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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:31:27 EDT
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Subject:      No more calls, please, we've got a winner

     Many thanks to the generous C18-L readers who have offered to
fill in the MLA blanks.  The prize goes to Shef Rogers, of New Zealand,
who was the first caller with the correct answer (viz., why, certainly,
glad to help...).  The most cynical among you will recognize this as
one of your list-owners subtle digs, encouraging you to contribute your
own calls for papers & items of interest as they cross your desk.
-- Kevin Berland for C18-L
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Date:         Fri, 25 Sep 1992 16:47:00 EST
From:         WEITZMAN@NORTHEASTERN.EDU
Subject:      Re: female cynics

Talk about female cynics, they fairly pullulate in the drama.  Off the top
of my head I nominate Mrs. Squeamish in "The Country Wife," and a close
runner up would be Lady Sneerwell from "School for Scandal."  In the novel I
 would call Shamela a first class cynic and Black George's daughter Moll (from
 "Tom
Jones") is as cynical about love as any tart could be.  I could go, but,
Irwin, but time is short!
Correction: I could go on, but,. . .
    Re the cynicism of Mary Astell, I do not consider her a cynic, nor any one
cynical in the modern sense who wishes to correct a social injustice.  Her
remark that 18th C society treated women as "creatures barely capable of reason"
is a good example of overkill and exaggeration.  In France and England at least
a liberation movement for women was well underway by the time Astell wrote and
assisted Defoe, Addison, Montesquieu et al.
Arthur J. Weitzman, Northeastern U.
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Subject:      Re: CORRECTED U.S. BIRTH DATE

Why the signing of the Articles?  What about ratification?
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From:         "Karen M. Bush" <kb2v+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The C18-L Kalendar: 28 September - 4 October (so celebrate!)

To be honest, I'd rather that the entries confined themselves to matters
of the Long 18th-Century, as much as I want to know when some Hollywood
director's birthday might be.  I don't have the stamina to read all that
single spacing.

Also--why should be cynical about politicians?  Shouldn't they live
up to their name and be POLITIC?

Linda Troost
Washington and Jefferson College
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Subject:      CONSORTIUM ON REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE

Call for papers for the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe.

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

               CALL FOR PAPERS

  THE CONSORTIUM ON REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE,
                  1750-1850


                 ATLANTA, GA
               FEB 25-27, 1993


  The Consortium meets each February and covers a wide range of topics
from any area of Europe from 1750 to 1850.  The proceedings are
published annually.  This year's featured speakers are Mme Dominique
Godineau (Paris, France) and Professor Donald M. G. Sutherland
(University of Maryland, College Park).  The organizers especially wish
to encourage panel and paper proposals that treat interdisciplinary and
cultural topics, and to expand the number of sessions devoted to gender,
the arts and literature.  There is also limited funding to help
sponsor panelists from Europe.  (Contact Judith Miller about those
funds.)

  Send panel or individual paper proposals (a one-page precis of each
paper, with the author's c.v.) by OCTOBER 15, 1992 to:


Professor Ellen Evans               Professor Judith Miller
History Department                  History Department
Georgia State University            Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30303                   Atlanta, GA 30322
                                    FAX: 404-727-4959
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    CONSORTIUM ON REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE                                      
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 22:38:24 EDT
From:         Amy Miller <MILLERAA@DUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: An Immoral Evelina?

Evelina does indeed seem somewhat hypocritcal, but I believe that her lack of
moral consistency stems more from her country naivete (and Burney's lack of
writing experience) than from a conscious inconsistency on either part.
A young girl first exposed to society might be more likely to concentrate on
the formalities of etiquette (as they are explained to her) and could very
well not think to apply them to everyday relationships.  Burney herself wrote
in her diary (ed. Annie Raine Ellis, New York, 1971) "All I can urge is that
I have only presumed to trace the accidents and adventures to which a "young
woman" is liable. I have not pretended to shew the world as it actually _is_,
but what it _appears_ to a girl of seventeen" (Vol. II, p.212).
Burney made a much more thorough attempt at societal critique in her second
novel, _Cecilia_, which I believe also contains a more serious moral focus.
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:17:26 -0400
From:         "Jack Fruchtman, Jr. 410-830-2850" <E7U4FRU@TOWSONVX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Hobbes

If memory serves, there is a full page representation of the engraving
from Leviathan in the front of Ted Lowi's 1976 _American Government_
text (Dryden Press, I think).
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:55:33 -0500
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Subject:      books

