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"