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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 30)

Edited by Kevin L. Cope and Samara Anne Cahill

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Price:: $160.00
ISBN:: 9781684485680
Published:: Jun 17, 2025

Release Date:: 17th June 2025
Contributors:: Flavio Gregori, Steven Minuk, Andie Barrow, Pamela F. Phillips, Ross W. Beales, Jr., Yvonne Fuentes, Melanie Hayes, Stephanie Koscak, Corey Risinger, Susan Spencer, Lynn Festa, Youenhee Kho, Duane Coltharp, Christopher D. Johnson, Courtney A. Hoffman, Ashley Bender, Donald W. Nichol, Anthony W Lee, Christopher Vilmar, Michael J. Mulryan, and Victoria Barnett-Woods
Publisher:: Bucknell University Press
Imprint:: Bucknell University Press
Series:: 1650-1850
Pages:: 274
Illustrations:: 21 B-W images

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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.

The contributors to volume 30 join with Enlightenment thinkers in pulling, pushing, and stretching the elastic boundaries of human experience. Essays on comical apocalypticism, the evolution of satire, and the Asian periphery of English literature open a volume that offers two special features on extreme aspects of a modernizing world. The first probes the undiscovered world of last wills and testaments, while the second explores the soaring world of eighteenth-century birds. As always, 1650–1850 culminates in a bevy of 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.

ISSN: 1065-3112

Essays
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Here Comes the Scriblerian Flood: Apocalypse, Betrayal, and Mock-Redemption in Three Hours after Marriage 3
Flavio Gregori
Satire in Dryden’s Discourse of Satire 21
Steven Minuk
“European Yahoos”: England as East Asian Periphery in Defoe and Swift 30
Andie Barrow
Special Feature
Last Wills, Testaments, and Inventories of the Long Eighteenth Century 49
Edited by Pamela F. Phillips
Introduction to the Special Feature 51
Pamela F. Phillips
“If My Said Dauters Shall Marry”: Probate Provisions for Single Women in Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Westborough, Massachusetts 63
Ross W. Beales, Jr.
Spanish Testaments, Wills, and Inventories: Bridging Heaven and Earth 83
Yvonne Fuentes
Crafted Legacies: Artisans’ Wills in Georgian Britain and Ireland
Melanie Hayes
“Tokens of My Love”: Money, Memory, and Dispossession in Eighteenth-Century England
Stephanie Koscak
A Reading of the Will: (Non)willingness in The Woman of Colour, A Tale
Corey Risinger
Special Feature
A Humans’-Eye View of Birds
Edited by Susan Spencer
Introduction to the Special Feature
Susan Spencer
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Canary
Lynn Festa
Love Prey Eat: Appreciating Pheasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Youenhee Kho
Pinioned Porcelain: Augustus the Strong and His Meissen Menagerie
Susan Spencer
Book Reviews
Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
Gabriel Glickman, Making the Imperial Nation: Colonization, Politics, and English Identity, 1660-1700
Reviewed by Duane Coltharp
William Edinger, “Genial” Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson
Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon, eds., British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830
Reviewed by Courtney Hoffman
David A. Brewer and Crystal B. Lake, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 51 Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson
Laura J. Rosenthal, Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond
Reviewed by Ashley Bender
Steve Newman and David McGuinness, eds., The Gentle Shepherd by Allan Ramsay
Reviewed by Donald W. Nichol
Tonya M. Caldwell, ed., Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by A. W. Lee
Adam Budd, Circulating Enlightenment: The Career and Correspondence of Andrew Millar, 1725-1768
Reviewed by Donald W. Nichol
Clingham, Greg, ed., The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Reviewed by Christopher Vilmar
John Hardman, Barnave: The Revolutionary Who Lost His Head for Marie-Antoinette
Reviewed by Michael J. Mulryan
Denise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
Reviewed by Victoria Barnett-Woods
About the Editors 259
About the Contributors 261

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). Cope 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 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).

Related topics: Philosophy / Aesthetics, Art / Criticism & Theory