Provisonal Programme

HatEditing the Long Eighteenth Century


Department of English Literature
Glasgow University
27-29 August 2009

Provisional programme, July 09

DAY 1 (Thursday 27 August)

0900-0930  Lobby, 4 University Gardens: Registration

0930-1100  Panel 1:  Swift and the art of Polite Annotation
Convener: James McLaverty, Keele
Daniel Cook (Keele): Annotating and Tracing Politeness in the Biographies of Swift
Valerie Rumbold (Birmingham): Annotating Polite Conversation
Abigail Williams (Oxford): Annotating the Polite and the Impolite in the Journal to Stella

1100  Tea & Coffee

1130-1300  Panel 2: Editing correspondence and biographical materials
Convener:  David Shuttleton, Glasgow
Stephen Bernard (Oxford): Editing Jacob Tonson's Letters
Zoe Bolton (Lancaster): Editing Thomas Gray's Letter-Poems
Lynda Pratt (Nottingham): Editing Robert Southey in the Twenty-First Century

1300-1400  5 University Gardens:  Lunch

1400-1530  Panel 3: Editing Scottish Authors 1
Convener:  Andrew Hook, Glasgow
Andrew Skinner (Glasgow): The Glasgow Edition of Adam Smith
Claire Lamont (Newcastle): The Early American Editions of Walter Scott’s Novels
Ian Campbell (Edinburgh): The Death of Paper (on Carlyle)

1530  Tea & Coffee

1600-1730  Turnbull Room (enter by Main Gate, University Avenue)
Claude Rawson:  The Mock Edition Revisited:  Swift to Mailer

1730 onwards:  Reception


DAY 2 (Friday 28 August)

0900-1030  Panel 4: Editing Women Writers
Convener: Gillian Dow, Southampton
Linda Bree (Cambridge UP): Editing Jane Austen's Manuscripts
Elizabeth Eger (KCL): The Manuscript Letters of Elizabeth Montagu
Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes): The Pleasurable Selves of Sarah Scott

1030  Tea & Coffee

1100-1230  Panel 5: Editing Romantic Verse
Convener: Nigel Leask, Glasgow
Sally Bushell (Lancaster): Mapping Manuscripts: Wordsworth's Michael
Kelvin Everest (Liverpool): The Rhetoric of Contemporary Scholarly Editing and the Concept of a Literary Culture
Mike Rossington (Newcastle): The Boat on the Serchio: a Case-study in the Editing of Shelley’s Later Poems

1230-1400  5 University Gardens: Lunch   

1400-1530  Panel 6: Editing Scottish Authors 2
Convener: Andrew Hook, Glasgow
Gerard Carruthers (Glasgow): The Glasgow Edition of Burns
Suzanne Gilbert (Stirling): Finding Ways to help the Reader: The Stirling/South Carolina James Hogg
David Hewitt (Aberdeen): Is 'Scottish Editing' Different?

1530 Tea & Coffee

1600-1730  Panel 7: Editorial Theory and Practice
Convener:  Stuart Gillespie, Glasgow
Moyra Haslett (Queen’s Belfast): Mapping Early Irish Fiction, 1680-1820
Nigel Wood (Loughborough): Intended and Unintended Allusions in Eighteenth-Century Comedy
David Hopkins (Bristol): Editions as Performance Scores

DAY 3 (Saturday 29 August)

4 University Gardens, Room 101

0930-1030  Panel 8: Editing and New Technologies
Convener:  Paddy Bullard, Oxford
Giles Bergel (Oxford): Editing Ballads, Traditionally: The Wandering Jew's Chronicle in the Age of the Digital Archive
Paddy Bullard (Oxford): Eighteenth-Century Archive Editions: Pragmatism and Electronic Text
David O’Shaughnessy (Oxford): 'The whole is ciphers, conventional marks, imaginary boundaries of unimagined things': Editing Godwin's Diary

1030-1145: 4 University Gardens, Room 101
John Barnard:  Trends in Twentieth-Century Publishing of Scholarly Editions 1660-1822

1145  Tea & Coffee

4 University Gardens, Room 101
1215-1300 Roundtable:  Scholarly Editing:  Past and Future
Chair:  Paddy Bullard, Participants:  Linda Bree, Michael Caine, David Hopkins, James McLaverty, Claude Rawson

1300 5 University Gardens:  Lunch;  Conference closes