Henry Fielding
An international conference at Yale University
October 8 - 9, 2004
In commemoration of the the 250th anniversary of Fielding's death
on 8 October 175
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Friday, October 8
Yale Center for British Art

8:30 a.m. Coffee reception

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panel 1, Moderator: W.B. Coley, Wesleyan University

  • "Fielding, Hogarth, and the Nature of Evil," Ronald Paulson,
    Johns Hopkins University
  • " 'O, Hogarth, had I thy Pencil': Delineations of an Alleged Friendship," Frédéric Ogée,
    Université de Paris VII
  • "Henry Fielding and Sarah Fielding: Literary Relations," Linda Bree,
    University of Cambridge

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Panel 2, Moderator: Jill Campbell, Yale University

  • "Theatrical Fielding," Thomas Lockwood,
    University of Washington
  • " 'The Uncreating Word': Silence and Unspoken Thought in Fielding's Drama," Joseph Roach, Yale University
  • "Jacobites and Jacobins: Fielding's Legacy in the Late Eighteenth Century London Theatre," Angela Smallwood, University of Nottingham

6:30 p.m. Reception at Beinecke Library

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Saturday, October 9
Yale Center for British Art

8:30 a.m. Coffee reception

9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panel 3, Moderator: Donald Mell, University of Delaware

  • "Fielding's Style," Jill Campbell,
    Yale University
  • "Fielding's Machiavellian Moment," Thomas Keymer,
    University of Oxford
  • "Avatars of Alexander: Jonathan Wild and the Tyrant Thug, from Voltaire to Brecht,"
    Claude Rawson, Yale University

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Panel 4, Moderator: Claude Rawson, Yale University

  • "Was Fielding a Prefeminist?," Guyonne Leduc,
    Université de Lille, III
  • "Fielding, Politics, and 'Men of Genius'," Bertrand A. Goldgar,
    Lawrence University
  • "Fielding's Literary Afterlife," Robert Alter,
    University of California, Berkeley

5:30 p.m. Reception at Beinecke Library

   
   

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