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Thursday, September 30th, 2004:
4:30 p.m., Pyle Center Auditorium

The Peter Straub Distinguished Lecture in Literature and Popular Culture:

Arms and the Woman:
Topicality, Popularity, and the Reality Effect
Lawrence Scanlon, Rutgers University

9:15-10:45 - Pamphlets, Playbills, and Comic Books: Early Modern Popular Culture

Chair: Henry Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Prodigal literacies: the Pamphleteer, the Preacher, and the Pleasures of Repentance
Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign

Elizabethan Jigs and Shakespearean Popular Drama
Daniel Gibbons, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:00-12:30: Surprising Mixtures of High and Low in the Eighteenth Century

Chair: Eric Rothstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Becoming Marianne Dashwood: On the Literary History of the Unconscious
Helen Thompson, Northwestern University

Lowering the Heroic in John Gay's Acis and Galatea
David Nunnery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:00-3:30: Serious Popularity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chair: Susan Bernstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Serious Pleasures of Victorian Suspense: Scientific Knowledge and Popular Fiction
Caroline Levine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A Pict Song for the 21st Century: A Kipling Revision and its Implications for Reading Owenson's "The Missionary"
Mark Lounibos, University of Wisconsin-Madison

3:45-5:15: Consumption, Expansion, and Nineteenth-Century America

Genteel Crime: The Case of Catherine Sedgwick's "Wilton Harvey" and the American Popular Magazine
Peter Molin, Indiana University

Unbinding the American West: Poe's Julius Rodman and Popular Exploration Narrative
Jon Blandford, Indiana University

Emancipating Exchange: Stocks, Slaves, and Travel Writing
David Zimmerman, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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