Overview
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. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. ISSN: 1065-3112
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Author: Kevin L. Cope , Samara Anne Cahill , Pat Rogers , Allison Muri
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
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Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9781684485888
ISBN 10: 1684485886
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 07 May 2026
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Table of Contents
Essays Edited by Kevin L. Cope John Moore and Quackery Pat Rogers and Allison Muri Between the Sheets: Documenting Tom Cumming, Johnson’s “Fighting Quaker” Duncan Samuel and Robert G. Walker Mrs. Malaprop’s Forgotten Foremothers, from Stage to Page and Back Anaclara Castro Rosicrucian Confusion and Masonic Machinations in the Conservative Writings of Eleanor Anne Porden and Anna Jane Vardill Marsha Keith Schuchard Special Feature The Cultural Ramifications of Water in Early Modern Texts and Images (1650–1850), Part II Edited by Leigh G. Dillard and Christina Ionescu Introduction to the Special Feature Leigh G. Dillard When Talent Meets Torrent: Illustrating, Explaining, and Enhancing Extreme Aqueous Environments Kevin L. Cope The Memory of Failure: Giovanni Battista Antonelli’s Waterways Project for Philip II and Canalmania in the Spanish Enlightenment Daniel Crespo-Delgado Life, Death, and Water: Visual Commemorations of Admiral Shovell Anne Betty Weinshenker “The Contemplative Man’s Recreation”: Illustration and the Human Element in The Compleat Angler Leigh G. Dillard Religious Agencies of Water: Hydolatry in Picart and Bernard’s CÉrÉmonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737) Steff Nellis Book Reviews Edited by Samara Anne Cahill David A. Brewer and Crystal B. Lake, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 52. Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley, eds., The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities Reviewed by Samara Anne Cahill Alexis Chema and Betty A. Schellenberg, eds., The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century, a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 48, Issue 1 Reviewed by Kandice Sharren Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee, eds., Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature Reviewed by Donald W. Nichol Robin L. Thomas, Palaces of Reason: Royal Residences of Bourbon Naples Reviewed by William Stargard John Callanan, Man-Devil The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe Reviewed by Malcolm Jack Conference Review: Bernard Mandeville in the University of Porto, May 2024 Reviewed by Malcolm Jack Penelope Aubin, The Life of Madam de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, ed. David A. Brewer Reviewed by Heather Heckman-McKenna Mohammad Sakhnini, British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751–1795: Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement. Reviewed by R. J. W. Mills Cai Tinglan, Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar’s Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam, trans. and introduced by Kathlene Baldanza and Zhao Lu Reviewed by Susan Spencer George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Ronjaunee Chatterjee Reviewed by A. W. Lee Review Essay Poets and Prophets from Blake to Marx A. W. Lee About the Editors About the Contributors
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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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