1650-1850
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 26)
Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s underappreciated works, or modern video-based Islamic super-heroines energized by Mary Wollstonecraft’s irreverance. The global impact of the local is celebrated in studies of the personal pronoun in Samuel Johnson’s political writings and of the outsize role of a difficult old codger in catalyzing the literary career of Charlotte Smith. Headlining a volume that peers into minute details in order to see the outer limits of Enlightenment culture is a special feature on metaphor in long-eighteenth-century poetry and criticism. Five interdisciplinary essays investigate the deep Enlightenment origins of a trope usually associated with the rise of Romanticism. Volume 26 culminates in a rich review section containing fourteen responses to current books on Enlightenment religion, science, literature, philosophy, political science, music, history, and art.
About the annual journal 1650-1850
1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines: literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for special features that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors.
ISSN 1065-3112.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Scholarly communities, especially those joined in eighteenth-century studies, can raise a shout (or glass) over the prospect of the annual 1650-1850’s future publication by Bucknell University Press. This will provide us with regular publication and broader distribution of the journal Kevin Cope has so impressively edited for over 20 years. With contributions from around the world, 1650-1850 has long been providing essays focused on fields as diverse as art and philosophy and others truly inter-disciplinary. It has carried many special issues on topics like 'Death and Dying in the Early Modern Era.' It has also distinguished itself by including lengthy essays and reviews. While 1650-1850 has always been an important annual for seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century studies, its temporal focus is all the more valuable now that so much exciting research is being produced.
For more than two decades, 1650-1850 has offered its readers an inspiring example of what a scholarly annual concentrating on interdisciplinary and international topics can be. The work of seasoned scholars appears alongside that of 'mid-career' scholars and newly-minted PhDs, creating a heady variety of approaches and subject matter in every volume. The articles, the reviews, the 'special features,' and even the occasional 'Editor’s Choice' on underappreciated books always advance knowledge in large and small ways. Equally important, each contribution is typically written with verve and allusive pluckiness. There has never been anything doctrinaire about 1650-1850, other than an energy to display compelling new work to its best advantage. That Bucknell University Press has committed itself to this exciting annual is a cause for celebration.
A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our well wishes.
Under Kevin L. Cope’s leadership, this annual continues to display the wide-range not only of subject matter but also of critical approach that is suggested by its subtitle. The heart of this year’s volume comprises six essays edited by Cope [and] the always fulsome book review section, under the direction of Samara Anne Cahill, completes the volume.
ABOUT THE BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: SAMARA ANNE CAHILL served for ten years as a member of the faculty at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore before joining the faculty at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas. The author of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Bucknell, 2019), Cahill also co-edited Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century (Bucknell, 2015). One of the founders of Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she edits the online journal, Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment. Cahill has organized numerous international conferences on topics such diverse topics as intercultural adaptation and environmental sustainability during the Enlightenment.
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Prostitutes or Proselytes: Eighteenth-Century Female Enthusiasts
ROBIN RUNIA
Edmund Burke on Monarchy: Keystone and Trials of Strength
NORBERT COL
“These Kings of me”: The Provenance and Significance of an Allusion in Johnson’s Taxation No Tyranny
MATTHEW M. DAVIS
Localizing Women? Mary Wollstonecraft, Burka Avenger, and the Adaptable Heroine
SAMARA ANNE CAHILL
The Woman, the Politician, and the Will: Charlotte Smith’s Literary Assaults on John Robinson, “The Lowest Rank of Human Degradation”
ANDREW CONNELL
In Quotes: Annotating Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda
MELVYN NEW
SPECIAL FEATURE
Metaphor in the Poetry and Criticism of the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Mark A. Pedreira
Introduction to the Special Feature: Metaphor in the Poetry and Criticism of the Long Eighteenth Century
MARK A. PEDREIRA
Organizing Poetry in the Eighteenth Century: Anthologies and Metaphor
ADAM ROUNCE
Curvilinear Thinking in the Long Eighteenth Century
TAYLOR CORSE
Feeling Allegory: Affect, Metaphor, and Milton’s Eighteenth-Century Reception
MICHAEL EDSON
The Worldliness of Edward Young and the Metaphorics of Georgian Patronage
JACOB SIDER JOST
Coleridge and Metaphor: Crossing Thresholds
LINDA L. REESMAN
BOOK REVIEWS
Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
Janet Aikins Yount, ed., Clarissa: The Twentieth-Century Response, 1900–1950, 2 vols.
Reviewed by SÖREN HAMMERSCHMIDT
O. M. Brack Jr. and Robert De Maria Jr., eds., The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Volume 20. Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings
Reviewed by GREG CLINGHAM
Anthony W. Lee, ed., Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson’s Circle
Reviewed by JOHN J. BURKE
Anthony W. Lee, ed., New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON
Anthony W. Lee, ed., Samuel Johnson among the Modernists
Reviewed by JOHN SITTER
Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Reviewed by MALCOLM JACK
Samara Anne Cahill, Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Reviewed by ASHLEY BENDER
Teresa Barnard, ed., British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by GEFEN BAR-ON SANTOR
Trevor Ross, Writing in Public: Literature and the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Reviewed by MALCOLM JACK
Rivka Swenson, Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832
Reviewed by PAUL J. DeGATEGNO
Paul Corneilson, ed., Ballet Music from the Mannheim Court. Part V, Christian Cannabich. Les Fêtes du sérail, and Carol G. Marsh, ed., Angélique et Médor, ou Roland furieux
Reviewed by GLORIA EIVE
Margaret Jacob, The Secular Enlightenment
Reviewed by R. J. W. MILLS
Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 46
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON
Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 47
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON
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