1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 27)

Kevin L. Cope and Samara Anne Cahill (Eds.)

2022
326 pages
$160.00
ISBN 9781684484102
1650-1850

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650 - 1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650 - 1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of worldmaking and other worlds - on the Enlightenment zest for the discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds, envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around European gardens, over the high seas, across the American frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship.

Contributors: Chris Barrett, Mita Choudhury, Matthew Goldmark, Jennifer L. Hargrave, Betty Joseph, Billie Lythberg, David Mazella, Su Fang Ng, Felicity Nussbaum, Daniel O'Quinn, Elizabeth Sauer, Ana Schwartz, Brandie Siegfried, Daniel Vitkus, Lisa Walters, Chi-ming Yang, Andrew Black, Samara Anne Cahill, Erica Johnson Edwards, James Hamby, Stephanie Howard-Smith, Anthony W Lee, Daniel Livesay, Seow-Chin Ong, Linda L. Reesman, Gefen Bar-On Santor, and Jacqy Sharpe

ISSN 1065-3112

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Reviews
"'Had we but world enough and time'; ''Tis the way of the world'; 'To see a world in a grain of sand' - what does 'world' imply in such contexts? In this inspired volume fourteen essayists explicate the 'worlding' of real and imagined spaces across an expanding universe of literary, cartographic, and commercial endeavor."
- David Radcliffe, editor of the digital archive Lord Byron and His Times

About the editors:

KEVIN L. COPE is the Adams Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The author of Criteria of Certainty, John Locke Revisited, and In and After the Beginning, Cope has prepared numerous essay collections, most recently Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment (Bucknell University Press). Cope is a frequent guest on radio and television programming concerning higher education policy and governance.

SAMARA ANNE CAHILL taught literature, rhetoric, and grant writing at Blinn College, Nanyang Technological University, and the University of Notre Dame before joining the University of North Texas as a grant manager. She is the editor of Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment and author of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Bucknell University Press).

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