Alan,
Thanks for the book news. I'll look at Peters' book. I have read
(most of) Brown's book and I thought it was great--(and it's in
paperback as well). I know everyone knows about Laurel T. Ulrich's
A Midwives'Tale about Martha Ballard in 18th-century Maine, but
I just got around to it and am fascinated by the way Ulrich was
able to reconstruct a whole world by starting with Ballard's
very brief diary entries.
I don't know if anyone else would care to do so, but I'd be
interested in what people are reading and liking in 18th-C
subjects.
Laura Kennelly
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:37:03 EDT
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Subject:      Calls for Papers: MLA, Toronto, December 1993

                  CALL FOR PAPERS
        Modern Language Association of America
             Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                Late December, 1993


[Herewith are select calls of interest to C18-L readers]


COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN 18TH-CENTURY LITERATURE:
"The Colonial Eye."  One-page abstracts by March 1, 1993 to
   Elizabeth Bohls, Department of English, 608 Wright St.,
   University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA.
"The Theory and Practice of 18th-Century Comedy."
   Abstracts by March 1, 1993, to Anthony Kaufman, Department
   of English, 608 Wright St., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
   61801 USA.

18TH- & EARLY 19TH-CENTURY GERMAN LITERATURE:
"Literary Periods, Classification, and Canonization."  Susan L.
   Cocalis, Department of German, University of Massachusetts,
   Amherst, MA 01003.
"Problems of Literary Periodization and Canonization, 1770-
   1830."  Susan L. Cocalis, Department of German, University of
   Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

GENRE STUDIES - METHODS OF LITERARY RESEARCH:
"Reference Tools: What's Needed In...?"  The needs of an
   area, genre, or interdisciplinary approach, rather than a
   specific period of a national literature.  Proposals by March 1,
   1993.  James L. Harner, Department of English, Texas A&M
   University, College Station, TX 77843-4227.

RELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO LITERATURE:
"Religious Approaches to Literature."  Proposals by
   December 1, 1992.  Philip C. Rule, SJ, Department of English,
   College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610.

SPECIAL SESSIONS:
"Responses to the Hundred Years' War in French and English
   Literature."  One-page abstracts or 8-10 page papers by Marc
   1, 1993, to Denise N. Baker, Department of English,
   University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 27412.
"Vico."  One-page abstracts by March 1, 1993, to Domenico
   Pietropaolo, Department of Italian Studies, University of
   Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 Canada.

AMERICAN HUMOR STUDIES ASSOCIATION:
Open Topic.  8-10 page papers or 2-page abstracts by
   December 10, 1992, to David E. Sloane, Department of
   English, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06516.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:53:44 EDT
From:         Irwin Primer <primer@ANDROMEDA.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject:      RE: cynicism

Arthur Weitzman's of Sir Robert Walpole to the modern cynics' hall of fame
seems perfectly acceptable to me.  I'd be interested in hearing more about
the cynicism of John Wilkes, if anybody has any verifiable information on
that matter.  Arthur, if you don't accept Alceste and (the final) Gulliver as
cynics (perhaps revealing more of the old school than the modern cynics),
then how about Manly in _The Plain Dealer_?  That would be Manly after he
has learned about the betrayals of his so-called friends.  Or would you
prefer to call his double-dealing friend Vernish a cynic?  (This is not for
Arthur only, but anyone interested in that play.)
     Before our discussion of cynicism fizzes out or comes to dust (as all
electronic discussions must!), I wish to report that a search of "cynic#"
in the ESTC brought up six items, three of which were instances of this
title:  _The comical pilgrim; or, travels of a cynick philosopher, thro'
the most wicked parts of the world, namely, England, Wales, Scotland,
Ireland, and Holland. ... Being a general satyr on the vices and follies
of the age._  London, printed for S. Briscoe, 1722.  (2nd ed., 1722; 3rd
ed., 1723).  A search of "Diogenes" in the ESTC turned up eight items, of
which 3 or 4 are one title by Christopher Wieland (beginning with something
like Socrates gone mad . . . .).  Has anybody ever looked at _The comical
pilgrim . . . _?
Irwin Primer
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 22:47:57 EDT
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Subject:      CSANA_Conference

  - - The original note follows - -

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                               CSANA

                           Announcing The

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CELTIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA

              Thursday, April 22 - Sunday, April 25 1993


                           CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are invited for the annual meeting of the CELTIC STUDIES
ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA (CSANA), which will be held at the
University of Washington in Seattle from Thursday, April 22nd, to
Sunday, April 25th, 1993. Papers should be twenty minutes in length,
and any topic related to Celtic language, history, or literature
(medieval or modern) will be considered.

