eighteenth century to

Zeynep Tenger and Paul Trolander
English Department, Berry College
Mount Berry, GA
U.S.A. 30149
Tel.: (770) 233-4074
Fax: (706) 368-6951
Email: ztenger@berry.edu or ptrolander@berry.edu

Deadline: October 15, 2002.

For further information, visit the conference web site at <http://www.berry.edu/seasecs2003>.

MARCH-APRIL / MARS-AVRIL 2003

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL SADE/USA, 2003
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS SADE/USA, 2003

Second Appel de Sessions/Communications

2nd Call for Panels/Papers.

Le premier colloque international américain dédié à la vie et aux oeuvres de Donatien, Alphonse, François, marquis de Sade aura lieu à Charleston, Caroline du Sud, du 12 au 15 mars 2003.

The first american international congress dedicated to the life and works of Donatien, Alphonse, François, Marquis de Sade will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, 12 to 15 of March, 2003.

Les conférenciers des séances plénières du colloque seront Joan De Jean (University of Pennsylvania), Michel Delon (Université de la Sorbonne-Paris IV) et Marcel Hénaff (University of California at San Diego).

The plenary speakers of the congress will be Joan De Jean (University of Pennsylvania), Michel Delon (Université de la Sorbonne-Paris IV), and Marcel Hénaff (University of California at San Diego).

Attractions : Performance de Madame de Sade, de Yukio Mishima.

Visite et dîner musical à Middelton Gardens.

Entertainment : Performance of Yukio Mishima's Madame de Sade.

Visit and musical dinner at Middleton Gardens.

Vous trouverez toutes les informations pertinentes à notre adresse : <http://www.cofc.edu/deSade/m.desade.html>.

You will find all factual information at: <http://www.cofc.edu/desade/m.deSade.html>.

Norbert Sclippa
Professor of French
French Department
College of Charleston
Charleston, S.C.
U.S.A. 29424
Tel.: 843 953 6529

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OLAUDAH EQUIANO: REPRESENTATION AND REALITY
An International One-Day Conference
Kingston University, Surrey, UK
Saturday 22 March 2003

CALL FOR PAPERS

Academic study of Olaudah Equiano has been energised in recent years by arguments asserting that some aspects of The Interesting Narrative (1789) may not represent Equiano's personal experience. In particular, the critics S.E. Ogude and Vincent Carretta have cast doubt over Equiano's account of his birth and upbringing in Africa, his kidnapping, and his experience of the Middle Passage. While Ogude's argument is based in textual analysis, Carretta's evidence emerges from archival work--yet both reach similar conclusions: that Equiano probably never visited Africa, and that the early parts of his Narrative are most likely rhetorical exercises, largely `based on oral history and reading, rather than on personal experience'.

As yet, Ogude and Carretta's findings have not been tested by the academy, nor have the possible implications been fully explored. The many students and general readers of Equiano are invited to read the early Narrative as unproblematic, while professional critics and historians, even when reading the text as `literary' or `rhetorical', tend to accept that its underlying narrative reflects Equiano's actual childhood experience. This conference invites scholars to assess the state of Equiano studies after Ogude and Carretta's essays, and to point the way for further research. Contributions from all disciplines are welcome, as are contributors with all points of view. In addition to reading Equiano's work in the light of Ogude and Carretta, we hope also to find room for more general discussion of the historical, interpretative, biographical, rhetorical, and literary issues arising from our reading of The Interesting Narrative. Questions we are particularly interested in exploring include (but are not confined to):

On Ogude and Carretta's arguments.

· Are Ogude and Carretta's arguments sustainable? If so, how do they alter the way we read, understand, use, or teach the text?

· How should we continue to research Equiano's early history?

· How do we read the early Narrative if we are not sure whose experience it represents? Is it slave narrative or oral history?

· What are the implications for our reading of the later Narrative?

· What do Ogude and Carretta tell us about Equiano's role as an abolitionist, as an author and publisher, and as a rhetorician? Other areas of interest which might be explored include.

· New research into Equiano's biography and connections

· Structure, form, and language in The Interesting Narrative

· Equiano as author, publisher, critic, abolitionist, and entrepreneur

· The Interesting Narrative and genre: slave narrative; voyage narrative; spiritual autobiography; abolitionist tract; picaresque novel; commercial treatise, etc.

· Contemporary and modern critical approaches

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland

CALL FOR PAPERS:

We welcome proposals of around 300 words for papers of 20-30 minutes.

Proposals can be submitted electonically or by mail.

