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. Topics in volume 29 include Samuel Johnson’s notions about the education of women and a refreshing account of Sir Joseph Banks’s globetrotting. A guest-edited, illustration-rich, interdisciplinary special feature explores the cultural implications of water. As always, 1650–1850 culminates in a bevy of full-length book reviews critiquing 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.
Essays
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Samuel Johnson and the Education of Women
Deborah Kennedy
“I am Pamela, her own self!”: Moral and Psychosocial Development in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
Angelina Dulong
Joseph Banks in Tahiti: A Man for All Seasons
Mona Scheuermann and Paul Tankard
Special Feature: The Cultural Ramifications of Water in Early Modern Texts and Images (1650–1850)
Edited by Christina Ionescu and Leigh G. Dillard
Introduction to the special feature
Christina Ionescu
Picturing Canals: Arteries of a Changing “Body Politic” in Eighteenth-Century France and England
Catherine J. Lewis Theobald
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the Ordering of Nature, and the Logic of the Book
Jeanne M. Britton
Austen’s Oceans: New Contexts for Persuasion
Timothy Erwin
The “Voyage aux Eaux des Pyrénées”: Spas, Mineral Springs, and Health in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination
Laurence Roussillon-Constanty
Dipping Your Toe in the Water: Turkish Baths, or the Fable of the Levant
Ileana Baird
Bound By Water: Towards A Queer Philology of Liquid Homosexualities
Yanzhang Cui
Book Reviews
Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
Margaret Willes. In the Shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral: The Churchyard That Shaped London
Reviewed by Duane Coltharp
Nicole Howard. Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500–1750
Reviewed by Thomas Hothem
Alison Conway and David Alvarez, eds. Imagining Religious Toleration: A Literary History of an Idea, 1600-1830
Reviewed by John C. Traver
Evan Haefeli, ed. Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism
Reviewed by Christopher Trigg
Penelope J. Corfield. The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain
Reviewed by Paul J. deGategno
Catherine Ingrassia. Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750
Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson
Joan L. Richards. Generations of Reason: A Family’s Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England
Reviewed by Courtney A. Hoffman
Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 49
Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson
Blair Hoxby, ed. Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe’s Age of Reason
Reviewed by Elizabeth Kraft
Paul Davis, ed. Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays
Reviewed by John Knapp
Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes, eds. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
Reviewed by A. W. Lee
Malina Stefanovska, ed. Casanova in the Enlightenment: From the Margins to the Centre
Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor
Kathryn Duncan. Jane Austen and the Buddha: Teachers of Enlightenment
Reviewed by Susan Spencer
Review Essay
Greg Clingham, “Between Hierarchy and Hybridity: The East India Company and the Art of India”
About the Contributors
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 prepared numerous essay collections, most recently Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment (Bucknell University Press). He is a frequent guest on radio and television programming concerning higher education policy and governance.
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: SAMARA ANNE CAHILL taught literature, rhetoric, and grant writing at Blinn College, Nanyang Technological University, and the University of Notre Dame before joining Texas A&M University as an editor in the College of Engineering. 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).