CSANA will be meeting in conjunction with a Colloquium on Orality and
Literacy in Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse tradition sponsored by the
University of Washington Center for the Humanities. Featured speakers
for the Colloquium include Thomas Charles-Edwards (Oxford), Joseph
Harris (Harvard), and Katherine O'Keeffe (Notre Dame). The conjunction
of the Colloquium with the CSANA conference means that CSANA papers
related to orality and literacy, or to Celtic/Anglo-Saxon or
Celtic/Norse interactions would be especially welcome.

Paper prospectuses are due by February 1st, 1993, to:

Robin Chapman Stacey
Dept. of History, DP-20
University of Washington
Seattle, WA. 98195

For further information contact Dr. Stacey via USMail,
or Jon Crump via e-mail at:   jjcrump@u.washington.edu
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 10:01:00 CST
From:         LEWIS@MSUS1.BITNET
Subject:      cynicism

The ancient cynics, regarding themselves as the true followers of Socrates,
believed that virtue is the sole good.  Philosophy, they thought, must above
all be a way of life, an answer to Socrates' question "how should one live?"
They taught this subversive doctrine throughout the Roman empire for
hundreds of years.  Thoreau may be their closest modern equivalent.
Eventually, cynicism was absorbed by stoicism and then for about 1500
years the word seems to have gone dead, defined exclusively by its enemies
as Irwin Primer points out:  a "surly, currish, misanthropic, captious" set of
ideas.  That's Johnson's definition, more or less, in 1755.  A cynic, he says, i
   s
"A philosopher of the snarling or currish sort; a follower of Diogenes; a rude
man; a snarler; a misanthrope"; similarly, 'cynical':  "Having the qualities of
   a
dog; currish; brutal; snarling; satirical."  Seventy-five years later, Stendahl
   (in
The Red and the Black) uses the word 'cynic' in its modern sense, as one who
believes with various degrees of ironic intensity and relish that virtue is
merely a sort of theatrical illusion and never more than skin deep.

Now the words 'cynic', 'cynical', 'cynicism' are in common use, usually with
intent to discredit.  Cynics--once more it seems--have a bad name.  Yet, some
degree of cynicism is necessary, perhaps, both for survival and for humor--
as the quotations supplied by BCJ remind us.  Your modern cynic can be
either a wit or a machiavellian and sometimes both; though that is very rare.
So it's a very odd word and idea:  on the one hand, the word that more than
any other, perhaps, defines the ironic detachment, alienation or despair of
those who--in Yeats' phrase--have awakened from the common dream; or
think they have; on the other, the necessary assumptions of successful
politicians and other men and women of the world.

What I want to know is, how did this ancient term manage to dust itself off
in the late 18th century, or early 19th, reverse its ancient meaning, disown
its ancient inheritance, and acquire this strange, new, energetic, life?

PL
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From:         "Bhattacharya Sumangala" <ac05@SOL.ACS.UNT.EDU>
Subject:      Victorian literature, anyone?

Hello!

Does anyone know of a electronic mailing list for Victorian literature
or Victorian studies in general? I haven't been able to find one.

Thanks.

--

Sumangala Bhattacharya
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:26:29 +1000
From:         "(Marion Diamond)" <med@LINGUA.CLTR.UQ.OZ.AU>
Subject: Re: State revenues

Charles, Have you looked at John Brewer: The Sinews of War - an excellent
study of the means by which Great Britain developed a system of government
finance which allowed it to stay solvent while all around were collapsing
in a morass of debt.  You should find exact comparisons in that.
Marion Diamond
med@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 11:04:00 PDT
From:         "Don W." <webbd@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU>
Subject:      Cynicism again

>Also--why should be cynical about politicians?  Shouldn't they live
>up to their name and be POLITIC?
>
>Linda Troost

Linda T. makes a good point... Is the cynicism I feel really
mine, or is it the politicians'?

Don W. (DonWebb@CSUS.EDU)
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Subject: Re[2]: cynicism
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:32:56 GMT
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Please remove me from your mailing list.

                Thank you,

                        Robert LaFollette
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:06:48 +0100
From:         Johan Schimanski <johansc@ULRIK.UIO.NO>
Subject:      Literature and the rise of the nation-state, cry for help with

Dear C18-listers:

My interest in the C18 revolves (at the moment) around the rise of the
nation-state as constituted by or affecting literature (most writers on
nationalism seem to agree that the concept finally became current in that
century).