Please contact Brycchan Carey at the address below by 30 November 2002

Conference website (regularly updated):

<http://humansciences.king.ac.uk/humanities/english/equiano.html>

Contact Information:

Dr Brycchan Carey
School of Humanities
Kingston University Penrhyn Road
Kingston-upon-Thames Surrey KT1 2EE
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0)20 8547 7908
Email: brycchan.carey@britishlibrary.net or b.carey@kingston.ac.uk

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LA RHéTORIQUE éPISTOLAIRE SOUS L'ANCIEN RéGIME FRANçAIS : DE LA THéORIE AUX PRATIQUES
4 ET 5 AVRIL 2003
UNIVERSITé DU MANITOBA

APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS

Comité scientifique : Eric Annandale, Constance Cartmill, Roger Duchêne, Elizabeth Goldsmith, Judith Rice Henderson, Claude La Charité et Benoît Melançon

Les propositions d'intervention d'une page, rédigées en français ou en anglais, peuvent porter aussi bien sur les traités d'épistolographie que sur l'actualisation des préceptes de la rhétorique épistolaire dans les pratiques des épistoliers français de la Renaissance au XVIIIe siècle et doivent parvenir au plus tard le 1er septembre 2002 à l'organisateur :

Claude La Charité
Département de français, d'espagnol et d'italien
415 Fletcher Argue Building
Université du Manitoba
Winnipeg (Manitoba)
Canada R3T 5V5
Tél. : 204.474.9689
Téléc. : 204.474.7578
Courriel : lacharit@ms.umanitoba.ca

EPISTOLARY RHETORIC IN THE FRENCH ANCIEN RéGIME: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
APRIL 4 AND 5 2003
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA

CALL FOR PAPERS

Program committee: Eric Annandale, Constance Cartmill, Roger Duchêne, Elizabeth Goldsmith, Judith Rice Henderson, Claude La Charité and Benoît Melançon

One-page proposals, in French or English, can deal with letter-writing treatises or the observance of precepts of epistolary rhetoric in the letters of French writers from the Renaissance to the 18th century and must be submitted at the latest by September 1st, 2002, to the organizer:

Claude La Charité
Department of French, Spanish and Italian
415 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3T 5V5
Tel.: (204) 474-9689
Fax: (204) 474-7578
Email: lacharit@ms.umanitoba.ca

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MAY-JUNE-JULY / MAI-JUIN-JUILLET 2003

EIGHTEENTH-IRELAND SOCIETY
CALL FOR PAPERS

The next annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society will be held from 2-4 May 2003 at Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City Libraries, Pearse Street.

The theme is: Religious and political identity in eighteenth-century Ireland

The conference organisers will welcome papers on all issues relating to Ireland and the Irish in the long eighteenth century, while it is hoped that particular emphasis will fall on aspects of the central theme. Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and may be delivered in either English or Irish.

Abstracts of proposed papers (100-150 words) should be sent by 31 January 2003 to

Dr Michael Brown, School of History
University College
Dublin, Dublin 4
Email: michael.brown@ucd.ie

Dr Maire Kennedy, Divisional Librarian, Special Collections
Dublin City Libraries, Cumberland House
Fenian Street
Dublin 2
Email: dublinstudies@dublincity.ie

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FASHIONING CHILDHOOD: AGE AND IDENTITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG
20-21 JUNE 2003

CALL FOR PAPERS

Ever since Philippe Ariès's groundbreaking study L'enfance et la vie familiale dans l'ancien régime, the so-called `rise of childhood' has been a matter of scholarly investigations. Many critical studies have so far concentrated on compiling and analysing where and how children were represented, and how the `child' came to function as a cultural icon in this period. Recent works on eighteenth-century childhood have begun to enquire into the significance of childhood as a concept which contributes to the formation of emerging middle-class identities.

The conference sets out to explore how this `putting the child into discourse' was part of an increasing differentiation of eighteenth-century society establishing the category of age as a marker of social distinction together with race, class, and gender. Age is to be regarded not only as a biological given, but also as a category shaping social roles and individual personalities. One of the guiding questions will ask which concepts of childhood were proliferated during the long eighteenth century (the period from 1660-1820). Which ones, on the other hand, were suppressed or excluded? How and where did the respective ideas circulate? Where were the cultural locations of childhood within specific societies? The conference wants to place these and similar questions into a broader European context and examine the links, transfers, transformations and oppositional reactions between eighteenth-century concepts of childhood in various European societies.

Possible topics may consider, among others, the following aspects:

- representations of childhood in various media, and their cultural locations;

- the proliferation and circulation of concepts of childhood;

- age as a marker of identity in representations of and for children;

- intersections of age with notions of race, class and gender;

- childhood and the formation of taste;

- childhood as spectacle: Wunderkinder, child actors, child acrobats, children's portraits, etc.;

- physical manifestations of childhood: physiognomy, body, body language, clothes;

- descriptions of and prescriptions for the child's body (e.g. medical treatises, child rearing manuals, literary and artistic representations of children's bodies);

- the child's position in the family and in society;

- legal and cultural locations of children at the margins of society (e.g. poor children, orphans, foundlings, bastards); the making of a new consumer group: toys, children's fashion, children's literature.

We invite papers of 20 minutes length from a wide range of disciplines, including the various European literatures, art history, music history, theatre studies, sociology, law, history, medicine, etc. Papers using a comparative approach are particularly welcome. Abstracts of ca. 250 words should reach the organizers (see the addresses below) by 31 October 2002.

