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2003 Symbiosis Conference: 'Across the Great Divide'

'Across the Great Divide' Conference Paper Abstracts

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Abstracts:

Scotland in Canadian Literature: An Examination of Alistair MacLeod's Fiction
Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (Akureyri Junior College)

Transatlantic Theology: How Scottish Unitarianism Came to America
Stuart Andrews

Did Judge Temple Really own a Piano? The Piano and Early American Literature
Erin Atchison, University of Edinburgh

"Get Behind Me, Satan!" Scottish Folk Healing, Vigilante Justice, and Spiritual Redemption on the Southern Frontier, 1750-1825
Roark Atkinson, Indiana University

"Preserv[ing] the freshness of the system": Itineraries of the Body in Alexander Bain's Rhetoric of Travel
Genie Babb, University of Alaska Anchorage

Complete Letter-Writers, Migration and the Macmurdo Papers
Eve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma

The Undelivered Letters: Bridging the Great Divide
Judith Hudson Beattie, Hudson's Bay Company Archives [ret.]
Phil Astley, North Highland Archive, Wick
Edi Smockum

The "American Scott"? James Fenimore Cooper and the translation of "language and manners"
Colleen Glenney Boggs, Dartmouth College

The Wordsworthian Cast of Dickinson's Romantic Heritage
Richard E. Brantley, University of Florida

"Send back the money!": Frederick Douglass' Anti-Slavery Speeches in Scotland and the Emergence of African American Internationalism
Nikki Brown, Kent State University

Mapping Gaelachas: Signifying Irish-American ethnic identity in the dialect tales of Martin Dooley
James Byrne, University College Dublin

Changing Places: The Migrating Meanings of Objects
Jenni Calder, formerly of the National Museums of Scotland

Clan, Tribe, and Nation: American Indians, Highland Scots, and Colonialism
Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College

Realism and Philanthropy in a Transatlantic Context
Frank Christianson, Brown University

James Hogg and The Liberator
Janette Currie, University of Stirling

Hawthorne's Liverpool Consulship: Double-Crossing National Identity
John Dolis, Penn State University

Intimacy and recoil: Aldous Huxley reads Edgar Allan Poe in French
Maria Filippakopoulou, University of Edinburgh

Gothic Migrations: A Scots-Canadian Case Study
Michelle Gadpaille, University of Maribor

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes and the Red Indians
Christopher Gair, University of Birmingham

Discord at Pennacook: Whittier and the Problem of American Picturesque
Bruce Graver, Providence College

A Romantic Irony: Jane Austen, Philip Roth and Literary Absence
David Greenham, The Nottingham Trent University

John Galt and the paratext: The discourse of authentication in North American emigration literature
Kevin Halliwell, National Library of Scotland

Scotland and South America: The Role of R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Andrew Hook, University of Glasgow

Ideal Homes: James, Rossetti and the House of Life
Hazel Hutchison, University of Aberdeen

Elhanan Winchester and his Influence on early Universalism and the Anti-Slavery Movement in England and America
Lloyd Johnson, Campbell University

'An Imaginary Black Family': Jazz and the Construction of Scottish Blackness in Jackie Kay's Trumpet
Carole Jones, Trinity College Dublin

"Magic Numbers and persuasive Sound": Musical Enlightenment in Revolutionary America
Catherine Jones, University of Aberdeen

The 'beyondness of things' in The Buccaneers: Vernon Lee's Influence on Edith Wharton's Sense of Places
Suzanne Jones, University of Richmond

Anglicanism and the Formation of Loyalist and Patriot Groups at the Time of the American Revolution: A Focus on Virginia and New York, 1763-1776
Vassiliki Karali, University of Edinburgh

Rounding the Circle: American Interest in Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
Evelyn Laidlaw

Crossings: Subaltern Identity in the Nineteenth Century Canadian West
Patricia Linton, University of Alaska Anchorage

'My Dreams are of a Field Afar': Silvina Ocampo's Relationship to British poetry
Fiona Mackintosh, University of Edinburgh

Did It Really Sink?: 'History in Conversation with Memory'
Donald A. MacPhee, State University of New York, Fredonia (Emeritus)

The Periodical and the Pedagogy of William Smith, A Scot in British North America
Rodney Mader, West Chester University

"She fleets, she sails away": The horror of Highland emigration to America in James Macpherson's Fragments of Ancient Poetry
Louis Kirk McAuley, SUNY, University at Buffalo

'Running the country, are you?': New Scotland and the Adventure of Transatlantic Return
Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming) -

"Owing to the Books I Have Lately Read": Scottish Travelers Observe America in the 1770's
Kathy O. McGill, George Mason University

Bringing War Home: Martha Gellhorn's Second World War Correspondence
Kate McLoughlin, Somerville College, Oxford

Facing the Historical: Dead Europe through American Eyes
Keith Mears, University of Edinburgh

"There is Nothing But the Word": Renegotiating the Puritan Legacy in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh, Dundalk Institute of Technology

Transatlantic Influences and the Periodical: Journal Editing from Francis Jeffery's Edinburgh Review to Horace Greeley's New York Tribune
Susan Oliver, University of Cambridge

Transatlantic Gothic and Race: Wordsworth, Poe, Hawthorne, and Chesnutt
Joel Pace, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Friendship, Feminism and Butterflies: Victoria Ocampo and Virginia Woolf
Fiona Parrott, University of Glasgow

"What they seek for is in themselves": Quaker Language and Thought and Their Influence on American Literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
James Peacock, University of Edinburgh

The Ethnographic Imagination and the Unspeakable World of the Tehuelches
Fernanda Penaloza, University of Exeter

Northern Latitudes: Scotland and Canada in the Writings of John Buchan
Rosa Penna, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Kathleen Jamie and Kathryn Stripling Byer: Re-envisioning a Poetics of Place in Scottish and Southern Literature
Carolyn Perry, Westminster College

Frederick Douglass, Scotland and the South
Alasdair Pettinger, Scottish Music Information Centre

North America as a Punishment and a Promise in the Scottish Highlands, 1715-1757
Geoffrey Plank, University of Cincinnati

Making it new? Postcoloniality in Melville's Writing: The case of Redburn
Faith Pullin, University of Edinburgh

"The Cloth that Binds:" Lubaina Himid and the Refiguring of the Black and White Atlantic
Alan Rice, University of Central Lancashire

Poetics and Politics in the Post-Bellum Epic: Wordsworthian Themes in Herman Melville's Clarel
Matthew Scott, University of Oxford

Distinguishing Marks of the Spirit of God: Eighteenth-century revivals in Scotland and New England
Matthew Smith (University of Edinburgh) -

Across the Gender and Age Divide: The Strange Case of Women and Children in Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nabokov's Lolita
Katharine Streip, Liberal Arts College, University of Concordia

Wide Webs of Fear: Nineteenth-Century American Gothic Fiction and its British Counterparts
Helen Sutherland, University of Glasgow

Music, Race and Nationhood: Wagnerism in Britain and America
Emma Sutton, University of St. Andrews

The Decadent Pretexts of The Sacred Fount
Sheila Teahan, Michigan State University

Imported Americans, American Doings: Race, Class, and Secrecy in the Sherlock Holmes Stories
Aliki Varvogli, University of Dundee

The Invisible Man's Welsh Routes: Ralph Ellison in 1940s Wales
Daniel Williams, University of Wales, Swansea

Revising the Figure of the Woman Reformer: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Gaskell's Transatlantic Dialogues
Whitney A. Womack, Miami University of Ohio

When Arthur Met Anna: Arthur Conan Doyle and Anna Katharine Green
Paul Woolf, University of Birmingham

 

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