Saturday, February 14 — Session V — 2:00-3:30 p.m.

17. Resisting Novel-ty

Chair: Kathryn Rummell (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Katie Charles (University of California, Los Angeles), “‘Who is Speaking?’ Interpolated Tales in Obi and The Female American”
Vernita Burrell (Fordham University), “Fortune, Freedom, and Resistance: How Olivia Fairfield Gains Selfhood through Inheritance”
Norbert Schurer (California State University, Long Beach), “Hasan Shah’s The Dancing Girl: Eighteenth-Century Novel or Nineteenth-Century Forgery?”

Chair: Josh Machamer (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Miles P. Grier (Queens College, City University of New York), “Gender, Race, and Orality in Behn’s Othello”
Craig H. Russell (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Women, Structure, and Status in Mozart’s Operas”
Beth Savage (Lynchburg College), “Making Mary: Celebrity, Imitation, and Infamy in the Eighteenth-Century Theater”

Chair: Crystal Herrera (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

J. David Macey, Jr. (University of Central Oklahoma), “‘Living Hieroglyphics’: Reading and Writing Empire in an Eighteenth-Century Garden”
Theresa M. Russ (University of California, Santa Barbara), “‘Unfit to Cultivate’: When English Georgic Fails”
Robert Benson (Ball State University), “Rescue Mission: The Colonization of California”
Gisele Olson (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Ecology and Global Commerce in Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village”

Chair: Justin Swanson (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Bill Knight (Portland State University), “Rape, Seduction, and the Fate of the Scriblerian Sublime”
Katherine Beglin (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Bursting at the Seams: Consumption, Clothing, and the Fragmentation of Bodies in Brobdingnag and Swift’s Britain”
Audrey Hungerpiller (University of South Carolina), “‘Shut, Shut the Door’: Pope’s Ethical Egoism”