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Transatlantic Exchanges between New England and Britain 1600-1900
University of Plymouth, UK, 14-17 July 2010

Welcome to the website for Separateness and Kinship: Transatlantic Exchanges between New England and Britain 1600-1900, an international conference, hosted by the University of Plymouth, UK, 14-17 July 2010

Here you will find information about the conference schedule, events, registration and fees, accommodation and travel.

Any additional queries should be addressed to the Project Officer, Sarah Carne at sarah.carne@plymouth.ac.uk

Conference theme

This three day conference will explore issues arising from the relationship between Britain and New England in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the light of recent developments in the reading of transatlantic connections. In the run up to the 400 ^thanniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, and in the context of new critical perspectives on transatlantic studies, such as post colonial theory with its emphasis on the whole Atlantic rim, feminism, discussions of displacement and debates about national identity, what does it now mean in the early twenty-first century to revisit with an interdisciplinary perspective the cultural and ideological exchanges between Britain and New England 1600-1900? The conference will include contributions from literary scholars, art historians and specialists in the history of architecture and material culture.

Keynote Speakers

Keynote addresses will be delivered by Lawrence Buell , Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and Susan Manning, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Featured Artists

Anthony Caleshu , Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, University of Plymouth presents " Of Whales (In Print, In Paint, In Stone, In Coin, In Margin…): A Poetry Reading"

Suzie Hanna, Subject Leader in Animation & Sound Design, Norwich University and Sally Bayley, Tutor of English, Balliol College, Oxford University, p resent a newly created animated film “Emily Dickinson’s Opposing Lands: Miniature Worlds and Sovereign Territories”

A list of accepted proposals appears below:


	Name		Affiliation	Title of Paper

Zara	Anishanslin		Johns Hopkins University	Mnemonic Inscriptions of Shifting Identity in the British Atlantic World: A Town, a Slave, and a Willow Called Litchfield
Catherine	Armstrong		Manchester Metropolitan University	Landscape and Identity in late 17^th and early 18^th century Indian captivity narratives.
Bridget	Bennett		University of Leeds	Places of Home
Owen	Clayton		University of Leeds	Performing the Abyss: Transatlantic Jack London
Sean	Delaney		Northeastern University, MA	Title t.b.c.
Tara	Deshpande		University of Leeds	‘Mythical History’ and the Enchanted Atlantic in the Writing of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Betty	Donohue		Independent Cherokee Scholar	’Home’ and ‘Homelands’ in Mary Rowlandson’s Indian Captivity Narrative (1682).
Linda	Freedman		Selywn College, University of Cambridge	William Blake and Walt Whitman:The Prophet-Artist and Democratic Thought
Gretchen	Gerzina		Balliol College, University of Oxford	Slavery in Old and New England
Peter	Guillery		English Heritage	‘English artisans’ churches and North America: vernacular-classical architectural traditions in the eighteenth century’
Stephen	Hague		Linacre College, University of Oxford	Building Status: Material Culture and the Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World
Richard	Hayes		Independent Scholar, New York	H.H. Richardson’s 1882 Trip to London: American Perceptions of English Architecture
Louisa	Hodgson		University of Leeds	“I did a woman’s work”: Nursing and Female Labour in Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott’s fiction.
Edward	Holberton		Girton College, Cambridge	The Transatlantic Poetics of Anne Bradstreet’s ‘Contemplations’
Melissa J	Homestead		University of Nebraska-Lincoln	The Transatlantic Village: Catharine Sedgwick and Mary Russell Mitford

Choon-hee	Kim		Seoul National University	Jamesian Divergences in Transatlantic Perspective: Cisatlantic or Transatlantic?
Marina P.	Kizima		Moscow State Institute of International Relations	English Literature and American National Identity: a Romantic View (Margaret Fuller's Reviews in the New York Tribune)
Denise	Kohn		Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio	The Female Captive as Old Testament Hero in Transatlantic Culture: Rowlandson, Rhetoric, and the Bible
Kathryn	Lamontagne		Boston University	Lancashire in America
Hsu	Li-hsin		University of Edinburgh	The Arctic, the Asiatic and the Narcotic: The Apocalyptic Visions in Emily Dickinson and Thomas De Quincey
Steven	Lynn		University of South Carolina	British Missionaries, Native Americans, and the Purloined Seal
Christina	Malathouni		University College London	German Idealism, New England Transcendentalism, and the early days of the modern discourse about ‘architectural space’
Kimberly S.	Manganelli		Clemson University	George Eliot’s “Girl-Tragedies”: The Specters of American Slavery and Sensation Fiction in Daniel Deronda
Daniel	Maudlin		University of Plymouth	Architecture on the Edge of Empire: identifying the British Atlantic house'
Cedrick	May		University of Texas at Arlington	Metaphysics of Presence in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative
Annemarie	McAllister		University of Central Lancashire	The Cold Water Army and The Band of Hope: children’s temperance movements in the US and the UK
Grace	McEntee		Apalachian State University	Old World Vice and New World Virtue in The Adventures of Emmera
Dafydd	Moore		University of Plymouth	The Toast of Heroes and Fair Albion's Son': Versifications of the Poems of Ossian in late Eighteenth-Century New England
Lee	Morrissey		Clemson University	A New English Transatlantic Triangle: Roger Williams, John Milton, and John Locke
Maeve	Pearson		University of Exeter	Bloodlines and Abortions: Heredity and Childhood in Hawthorne's Our Old Home
Robin	Peel		University of Plymouth	Burglar! Banker- Father ! : Marx and Massachusetts in the age of Edward Dickinson, Whig
Marc	Priewe		University of Potsdam, Germany	The Medicine of Power: Illness, Healing, and Cultural Politics in Early New England
Anna	Przebinowska		Independent Scholar	French Stylisation in XIXth century British and American architecture
Cecile	Roudeau		Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle	New England’s Next of Kin: Jewett’s The Queen’s Twin and the Building of a Transatlantic Space of Queer Intimacy
AnaMarie	Seglie		Rice University, Texas	Transatlantic Mobility: European Pleasure Meets American Ambivalence in Henry James’s The Europeans
Elizabeth	Southard		University of East Anglia	Constructing an English Identity and Landscape in Seventeenth-Century New England
Alison	Stanley		King's College London	“The Reformation of their disordered lives”: portraying cultural translation in the 17^th century Praying Indian towns
Zabelle	Stodola		University of Arkansas at Little Rock	’Home’ and ‘Homelands’ in Mary Rowlandson’s Indian Captivity Narrative (1682).
Elisa	Tamarkin		University of California, Berkeley	Why Forgive Carlyle?
Claire	Taylor		Independent Scholar	An Episode in Transatlantic Misunderstanding: the feud between Harriet Martineau and Margaret Fuller
Emily	Todd		Westfield State College, Westfield, MA	Reading British Literature in 1820s Springfield, Massachusetts: A Study of the Letters of Amelia Peabody
Elizabeth	Whitmore Funk		Marymount University	A Transatlantic “Women’s Sphere” in the Literature of Louisa May Alcott
Tom	Wright		University of Cambridge	Listening to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘England’ at Clinton Hall, 22 January 1850

Featured Artists
Sally		Bayley	Balliol College, University of Oxford	A short animated film: Emily Dickinson's Oposing Lands: Miniature Worlds and Sovereign Territories
Suzie		Hanna	Norwich Univeristy College	A short animated film: Emily Dickinson's Oposing Lands: Miniature Worlds and Sovereign Territories
Anthony		Caleshu	University of Plymouth	Of Whales (in print, in paint, in stone, in coin, in margin…): A poetry reading