The conference will take place at the University of Bamberg, Germany (see <http://www.bamberg.de> and <http://www.uni-bamberg.de>), right in the heart of the city's old town centre which is included in the World Heritage list. For further enquiries please contact:

Dr. Anja Müller-Muth
University of Bamberg, English Literature
An der Universität 9
D - 96045 Bamberg, Germany
Tel.: ++49 (0)951 863 2175
Fax: ++49 (0)951 863 5175
Email: anja.mueller-muth@split.uni-bamberg.de

or Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka
University of Bamberg, English Literature
An der Universität 9
D - 96045 Bamberg, Germany
Tel.: ++49 (0)951 863 2172
Fax: ++49 (0)951 863 5172
Email: christoph.houswitschka@split.uni-bamberg.de

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HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Conference to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Sir Henry Wellcome
20-21 June 2003

CALL FOR PAPERS

Jointly sponsored by

The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
The History of Medicine Panel of the Wellcome Trust
The American Association for the History of Medicine

A two-day conference marking the sesquicentennial of the birth of Sir Henry Wellcome (born and raised in the Upper-Midwest of the U.S., joint-founder of Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. in the U.K., founder of the Wellcome Trust). The conference will be devoted to themes in the history of medicine and related fields that reflect elements of Wellcome's own interests. Papers will be especially welcomed on the history of:

British-American medical relations

British and American pharmaceuticals

Collecting of books and establishing of libraries

Collecting and exhibiting of objects

Ethno-pharmacology and medical anthropology

The field of the History of medicine

Philanthropy and medicine

Those who wish to present a 20-minute paper at the conference (and to take questions on it) are asked to submit a one-page abstract of no more than 350 words by 16 October 2002; abstracts should be clear on the question being addressed as well as anticipated findings and conclusions, and include the name of the speaker, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, present institutional affiliation (if any), and academic degrees. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press. Please send an electronic version of the abstract via email attachment in MS Word, or eight printed copies by airmail, to:

Debra Scallan, PA to the Director
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London
24 Eversholt St.
London NW1 1AD UK
Email: d.scallan@ucl.ac.uk

Papers will be assessed and a programme organised by a committee consisting jointly of members of the Centre for the History of Medicine (Janet Browne, Hal Cook, Chris Lawrence, Tilli Tansey), the American Association for the History of Medicine (Rima Apple, Harry Marks, Molly Sutphen), and the History Panel of the Wellcome Trust (to be announced). The committee will issue invitations to speak during the months of November and December, and announce the plan of the programme early in 2003. It may be possible to help defer some of the expenses of PhD students and independent scholars who appear on the programme.

Harold J. Cook, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre

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WOMEN'S WRITING IN BRITAIN 1660-1830

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference, jointly organized by the University of Southampton English Department and Chawton House Library, will take place 15-17 July 2003.

In the last two decades the study of women writers and their careers in this period has become a particularly rich field of work, and the range of women whose writing now receives critical and historical attention has expanded exponentially. As it has it has done so, the issues raised by women's writing have come to be seen as key to the early shaping of our tangled modernity. The conference will reflect on--and debate--new directions for research in the field.

Responding to the rising interest in the role of these women thinkers and writers, the conference will also speak to the legacy and afterlife of work by 18th-century women writers, highlighting especially its remembrance and reinvention through film and television adaptation as well as its analysis in biography, literary criticism, and social history.

Possible themes could include: biography; bluestockings; print culture; public spheres; consumption; scandal; sexualities; empire; sensibility; the woman of letters; feminism; patriotism; politics; men and masculinities; networks; radicalism; anti-slavery and racial thinking; gardens and gardening; manners; morals; motherhood; marriage; patronage; education; class and authorship.

Papers on all questions of adaptation for the large and small screen are welcome. We hope that some sessions will look at the framing questions of the construction of literary history and the changes in critical debate on this crucial period of women's cultural production. Interdisciplinary papers which look at the social and cultural environments and at material culture in the period are also very welcome.

The conference will also include keynote talks and plenary panel discussions.

Deadline for proposals: October 31, 2002 (please note the new deadline date)

Proposals for papers or panels should be no more than two pages. Papers should be devised for a 20-minute format. Please send a hard copy of your proposal to the

English Department
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

Email copies may be sent to the conference email address: wwb2003@soton.ac.uk. Enquiries about the conference or about proposals can be sent either to the conference email address or directly to Cora Kaplana at ck1@soton.ac.uk.

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ROMANTIC CONFLICT (British Association for Romantic Studies)
24-27 July 2003
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK

Plenary Speakers: Isobel Armstrong, David Bromwich, Saree Makdisi, Susan Wolfson

The overall aim of the conference is to investigate sites of social, political and interpersonal conflict and their relationship to Romantic writing. Conflict may be taken literally (i.e. Revolution, war, rebellion, treason) or figuratively (i.e. the clash of genres, the battle of the sexes, the dissolution of friendship). General themes of the conference might include: the different ways Romantic writers construct conflict; the range of attitudes towards conflict, including incitement, justification, complaint, pacifism, avoidance, denial; and the ways in which the study of Romanticism depends upon notions of conflict and discord. Is `Romanticism' itself a site of conflict? Is resolution possible or is the struggle always already lost? The conference will also be an opportunity to test the viability of Romantic models for peace and reconciliation.

Some of the specific topics to be addressed are:

*war and the justification for war

*exploration, adventure, travel (`culture clash')

*class conflict, revolution

*ideologies

*religious differences

*ecological conflict

*gender conflict (`battle of the sexes')

*friends and enemies

*literary and political rivalry

*competition

*utopias

*antagonism between writers and reviewers

*conflicts between modes of discourse--literature, philosophy, history; poetry vs. prose

*radical aesthetics

*literary / cultural criticism as conflict

*Romanticism and Modernism

*Romantic studies as itself a site of conflict

Proposals for papers of 20 minutes are invited on these and related topics. Please either send in an abstract of 300 words to

Jacqueline Labbe
BARS 2003
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Email: j.m.labbe@warwick.ac.uk

or submit an abstract online. Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2002

Conference website: <http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/English/BARS2003.htm>

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER/AOÛT-SEPTEMBRE 2003

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
QUADRENNIAL CONGRESS, 3-10 AUGUST 2003, LOS ANGELES (CALIFORNIA)

SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE D'ÉTUDE DU DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE
ONZIÈME CONGRÈS, 3-10 août 2003, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIE

The UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Eleventh ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment.

If you wish to deliver a paper in a session or participate in a roundtable panel, please review the list of proposals listed on the Congress website: <http://www.isecs.ucla.edu>.

Proposals for papers should be send directly to the panel chairs no later than 15 September 2002.

Le Centre d'étude des XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècles de l'Université de la Californie et la Société américaine d'étude du XVIIIe siècle (ASECS) annoncent l'appel de communication pour le 11e Congrès international sur les Lumières.

Si vous voulez présenter une communication dans une séance ou participer à une table ronde, nous vous demandons d'examiner la liste des propositions sur le site Internet: <http://www.isecs.ucla.edu>.

Les propositions de communication doivent être soumises directement aux présidents de séance avant le 15 septembre 2002.

SOCIÉTÉS SAVANTES / LEARNED SOCIETIES

SOCIETY FOR EARLY AMERICANISTS
NEW HOME PAGE

The URL for the SEA homepage has changed to accommodate greater use of the Humanities server here at UCI. The new URL is <http://web2.hnet.uci.edu/~mclark/seapage.htm>.

The old URL is being set to forward people to the new site for a while, but we should update the links on all information regarding the SEA website.

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SOCIéTé GERMAINE DE STAëL

La société est en train de développer un site Internet. La société est interdisciplinaire et implique aussi la période napoléonienne, les lettres allemandes et écossaises entre autres. La société se retrouve tous les cinq ans. La prochaine conférence est prévue pour Florence (Italie), car un nombre substantiel des membres est européen.

The society is developping a website. This interdisciplinary society involves the Napoleonic period, German letters and Scottish letters among others. The society meets every five years, and to reflect on its large European contigent the next meeting is planned in Florence (Italy).

Madelyn Gutwirth
University of Pennsylvania
640 Valley View Road
Ardmore, PA
U.S.A. 19003-1029

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MWASECS

La réunion annuelle du MWASECS est organisée par Lance Wilcox et Brian Connery en 2003. Judith Burdan devient présidente en 2004. La société s'intéresse à joindre ses rencontres annuelles avec d'autres associations, pour apporter de la divertisité à ses rencontres : elle accueillerait des associations spécialisées dans les domaines anglais ou français, des américanistes, des historiens et des historiens de l'art.

The MWASECS yearly meeting is organized in 2003 by Lance Wilcox and Brian A. Connery. The conference will take place in Chicago in 2004 and Judith Burdan will be president by then. The MWASECS is interested in joint meetings with other societies with specialists in French, English, Americanists, Historians, Art Historians in order to bring diversity.

Judith H. Burdan
James Madison University
Dept. of English
Harrisonburg, VA
U.S.A. 22801

Lance E Wilcox
Dept. of English
Elmhurst College
190 Prospect
Elmhurst, IL
U.S.A. 60126-3296

Brian A. Connery
Dept. of English
Oakland University
Rochester, MI
U.S.A. 48309-4401

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ASSOCIATION ROUSSEAU

Ourida Mostefai représente l'Association Rousseau qui organise une réunion bi-annuelle au Canada ou aux États-Unis. Elle co-organise la conférence avec la Société Voltaire pendant la conférence 2004 ASECS à Boston.

Ourida Mostefai represents the society Rousseau which has bi-annual meetings in Canada or the USA. She will co-organize the 2004 ASECS meeting in Boston in coordination with the Voltaire Society.

Ourida Mostefai
Boston College
Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures
Chesnut Hill, MA
U.S.A. 02167-3804

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SOCIéTé GOETHE / GOETHE SOCIETY

La Société Goethe a une publication tous les deux ans. Elle ne se limite pas à Goethe, mais inclut Herder et Mme de Staël. Elle octroie deux prix pour les essais sélectionnés dans son journal ou dans d'autres journaux. Il y a un prix pour les étudiants aux études supérieures. Elle offre une session au MLA sur Goethe et le monde de l'Islam.

The Goethe Society has a yearbook published every other year. Its interest is not limited to Goethe but includes Herder and Mme de Staël. It offers two prizes for essays selected from their journal or other journals, a graduate student prize for research as well as an MLA panel on Goethe and the Islamic world.

