1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 31)

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

2026
314 pages
$160.00
ISBN 9781684485888
1650-1850

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650 - 1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, 1650 - 1850 invites readers into a truly global Enlightenment.

The contributors to volume 31 join with Enlightenment thinkers in charting the outposts of long-eighteenth-century culture while discovering new features in seemingly familiar terrain. Essays explore outlandish but often observed activities such as medical quackery, Rosicrucian hermeticism, and the oral antics associated with the twisted "Malaprop" tradition. In happy contrast, the volume offers the second half of a sparkling special feature on the most familiar of all substances, water. Contributors lead us through an astounding assortment of aqueous topics, from the heritage of The Compleat Angler to the sanctified sprinklings of holy water. As always, 1650 - 1850 culminates in a bevy of full-length book reviews that robustly address the latest scholarship on long-established specialties, unusual subjects, and broad reevaluations of the period.

ISSN: 1065-3112

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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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