Shef Rogers on Pope's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1712/1714)

I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday 30 September 2008 Shef Rogers will present, at Monash University (exact venue TBA), a paper on Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Locke" (1712/1714).

This is the fourth Melbourne Bibliographical Circle event for 2008, jointly organised by The Centre for the Book and the Melbourne branch of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Shef's talk is entitled "Cancels Less in Sight: Revisioning the Bibliographical Context of Pope's 'Rape of the Locke.'" It offers a bibliographical analysis of the changes made to reissue the 1712 Lintot Miscellaneous Poems and Translations in 1714, drawing on watermark, skeleton, and textual evidence to argue that Pope probably withdrew publication of "The Temple of Fame" in 1712 and that Lintot definitely only inserted "Windsor Forest" and "Ode for Musick" near the end of 1713. These decisions cast light on Pope's own sense of his developing career, and on the marketing pressures Lintot faced in trying to shift copies of the miscellany.

The talk does not presume an extensive knowledge of descriptive bibliography, but does attempt to show its value for literary and historical research.

Shef Rogers is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Otago. He teaches eighteenth-century literature and book history and is currently completing an enumerative bibliography of eighteenth-century English travel books. He is also involved as one of the editors of a single-volume history of the book in New Zealand.

[PS: anyone wanting to buy a copy of the 1712 Miscellaneous Poems and Translations in advance of Shef's paper, can do so here for US$4,300.]

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PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

The Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, at the University of Sydney, 1–3 October 2008

Nathan Garvey and Lawrence Warner, Co-Convenors

Wednesday 1 October

Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

5.00–7.00pm: Reception

Thursday 2 October

Woolley Building, University of Sydney

8:30–9.30am

9.30: Opening/President’s Welcome

9.45–11.15 First Session

• Edmund King (Wellington) – “The Shakespearean Book in the Colonial Antipodes”
• Ted Mack (Washington) – “Metropoles and their Antipodes: Japanese Books beyond the Borders of Japan”
• Donald Kerr (Otago) – “Mentelin’s Moggy, or Making a Mark for the Incunables at Otago University”

11.15-11.45 Morning Tea

11.45-1.15 Second Session

• Matthew Stephens (Historic Houses Trust/ UNSW) – “Bug Catchers and Bookworms: The Scientific Libraries of Alexander Macleay and William Swainson”
• Sue Reynolds (RMIT) – “Classics in the Classics Room: Curious Titles in the Collection of the Library of the Supreme Court of Victoria”
• Wallace Kirsop (Monash) – “An Artillery Officer and his Books”

1.15-2.45 Lunch and BSANZ AGM

2.45-4.15 Third Session

• Kevin Molloy (State Library of Victoria) – “Big Sellers: Prayer-books and Profitability in the Sydney Irish Book Trade, 1840-1880”
• Helen Hewson (Sydney) – “Richard Bentley and Australasian Travel Writing”
• Patrick Buckridge (Griffith) – “‘Beauty, Mate!’: Harraps’ Democratic Publishing Aesthetic, 1901-1930”

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7pm Conference Dinner at "Roxanne", 39 Glebe Point Road, Glebe

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Friday 3 October

Woolley Building, University of Sydney

(Registration from 9.00am)

10.00-11.00 Fourth Session

• Catriona Menzies-Pike (Sydney/UWS) – “‘A Moveable Feast’: Modernism, Robert McAlmon, and the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers (1925)”
• Suzanne Bellamy (Sydney) – Virginia Woolf in Australia – modernist texts in the academy, 1942.

11.00-11.30 Morning Tea

11.30-1.00 Fifth Session

• Matthew Fishburn (Hordern House) – [Authorship of the last unassigned Cook Voyage]
• Tim Dolin (Curtin) – “The Victorian Novel and the settler-reader: the diaries of Annie Baxter Dawbin and William Bunn”
• Adrian Mitchell (Sydney) – [publication of George Collingridge’s Discovery of Australia]

1.00–2.00 Lunch

2.00–3.30 Sixth Session

• Pauline Farley (UWA) – English Children’s Annuals in Australia: Pictures of Home
• Dennis Bryans (Specialty Press) – Post-War Reconstruction and Aspects of British Publishing in Melbourne 1944-1950
• Victor Crittenden (Canberra/Mulini Press) – Study of the Texts of John Lang’s book The Secret Police

3.30–4.00 Afternoon Tea and Conference Conclusion