The Department of English takes pleasure in presenting a conference:
"Unconfinable Romanticism"
Friday October 14, 2:30-5 pm
Saturday, October 15, 9:30 am-12:30 pm and 2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Goldwin Smith 258
The conference takes place in conjunction with the Gottschalk Memorial Lecture, "Sovereignty, Romanticism, and the War on Terror," delivered by Professor Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University, on Thursday, October 13, 4:30 pm. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium.
"Unconfinable Romanticism" will feature contributions by a range of speakers, many of them former Cornellians, exploring the ways that thinking about particular works of "Romantic" poetry, fiction, and drama has come, in the early twenty-first century, to entail judgments about the meaning of the ethical, the philosophical, and the scientific; the performative and constative; the role of "theory" and its resistance to the transcendent; the historical and political burden of nationalism; and the weight of the institution in the study of literature, as a condition of creating a civil society as well as a national culture.
"Unconfinable Romanticism": English Department Conference
English and Comparative Literature Lounge, Goldwin Smith 258
Friday, Oct. 14
2:00-5:00 "Placing Conventions"
Gina Franco (Knox College) "Beatrice's Rock: The Masochistic Contract
in The Cenci"
Anne Mallory (U. of Georgia) "Acting Out in Mansfield Park "
Adela Pinch (U. of Michigan) "Love Thinking: Nineteenth-Century Metrical
Theory and the Problem of Other Minds""
Anne-Lise François (UC Berkeley and Cornell) "The Romantic Constative"
Saturday, Oct. 15
9:30-12:30 "Explanatory Models"
Karen Swann (Williams College) "Work without Hope"
Joshua Wilner (CUNY) "Wordsworth and Mandelbrot on the Coast of Britain"
Will Hacker (Williams College) "Re-opening Thy Byron: Tragic Heroism in
Carlyle's Struggle with Utility"
Ted Underwood (U. of Illinois) "Before the Period Survey: Historicism and
English Composition in London, 1829-1856
2:00-5:00 "Odd Romanticisms"
Laura Quinney (Brandeis Univ.) "Blake's Philosophical Psychology"
Rei Terada (U. of California, Irvine) "The Right to a Phenomenal World"
Orrin Wang (U. of Maryland) "Against Theory beside Romanticism: Sensation,
Identity Politics, and the Shape of the Signifier"
