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The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer N.S. Volume 32, Number 2: October 2018 Published by the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Editor: James E. May 1423 Hillcrest Road Lancaster, PA 17603 [email protected] Executive Secretary: Peter Staffel Humanities Dept., West Liberty University 208 University Dr., CUB #130, West Liberty, WV 26074 [email protected]; Tel. 304-336-8193 The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer is distributed twice a year (spring and fall) to members of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. For membership information, contact Executive Secretary, Peter Staffel, at his address above. Annual dues are $25 for regular members; $15 for students; $40 for joint member-ships. For information about the EC/ASECS, see the current EC/ASECS homepage, www.ec-asecs.org (maintained by Susan Cherie Beam). The next submission deadline is 15 March 2018. Through this newsletter, scholars and teachers can pass along to colleagues news, opportunities, and practical tips normally not communicated in scholarly journals. Members are encouraged to submit book reviews, notes and essays, notices, accounts of travel, conferences, concerts, and exhibitions, pedagogical advice, light verse, and queries. They are asked to report news of their publications, lectures, grants, and on-going projects. Please submit contributions as an attachment in Word 2003 or in RTF or on paper. Contributions to these pages may be reproduced in the newsletters of ASECS Affiliate Societies unless the article states that the author's permission must be obtained. Pertinent articles are indexed in The Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, MLA International Bibliography, The Scriblerian, and Year's Work in English Studies. The EC/ASECS gratefully acknowledges financial support from Robert D. Hume, Evan Pugh Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University. The EC/ASECS Newsletter was founded in January 1978 by Leland D. Peterson and later edited by W. R. McLeod (1981-1983) and Kevin Berland (1983-1986). The newsletter was entitled The East-Central Intelligencer from 1988 until February 2005. Indices for preceding volumes appear in the issues of May 1992, September 1996, September 2001, January 2005, January 2008, and October 2011; the January 2005 contains a register of EC/ASECS newsletters 1978-2004. Penn State University Library has archived n.s. Vols. 1-32; Old Dominion University has archived issues from 1987- 2009. Issues for May 2007 through October 2017, the indices for 1992-2011, and a table of contents for issues since December 1986 are all available at the Newsletter Archive of the EC/ASECS website noted above. Countdown to Staunton and ECASECS 2018 By the time you read this, we will be a couple of weeks from the conference in Staunton—it is NOT too late to register! We moved the meeting back to the end of October to ensure it will coincide with the heart of autumn color season, which is gorgeous in the Shenandoah Valley. Not only is the surrounding country side lovely, but the little town of Staunton is a jewel box, full of shops, cafes, restaurants, book stores, even a cigar store! The conference hotel, The Stonewall Jackson, is a wonderful old but newly remodeled hotel with lots of parking below it for guests as well as for visitors to the town. So, if you are staying in another hotel, you can park there for a dollar, if you leave after five o’clock! For guests, it is free. After my lovely wife and I saw The Way of the World last spring at the neighboring Blackfriars Theatre of the American Shakespeare Company, I conjured up a special treat for us: The Man of Mode for Friday evening of the conference. Heck, they even gave us a considerable reduction on tickets, dontcha know. As if that weren’t enough entertainment, our very own Maestro Robert Mayerovitch volunteered his services as piano recitalist for the closing event of the conference in the lobby of the hotel at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. Gosh, did I mention that our plenary will be given by Professor Paul Menzer, director of the Mary Baldwin University MLitt/MFA Shakespeare and Performance graduate program. He will speak to us on “William Shakespeare, b. 1709” [not a typo—wait and see]. Plus, three of his faculty members will present a panel on Saturday afternoon on performance. Surely, it goes without saying, though I will, that we are stuffed with wonderful presentations offered by many of our members as well as by some new graduate students competing for the Molin Prize? Oh, and we start off with the usual blind reading of little-known (“bad”) 18th-century poetry by those stalwart members who have the nerve to attend the opening Oral-Aural Experience on Thursday evening, as well as those new attendees who don’t yet know better. Not a word . Staunton itself has a variety of sites and walking tours that you can learn about on their visitors’ guide website (linked to on our conference website), including the Woodrow Wilson Home a couple of blocks from the hotel. Plus, it is rife with good restaurants, likewise advertised on their site. Mind you, we are also offering a dine-in option Friday, before the play, which you need to sign up for in advance on the registration form.[If you already have registered and want to dine with us on Friday, just let me know by email: staffelp@ westliberty.edu. Well, I could just go on and on, for instance, about our presidential address by Matthew Kinservik, entitled “The Man of Mode and Its Influence on Eightenth-Century Comedy,” with comments integrated on the previous evening’s performance of Etherege’s play. However, I will stop here and simply say that I would love to have you join us for what I anticipate to be an excellent conference and a very good time as well. See ya in Staunton . Peter Staffel (staffelp@ westliberty.edu) 2 The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, October 2018 ECASECS Financial Report This report runs from December 2016 through February 2018, so as to cover all conference expenses. This year’s financial statement will appear in the spring 2019 edition of the Intelligencer. Among the donations received, I would like to acknowledge the extraordinarily generous gift of over $1000 from Joan Stemmler, a beloved colleague and past president. Balance December 20, 2016 = $6,000. Credits: $10,597.57 Dues, registration, & donations Debits: $45.00 [Checks & bank fees] $150 [Molin Prize] $236.29 [Website licensing renewal] $1046.35 [Dues letters—postage, envelopes, paper, labels] $1,929.62 [ECI—printing, labels, postage; three editions] $11,251.51 [Conference expenses—hotel, catering, Howard U, printing, miscellaneous] $14,658.77 Total Expenses Balance March 1, 2018 = $1,938.80 Note on Membership: We have 364 members on our “books.” Fifty-eight have paid “lifetime” dues. So far for 2018, 73 members have paid dues, including 5 graduate students and 3 couples. [I expect three dozen more, at least, by the start of the conference. Our policy is to drop members from the mailing list after three years of non-payment of dues, which means, those receiving a copy of the Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer with “[2015]” on the address label will no longer be receiving letters or journals from us unless they pay this year’s dues. I realize that many members who do not come regularly to the conference may feel slighted by this policy, but the dues payments help generate the funding for the mailers and the considerable costs of printing and posting the Intelligence. Please, stay part of the ECASECS family of scholars. Respectifully submitted, Peter Staffel, EC/ASECS Executive Secretary The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, October 2018 3 Some Notes on Bucknell University Press 1. In this, its 50th year, and after spending decades in a series of small (but cozy) basement offices, Bucknell University Press has moved into spacious, elegant, light, and comfortable offices (with a distance view of the great Susquehanna River) on the third floor of the Hildreth-Mirza Hall, a completely transformed and re-imagined 1940s fraternity house, which the press shares with Bucknell’s Humanities Center and Griot Institute for Africana Studies. 2. BUP has now joined in a new partnership with Rutgers University Press that will offer new production, promotional and marketing possibilities for works of 18th-century scholarship and criticism. (All backlist titles will continue to be available via Rowman & Littlefield in the usual way.) 3. Miriam Wallace (Chair Humanities Division & Professor of English, New College, Florida) has become a co-editor with Greg Clingham and Kate Parker (U Wisconsin, LaCrosse) of Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650- 1850, BUP’s main 18th-century series. 4. Other BUP series in 18th-century studies continue to thrive, including New Studies in the Age of Goethe, edited by Karin Schutjer (U. of Oklahoma) et al.; Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater, edited by Logan Connors (U Miami); and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, edited by Richard B. Sher (NJIT & Rutgers). 5. Three publications, formerly with the now defunct AMS Press, will be published by BUP from 2018: 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, ed. by Kevin L. Cope, co-ed. by Baerbel Czennia and Samara Anne Cahill; The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, ed, by Jack Lynch and J.T. Scanlan; and The Stoke Newington Edition of the Works of Daniel Defoe, ed. by Maximillian Novak, Irving Rothman, Kit Kinkade, et al. Greg Clingham Director, Bucknell University Press Pedagogue’s Post [So once was called a recurring feature of Intelligencer issues, with Linda Merians securing and editing syllabi and other pedagogical materials over a dozen times between September 1988 and May 1999, and Linda Troost edited materials for several issues thereafter.