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Book SynopsisRigorously 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.
Trade Review"'Had we but world enough and time'; '’Tis the way of the world'; 'To see a world in a grain of sand'—what does 'world' imply in such contexts? In this inspired volume fourteen essayists explicate the 'worlding' of real and imagined spaces across an expanding universe of literary, cartographic, and commercial endeavor." -- David Radcliffe * editor of the digital archive Lord Byron and His Times *
Table of ContentsSPECIAL FEATUREWorldmaking and Other Worlds: Restoration
to RomanticEdited 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 RegainedDaniel 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 REVIEWSEdited by Samara Anne Cahill Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen
. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden AgeReviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards
W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds.,
Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist CultureReviewed by Andrew Black
Michael Edson, ed.,
Annotation in Eighteenth-Century PoetryReviewed by Anthony W. Lee
Christiane Hertel.
Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern LegacyReviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith
Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds.,
Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth CenturyReviewed 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: 1780-1784Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee
Peter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds.
The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of CommonsReviewed by Jacqy Sharpe
Deborah Heller, ed.,
Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social RoleReviewed 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 EntertainmentReviewed by James Hamby
John M. Gingerich.
Schubert’s Beethoven ProjectReviewed by Seow-Chin Ong
Edina Adam and Julian Brooks with an essay by Matthew Hargraves.
William Blake: VisionaryReviewed by Linda L. Reesman
Frances B. Singh.
Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane CummingReviewed by Daniel Livesay
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