SIXTH MÜNSTER SYMPOSIUM ON JONATHAN SWIFT

To be Held at
University of Münster
Alexander von Humboldt-Haus
Hüfferstrasse 61
20-22 June 2011


Swiftian Material Culture
at the
Ehrenpreis Centre
for
Swift Studies
Johannisstrasse 12-20
An Exhibition

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LECTURES

MONDAY, 20 June 2011

Chair	Brean S. HAMMOND, University of Nottingham
9. 15-9.45	John Irwin FISCHER, Louisiana State University But Who Shall Arbitrate on Stella’s Hand?
9.45-10.15	Abigail WILLIAMS, University of Oxford Stella’s Fictional Afterlives
10.15-10.45	W. B. CARNOCHAN, Stanford University Fidus Achates: Swift and Charles Ford
11.30-12.00	Clive T. PROBYN, Monash University, Victoria Jonathan Swift in Wales: The Welch Connections
12.00-12.30	Daniel COOK, University of Bristol Cadenus and Vanessa: The Conscious Muse
12.30-13.00	James WARD, University of Ulster, at Coleraine Pamphlets into Rags: Swift on Paper
Chair	Richard NATE, Katholische Universität, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
14.30-15.00	Ian GADD, Bath Spa University “At four shillings per year, paying one quarter in hand”: Reprinting Swift’s Examiner in Dublin, 1710-11
15.00-15.30	James E. MAY, Penn State University, Dubois The Four “1711” 12mos of A Tale of a Tub: Publication, Texts, and Illustrations
15.30-16.00	J. A. DOWNIE, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London The Topicality of A Tale of a Tub
16.30-17.00	Marcus WALSH and Gregory LYNALL, University of Liverpool “Edifying by the margent”: Echoing Voices in Swift’s Tale
17.00-17.30	Flavio GREGORI, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia Iatromechanical Passions: A Contextual Survey of Swift’s Treatment of Man’s Emotions
17.30-18.00	Tim PARNELL, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London Laurence Sterne, Author of the Tale?

TUESDAY, 21 June 2011

Chair	Elinor Shaffer, University of London
9. 15-9.45	Michael MCKEON, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Swift’s Debt to Marvell: Parody, Figuration, Sublimation, and Print Culture
9.45-10.15	Christopher FOX, University of Notre Dame, Indiana Swift and the Passions of Posterity
10.15-10.45	Ashley MARSHALL, University of Nevada, Reno “Swift’s rhapsodical Tory-book”: The Aims and Motives of the History of the Four Last Years of the Queen
11.30-12.00	Heinz-Joachim MÜLLENBROCK, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen William Cobbett’s Political Journalism and Swift’s Rhetorical Heritage
12.00-12.30	Ian HIGGINS, The Australian National University, Canberra A Reading of Swift’s Test Act Tracts
12.30-13.00	Nathalie ZIMPFER, Sorbonne, Paris IV The Paradoxical Rhetoric of Swift’s Sermons
Chair	Jacqueline HURTLEY, Universitat de Barcelona
14.30-15.00	Toby BARNARD, University of Oxford The Intellectual and Literary Ambiences of the Church of Ireland during Swift’s Career as Dean of St Patrick’s
15.00-15.30	Christopher FAUSKE, Salem State University An Archbishop, a Dean, God, and the Church of Ireland
15.30-16.00	David HAYTON, Queen’s University Belfast Swift, the Church, and the ‘Improvement’ of Ireland
16.30-17.00	Sabine BALTES, Münster “To Bring Men from an Anxiety for Trifling Superfluities to the Calm Desire of Bare Necessaries”: The Drapier, his Allies, and Mandeville’s Paradox
17.00-17.30	Peter SABOR, McGill University, Montréal “The greatest Master of Humour that ever wrote”: Henry Fielding’s Swift
17.30-18.00	Howard WEINBROT, The University of Wisconsin, Madison “=Tis well an old age is out”: Johnson, Swift, and his Generation