The Forty-Fourth Wordsworth Summer Conference 3 – 13 August, 2015 At Rydal Hall * * * The Trustees gratefully acknowledge a generous endowment towards bursaries from the late Ena Wordsworth. Other bursaries are funded by anonymous donors or by the Charity itself. * * * regular events Early Morning walks: 07.15 (07.00 on sedentary days) Breakfast: 08.15 (earlier on changeover day) Coffee: 10.30 – 11.00 Tea: 16.15 – 17.00 (when applicable) Dinner: 19.00 * * * The Wordsworth Conference Foundation Summer Conference Director Nicholas Roe Foundation Chairman Richard Gravil Foundation Secretary and Conference Administrator Stacey McDowell Treasurer Gregory Leadbetter Trustees Gordon Bottomley Frederick Burwick David Chandler Richard Gravil Anthony Harding Felicity James Claire Lamont Greg Leadbetter Stacey McDowell Michael O’Neill Nicholas Roe Christopher Simons The Wordsworth Conference Foundation is a Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in England and Wales Company No. 6556368 Registered Charity No. 1124319 2 WORDSWORTH SUMMER CONFERENCE PROGRAMME EVENTS MAY BE CHANGED WITHOUT NOTICE (leisure events, timings and destinations are especially subject to change) Part 1: 3–8 August Colour Coding: Keynote lectures Research Papers Leisure Events Foundation Events Notices Monday 3 August 1425 Our transfer bus from Oxenholme Railway Station to Rydal is timed to meet these trains: Euston to Oxenholme 11.30 – 14.08 [direct] Manchester Airport 12.00 – 13.27 [direct] Glasgow Central 12 40 – 14.22 [direct] Glasgow Airport 11.47 – 14.22 [2 changes] 1600 Tea [1600 – 1700] 1630 Wordsworth Conference Foundation –Trustees’ Meeting Part 1: 1630-1800 1800 Reception (on the Rydal Hall Terrace if fine) 1900 Dinner 2045 Reception at the Wordsworth Museum and Gallery & Dove Cottage by Candlelight Tuesday 4 August 0715 Early Morning Walk 0915 Lecture 1 – Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University): Wordsworth, War, and Waterloo 1100 Paper 1 – Paul Cheshire – John Cowper Powys and Wordsworth’s ‘cerebral mystical passion for young women’ 1145 Paper 2 – Dan Eltringham (Birkbeck) – Enclosure, Scarcity and Sustainability in Wordsworth’s Cumbria 1245 A Walk – Nab Scar and Lord Crag continuing to Great Rigg and [possibly] Fairfield 1245 B+ Walk – Nab Scar and Lord Crag descending to Alcock Tarn and the Coffin Path 1245 B Walk – The Rydal Cave, Loughrigg Terrace, Loughrigg Tarn, and Fox Ghyll 1715 Paper 3 – Bruce Graver (Providence) – Neoclassical Wordsworth 1800 Paper 4 – Charity Ketz (UC at Berkeley) – Duration and Suspense in Wordsworth’s ‘Books’ 2030 Lecture 2 – Sarah Wootton (Durham University): Afterlives of the Byronic Hero in Nineteenth- Century Fiction and on Film Wednesday 5 August 0715 Early Morning Walk 0915 Lecture 3 – Philip Shaw (Leicester University): Wordsworth, Waterloo and Sacrifice 1100 Paper 5 – Stacey McDowell (St John’s, Cambridge) – Reading Together Apart 1145 Paper 6 – Kimiyo Ogawa (Sophia University) – ‘Roaming fancy’: Gothic Force and imagination in Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Keats’s ‘Isabella’ 1245 A Walk –The Tilberthwaite Fells 1300 C Excursion – Furness Abbey 2030 Lecture 4 – Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts): Double Touch: The Poetics of Drawing in STC’s Notebooks Thursday 6 August 0715 Early Morning Walk 0915 Lecture 5 – Lucy Newlyn (St Edmund Hall, Oxford): The Poetics of Hospitality 1100 Paper 7 – James Castell (Cardiff) – Ontology and politics in ‘Frost at Midnight’ 1145 Paper 8 – Tim Fulford (De Montfort) – Patrons and Stewards: Wordsworth’s Coleorton Inscriptions and the Politics of Landscape 3 1245 A Walk – Pavey Ark and the Langdale Pikes (strictly for those who have completed a prior A walk) 1300 C Excursion – a private tour of Naworth Castle with Lady Susan Howard 2030 Lecture 6 – Kaz Oishi (Tokyo University): Coleridge and Philanthropy in the 1810s: Lay Sermons Revisited Friday 7 August – first sedentary day 0700 Earlier Morning Walk 0915 Lecture 7 – Andrew Bennett (Bristol University): ‘Here, ‘tis here / Here’: Wordsworth in the Here and Now 1100 Paper 9 – Anna Camilleri (Christ Church, Oxford) – Lyrical Epic and Epical Lyric: The Prelude and Don Juan 1145 Paper 10 – Elsa Hammond (Bristol) – Coleridge’s ‘baby pangs’ 1230 Lunch interval 1300 A picturesque tour of Rydal (‘Nab Well’, the woodland sculptures, the chestnut tree, the grotto and lower fall, and the formal garden, Dora’s Field) 1500 Paper 11 – Judyta Frodyma (St Catherine’s College, Oxford)– Transatlantic Wildness: Considerations of ‘Westward’ in Wordsworth and Thoreau 1545 Paper 12 – Tim Sommer (Heidelberg) – American Transcendentalism and Wordsworth’s Transnational Uses 1630 Tea interval 1715 Paper 13 – Jolene Mathieson (Hamburg) – William Wordsworth, Cognitive Ecology and the Performance of Nature 1800 Paper 14 – Julia S. Carlson (Cincinnati) – Tangible Print and Wordsworthian