CONSTRUCTING HISTORY

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1 CONSTRUCTING HISTORY 5 th Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE) Thursday, 6 December 2012 All conference sessions will be held at: Het Pand, Onderbergen 1 (tel ) Registration at Het Pand; tea and coffee Welcome and Conference Opening Prof. Dr. Sandro Jung (conference chair) Prof. Dr. Marc Boone (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy) PANEL I: HISTORICISING IMAGES, IDENTITY, AND DIALOGUES Jean-Jacques Chardin Prudence in Henry Peacham s Emblems and Prose Texts Historical Translation/Reception Studies in Belgium: A Roundtable Elizabeth Walters Historiography and Identity in Shakespeare's Henry VI Rachel Baldacchino A Beautiful Age Retold: Vernon Lee s Euphorionin Dialogue with Walter Pater s The Renaissance

2 Lunch PANEL II: CONSTRUCTIONS OF AUTHORIAL REPUTATIONS Kwinten Van De Walle The Construction of James Thomson s Scottish Identity in the Prefatory 'Lives', Thomas Van der Goten Enlightening History: Francesco Algarotti and the Question(ing) of Rome s Seven Kings Early Modern Studies in Belgium and The Netherlands: A Roundtable Thomas Spittael Self-Fashioning and Reputation: The Reception of Jean- Jacques Rousseau s Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts (1750) in Britain, Coffee break PANEL III: INVESTIGATING THE WORD AND ITS STRUCTURES Jean-Pierre van Noppen Criticising the Critics: A CDA-Based Reevaluation of Wesleyan Methodism Jean-Louis Fabry Homo Economicus in Extremis: Enron s Language and Image Manipulation Tine Defour One Tree - Two Branches: A Case Study on the Gramaticalization Paths of Especially and Specifically as Focus Adverbs Getting published: A Roundtable Sponsored by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Lehigh University Press Bucknell University Press Academia Press

3 Caroline Gentens Factive Parentheticals? A synchronic and diachronic account of I regret Plenary I OLGA FISCHER (University of Amsterdam) The Role of Contact in English Morpho-Syntactic Change: Factors Influencing Borrowing Reception and Launch of the Textual Cultures Network Musical Entertainment Friday, 7 December 2012 Het Pand, Onderbergen 1 (tel ) Registration; tea and coffee Plenary II ANDREW SMITH (Sheffield University) The Gothic: A Matter of Life and Death PANEL IV: THE DISCOURSES OF AUTHORIAL CONSTRUCTION: IMAGE AND MORALITY Alise Jameson Thomas Gray s Active and Passive Authorial Personae, illustrated by Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems

4 by Mr. T. Gray (1753) Sören Hammerschmidt Visual Genealogies of Alexander Pope: Text, Image, History Christophe Madelein The Moral of the Story is History: The Sublime and Virtue in John Baillie s The Patriot (1736) Lunch PANEL V: REPRESENTATION AND HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION Sarah Pardon Narration and Experience in Historical Representations Aditi Chand Rout Constructions of Nineteenth-Century India in the Works of Flora Annie Steel and Rudyard Kipling Lies Xhonneux Queer Backwardness or Gay Pride? Rebecca Brown's Rejection of Disremembering Coffee Break PANEL VI: DIRECTIONS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY Sandro Jung and Jürgen Pieters Towards a Transnational Literary History Ian McLeod Camera Obscura or Magic Lantern? Tracing the History of Theory, the Historicity of Theory, and the Currently Prevailing Axiology of Historiography in English Plenary III

5 NICHOLAS SMITH (University of Smith) English Modal + Progressive: A Curious Cocktail Conference Dinner Saturday, 8 December 2012 Het Pand, Onderbergen 1 (tel ) Registration; tea and coffee Plenary IV SANDRO JUNG (Ghent University) The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Rewriting Literary History Panel VII: Eighteenth-Century Histories of Form Carson Bergstrom Scatology and 18th-Century Satire Mark Yates William Blake and the Paratexts of Print BAAHE AGM Award of BAAHE Dissertation Prize Lunch

6 Plenary V HANS SAUER (University of Munich) Reginald Pecock and His Vocabulary Conclusion, followed by Reception