Transporting Romanticism

RSAA Biennial Conference, 15 – 18 February 2017, Wellington New Zealand

Cover image credits

Left: “War-Boats of Otaheite (Tahiti), and the Society Islands, with a view of part of the Harbour of Ohameneno (Haamanino), May

1774,” William Hodges. Source: Ministry of Defence Art Collection, web. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ministry-of-defence-art-

collection#contents .

Right: “The Newly-Elected M.P. on His Way to the House of Commons,” R. Havell, after J. Pollard. Source: F. Gordon Roe,

Sporting Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries (New York: Payson and Clarke, 1927).

Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA) Biennial Conference

“Transporting Romanticism”

15-18 February 2017 Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday 15 February (National Library)

Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop at The National Library

9:30-10:00: Registration and coffee (Ground Floor, National Library) 10:00-11:30: The Turnbull holdings and your research: Anthony Tedeschi and ATL team (Douglas Lilburn Room, 1st Floor, National Library) 11:30-12:00: Morning tea 12:00-1:30: Professionalisation and the job market: Celeste Langan and Heidi Thomson (Douglas Lilburn Room) 1:30-2:30: Lunch 2:30-4:00: The ins and outs of collaborative research: Gillian Russell and Ingrid Horrocks (Douglas Lilburn Room) 4:00 onwards: Cash Bar at the Thistle Inn (all welcome)

Thursday 16 February (Massey University)

08:00 – 08:45

Registration, tea and coffee Flax and Fern Room (Massey University)

08:45

Welcome Flax and Fern Room

09:15

Bus departs from Massey University for Te Herenga Waka Marae, Victoria University. Assemble at Massey at the bottom of Entrance F on Tasman Street.

09:30 – 11:00

Pōwhiri and morning tea Te Herenga Waka Marae, Victoria University of Wellington

Plenary 1

11:00 – 12:00

Gillian Russell, University of Melbourne

Fugitive mediality or, a handbill Romanticism?

Te Herenga Waka Marae Chair: Nikki Hessell, Victoria University of Wellington This plenary is made possible by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.

12:15

Bus departs for Massey University from Kelburn Parade.

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Flax and Fern room

Session 1

13:30 – 15:00

1A - Global Encounters: Transporting Scotland to the Antipodes

1B - Mechanics of Transport: Railways, Steam-Engines, Coaches

Room: 5D14 Chair: Nikki Hessell Dougal McNeill, Victoria University of Wellington Transporting Robert Burns: Poetry, Politics and Australasian Mobility Sarah Sharp, University of Otago Exporting Kit North‘s Saturday Night: John Wilson, Robert Burns and the Cotter Abroad

Room: 5D21 Chair: Heidi Thomson Saeko Yoshikawa, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Travel or Transport: Wordsworth, Railway, and Roadfaring Nicholas Roe, St Andrews University John Keats‘s Mileage: The Scottish Tour of Summer 1818 Li-hisn Hsu, National Chengchi University ―Go slow, my soul, to feed thyself‖: Speed and Emotion in Anglo-American Romanticism

15:00 – 15:30

Afternoon tea Flax and Fern room

Session 2

15:30 – 17:30

2A - Global Encounters: Pacific Settlers, Missionaries, Pioneers

2B - Mobile Natural Histories

2C - History of the Emotions: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Emotional Mobility

Room: 5D14 Chair: Dougal McNeill Jenny Coleman, Massey University Transporting Romanticism to the ―Britain of the South‖: Romantic Influences on Early Nineteenth-Century Emigration Advice Literature

James Braund, University of Auckland A Romantic Traveller and his Romantic Contexts: Ferdinand von Hochstetter in New Zealand Claire Kaczmarek, University of New Caledonia Samuel Macfarlane (1837-1911) in the Pacific Islands: ―Transporting‖ Christianity and Popular Romanticism Sarah Comyn, University College Dublin Realigning British Romanticism: White Settler and Indigenous Writing in the British-Controlled Southern Hemisphere

Room: 5D21 Chair: Alan Bewell Alexandra Hankinson, University of Sydney 'Prolific Dust‘: Mediation and Mimicry in Romantic Descriptions of Pollination

Deirdre Coleman, University of Melbourne Termites, Tunnelling, and a Theory of Flying: Henry Smeathman and the Travails of a Romantic Flycatcher

Russell Smith, Australian National University It‘s Alive! The Frankenstein myth and the Vitality of Vitalism in the Age of Biology

Room: Executive Seminar Suite Chair: Peter Otto Claire Smith, University of Melbourne From the Picturesque Sketch to Romantic Poetry; from the Traveller to the Pedestrian Robert Anderson, Oakland University Resisting Transport: Wordsworth‘s ‗The Pet-Lamb.‘ Peter Moore, De La Salle College In most distressful mood: Presence and Absence. Coleridge‘s ‗The Nightingale‘ and Gwen Harwood‘s ‗The Violets‘ Tara McIlroy, Meiji University, Japan Reading as Transportation: Japanese Learners of English Engaged in Reading Wordsworth

