1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 27)

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. ISSN 1065-3112

About the Author

ABOUT THE EDITOR: 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 edited a panoply of volumes on topics such as the imaginative representations of the sciences, the iconic status of George Washington, miracle lore in the Enlightenment, the profusion of information during the Enlightenment, and, most recently, the idea and the representation of distance during the Enlightenment. Cope is a frequent guest and commentator on radio and television programming concerned with higher education management and policy.

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 the Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she edits the online journal Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment .