Roads to Revolution / Chemins de la Révolution

October 17-20, 1985 / 17-20 octobre 1985
University of Guelph

Thursday, 17 October / Jeudi le 17 octobre

University of Guelph

13:00

Registration / Inscription

13:30 - 15:30

Session A

Lumières et Révolution I / Enlightenment and Revolution I

Chair / Président : Michael Cardy, Brock University

Henri Mydlarski, University of Calgary
"Les moralistes des Lumières et la Révolution"

Jakob Amstutz, University of Guelph
"Les notions de culture/civilisation au XVIII^e siècle"

David Karel, Université Laval
"Dynamisme ou décadence ? Les vents de fronde à l'école de l'Académie royale de peinture et sculpture avant la Révolution"

E. Roger Clark, Memorial University
"Le Siècle des lumières face à la torture"

Session B

English Literature / Litérature anglaise

Chair / Président : Robert J. Merrett, University of Alberta

Richard G. Martin, University of Alberta
"Power, Truth and the Fictional Text: The Case of Caleb Williams"

Peter Hynes, York University
"Nature, Work and Reading in Cowper's Task"

K. G. H. Berland, Pennsylvania State University
"Certain Savage Lands: Goldsmith, Emigration, and the Taking of Quebec"

P. Brückman, University of Toronto
"An Early Hint of Miss Bridget's Affairs, With a Parallel Note on Mr. Allworthy"

Session C

Music and the Eighteenth Century / La musique au Siècle des lumières

Chair / Président : Stanley Saunders, University of Guelph

Wayne Bridge, York University
"Freemason Ideology and Its Effect on the 18th-Century Viennese Music Scene"

Peter Hardwick, University of Guelph
"J. S. Bach in the Classical Period"

John Mayo, University of Toronto
"Mozart's Messiah"

Timothy McGee, University of Toronto
"An Elegant Band of Music: Canada in the 18th Century"

16:00 - 17:30

University Symposium / Discussion

Topic: "Roads to Revolution" / "Chemins de la Révolution"

Moderator / Président : Terry Crowley, Department of History

Speakers / Participants :

James Leith, Queen's University
Roland Mortier, Université de Bruxelles
Margaret Anne Doody, Princeton University

18:30

Meeting of CSECS Executive / Réunion du Bureau de la SCEDHS

20:30

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Chair / Président : Edward Phillips, University of Guelph

Gaynor Jones, University of Toronto
"The Lost Magic of Alessandro Scarlatti: One Roman Opera Recaptured" (illustrated by live performances / avec démonstration)

Friday, 18 October / Vendredi le 18 octobre

8:30 - 9:45

Session D

The Imaginary in the Enlightenment / Les Lumières et l'imaginaire

Chair / Président : Roseann Runte, Université Sainte-Anne

Sante Viselli, Memorial University
"Montesquieu et les récits de voyage"

Aubrey Rosenberg, University of Toronto
"The Role of Providence in Rousseau's Revelation on the Road to Vincennes"

Raymond Joly, Université Laval
"L'oncle et le petit frère, observations sur l'identité sexuelle et l'idéalisation: le Pharsamon de Marivaux"

Session E

The English Baroque / Le baroque en Angleterre

Chair / Président : William Kinsley, Université de Montréal

Ron Klingspon, Nipissing University College
"Perplexing Playfulness in Gay's Trivia"

Hugh Reid, Kanata, Ontario
"Literature, Politics and Society in Joseph Warton's Letters"

Don Nichol, Memorial University
"Publication of Pope's Posthumous Works"

Session F

Thomas Reid and his Scottish Contemporaries / Thomas Reid et ses contemporains écossais

Chair / Président : J. Charles Stewart-Robertson, University of New Brunswick, Saint John

David Raynor, University of Ottawa
"Thomas Reid: Philosophical Reactionary"

John P. Wright, University of Windsor
"Thomas Reid as Interpreter and Critic of Hume's Philosophy"

John Dwyer, University of British Columbia
"The Sixth Edition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments"

10:15 - 11:15

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Chair / Président : Leonard Connolly, University of Guelph

Howard Erskine-Hill, Pembroke College, Cambridge
"Poetry and Political Affairs in Johnson's Lives of the Poets"

11:20 - 12:20

Session G

Religion and Society in New France / La religion et la société en Nouvelle-France

Chair / Président : Leonard Adams, University of Guelph

Robert Toupin, Université laurentienne
"Autorité, espace économique et juridiction morale du missionnaire chez les Hurons et les Français du Détroit au XVIIIe siècle"

Ramon Hathorn, University of Guelph
"The Wicked Stage in 18th Century French Canada"

Session H

German Studies / Études allemandes

Chair / Président : Manfred K. Kremer, University of Guelph

H. Schutz, Brock University
"Some Non-Scientific Aspects in Goethe's Nature Poems"

Calvin Seerveld, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto
"Herder's Revolutionary Hermeneutic and Aesthetic Theory"

13:45 - 15:00

Session I -- Hume

Chair / Présidente : Carole Stewart, University of Guelph

Stanley Tweyman, University of Guelph
"Evil and the Argument from Design in Hume's Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion"

Jim Noxon, McMaster University
"Essay on Interpretation with Reference to Hume"

Nathan Brett, Dalhousie University
"Hume and the Law"

Session J

Interpretations of History / Interprétations de l'histoire

Chair / Présidente : Donna Andrew, University of Guelph

Martine Watson Brownley, Emory University
"Clarendon and the Causes of the English Civil Wars"

Ian Germani, Royal Military College
"Graphic Warfare Against the Jesuits in Eighteenth-Century France"

Session K

Women and the Novel I / La femme et le roman I

Chair / Président : Peter Sabor, Queen's University

Margaret Anne Doody, Princeton University
"Women, Revolution and the Novel"

Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta
"Jane Austen's Psychology of Ambivalence in Pride and Prejudice"

Christa Fell, Queen's University
"Sophie von La Roche and her First Novel, The History of Miss von Sternheim"

15:30 - 16:55

Session L

Eighteenth-Century Scientific Institutions / Institutions scientifiques au Siècle des lumières

Chair / Président : Paul Wood, University of Toronto

Domenico Pietropaolo, University of Toronto
"Francesco Redi and the Accademia del Cimento"

Janis Langins, University of Toronto
"The Early École Polytechnique as Encyclopaedic School"

Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario
"Sir Robert Sibbald, The Royal Society of Scotland, and the Scottish Enlightenment 1680-1780"

Session M

Education and Social Reform / Éducation et réforme sociale

Chair / Président : Christa Fell, Queen's University

Catherine Rubinger, Mount St. Vincent University
"Towards a Sort of Emancipation : The Education of Marianne"

J. M. Konczacki, Mount St. Vincent University
"Educational Reform in late 18th Century Poland: Intellectual Revolution in a Recalcitrant Society"

R. Ilgner, Memorial University
"Instead of a Revolution: Aesthetic Education, an Idea without Consequences"

Session N

Revolution and Counter-Revolution / Révolution et Contre-Révolution

Chair / Président : James Leith, Queen's University

Peter A. Schouls, University of Alberta
"Revolution, Descartes, and the Eighteenth Century"

David Klinck, University of Windsor
"From Patriarchalism to the Power State: French Conservatism Begins to Define Community in Opposition to the Individualism of the National Assembly"

John Money, University of Victoria
"Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in Cultural Context: Popular Politics, Popular Religion and Popular Philosophy in Joseph Priestley's Birmingham"

Gary Kelly, University of Alberta
"Counter-Revolution and the Expropriation of Popular Culture"

17:00 - 18:00

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Henri Coulet, Université de Provence (Aix)
"Un homme du peuple acculturé : Valentin Jamerey-Duval"

Saturday, 19 October / Samedi le 19 octobre

8:30 - 9:45

Session O

Aesthetics of Revolution / L'esthétique de la Révolution

Chair / Président : David Trott, University of Toronto

M. L. Girou Swiderski, Université d'Ottawa
"L'écriture comme transgression"

Marie-France Silver, York University
"L'offrande du marquis de Sade à la Révolution : son théâtre"

Monique Moser-Verrey, Université de Montréal
"L'émergence de la notion d'intérêt dans l'esthétique des Lumières"

Session P

The Sublime and the Romantic / Le sublime et le romantique

Chair / Président : James Gray, Dalhousie University

Lisa Zeitz, Queen's University
"'An Enthusiast by Rule': Nature and Art in Joseph Warton's Enthusiast"

Barbara Belyea, University of Calgary
"The Seeing I: Versions of the Sublime in Journals of the Fur-Trade"

Kim Ian Michasiw, University of Toronto
"Edmund Burke and the Sublime of Submission"

10:15 - 11:15

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Chair / Président : Eric Annandale, University of Manitoba

Roland Mortier, Université libre de Bruxelles
"Diderot entre les têtes froides et les enthousiastes"

11:30 - 12:45

Session Q

Women and the Novel II / La femme et le roman II

Chair / Président : Howard Erskine-Hill, Cambridge University

Anne McWhir, University of Calgary
"'The fatal effects of sacrilegious love': Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story"

April London, University of Ottawa
"Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho and the Limits of Reason"

Session R

Linguistics in the Enlightenment / Les Lumières et la linguistique

Chair / Président : José-Michel Moureaux, Université de Montréal

Julie C. Hayes, University of Richmond
"Retrospection and Contradiction in Diderot's la Religieuse"

Alexandre L. Amprimoz, Brock University
"Diderot, la liberté et ses signes"

