Events
SIXTH MÜNSTER SYMPOSIUM ON JONATHAN SWIFT
To be Held at
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
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
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 |
WEDNESDAY, 22 June 2011
| Chair | Dirk F. PASSMANN, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität |
| 9. 15-9.45 | Barbara M. BENEDICT, Trinity College, Connecticut Jumbled Meanings: Things and Collections in Gulliver’s Travels |
| 9.45-10.15 | Allan INGRAM, University of Northumbria, Newcastle Doctor at Sea? Gulliver and Medical Perception |
| 10.15-10.45 | Clement HAWES, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Gulliver Effects: Gulliver’s Travels and the Eighteenth-Century Novel |
| 11.30-12.00 | Ann Cline KELLY, Howard University, Washington, DC Talking Animals in Book IV: Versions and Subversions of the Fable Genre |
| 12.00-12.30 | Nicholas SEAGER, Keele University Gulliver Serialized and Continued |
| 12.30-13.00 | Gabriella HARTVIG, University of Pécs, Hungary Hungarian Swift Scholarship in the Period of Censorship |
| Chair | Barbara SCHMIDT-HABERKAMP, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn |
| 14.30-15.00 | Hugh ORMSBY-LENNON, Villanova University, Philadelphia “This Be the Verse”: Swift, Grand Impostor |
| 15.00-15.30 | James WOOLLEY, Lafayette College, Easton “So, Copyes ran”: Swift’s Most Popular Poems |
| 15.30-16.00 | Andrew CARPENTER, University College, Dublin The Birds and the Bees: Eco-Poetry in Swift’s Irish Circle |
| 16.30-17.00 | Kirsten JUHAS, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Death Frightened to Death: Swift’s Transformation of the Death-and-the-Maiden Motif |
| 17.00-17.30 | Stephen KARIAN, Marquette University Who was Swift’s Corinna? |
| 17.30-18.00 | Dirk F. PASSMANN and Hermann J. REAL, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität “The Humble Petition of Frances Harris”: A Case of Sexual Extortion at Dublin Castle? |