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North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting In Conjunction with the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies Baltimore, Maryland November 12 – 14, 2010 About NACBS The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) is a scholarly society founded in 1950 and dedicated to all aspects of British Studies. The NACBS sponsors publica- tions and an annual conference, as well as several academic prizes and graduate fellowships. Its regional affiliates include the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS), the Midwest Conference on British Studies (MWCBS), the Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS), the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS), the Southern Conference on British Studies (SCBS), and the Western Con- ference on British Studies (WCBS). For more information about the NACBS and its affiliates, se- cure online registration for the 2010 meeting, and reservations for the conference hotel, consult www.nacbs.org. The 2011 conference, held in conjunction with the Western Conference on British Studies, will convene 7– 9 October in Denver, Colo- rado. Directions for submitting papers and panels for the 2011 Conference will soon be available on the NACBS website. Acknowledgements The NACBS and MACBS thank the following organizations and institutions for their support: Adam Matthew Digital; The Catholic University of America; The George Washington University; CUNY -- The City University of New York; Florida International University; The History of Parlia- ment Trust; Indiana University of Pennsylvania; The Institute of Historical Research, University of London; The Johns Hopkins University Department of History; The Johns Hopkins Univer- sity Institute of the History of Medicine; Lehman College; Penn State Abington; St. Vincent’s College; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and University of Maryland. We also thank the following individuals for their generous and skilful assistance: Amy Froide, Jason Kelly, Philippa Levine, and Saul McClintock. NACBS Executive Committee Program Assistant Amanda Snyder Florida International University President Philippa Levine The University of Texas at Austin Vice President MACBS Officers Dane Kennedy The George Washington University President Immediate Past President Lynn A. Botelho Indiana University of Pennsylvania Barbara J. Harris The University of North Carolina at Vice President and President Elect Chapel Hill George Robb William Patterson University Executive Secretary Secretary-Treasurer Marjorie Levine-Clark University of Colorado Denver Travis Glasson Temple University Associate Executive Secretary Paul R. Deslandes University of Vermont MACBS Local Arrangements Committee Treasurer Lynn Botelho Indiana University of Pennsylvania Co-Chairs Lynn A. Botelho Indiana University of Pennsylvania Amy M. Froide University of Maryland Elected Members of the NACBS Council Baltimore County Laura Nym Mayhall The Catholic University of America Members James Rosenheim Texas A& M University Nancy W. Ellenberger The United States Naval Academy Thomas Cogswell University of California, Riverside Travis Glasson Temple University Andrea McKenzie University of Victoria George Robb William Patterson University Deborah Cohen Northwestern University Gail Savage St. Mary’s College of Maryland Julie Taddeo University of Maryland NACBS /MACBS Program Committee Program Chair Lara Kriegel Indiana University, Bloomington Program Committee Susan D. Amussen University of California, Merced Jordanna Bailkin University of Washington Nancy W. Ellenberger The United States Naval Academy Shannon McSheffrey Concordia University Douglas Peers York University Greg T. Smith University of Manitoba Tremont Grand Floor Plans First Floor Elevator Marble Room Charles Street Entrance Registration R Book Exhibit B Second Floor Second Floor Connector Lobby Roman Strada and Charles Street Ante Room Thursday, 11 November, 4:00 – 7:00 PM Roman Strada Friday, 12 November, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Saturday, 13 November, 8:30 AM – Noon Saturday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sunday, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Elevator Please visit our exhibitors. We welcome their support of the conference. Charles Street Corinthian Room Third Floor Fifth Floor Tuscan Room Composite Room Edinburgh Room Elevator Elevator Charles Street Charles Street Condordia Room Ionic Room Mirror Room Veterans Room Fourth Floor Oriental Room Chapter Room Elevator Charles Street Doric Room FridAy Continental Breakfast 8:00 – 8:45 AM Roman Strada Inside/Outside: Life Stories and 1 Interiority in the Early Twentieth Century 8:45 –10:30 AM Ionic Room Chair Chris Waters, Williams College Commentator Kali Israel, University of Michigan Commodifying the Self Within: Crook Life Stories in Interwar Britain Matt Houlbrook, University of Oxford Taking Nellie’s Temperature: Bodily Interiors, Medical Archives and Life Narration in Early Twentieth- Century Britain Seth Koven, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Threat, Icon, Opportunity: Views 2 of Widows in British Society 8:45 –10:30 AM Tuscan Room Chair Amy M. Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Commentator Martha Vicinus, University of Michigan “The Bishop of durham’s Widows”: Widowhood, Inheritance, and Household (Re)Formation in Northeast England, 1349 – 1660 Peter L. Larson, University of Central Florida Redundant Motherhood?: Representations of Widows during the Era of the “Surplus Woman Problem” Kathrin Levitan, The College of William and Mary Living Gravestones: Representatives and Remnants of Imperial Conflict — Widows of the 1857 Mutiny Judith Hinshaw, University of Calgary 1 FridAy FridAy 3 The Functions and Governance of Late Information and Institutions in 5 8:45 –10:30 AM Medieval Almshouses and Hospitals Early Modern England 8:45 –10:30 AM Concordia Room Doric Room Chair and Chair and commentator Joel Rosenthal, Stony Brook University commentator Keith Wrightson, Yale University London Almshouses before the Reformation What News of England?: Spanish Intelligence Networks at Caroline M. Barron, Royal Holloway, University of London the Court of Elizabeth Denice Fett, University of North Florida The Governance and Operational Problems of Late Medieval Almshouses and Hospitals The Silence of the Sheepskins: Corporation Records and Marjorie K. McIntosh, University of Colorado at Boulder Parliamentary Elections in Early Stuart England Thomas Cogswell, University of California, Riverside Visiting the Sick: Visitations of St. Leonard’s Hospital, york in the Late Fourteenth Century New Publics: Information Cultures in Early Modern England P. H. Cullum, University of Huddersfield Paul Griffiths,Iowa State University 4 The Intellectual and Social Worlds The Sinews of Decolonization: 6 8:45 –10:30 AM of “Democraticall Gentlemen”: Transnational Networks of Education, 8:45 –10:30 AM Chapter Room Republicanism in England, 1640 –1700 Labor and Race in the Late British Empire Composite Room Chair and Chair Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University commentator Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki Commentator Jessica Harland-Jacobs, University of Florida Civic Friendship and the Republican Tradition in Organizing for Zion: U.S. Labor Unions, the Founding of Seventeenth-Century England Israel and the British Empire in the Middle East Sami-Juhani Savonius-Wroth, University of Helsinki Adam M. Howard, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State Levelling Principles and Republican Language: Republican Black Atlantic Politics in British Central Africa: The Response to the Levellers in the 1650s Contingencies of Historical Geography through the Case Rachel Foxley, University of Reading of John Chilembwe Christopher J. Lee, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Republican Religion, or, Of Atheists, Blasphemers and Pragmatists Hothouse and Safehouse: The Black Campus and the Gaby Mahlberg, University of Potsdam decolonization of the British Empire in the Black Atlantic Jason Christopher Parker, Texas A & M University 2 3 FridAy FridAy 7 Criminal Conversations?: Sex, Scurrility Keeping Britain Moving: The Politics 9 8:45 –10:30 AM and Print Culture in Hanoverian England of Mobility, c. 1950 – c.1980 10:45 AM –12:30 PM Veterans Room Ionic Room Chair and Chair Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge commentator Nicholas Rogers, York University Commentator Richard J. Williams, University of Edinburgh The Real Wives of Middlesex County: Re-Examining the Monorail City: Urban Futurism in 1960s Britain depictions of Soldiers’ Romances in Eighteenth-Century Guy Ortolano, New York University Popular Literature Motor City: Urban Motorways and the Politics of driving in Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Trent University British Cities, c. 1960 –1975 “Biting the Biter”: Sex, Scatology and Satiric Inversion in Simon Gunn, University of Leicester Augustan Highwaymen Lives “Petrol Economy is Vital to you and your Country”: The Andrea McKenzie, University of Victoria Politics of Petrol in Postwar Britain Hypocrisy, Masculinity and the Red Barn Murder of 1827 Jonathan Kuiken, Boston College Lynn MacKay, Brandon University Early Tudor England in European Context 10 8 Beliefs and the Body: Suffering, Faith Chair and 10:45 AM –12:30 PM 10:45 AM –12:30 PM and Physicality in Early Modern Britain commentator Paul Hammer, University of Colorado at Boulder Concordia Room Tuscan Room Chair Lynn A. Botelho, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Prince Arthur, Prince Henry and the Continent Aysha Pollnitz, Rice University The Embodiment of devotion: Spiritual Models of Illness in