Timothy Erwin (English) presented a paper on the late fiction of Jane Austen, “New Contexts for Persuasion,” at the annual meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Los Angeles on February 18. Joining him on the program were UNLV doctoral candidates Miranda Hannasch, whose paper was titled, “‘Sad Oroonoko Pleads for Each Poor African’: Adapting Oroonoko to Abolitionist Narratives,” and Matthew S. Dentice, whose topic was, “Britons Have Always Ruled the Waves: Prince Madoc’s Eighteenth-Century Transformation from Colonialist Culture Hero to Abolitionist Icon.”
