1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

Kevin L. Cope (Edited by), Samara Anne Cahill (Edited by), Deborah Kennedy (Contributions by), Angelina Dulong (Contributions by), Mona Scheuermann (Contributions by), Paul Tankard (Contributions by), Christina Ionescu (Contributions by), Leigh D. Dillard (Contributions by), Catherine J. Lewis Theobald (Contributions by), Jeanne M. Britton (Contributions by), Timothy Erwin (Contributions by), Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Contributions by), Ileana Baird (Contributions by), Yanzhang Cui (Contributions by), Duane Coltharp (Contributions by), Thomas Hothem (Contributions by), John C. Traver (Contributions by), Christopher Trigg (Contributions by), Paul deGategno (Contributions by), Christopher D. Johnson (Contributions by), Courtney A. Hoffman (Contributions by), Elizabeth Kraft (Contributions by), John Knapp (Contributions by), Anthony W Lee (Contributions by), Gefen Bar-On Santor (Contributions by), Susan Spencer (Contributions by), Greg Clingham (Contributions by)

9781684485239

Hardback, published 16 August 2024

340 pages, 61 B-W images
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.594 kg

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.

ISSN 1065-3112

Published by Bucknell University Press, distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.