Hans Vaget
German
Smith College
Northampton, MA
U.S.A. 01063
Email: hvaget@Smith.edu
Internet: <http://www.goethesociety.org>

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IBEROAMERICAN SOCIETY

La Iberoamerican Society cherche à coopérer avec d'autres organisations. Le groupe est petit et inclut le monde hispanique plus le Brésil. En 2006, la réunion annuelle a lieu à Montréal.

The Iberoamerican Society seeks cooperation with other organizations. The small group includes all Spanish-speaking countries plus Brazil. In 2006 the group will meet in Montreal.

Ruth Hill
Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
University of Virginia
Chalottesville, VA
U.S.A. 22903

Kristen T. Saxton
Email: ksaxton@mills.edu

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EARLY AMERICANIST SOCIETY

La rencontre de la Société des américanistes aura lieu en avril 2003 dans le Rhodes Island. Elle donne un prix annuel pour un essai. La Société semble très intéressée à avoir des tables rondes ou sessions canadiennes et cherche à se coordonner avec la SCEDHS.

The next Early Americanist meeting takes place in April 2003 in Rhode Island. It delivers an annual essay prize. The society is eager to combine conferences with CSECS.

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SOCIéTé HERDER / HERDER SOCIETY

La société Herder, qui comporte de 120 membres, se réunit tous les deux ans et a publié six volumes liés à ses activités de conférences. Elle se rencontre à Houston.

The Herder Society has 120 members and will meet at Rice University in Houston. In existence since 1985, it meets every two years and has published 6 conference volumes.

John Zammito
Email: zammito@rice.edu

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA--WILLIAM L. MITCHELL PRIZE

The Bibliographical Society of America announces the William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British Periodicals or Newspapers. Named in honor of William L. Mitchell (retired, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, U. of Kansas), the Prize will be awarded beginning January 2003 and thereafter every three years. It brings a cash award of $1000 and a year's membership in the Society.

Submissions for the Mitchell Prize may concentrate on any periodicals or newspapers printed before 1800 in English-speaking countries, but should involve research into primary sources of historical evidence, such as the analysis of the physical objects, whether for establishing a text or understanding the history of the production, distribution, collecting, or reading of serial publications.

Eligible scholarship may take the form of a book or article, an Master's thesis or doctoral dissertation defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as on a World-Wide-Web site or a CD-ROM. Eligible scholarship must have been published or, if a dissertation or thesis, approved during the year of the deadline or the three previous calendar years. However, for the first award, the nominating period will be extended back two more years, for a total of five (for the period 1 January 1997 to 15 October 2002). In subsequent award periods the submission deadline will be 1 September. If a publication has an incorrect nominal date disqualifying it for submission but an actual date of publication within the prize period, it may be nominated with a letter by the publisher or editor testifying to the actual date of publication. Unpublished dissertations and theses must be accompanied by a letter from the director attesting their approval.

All scholars are eligible to apply for the Mitchell Prize without regard to their membership in the Bibliographical Society of America or any other society, and without regard to their citizenship or academic affiliation, degree, or rank. The Prize will be awarded to the author of a particular work of scholarship without regard to the author's prolonged or repeated contributions to the field. Since the Prize is designed to promote research on the history of the periodical and the periodical press, the Prize Committee encourages applications by young or junior scholars who have not as yet published extensively. Applicants may nominate themselves or be nominated by other persons, including publishers, journal editors, and dissertation and thesis directors.

Applications must contain the following items: a letter of intent addressed to the "Mitchell Prize Committee," five copies of the work placed in nomination (only three are needed of dissertations and theses),a one-page curriculum vitae, and, if required, any documentation regarding the approval of a theses or a dissertation or confirming the date of a publication. Web-based nominations do not require the submission of five copies, but free access to the website and instructions regarding its use must be offered, along with a statement regarding plans for maintaining and/or archiving the website. Applications should be addressed to:

The Mitchell Prize Committee
c/o the Executive Secretary
Bibliographical Society of America
P.O. Box 1537
Lenox Hill Station
New York, NY
U.S.A. 10021
Email: bsa@bibsocamer.org

Submissions in 2002, for the 2003 award, need be postmarked by 15 October (by 1 September in future years). The prize will be awarded at the BSA's annual meeting, held in New York in late January (the winner will be contacted in advance and invited to receive the award at the meeting). Questions regarding the award should be addressed to the Mitchell Prize Coordinator:

Dr. James E. May
English Dept.
Penn State - DuBois
College Place
DuBois, PA
U.S.A. 15801
Email: jem4@psu.edu

A fuller account of the Prize will be announced in PBSA and posted with updates on the BSA's website: <http://www.bibsocamer.org>.

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FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH INTO THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

The OVN, a new Dutch foundation, will make research grants available to (international) students and scholars studying the history of freemasonry. For additional information please contact:

drs. Andréa A. Kroon, chairwoman
Private phone/fax number: + 31 70 3603129

OVN, stichting ter bevordering van wetenschappelijk Onderzoek naar de

geschiedenis van de Vrijmetselarij in Nederland

OVN

Postbus 92004, 1090 AA Amsterdam, The Netherlands

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES AND THE INTERNET / LE XVIIIe SIÈCLE ET INTERNET

TRANSLATION OF PRéVOST'S CLEVELAND

A new English translation of Books 1-3 of Prévost's Le Philosophe anglais, ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell, écrite par lui-même et traduit de l'anglais par l'auteur des «Mémoires d'un homme de qualité» (1731-1739) is available on line at the following URL : <http://www.duke.edu/~pstewart/Cleveland.htm>.

