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
SPECIAL FEATURE
Worldmaking and Other Worlds: Restoration
to Romantic
Edited by Elizabeth Sauer and Betty Joseph
Foreword to the Special Feature
Introduction to the Special Feature
Worlding and Deworlding Reimagined:
A New Introduction
Betty Joseph and Elizabeth Sauer
OTHER WORLDS: CARTOGRAPHIES AND SPATIOTEMPORAL ORDERS
A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of Poverty
Brandi R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters
“All the kingdoms of the world”: Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Daniel Vitkus
Texts and Tectonists: World-making and World-cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian Frontier
Ana Schwarz
Charlotte Smith’s Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and Beyond
Daniel O’Quinn
WORLDMAKING: ARTIFACTS, COLLECTIONS, AND MATERIAL CULTURE
The Tree and The World
Chris Barrett
Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment Britain
Mita Choudhury
Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British Mothers
Felicity Nussbaum
A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-Wörlitz
Billie Lythberg
WORLDING: ECOLOGIES OF BEING AND OTHERING
Indigeneity Overlooked: Indigenous Technologies and Criollo Worldmaking in Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690)
Matthew Goldmark
William Dampier’s “Sagacious” Worldmaking
Su Fang Ng
“To serve them in the other world”: Natural History, Worldmaking, and Funeral Song in Hans Sloane's Voyage to…Jamaica (1707–1725)
David S. Mazella
Crusoe’s Goat Umbrella
Chi-ming Yang
Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas Pringle
Jennifer L. Hargrave
BOOK REVIEWS
Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
Reviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards
W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds., Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture
Reviewed by Andrew Black
Michael Edson, ed., Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee
Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy
Reviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith
Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds., Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack
Thomas F. Bonnell, ed., The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 4: 1780-1784
Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee
Peter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds. The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of Commons
Reviewed by Jacqy Sharpe
Deborah Heller, ed., Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social Role
Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor
Eileen Hunt Botting. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein
Reviewed by Samara Anne Cahill
Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls, to the Seaside, to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
Reviewed by James Hamby
John M. Gingerich. Schubert’s Beethoven Project
Reviewed by Seow-Chin Ong
Edina Adam and Julian Brooks with an essay by Matthew Hargraves. William Blake: Visionary
Reviewed by Linda L. Reesman
Frances B. Singh. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming
Reviewed by Daniel Livesay
Abut the Contributors
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.