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Thursday, March 18, 201020. “Degeneration and Decline in French Enlightenment Thought”Alvarado CChair: Joanna STALNAKER, Columbia University1. Andrew CURRAN, Wesleyan University, “Regressive History: TheOrigins of Degeneration Theory in Eighteenth-Century Thought”2. Saul ANTON, Princeton University, “The Art of Ruins: Fiction andHistory in Diderot’s Salons”3. Rudy LE MENTHÉOUR, Bryn Mawr College, “Regénération: DuMicroscope à la Guillotine”LCD PROJECTOR21. “New Perspectives on Thomas Shadwell” Alvarado FChair: Jennifer L. AIREY, University of Tulsa1. Bill BLAKE, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Shadwell and theSoldier-Playwrights”2. Peter CRAFT, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Shadwell’sResponse to a True Widow’s Unpopularity”3. Ereck JARVIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison, :Scowring the Club:Shadwell and Authorizing New Sociality in Seventeenth-CenturyLondon”4. Peggy THOMPSON, Agnes Scott College, “Coyness and Crime inShadwell’s Late Comedies”LCD PROJECTOR22. “Venice” in the Imagination of the Creative Artist and the DiscursiveCitizen”Alvarado GChair: Todd L. LARKIN, Montana State University1. Sally GRANT, University of Sydney, “The World in the VenetianCountryside: The Tiepolos at the Villa Valmarana ai Nani”2. Sabrina FERRI, University of Notre Dame, “Venice on Stage: Gozzi’sTheater Between Conservatism and Innovation”3. Irene ZANINI-CORDI, Florida State University, “Lagoon Waters:Double Vision of Venetian Festivities”4. Lisa BERGLUND, Buffalo State College, State University of New York,“Sweet Seducements and Wandering Misery: Hester Lynch PiozziReflects on Venice”LCD PROJECTOR AND TWO SCREENS23. “Eighteenth-Century “Englishness” in German: “Engellandsdelicater Bücher-Geschmack kan schon eine gute Meynung vondiesem Buche erwecken”Alvarado HChair: Michael GAMER, University of Pennsylvania1. Bethany WIGGIN, University of Pennsylvania, “Englishness inEighteenth-Century Germany: Milton, Defoe, Richardson”7