Paul S. Di Virgilio, University of Toronto
"A Difference of 'Differences': Condillac and Rousseau on Natural Language and Language Acquisition"

14:00 - 15:15

Session S

Enlightenment and Revolution II / Lumières et Révolution II

Chair / Président : David Jory, University of New Brunswick

James Forsythe MacLean, Memorial University
"Sebastien Castellion et Pierre Bayle : deux pas vers l'âge des Lumières en France"

Krystyna Piechura, University of Toronto
"Les divisions voltairiennes de l'Europe et leurs implications méthodologiques"

Janine Enhorn, University of Western Ontario
"Un hypocondriaque célèbre, Voltaire : étude de l'influence de la maladie sur son oeuvre"

Session T

Eros and Bacchus / Éros et Bacchus

Chair / Président : Michael Cartwright, McGill University

Maria Pia Chisu, University of Western Ontario
"Aspects of Erotic and Bacchic poetry in Roumanian and Modern Greek Literature at the End of the 18th Century"

Temple Maynard, Simon Fraser University
"The Standing Girl, the Fleeting World, and the Erotic in Japanese Art of the Tokugawa Period"

W. John Rempel, University of Manitoba
"Wine in Woodforde's Diary (1758-1802): A Study in Taste"

15:45 - 17:00

Session U

Enlightenment and Revolution III / Lumières et Révolution III

Chair / Président : Larry Bongie, University of British Columbia

Jay MacPherson, University of Toronto
"Schikaneder's Magic Flute: Revolution, Reform, Rebellion"

Eleanor Ty, McMaster University
"Romantic Revolutionaries: Women Novelists of the 1790's"

Catherine Kerrigan, SSHRC Research Fellow, Edinburgh University
"The World, the Flesh and the Devil: Burns as Romantic Revolutionary"

Session V

Fine Arts / Les beaux-arts

Chair / Présidente : Carol Gibson-Wood, Queen's University

Howard V. Evans, Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant)
"Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828): Artist, Actress, Eccentric"

Frances Wilkshire, Memorial Univerity
"'Cher et illustre Roscius'-- David Garrick's Influence on the Dramatic Theories of Diderot"

George Knoù, University of British Columbia
"Giantonio Pellegrini and Marco Ricci at Burlington House"

17:10 - 18:00

Annual General Meeting of CSECS / Assemblée générale de la SCEDHS

20:30

Banquet

Guest Speaker / Orateur invité : James Leith, Queen's University, "Planning Space for the Masses in France, 1789-1799"

Sunday, 20 October / Dimanche le 20 octobre

8:30 - 10:15

Session W

Censorhip / La censure

Valentine Boss, McGill University
"Milton and Tsarist Censorship"

Mark Madoff, Royal Roads Military College
"Censorship, Sedition, and the English Revolution That Wasn't"

William Hanley, McMaster University
"Royal Censors in France (1742-1790)"

Discussant / Répondant : Ramon Hathorn, University of Guelph

Session X

Philosophy and Revolution / La philosophie révolutionnaire

Chair / Président : W. H. Hughes, University of Guelph

James E. Crimmins, University of Western Ontario
"Secular Character of Bentham's Utilitarism"

John C. Luik, University of Manitoba
"Moral Revolution and the Problem of Radical Evil in Kant's Thought"

Dennis M. Wiseman, Wofford College
"L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais: A Revolution in a Form and in an Idea"

Douglas Long, University of Western Ontario
"Bentham's Revolutionary Social Scientist"

10:30 - 11:30

Plenary Session / Séance plénière

Chair / Président : G. A. Stelter, University of Guelph

Robert Darnton, Princeton University
"The Facts of Literary Life in Eighteenth-Century France"

11:30 - 12:15

Session Y

Science and Technology / Science et technologie

Chair / Président : Douglas Odegard, University of Guelph

Rosalie Stott, Queen's University
"William Cullen and Edinburgh Medicine: A Reapprasial"

Larry Stewart, University of Saskatchewan
"John Harris and the Polemics of Early Newtonism"

Session Z

New Economics for an Old Crumbling World / Le salut de l'Europe : les théories économiques au Siècle des lumières

Chair / Présidente : Janina Konczacki, Mount St. Vincent University

Z. A. Konczacki, Dalhousie University
"A Physiocrat's Promised Land: The Fortunes of Dupont de Nemours in Poland"

N. H. Morse, Dalhousie University
"Re-Examinations of the Thrust of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations"

Session AA

Leisure in the Colonies / Les loisirs dans les colonies

Chair / Président : Terry Crowley, University of Guelph

Kenneth Donovan, Fortress of Louisbourg
"Games and Pastimes at Louisbourg"

Michael Payne, Carleton University
"Recreation and Leisure on Hudson Bay"

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