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Eighteenth-Century European Culture

Scholars from a variety of disciplines -- history, literature, philosophy, political science, music, and art -- present papers from work in progress treating some aspect of eighteenth-century European culture. The Seminar's meetings in 2007-2008 were devoted to the origins of the modern concept of free speech, both conceptually (e.g., what is the relationship between free speech and the period or idea of "the Enlightenment"?) and contextually (what conditions promoted its institutionalization?).

Seminar: #417
Founded: 1962

Seminar Administration

Chair:
Elizabeth Powers
Independent Scholar
elizabethmpowers@verizon.net.

Rapporteur:
Adela Ramos
Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature
amr2105@columbia.edu

Meetings

September 17, 2009, James Kim, Department of English, Fordham University
"Queering Oliver Goldsmith: Sentimental Irony and The Vicar of Wakefield"

October 15, 2009, Katie Terezakis, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
"Meaning and Authority in the Thought of J.G. Herder"

November 19, 2009, Al Coppola, Department of English, John Jay College, City University of New York
“Tricks and Talk: Popular Science in Newtonian England"

December 10, 2009, James Caudle, The Associate Editor, Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell
"Editing James Boswell, 1924-2009: Pasts, Presents, Futures"

January 28, 2010, Clifford Siskin, Department of English, New York University
"This Is Enlightenment"

February 25, 2010, Richard Sher, Department of History, New Jersey Institute of Technology
“Literary Property, Authors’ Copy Money, and the Myth of 1774”

March 25, 2010, Phyllis Mack, Department of History, Rutgers University
"Dreaming is Believing: Religion and the Unconscious in Enlightenment England"

April 29, 2010, Michael McKeon, Department of English, Rutgers University
"The Reciprocity of Literature and Science: Experimental Method, the Dramatic Aesthetic, and Novelistic Realism in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England"

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