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Fordham University • 113 W.60th • 12th Floor
11:00AM: Opening Remarks
John Bugg & Sarah Zimmerman
Panel 1: Poetry: 11:15AM-12:45PM
Matt Leporati: “Epic Patriotism in ‘The Hope of Albion’”
Mary Anne Myers: “Charlotte Smith, John Thelwall, & the Politics of Poetic Love”
Charles Mahoney: “‘The freedom of my mind’: Thelwall & the Poetics of the Surmise, from Newgate to Bridgewater”
12:45-1:30PM: Buffet Lunch
1:30-2:30: Panel 2: Place
Kate Scarth: “Towards a Thelwallian Theory of Place: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Halifax, Nova Scotia”
Mark Diachyshyn: “Recovery & Thelwall’s Social Network in Glasgow (1804)”
2:30-2:45PM: Coffee break
2:45-4:15: Panel 3: Rhetoric:
Caitlin Girardi: “Covert Counter-Narrative: Thelwall’s Use of Satan in The Selections”
Miriam Wallace: “Common Speakers, Visual Images, & Thelwall’s World of Elocution”
Michael Scrivener: “Fantasy & the Unconscious in the Wild Rhetoric of Burke & Thelwall in the 1790s”
4:15-4:30PM: Coffee Break
4:30-5:45: Plenary:
Judith Thompson: “John Thelwall, Global Citizen: Revolution, Anti-Imperialism, Education”
5:45: Wine & Cheese Reception