The English translation of the first two volumes of The Life of Mr. Cleveland, natural son of Oliver Cromwell, written hy himself, "In which is contained," reported the Monthly Chronicle, "the private history of the Usurpation, hitherto unknown; together with many incidents of an uncommon and extraordinary nature" (1731, vol. IV, p. 81) was published in London in April 1731 by Nicolas Prévost and E. Symon; volumes three and four appeared sometime in 1732 under the sole name of Nicolas Prévost. T. Astley bought the rights after N. Prévost went bankrupt in November 1733, and reissued the four volumes under his own title page in 1734. In 1735 he added the apocryphal fifth volume, the original of which had already appeared in Holland, and reissued all of these in 1741.

As a result, the real sequel to Cleveland, books 8-15 in three volumes published in Paris in 1738 and 1739, has never been translated into English. (For more details on the publication history, see my article "Prévost et son Cleveland: essai de mise au point historique", Dix-Huitième Siècle, nº 7 [1975], p. 181-208.)

Books 1-3 are the text of the first two volumes; my intention is to continue the translation as time allows.

Why am I doing this? First, because I think Cleveland deserves readers, both because it is a grand novel which was very influential, and because it has an English subject (extending in the subsequent volumes into the mid-Atlantic and southern English colonies in America). The earlier English translation is hard to find, and is in any case incomplete. Second, because I think that it will be difficult to find a publisher, so it makes sense to make the text available in the most economical fashion possible to those who are interested. Mind, however, that while free in this form, the text is under copyright.

I would be grateful for feedback, especially having to do with mistakes of any kind or even just awkward renditions: there will surely be many, since this is a work in progress.

Philip Stewart
Department of Romance Studies
Duke University
Durham NC
U.S.A. 27708-0257
Tel.: 919 660-3122
Fax: 919 684-4029
Email: pstewart@DUKE.EDU

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INTELEX PAST MASTERS -- ENGLISH LETTERS INTRODUCTION

In association with Oxford University Press, InteLex is releasing new full-text databases of the correspondence, diaries, memoirs and notebooks of many influential writers. Each database is an accurately digitized version of an authoritative multi-volume print edition, usually from Oxford University Press or Pickering & Chatto. Scholars can search for words, phrases, or groups of words within a single text or across any number of texts in the collection, and the CD-ROM editions can be electronically highlighted or notated for critical study. These texts may be purchased on a custom-made CD-ROM for individual, library, or departmental use, or a university can purchase Web versions for campus-wide access.

Many of our current and forthcoming titles are from the 18th Century:

Swift: Correspondence

Pope: Correspondence [released]

The Eighteenth Century (48 volumes)

Bentham: Correspondence

The Romantic Age [released]

The Wordsworths: Collected Letters [released]

Colerideg: Collected Letters

Details about these and other titles in the collection can be found by clicking on the respective title links at: <http://www.nlx.com/pstm/pstmoup.htm#Letters>.

Justin Cober
InteLex Corporation
P.O. Box 859
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Tel.: 434-970-2286 ext. 300
Fax: 434-979-5804
Email: cober@nlx.com

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SADE IN TRANSLATION ON LINE

There are several translations of key works by Sade (in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Occitan) at the following address, for your enjoyment : <http://desade.free.fr/>.

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RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EXCURSION (1835) added to the Beckfordiana website

Another resource has been added to Beckfordiana, the website devoted to the life and works of William Beckford (1760-1844), hosted by Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire: William Beckford's last published work, Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha (1835) at <http://beckford.c18.net/wbrecollalcobatalhaindex.html>. The keeper of the site is always grateful to receive suggestions, corrections and additions regarding Beckfordiana. Please direct these to this email address: dick.claesson@lit.gu.se.

Also, the keeper encourages you to browse around the site and to address any suggestions for further additions to the aforementioned email. Apologies for any crossposting. Please forward this mail to any lists or addresses which you think will be interested (this message has been posted to the C18L-list, the Victoria list and the William Beckford list at Yahoo).

Dick Claésson
<http://beckford.c18.net/wbclaesson.html>

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RéPERTOIRE DES SPECTACLES à PARIS DE 1673 à 1715

Concurremment à la parution de mon livre (Guy Spielmann, Le Jeu de l'Ordre et du Chaos. Comédie et pouvoirs à la Fin de règne, 1673-1715, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2002), je voudrais annoncer la mise en ligne de ressources sur les spectacles de la Fin de règne. Entre autres documents, vous trouverez en accès libre au

<http://www.georgetown.edu/spielmann/finderegne>

un répertoire chronologique des spectacles à Paris de 1673 à 1715 (Signalétique des pièces créées à cette époque -- y compris celles du théâtre lyrique, du théâtre forain et Italien -- et, pour des dizaines d'entre elles, une notice -- synopsis de l'intrigue et/ou commentaires) ainsi qu'un répertoire alphabétique des comédies créées de 1673 à 1715, et quelques «morceaux choisis» de mon ouvrage à titre d'échantillon. Ces pages seront bientôt complétées par une banque iconographique des nombreux documents visuels auxquels le livre fait référence, mais qui n'ont pu y être reproduits pour des raisons de coût.

