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205. “Forms of Attention, Forms of Distraction” Suite 318Chair: Andrew BROUGHTON, University of Chicago1. Sarah KAREEM, University of California, Los Angeles, “Wonder,Attention, and Absorption”2. Matthew LANDERS, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez,“Narration and Memory Theory in the Structure of Tristram Shandy:The Medical Aesthetics of Digression”3. Barbara BENEDICT, Trinity College, “Collecting Impressions:Antiquarianism and Attention to Detail in the Literature of the LongEighteenth Century”Respondent: Natalie PHILLIPS, Stanford UniversityOVERHEAD PROJECTOR206. “The Novelty of Novels: A Pedagogy Roundtable” Alvarado CChair: Deborah WEISS, University of Alabama1. Emily H. ANDERSON, University of Southern California2. Jessica LEIMAN, Carleton College3. Manushag N. POWELL, Purdue University4. Heather WOZNIAK, University of California, Los Angeles5. Tera PETTELLA, The Ohio State University6. Caroline BREASHEARS, St. Lawrence UniversityLCD PROJECTOR207. “Vegetable Love: Plants and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century”Alvarado FChair: Gail AW, University of Virginia1. Adela RAMOS,Columbia University, “Africans, Women, Aloe, andMacaws: Species Diversity and Social Hierarchy in Maria Edgeworth’sBelinda”2. David MAZELLA,University of Houston, “‘Here is the rock, and thetree; and here the roaring stream’: Metaphorics of Empire inMacpherson’s Ossian”3. Christopher NAGLE, Western Michigan University, “Irishing Africa:Botany and Empire in Mary Tighe’s Poetry”LCD PROJECTOR208. “The Role of ‘Close Reading’ in Teaching Eighteenth-CenturyLiterature?” (Roundtable)TurquoiseChair: Ted RUML, California State University1. Lisa BERGLUND, State University of New York, Buffalo State College2. Marshall J. BROWN, University of Washington3. Jill CAMPBELL, Yale University4. Lorna CLYMER, California State University, Bakersfield5. Timothy ERWIN, University of Nevada, Las Vegas65