17:30 - 19:00

Reception Flax and Fern room RSAA Publications Celebration Launch of Heidi Thomson’s Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper: The ‗Morning Post‘ and the Road to ‗Dejection‘ (Palgrave, 2016, to be launched by Professor Nicholas Roe)

Friday 17 February (Massey University)

08:00 – 08:30

Tea and coffee Flax and Fern Room

Session 3

08:30 – 10:00

3A - Global Encounters: British-Chinese Translations

3B - Gendered Mobilities: Austen’s Interventions

3C - History of the Emotions: Madness and Isolation

Room: 5D14 Chair: Kara Lindsey Blakley Robert Markley, University of Illinois The Amherst Embassy, Tambora, and Some Romantic Perceptions of China Yun Pei, Beijing Foreign Studies University Affinity in ‗The Passion of Meter‘—A Case Study in the Transportation of Feelings in Wang Zuoliang‘s Translation of Wordsworth

Room: 5D21 Chair: Clara Tuite

Alan Bewell, University of Toronto Austen and Mobility Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland, ‗Run mad as often as you chuse‘? – Gender Mobility in Jane Austen‘s Juvenilia

Room: Executive Seminar Suite Chair: Adam Grener Mark Neuendorf, University of Adelaide A ―Forcible Appeal to Humanity‖: Sympathising with the Insane in the Romantic Age Michelle Faubert, University of Manitoba Mary Shelley‘s Mathilda and ―The Mourner‖: Travel, Isolation, Suicide Allan Ingram, University of Northumbria Galloping Insanity: Movement and Stasis in the Romantic Period Madhouse

10:00 – 10:30

Morning tea Flax and Fern room

Session 4

10:30 – 12:00

4A - Global Encounters: Global Material Culture

4B - Continental Mediations: Politics and Political Justice

4C - Gendered Mobilities: Memory, Life Writing, and Afterlives

Room: 5D14 Chair: Nikki Hessell Kacie Wills, University of California ―An old maid on a journey‖: the Collection of Sarah Sophia Banks

Clara Tuite, University of Melbourne Transporting the Dandy: The D‘Orsay-Byron Silhouette

Room: 5D21 Chair: Ina Ferris Steven Howe, University of Lucerne On Nations and Devils: The Remediation of the Hostis Humani Generis Concept in French Revolutionary Culture and German Romantic Nationalism Amy Garnai, Tel Aviv University Thomas Holcroft‘s Exile – 1799-1802

Room: Executive Seminar Suite Chair: Michelle Faubert

Meredith McCullough, University of Melbourne Romantic Rowing, Wollstonecraft and Wordsworth

Francesca Kavanagh, University of Melbourne ―Our Little Tower of Joy‖: Imagining and Remembering Intimate Space in the Early Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth Jingjing Zhao, University of Auckland The Transformation of Romantic Ideology in Emily Bronte‘s Writings

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch Flax and Fern room

Session 5

13:00 – 14:30

5A - Nonfictional Transports: Traversing War and Peace

5B - Mediating Poetics: Responses to Politics, Genre and Nature

5C - Romantic Afterlives: Romantic Fantasies, Contemporary Art

Room: 5D14 Chair: Adam Grener Ina Ferris, University of Ottawa Traversing the Field of Waterloo: Temporal Tactics Neil Ramsey, UNSW Canberra Mobilising the Military Nation: Poetry and the Military Policy of Charles Pasley Peter Kao, National Chung Cheng University Individual Identity Channeled through the Image of "Transporting Self" in Lord Byron's Epistolary Writings

Room: 5D21 Chair: Nicholas Roe Elias Greig, University of Sydney "Where are blazoned the struggles of virtuous poverty?" Consultation and Mediation in Wordsworth‘s Democratic Poetic 1793–1797 Anne Collett, University of Wollongong John Clare‘s Conundrum: ―art‘s strong impulse mars the truth of taste‖ Peter Swaab, University College London Travels in Nonsense and the Romantic Quest Poem

Room: Executive Seminar Suite Chair: Ingrid Horrocks Richard Read, University of Western Australia Studios as Ships: Reflexive Fantasies of Romantic Travel Alexandra Neel, Loyola Marymount University Poe‘s Frankenstein, or A Journey that Wasn‘t Melinda Graefe, Flinders University Michael Cook‘s Romantic Encounters: The ‗Broken Dreams‘ Series as an Indigenous Poetics of Romanticism

14:30 – 15:00

Afternoon tea Flax and Fern room

Session 6

15:00 – 16:30

6A - Gendered Mobilities: Poetic Form, Time and Space

6B – Mobile Blake

Room: 5D14 Chair: Claire Knowles

Ruth Knezevich, University of Otago Topography and Textuality in Anna Seward‘s Llangollen Vale

Alexandra Paterson, University of Illinois Tracing the Earth: Narratives of Personal and Geological History in Charlotte Smith‘s Beachy Head

Alexis Harley, La Trobe University Deep Time and a Drowned Hermit: The ―imperfect state‖ of ―Beachy Head‖

Room: 5D21 Chair: Heidi Thomson Amanda Klinger, University of Oklahoma Nervous Mobilities: Urban Sensibility in Blake‘s Jerusalem

Peter Otto, University of Melbourne Travelling to Jerusalem (Without Leaving Home): Negotiating the Actual and Virtual Realities of Race, Religion, and Empire

Plenary 2

16:45 – 17:45

Celeste Langan, UC Berkeley Under Arrest: Transport and Security (Excitation and Citation) Room: The Pit, Te Ara Hihiko (12B09 - Block 12, Level B, Room 09) Chair: Ingrid Horrocks, Massey University, Wellington This plenary is made possible by the W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy, Massey University.

18:00

Bus leaves from Massey University (assemble at bottom of Entrance F on Tasman St) for dinner at Milk & Honey Café, Victoria University

21:00

Bus leaves from Victoria University, Kelburn Parade, to return to downtown Cuba Street

Saturday 18 February (Massey University)

08:30 – 09:00

Tea and coffee Flax and Fern Room

Session 7

09:00 – 11:00

7A - Global Encounters: Cross-Cultural Representation in the British Mind

7B - Romantic Afterlives: American Transports

7C- Gendered Mobilities: Media and Celebrity

Room: 5D14 Chair: Deirdre Coleman

Kara Lindsey Blakley, University of Melbourne Transporting the Artist: William Alexander‘s Changing Representations of the Chinese Meegan Hasted, University of Queensland ―Stranger of Dark Tresses‖: European and Indian Astronomy in Keats‘ Endymion

Room: 5D21 Chair: Alex Neel Tyne Sumner, University of Melbourne ‗Unutterable Transports‘: Deception and Observation in Poe‘s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

Erin Atchison, University of Auckland Music and Nature are the Greatest Teachers: The Transportation of Domestic Music and Romanticism in Margaret Fuller‘s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Robin Miskolcze, Loyola Marymount University Moods and the Wandering Eye: Louisa May Alcott‘s critique of U.S. Romantics Christopher Rovee, Louisiana State University Wordsworth and the Distance of Josephine Miles

Room: Executive Seminar Suite Chair: Ruth Knezevich

Claire Knowles, La Trobe University Gender, Mobility and the Media: Reading Mary Wells‘ place in The World Amelia Dale, University of Sydney The Memetics and Erotics of Austenland

Judith Pascoe, University of Iowa Sarah Siddons in Hollywood and the Scholarly Outtake

11:00 – 11:30

Morning tea Flax and Fern room

Session 8

11:30 – 12:30

8A - Global Encounters: Remediating Romantic Influence

8B - Reshaping European Romanticism

Room: 5D14 Chair: Nikki Hessell Aparajita Nanda, UC Berkeley and Santa Clara University Giving Voice to the Other: Mobility and Mediation between Coleridge and Tagore

Matthew Mewhinney, UC Berkeley Mediation and Nostalgia in Natsume Sōseki‘s Kusamakura

Room: 5D21 Chair: Heidi Thomson Don Carter, University of Technology Sydney Johann Friedrich Herbart: Mediating and Mobilising Romanic Ideas about Education across Boundaries Nikolai Endres, Western Kentucky University, Transporting Wagner: A Queer Reading of his Romantic Operas

12:30 – 14:30

Lunch (12.30 – 13.00) and RSAA AGM (starting 13.00). Flax and Fern room

Plenary 1 Te Herenga Waka Marae, Victoria University

Thursday 16 February, 11:00 a.m. One of the distinctive forms of print media that constituted what Dror Wahrman describes as ‘Print 2.0’ was the handbill, small single sheet printed notice.1 Developed in the late seventeenth century as a mode of advertisement, the handbill came into its own in the mid-1750s and played a crucial role in the expansion of commerce and of associational culture and politics in Georgian society. A variety of ‘fugitive literature’, the handbill served a range of uses: as a form of advertisement for a wide range of goods and services and a medium for both ‘official’ and private communication – a wanted notice for a thief, for example, or an attempt by an individual to respond publicly to an insult or injury. Handbills could be produced quickly and cheaply in large numbers and were closely aligned with newspapers, which often reported or reprinted handbill communications that could be accommodated to the size of the brief newspaper paragraph. As a print format that was easily transportable – disseminated by hand-to-hand communication, carried on bodies, posted on walls or windows, or dropped surreptitiously for someone to pick up – the handbill became an important instrument of intensely local and personal as well as global communication in the late Georgian period. This lecture will explore the mediatory force of the handbill in relation to events such as the Gordon Riots, the Birmingham ‘Church and King’ riots of 1791, and the crisis of the 1790s in Britain and Ireland, when the handbill was mobilised by both sides of the debate over the French Revolution. William Godwin explored the potency of the handbill as an instrument of surveillance in Caleb Williams (1794), whereas it was for more seditious applications of the handbill that many radicals were transported to the colony of New South Wales.