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C18-L BIBLIOGRAPHY

This is to announce the updated version of Jim May's C18-L Bibliography of Recent Work on 18th-Century Children's Literature, now available:
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/children.htm>.

Two more of Jim May's C18-L Bibliographies have also been updated:

Recent Studies of Journalism & the Periodical Press:
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/journalism.htm>

Recent Studies of Illustrations and Prints, Including Cartography:
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/engrave.htm>

Kevin Berland for C18-L

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SELECTED READINGS, NO. 88

We are delighted to announce the publication of the 88th issue of our online interdisciplinary bibliography of eighteenth-century studies, Selected Readings, now available:
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr88.htm>.

This issue is our most thorough yet, thanks to our loyal volunteers, Costica Bradatan, Antoine Capet, Neil Guthrie, Laura Kennelly, James E. May, Benoit Melançon, Clotilde Prunier, Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa, & A.J. Wright. It is especially strong in Bibliography (History of the Book, Libraries); English, French, Scottish, and Spanish Literature; Philosophy; Theory & Criticism--and there are many more entries in fields including Africa; the Caribbean; China; History of Architecture, Art, Music, Medicine, Religion, Science, and Sexuality; Korea; German Literature; Irish History and Literature; U.S. Colonial and Federal History and Literature, and more.

Please take a few minutes to visit this website. We are always looking for people who would be willing to take on the occasional and not terribly onerous task of reporting on one or more journals in their fields--see our Journals page for a list of those we'd like to cover: <http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/journals.htm> -- we would be glad to hear of other titles that should be included. Becoming a member of the Volunteer Fire Department is easy--see <http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/volunteers.htm>.

And we will be overjoyed to hear from volunteers who have fallen silent recently. The next issue of Selected Readings will be published on or about May 15, 2002.

Kevin Berland for C18-L

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LATIN QUOTATIONS DATABASE

I've created a database (though I use the term loosely) of texts written in Latin. Currently, the database has most works by most authors who were frequently cited in the eighteenth century. If you need help identifying something, I'll be happy to do a search. Perhaps such a database exists elsewhere; if so, I haven't been able to find it. This isn't, by any means, a professional database, but I've found it pretty helpful, and thought you might too. Here's a partial list of the authors included: Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Livy, Lucan, Lucretius, Martial, Ovid, Pliny the Younger, Quintilian, Sallust, Tacitus, Valerius Maximus, Virgil.

Yours, Christopher Mayo
Doctoral Candidate
Brandeis University
Email: christophermayo@earthlink.net

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PERIODICAL PRESS IN SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA

An electronic discussion list has been created for historians of the periodical press in Spain and Spanish America, in spanish:

<http://www.elistas.net/lista/histoprensa/>
<http://www.eListas.net/lista/histoprensa/alta/>

Saludos cordiales,
Angel Romera

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MAJOR UPDATES TO BECKFORDIANA WEBSITE

Beckfordiana, the William Beckford website hosted by Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire, has been expanded to include these new resources:

*William Beckford's prose romance manuscript, The Vision (1777), which is found at <http://beckford.c18.net/wbthevision.html>.

* John Rutter's Delineations of Fonthill Abbey (1823) in a facsimile edition: <http://beckford.c18.net/rutterdelineaindex.html>.

* William Beckford's debut work, Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (1780): <http://beckford.c18.net/wbbiomemoirsexpaindex.html>.

Also, a correction to a previously provided URL is needed. The URL for the Beckford Society is <http://beckford.c18.net/wbsocietyindex.html>.

* A visit to the Abbey by Lord Nelson and Sir and Lady Hamilton in an online facsimile edition of an article from the Gentleman's Magazine: "Letter from a Gentleman, present at the Festivities at FONTHILL, to a Correspondent in Town" [1801, LXXI, pt 1, 206-208], continued in "LORD NELSON'S RECEPTION AT FONTHILL" [1801, LXXI, pt 1, 297-298]: <http://beckford.c18.net/wbgentmag.html>.

Beckford Society Homepage: <http://beckford.c18.net/wbsocietyindex.html>

The keeper of the site is always grateful to receive suggestions, corrections and additions regarding Beckfordiana. Please direct these to this email address: dick.claesson@lit.gu.se.

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SITE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE D'ÉTUDE DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la naissance (ou la re-naissance) du site de la société française d'étude du XVIIIe siècle (sfeds), grâce aux efforts de la nouvelle secrétaire de la société, Lise Andries.

Voici l'adresse : <http://www.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/sfeds>.

Vous y trouverez une présentation de la société et de ses publications, des annonces d'événements, de congrès, de soutenances de thèse, des liens vers des sites spécialisés dans le XVIIIe siècle, des équipes de recherche, des bibliographies... dès à présent ou dans un futur proche.