Tact 2030 A Poetry Reading by Lucy Newlyn 2115 An auction of books for Bursary Funds (you are invited to bring good quality unwanted items for this purpose) Saturday 8 August: Arrivals and Departures Today’s events, before 1800, are for those attending both parts of the conference. It is not possible to provide transfers from or to Oxenholme or Windermere on this day: local buses or shared taxis are advised. This programme includes a hyperlink to the bus timetable (page 6). If there are spare seats, participants registered for only Part 1 or Part 2 may join one of the all-day events on payment of £20.00 (the excursion) or £10 (the walk), but it is unlikely to be possible to spend an extra night at Rydal Hall to facilitate this. 0730 Breakfast and Part 1 checkout 0830 All-day Walk: The Coledale Round 0830 All-day Excursion: Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford Part 2: 8–13 August Saturday 8 August 1800 A very brief briefing in the ‘Drawing Room’ for New Arrivals 1815 A reception and book launch at Rydal Mount 1930 Dinner 2100 Lecture 8 – Nicholas Roe (St Andrews): Mr Keats 4 Sunday 9 August – second sedentary day 0700 Earlier Morning Walk 0915 Lecture 9 – Tom Owens (Churchill College, Cambridge): Wordsworth’s Orbicular Poetics 1100 Paper 15 – Saeko Yoshikawa (Kobe City University) – Wordsworth and the Wars – Patriotism and Preservation 1145 Paper 16 – Anna Fleming (Leeds) – Wordsworth’s Creative Ecotone: Navigating Community Boundaries and Tension in the Vagrant Poems 1245 A Perambulation of Rydal by the Lake Path and the Coffin Path 1500 Paper 17 – Janine Utell (Widener) – ‘I did my work like a man’: Leslie Stephen, Mountaineering, and Masculinity 1545 Paper 18 – Pamela Buck (Sacred Heart) – Prints, Panoramas, and Picturesque Travel in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal of a Tour on the Continent 1630 Wordsworth Conference Foundation AGM (Members and Friends) 1730 Paper 19 – John Hartley (Open University) – ‘Romance Mania’ and John Stagg’s Minstrel of the North 1815 Paper 20 – Rachel Nisbet (Lausanne) – Wordsworth’s Poetic Mediation of Nature’s Still Small Voices 1900 Dinner 2030 Lecture 10 – John Bugg (Fordham University): Cobbett’s Country Peace Monday 10 August 0715 Early Morning Walk 0915 Lecture 11 – Susan Wolfson (Princeton University): What’s in a Name? 1100 Paper 21 – Oliver Clarkson (University College, Oxford) – Wordsworth and What Can’t be Said 1145 Paper 22 – Kate Pfeffer (Trinity College, Cambridge) – Lyrical Babble 1245 A Walk – Helm Crag 1300 C Excursion – The Jerwood Centre : hosted by Jeff Cowton, Curator 1715 Paper 23 – Heather Stone (Brasenose, Oxford) – Coleridge and Lamb: reading round the margins 1800 Paper 24 – Natsuko Hirakura (Waseda) – The Other Wollstonecraft Girl: Fanny Imlay in the Works of Mary Shelley 2030 Paper 25 – Julia Tejblum (Harvard) – Wordsworth and the Relief of Central Switzerland 2115 Paper 26 – Matthew Ward (St Andrews) – Wordsworth and Glee Tuesday 11 August 0715 Early Morning Walk 0915 Lecture 12 – Anthony Harding (Saskatchewan): Dissent and the National Narrative: Williams, Hays, Thelwall 1100 Paper 27 – Brandon Chao-Chi Yen (Queens’ College, Cambridge) – The Political Iconography of Cottages in The Excursion 1145 Paper 28 – Alexandra Paterson (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) – ‘I never could trace…’: Geology and Poetic Process in Charlotte Smith’s ‘Beachy Head’ 1245 A Walk – Red Screes 1300 C Excursion – Wordsworth House, Cockermouth & Castlerigg Stone Circle 2030 Paper 29 – Hiroki Iwamoto (Waseda) – Endymion and Keats’s Aesthetic of Passivity 2115 Paper 30 – Paul Whickman (Derby) – Poet as Sage, Sage as Poet: Aesthetics and Epistemology in Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ and ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ Wednesday 12 August 0715 Early Morning Walk 0915 Lecture 13 – Richard Lansdown (James Cook University): A Marginal Interest? Byron and the Fine Arts 1100 Paper 31 – Jessica Fay (Bristol) – Wordsworth’s Creation of Taste 1145 Paper 32 – Tom Clucas (Justus-Liebig University) – ‘There is an Eminence’: The Poet as Parley-Hill 1245 A Walk – Blencathra by Hall’s Fell Edge (participants must have completed a prior A–walk) 1300 C Excursion – Levens Hall 2030 A Reading Party on the shore of Rydal Water (weather permitting) 5 Thursday 13 August 0815 Breakfast 0945 Transport to Oxenholme Railway Station for trains as follows: to Euston 11.23 – 14.13 (direct) to Manchester Airport 11.13 – 13.15 (direct) to Glasgow Central 11.08 – 13.01 (direct) to Glasgow Airport 11.08 – 13.51 (2 changes) Our bus transfers must be pre-booked by 15 July 0900 Wordsworth Conference Foundation - Trustees Meeting: part 2 [09.45–10.30] Bursary Awards, 2015 Ena Wordsworth Bursaries Daniel Eltringham (Birkbeck) Judyta Frodyma (St Catherine’s College, Oxford) Emma Hammack (Boston College) Elsa Hammond