Overview

"Volume 25 of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special feature on playwright, critic, and literary theorist John Dennis. Edited by Claude Willan, the feature returns a major player in eighteenth-century literary culture to his proper role at the center of eighteenth-century politics, art, publishing, and dramaturgy. This celebration of John Dennis mingles with a full company of essays in the character of revealing case studies. Essays on a veritable world of topics-on Enlightenment philosophy in China; on riots as epitomes of Anglo-French relations; on domestic animals as observers; on gothic landscapes; and on prominent literati such as Jonathan Swift, Arthur Murphy, and Samuel Johnson-unveil eye-opening perspectives on a ""long"" century that prized diversity and that looked for transformative events anywhere, everywhere, all the time. Topping it all off is a full portfolio of reviews evaluating the best books on the literature, philosophy, and the arts of this abundant era. 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. First published in 1994, 1650-1850 is currently in its 25th volume. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press."

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Author:   Kevin L. Cope ,  Jack Lynch ,  Howard Weinbrot ,  Molly Marotta
Publisher:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781684481729

ISBN 10:   1684481724
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   14 February 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

  ESSAYS Edited by Kevin L. Cope   “Harris beyond Hermes” Jack Lynch   “The Courier de l’Europe, The Gordon Riots and Trials, and the Changing Face of Anglo-French Relations” Howard Weinbrot   “Microscopy, Narrative, and The History of Pompey the Little” Molly Marotta   Deus sive Natura:The Monistic Link of Spinoza with China Yu Liu   “Murphy and Johnson: Prolegomenon to a New Edition” Anthony W. Lee     SPECIAL FEATURE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF JOHN DENNIS             Edited by Claude Willan   Introduction to the Special Feature Claude Willan   “‘A Separate Ministry’: Dennis, Drury Lane, and Opposition Politics” Daniel Gustafson   “’Naked Majesty’:  The Occasional Sublime and Miltonic Whig History of John Dennis, Poet” James Horowitz   “Anatomy of a Pan: John Dennis's Annotated Copy of Blackmore’s Prince Arthur” Philip S. Palmer   “My Enemy's Enemy: Dennis, Pope, and Edmund Curll” Pat Rogers   “Ovid Made English: Dennis's Translation of The Passion of Byblis” Sarah Stein     BOOK REVIEWS Edited by Samara Anne Cahill Catherine Ingrassia, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 Reviewed by Suzanne L. Barnett   Stephen Gaukroger, The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739–1841 Reviewed by R. J. W. Mills   Malcolm Jack, To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope Reviewed by Nigel Penn   Nan Goodman, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination Reviewed by Christopher Trigg   Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer   Stewart Pollens, Stradivari (Musical Performance and Reception. General editors John Butt and Laurence Dreyfus) Reviewed by Roy Bogas   Paul Prescott, Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor   Jonathan I. Israel, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790 Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer   Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, eds., Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor   Geordan Hammond, John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity Reviewed by Isabel Rivers   Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones, eds., George Whitefield; Life, Context, and Legacy Reviewed by Richard P. Heitzenrater   Felix Waldmann, ed., Further Letters of David Hume Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer   Henry Hitchings, The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life Reviewed by Malcolm Jack   Ian Woodfield, Performing Operas for Mozart: Impresarios, Singers and Troupes Reviewed by Kate Brown   Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics Reviewed by Jane R. Stevens   Susan Carlile, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind Reviewed by Robin Runia   Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens, introduction by Dominique Poulot, translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks Reviewed by Paula Pinto   Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Anniversary Edition Reviewed by Tamara Wagner  

Reviews

A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our well wishes. --Michael McKeon Rutgers University 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. --J.T. Scanlan co-editor, The Age of Johnson, Providence College 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. --James E. May editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer, Pennsylvania State University, Dubois

A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our wellwishes. --Michael McKeon Rutgers University 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. --James E. May editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer, Pennsylvania State University, Dubois 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. --J.T. Scanlan co-editor, The Age of Johnson, Providence College

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KEVIN L. COPE is the Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature and Robert and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University, and author of three monographs, several edited collections, and hundreds of scholarly articles and reviews on enlightenment authors, issues, themes, and topics. He has also had a distinguished career as president of the LSU Faculty Senate.

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