2003 Symbiosis Conference: 'Across the Great Divide': Web Publications

2003 Symbiosis Conference: 'Across the Great Divide': Web Publications:

A. Selected Papers:

• Transatlantic Theology: How Scottish Unitarianism Was Transplanted to America, Stuart Andrews
• 'Send back the money!': Frederick Douglass's Anti-Slavery Speeches in Scotland and the Emergence of African American Internationalism', Nikki Brown, Kent State University
• 'A Man's a Man For a' That': Burns, Hogg, and The Liberator', Janette Currie, University of Stirling

[Previous publication: 'From Altrive to Albany: James Hogg's Transatlantic Publication', Janette Currie (December 2003)]

• Rounding the Circle: American Interest in Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), Evelyn Laidlaw
• Subaltern Identity in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing, Patricia Linton, University of Alaska Anchorage
• '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
• Friendship, Letters and Butterflies: Victoria Ocampo and Virginia Woolf, Fiona G. Parrott, University of Glasgow
• The Ethnographic Imagination and the Tehuelches, Fernanda Peñaloza, University of Exeter
• Frederick Douglass, Scotland and the South, Alasdair Pettinger, Nottingham Trent University
• Distinguishing Marks of the Spirit of God: Eighteenth-Century Revivals in Scotland and New England, Matthew Smith, University of Edinburgh
• Wide Webs of Fear: American Gothic Fiction and its British Counterparts, Helen Sutherland, University of Glasgow

 B. Conference abstracts:

• Scotland in Canadian Literature: An Examination of Alistair MacLeod's Fiction, Ingibjorg 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
• 'Preserving 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's 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. Cunninhame 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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