I suppose this problematic area of study would be an interesting thing to
discuss on the list. It would also be fun to know if any of you other
listers are working in this field. However, the main purpose in my writing
this posting is to ask for help in connection with my specific research
project: "An Intercourse of Nationality and Genre in Welsh Literature after
1700", which a couple of years from now should result in a Ph.D. degree at
the University of Oslo.

Next year, I hope to spend the Spring term at some university outside
Norway, either in France, Great Britain, or the United States, to get some
background in nation & literature studies in a more general context (i.e.
not specifically to do with Welsh or Celtic literature). So what I want to
know is this: do any of you people out there know of any post-graduate
seminars/lecture series/courses/discussion groups - on this subject - being
held at your particular universities? My approach is fairly theoretical &
critical, and could be easily catered for by something in the line of
"cultural studies", but I am open to other suggestions.

So...please write to me directly. Anybody who wants to know the results of
these investigations can also contact me directly.

        yrs

                J.


Johan Schimanski  (johansc@hedda.uio.no)
----------------------------------------------
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Nationality and Genre in Welsh Literature after 1700").
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From:         Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@ANDROMEDA.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject:      NEACH Oct 23 (New Date)

       NEACH: Northeast Association for Computers & the Humanities
               FALL 1992 PROGRAM SCHEDULE CHANGES:

       We have changed the dates of the October and December programs
to Friday, Oct. 23, and Tuesday, Dec. 15.  The topics and place are
not changed.  Meetings will take place as before at 1:30 p.m. in
the IBM Building in New York City, 57th Street and Madison Avenue.

       Friday, Oct. 23 (previously Tuesday, Oct. 13):
       E-mail, E-news, E-groups, E-research (Louie Crew, Rutgers)

       Wed. Nov. 11: Computers and Composition (Robert Royar, NYIT)

       Tuesday, Dec. 15 (previously Dec. 8):
       Electronic Text Archives and Libraries (Anita Lowry, Columbia)
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Subject:      An Immoral Evelina?

     Does anyone else perceive Fanny Burney's Evelina as lacking in moral
judgement? She is frequently indifferent to situations that have strong
moral implications, or involve cruel or vicious behavior, eg:

     - her participation in the staged "robbery" of Madame Duval
     - her meek protestation of the foot race between the aged women
     - her brief and detached criticism of the Captain's cruel "sport"

     All of this contrasted with her exaggerated concerns over issues of
minor social etiquette and embarrassment. For example, she writes
voluminously of her profound embarrassment at being seen in the shilling
section of the Opera House with the Branghtons.

     I seem to view her with less sympathy than most readers. Am I alone?
Do I lack an eighteenth century mind-set?

     Jim Chandler
     UNC-Greensboro
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For some reason this was rejected the first time I sent it, but I haven't
sent this message previously.

Does anyone know where I could get a good enlargement of the engraving
originally used as the title page for Hobbes' Leviathan?

Brian.J.Burchett.1@nd.edu
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Date: 28 Sep 92 11:16:13 GMT
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These calendars are fun, Kevin.  Thanks.  Mary A. Y. Gallagher
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:27:16 CDT
From:         Susan E Rosa <srosa@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU>
Subject:      gay & lesbian studies

The Gay and Lesbian Studies Caucus will hold its organizational
meeting at the 1993 ASECS conference in Providence.  Send suggestions
to or request information from Jeffrey Merrick, History Department
[(414) 229-4924 or -4361 OR jmerrick@csd4.csd.uwm.edu] or Susan Rosa,
Honors Program [(414) 229-4658 or -6070 OR srosa@csd4.csd.uwm.edu],
both of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P O Box 413, Milwaukee
WI 53201.
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From:         ROLAND HALL <RH1@VAXB.YORK.AC.UK>
Subject:      RE: Prosopography

I can supply a dozen messages kept on this, but perhaps Kevin should
give me is e-address, or it will go on the list again.  Roland Hall
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:23:38 -0400
From:         Allen Michie <engak472@UNIX.CC.EMORY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dates, astrolog'l and other

On Wed, 30 Sep 1992, Don W. wrote:

> >>               What DID create the United States was the signing of the
> >>          ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION.  And this occurred in YORKTOWN,
> >>          PENNSYLVANIA on NOVEMBER 15, 1777.
> >>
> >>               NOVEMBER 15TH should be made another NATIONAL HOLIDAY!
> >
> >Is it really worth C18-L's time to worry about astrological birthdates?
>
	Those of us interested in the origins of the eighteenth-century
novel may find it useful to know that there are still Quixotic souls out
there, fighting for a forgotten cause with modern tools in an
unsympathetic world...

				Allen Michie (engak472@unix.cc.emory.edu)
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