Tout cela est nouveau et nous faisons appel à votre patience car quelques domaines sont encore en cours de construction. La possibilité de lecture en ligne des tables des matières et textes de présentation de la revue Dix-huitième siècle (seuls les derniers numéros sont présentés, l'un sur le thème du rire, et l'autre sur celui des sciences), sera étendue à tous les numéros, on trouvera également des notes de lecture, et un moteur de recherches simplifiera le travail.

Je vous souhaite une bonne et fructueuse consultation.

Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre
IUFM de Lyon
UMR LIRE

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WILLIAM BLAKE ARCHIVE

The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of "Resources for Further Research," a new wing of the Archive. Intended to assist students and researchers seeking additional materials for the study of Blake, Resources includes collection lists for the Archive's contributing institutions and bibliographies of reference and scholarly sources pertaining to Blake. In addition, we've moved our electronic edition of David V. Erdman's Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake to this new wing. Each of these resources is encoded in SGML and fully searchable. In the future, Resources will also include a Study Guide for using the Archive to explore Blake and his works.

The collection lists were prepared by the Archive editors in partnership with the curators of the contributing collections. Gathered in a single location, these handlists provide the most complete account available today of the various collections of Blake's work. The bibliographies were compiled by the Archive editors with the assistance of Denise Vultee. These bibliographies include a selection of the most important publications written in English about Blake and his work and should be considered a starting point for students and researchers. We will update the bibliographies on an annual basis.

At present the Archive contains 41 copies of 18 of Blake's 19 illuminated books and the Thomas Butts set of Blake's water colors illustrating the Book of Job, now in the Pierpont Morgan Library. In the

near future we expect to release more drawings and prints in Preview, a much-anticipated electronic edition of Jerusalem copy E, and further supplementary materials, including a biography and glossary.

As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible through the continuing support of the Institute for Advanced

Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, by a major grant from the Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and by the cooperation of the international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive.

We invite you to visit the Archive at <http://www.blakearchive.org> or <http://www.blakearchive.org.uk> (British mirror).

Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, technical editor
The William Blake Archive

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NEW KANT DISCUSSION GROUP

Some months ago, I started a new Kant listserv to replace the now-defunct Bucknell listserv.

It can be found at:
groups.yahoo.com/group/kant-l

Furthermore, it is possible to subscribe with WWW-use by sending an email to
kant-l-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Marcus Verhaegh
Graduate Student, Philosophy
Emory University

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NEW WEBSITE ON THE LADY'S MAGAZINE

I would like to announce a new website on the Lady's Magazine from its inception in 1770 until 1800. The website is the product of research I carried out for my doctoral dissertation on representations of dress in eighteenth-century literature. As I scoured copies of the magazine for fashion reports and articles on dress I became convinced that the Lady's was a valuable resource for people working in many aspects of late eighteenth-century culture. Lacking an overall index, however, the Lady's is a far from inviting resource for those not working directly on the publication itself. The website aims to provide a searchable index for the Lady's Magazine from 1770 to 1800 to make its diverse content more accessible as well as offering more general information on the history, content and influence of the periodical. As yet, the site lacks a professional search engine facility, although it can still be searched effectively by keyword using "edit" and "find" in either Netscape or Explorer Browsers. The index can also be browsed by year. I hope to add a search engine in the near future. In the coming months I hope to add more pages to the site, including prose and poetry extracts, more images and, if the site proves useful, more indexing post 1799.

The address for the site is as follows:

<http://www.qmul.ac.uk/~english/publications/ladysmag1.htm>.

Please send any comments, corrections or suggestions to jenniebatchelor@hotmail.com.

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ROMANTIC CIRCLES

Romantic Circles is delighted to announce the publication of one of its most ambitious Praxis volumes to date: Romanticism and Contemporary Culture, edited by Laura Mandell and Michael Eberle-Sinatra.

This volume emerged from a virtual conference in RC's Villa Diodati MOO, a log of which it makes accessible. Beyond individual essays by Ron Broglio, Jay Clayton, Atara Stein, and Ted Underwood, it also includes a forum entitled "Presentism vs. Archivalism in Research and the Classroom," with essays by Phillip Barrish, Jon Klancher, Jerome McGann, David Simpson, and Gregory Tomso. Both the volume as a whole and the Forum section are introduced by Laura Mandell.

The volume can be found at
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/index.html>

Abstracts of the essays are located at
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/abstracts.html>

Individual essays can be accessed as follows:

Jay Clayton, "Cultural Patchwork in the Classroom: Shelley Jackson, Tom Stoppard, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling Rewrite the Romantics"
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/clayton/clayton.html>

Atara Stein, "Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture"
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/stein/stein.html>

Ted Underwood, "How to Save `Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)"
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/underwood/underwood.html>

Ron Broglio, "The Picturesque and the Kodak Moment"
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/broglio/broglio.html>

David Simpson, "Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for `Antiquarian' History"
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/simpson/simpson.html>

Jerome McGann, "Preface to Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies After the World Wide Web"
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/mcgann/mcgann.html>

Gregory Tomso, "Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession"
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/tomso/tomso.html>

Phillip Barrish, "Critical Presentism: Excerpts From the Forthcoming Book, Liberal Identity, Literary Pedogogy, and Classic American Realism"
<http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/barrish/barrish.html>

Jon Klancher, "Presentism and