In some cases handbill ‘authors’ exiled themselves from justice, such as James Tytler, the Edinburgh balloonist, chemist, printer, and minor writer, who fled to Salem, Massachussetts, in 1793 after being charged with the publication of a seditious handbill. The lecture will explore the implications of incorporating the handbill into Romantic studies, particularly in relation to the period around 1800 when the category of ‘fugitive literature’ is subsumed by the idea of ‘ephemera’ and 1814, when the term ‘bibliography’ emerges.

This plenary is made possible by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.

1 Dror Wahrman, Mr. Collier’s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 20.

Fugitive mediality or, a handbill Romanticism?

Gillian Russell, University of Melbourne

Plenary 2 The Pit, Te Ara Hihiko (12B09), Massey University

Friday 17 February, 4:45 p.m.

Recent books on the modern revolution in transport enabled by the shipping container remind us that the term “logistics,” now used primarily to signify systems “allowing circulations to take place,” was first used by one of Napoleon’s former generals: a chapter in Jomini’s The Art of War was titled “Logistics; or the Practical Art of Moving Armies.” How might we think of what is after all the continuing project of “transporting Romanticism” in relation to global logistics and the shipping container? Reminded that books of poems are carried on the same ships that transport settlers and soldiers, what changes about our understanding of their power to transport? Recognizing the press as an “information delivery system,” how can we differentiate between the “hackney’d” phrase Byron identifies with cant and those “truths” that “must be recited,” truths “you will not read in the gazette?” Focusing on the quotation and the capsule as figures of containerized movement in Byron’s Don Juan and Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas, I’ll explore their attempts to develop a counterlogistics of the word.

This plenary is made possible by the W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy, Massey University

Under Arrest: Transport and Security (Excitation and Citation)

Celeste Langan, UC Berkeley

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Wi-fi access will be available. Please see the registration desk for information on how to connect.

Parking information

Pay and display parking at Massey can be found in the King Street car-park located behind the Psychology Clinic. The charges are $1.00 per

hour. There is a walkway up to Tasman Street and into Entrance F.

Transporting Romanticism

RSAA Biennial Conference

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Tussock B ar and C afé Ground Floor, Student Centre Building

Flax and Fern Room Level 1, Student Centre Building

The Pit Block 12, entrance through Level B or C

5 D 14 Block 5, Floor D, Room 14

21D 5 Block 5, Floor D, Room 21

Executive Seminar Suite External access, Entrance A

Transporting Romanticism

RSAA Biennial Conference

16-18 February 2017, Wellington NZ

Walking directions:From CQ Hotels Wellington, 223 Cuba

St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011

To Massey University, Entrance A,

Wallace St, Mount Cook, Wellington 6021

14 min (1.0 km) via Taranaki St

Head southwest on Cuba St toward Abel

Smith St

220 m

Turn left onto State Highway 1

200 m

Turn right onto Taranaki St

450 m

Continue onto Wallace St

200 m

Massey University through Entrance A

Map of Victoria University Kelburn Campus

Bus will arrive and depart

from these bus stops.

“4” is arrival

“12” is departure

Milk & Honey

Cafe

Acknowledgements

Conference Organisers:

Nikki Hessell nikki.hessell@vuw.ac.nz and Ingrid Horrocks i.horrocks@massey.ac.nz

Conference Committee: Conference Assistants: Administrative Assistance and Program Design:

Adam Grener (Victoria) Claire Grant (Massey)

Nikki Hessell (Victoria)

Katie Magaña (Victoria)

Ashlee Nelson (Victoria)

Pipi Reisch (Massey)Joanne Ervine (Massey)

Ingrid Horrocks (Massey)

Heidi Thomson (Victoria

Supported by: School of English and Media Studies and the W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy, Massey University, and the School of

English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.

For providing us with the perfect venues for this event we would like the acknowledge: the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna

Mātauranga o Aotearoa, Massey University Wellington, and Te Herenga Waka Marae, Victoria University.

For catering: Tussock Café and Milk and Honey Café.

Finally, thank you to RSAA and to the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions (CHE) for making a

number of generous student bursaries available.

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