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Draft Programme ![]() Monday 2 July Registration - 9:00–9:15am Introductory Remarks - 9:15 am Keynote lecture - 9:30-10:30am Professor James Raven, University of Essex ‘Certifying Commerce: Jobbing printing and publication for trade in eighteenth-century Britain’ Session 1 - 11:00am-12:45 pm Public Credit, private interest, and the literary imagination in Britain and France Chair: TBC Olivier Delers, University of Richmond ‘The Other Rise of the Novel: Imagining Alternative Economies in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel’ ![]() Natalie Roxburgh, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg ‘The Two “Publics” of Thomas Bridges’ Adventures of a Bank-Note.’ ![]() Emma Clery, Southampton University ‘Economic Warfare: the Continental System of 1807-12, Public Credit, and Poetic Protest’ ![]() Lunch - 12:45-1:45pm Session - 2 1:45pm-3.45pm The Business of Books Chair: TBC Dominique Varry, École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques ‘The book-trade through some 18th century French book-sellers' handbooks ![]() Mark Curran, University of Cambridge ‘The Republic of Books’ ![]() Lise Andries, CNRS-Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne ‘Commerce and literature in Bougainville, Cook and Laperouse’s journals’ ![]() Coffee - 3:45-4:00pm Session 3 - 4:00–6:00pmPaterson and Pamphleteers Chair: TBC Helen Paul, Southampton University ‘Bank of England or the Bank of Land? The pamphlet literature and the national banking project’ ![]() Benjamin Pauley, Eastern Connecticut State University ‘The very navel of the trading world: Darien in British Commercial Fantasy, ca. 1685-1710.’ ![]() Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University ‘Legal History, the Book Trade, and the Literature of Commerce’ ![]() Exhibition - 6:00-7:00pm Newnham College Library Reception 7:00-7:30pm Conference dinner 7:30pm Tuesday 3rd of July Session 4 - 9:00-10:30am Theatre and Finance Chair: TBC Matthew Pagett, University of Pennsylvania ‘Performing Paper: Finance in French Comic Theatre in the early eighteenth century.’ ![]() Catherine Labio, University of Colorado ‘Two Cultures: The Literature(s) of the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles’ ![]() Coffee 10:30-11:00am Session 5 - 11:00am-1.00pm Market Forces and the Modern Author Chair: TBC Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki and St Andrews University ‘Commercial aspect of Fable of the bees’ ![]() Thierry Rigogne, Fordham University 'The Cafés Literature Made, the Literature Cafés Made: Literature, Authorship, Sociability and Commerce in the French Coffeehouse, 1650-1800' ![]() Bridget Orr, Vanderbilt University and Clare Hall ‘“To his Pen he owes all his Subsistence”: Authorship, Commerce and Virtue in Colman and Foote’ ![]() Lunch - 1:00-2:00pm Keynote lecture - 2:00-3:00pm Professor Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania ‘They “suck the very blood of the French people”: The First Financiers’ Tea 3:00-3:30pm Session 6 - 3:30pm-5:30pm The Commerce of Books and the Commerce of Ideas Chair: TBC Joseph Chaves, University of Northern Colorado ‘The Extent of Commerce: the French and English versions of Crèvecoeur’s Letters’ ![]() Antonella Alimento, University of Pisa ‘The translations as a conduit for the commerce of ideas: the case of the Negotiant Anglois’ ![]() Olivier Tonneau, Cambridge University and Homerton College ‘The evidences against ‘L’Evidence’: Keynes, Galiani and Diderot on the fallacy of naturalistic economics’ ![]() Round table discussion - 5:30-6:00pm Chaired by Professor John Richetti, Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania Champagne Reception - 6:00pm End of Conference |
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