1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

Published by Bucknell University Press 2020

1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

Edited by: Kevin L. Cope
With contributions by: Jack Lynch , Howard Weinbrot , Molly Marotta , Yu Liu , Anthony W. Lee , Claude Willan , Daniel Gustafson , James Horowitz , Philip S. Palmer , Pat Rogers , Sarah Stein , Samara Anne Cahill , Suzanne L. Barnett , R.J.W. Mills , Nigel Penn , Christopher Trigg , Mark G. Spencer , Roy Bogas , Gefen Bar-On Santor , Isabel Rivers , Richard P. Heitzenrater , Malcolm Jack , Kate Brown , Jane R. Stevens , Robin Runia , Paula Pinto and Tamara Wagner

Volume 25 in the series 1650-1850

https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684481750

Overview
Contents

About this book

Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special feature on playwright, critic, and literary theorist John Dennis. Edited by Claude Willan, the feature returns a major player in eighteenth-century literary culture to his proper role at the center of eighteenth-century politics, art, publishing, and dramaturgy. This celebration of John Dennis mingles with a full company of essays in the character of revealing case studies. Essays on a veritable world of topics—on Enlightenment philosophy in China; on riots as epitomes of Anglo-French relations; on domestic animals as observers; on gothic landscapes; and on prominent literati such as Jonathan Swift, Arthur Murphy, and Samuel Johnson—unveil eye-opening perspectives on a “long” century that prized diversity and that looked for transformative events anywhere, everywhere, all the time. Topping it all off is a full portfolio of reviews evaluating the best books on the literature, philosophy, and the arts of this abundant era.

About the annual journal 1650-1850

1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines—literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for “special features” that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors.

First published in 1994, 1650-1850 is currently in its 25th volume.

ISSN 1065-3112.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author / Editor information

KEVIN L. COPE is the Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature and Robert and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University, and author of three monographs, several edited collections, and hundreds of scholarly articles and reviews on enlightenment authors, issues, themes, and topics. He has also had a distinguished career as president of the LSU Faculty Senate.

Reviews

"Scholarly communities, especially those joined in eighteenth-century studies, can raise a shout (or glass) over the prospect of the annual 1650-1850’s future publication by Bucknell University Press. This will provide us with regular publication and broader distribution of the journal Kevin Cope has so impressively edited for over 20 years. With contributions from around the world, 1650-1850 has long been providing essays focused on fields as diverse as art and philosophy and others truly inter-disciplinary. It has carried many special issues on topics like 'Death and Dying in the Early Modern Era.' It has also distinguished itself by including lengthy essays and reviews. While 1650-1850 has always been an important annual for seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century studies, its temporal focus is all the more valuable now that so much exciting research is being produced."

— James E. May, editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer, Pennsylvania State University, Dubois

"For more than two decades, 1650-1850 has offered its readers an inspiring example of what a scholarly annual concentrating on interdisciplinary and international topics can be. The work of seasoned scholars appears alongside that of 'mid-career' scholars and newly-minted PhDs, creating a heady variety of approaches and subject matter in every volume. The articles, the reviews, the 'special features,' and even the occasional 'Editor’s Choice' on underappreciated books always advance knowledge in large and small ways. Equally important, each contribution is typically written with verve and allusive pluckiness. There has never been anything doctrinaire about 1650-1850, other than an energy to display compelling new work to its best advantage. That Bucknell University Press has committed itself to this exciting annual is a cause for celebration."

— J.T. Scanlan, co-editor, The Age of Johnson, Providence College

“A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our well wishes.”

— Michael McKeon, Rutgers University

"Scholarly communities, especially those joined in eighteenth-century studies, can raise a shout (or glass) over the prospect of the annual 1650-1850’s future publication by Bucknell University Press. This will provide us with regular publication and broader distribution of the journal Kevin Cope has so impressively edited for over 20 years. With contributions from around the world, 1650-1850 has long been providing essays focused on fields as diverse as art and philosophy and others truly inter-disciplinary. It has carried many special issues on topics like 'Death and Dying in the Early Modern Era.' It has also distinguished itself by including lengthy essays and reviews. While 1650-1850 has always been an important annual for seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century studies, its temporal focus is all the more valuable now that so much exciting research is being produced."

— James E. May, editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer, Pennsylvania State University, Dubois

"For more than two decades, 1650-1850 has offered its readers an inspiring example of what a scholarly annual concentrating on interdisciplinary and international topics can be. The work of seasoned scholars appears alongside that of 'mid-career' scholars and newly-minted PhDs, creating a heady variety of approaches and subject matter in every volume. The articles, the reviews, the 'special features,' and even the occasional 'Editor’s Choice' on underappreciated books always advance knowledge in large and small ways. Equally important, each contribution is typically written with verve and allusive pluckiness. There has never been anything doctrinaire about 1650-1850, other than an energy to display compelling new work to its best advantage. That Bucknell University Press has committed itself to this exciting annual is a cause for celebration."

— J.T. Scanlan, co-editor, The Age of Johnson, Providence College

“A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our well wishes.”

— Michael McKeon, Rutgers University

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ESSAYS
Harris beyond Hermes Jack Lynch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Courier de l’Europe, the Gordon Riots and Trials, and the Changing Face of Anglo-French Relations Howard D. Weinbrot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Lapdogs/Lenses: Microscopy, Narrative, and The History of Pompey the Little Molly Marotta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Deus sive Natura: The Monistic Link of Spinoza with China Yu Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Murphy and Johnson: Prolegomenon to a New Edition Anthony W. Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
SPECIAL FEATURE. The Achievements of John Dennis
Introduction to Special Feature Claude Willan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
“A Separate Ministry”: Dennis, Drury Lane, and Opposition Politics Daniel Gustafson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
“Naked Majesty”: The Occasional Sublime and Miltonic Whig History of John Dennis, Poet James Horowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Anatomy of a Pan: John Dennis’s Annotated Copy of Blackmore’s Prince Arthur Philip S. Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
My Enemy’s Enemy: Dennis, Pope, and Edmund Curll Pat Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Ovid Made English: Dennis’s Translation of The Passion of Byblis Sarah B. Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
BOOK REVIEWS
Catherine Ingrassia, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 Suzanne L. Barnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Stephen Gaukroger, The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739–1841 R.J.W. Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Malcolm Jack, To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope Nigel Penn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Nan Goodman, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination Christopher Trigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment Mark G. Spencer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Stewart Pollens, Stradivari Roy Bogas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Paul Prescott, Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Gefen Bar-On Santor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Jonathan I. Israel, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750–1790 Mark G. Spencer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, eds., Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays Gefen Bar-On Santor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Geordan Hammond, John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity Isabel Rivers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones, eds., George Whitefield: Life, Context, and Legacy Richard P. Heitzenrater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Felix Waldmann, ed., Further Letters of David Hume Mark G. Spencer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Henry Hitchings, The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters, or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life Malcolm Jack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
Ian Woodfield, Performing Operas for Mozart: Impresarios, Singers and Troupes Kate Quartano Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics Jane R. Stevens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Susan Carlile, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind Robin Runia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens, introduction by Dominique Poulot, translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks Paula Pinto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Brontës, Anniversary Edition Tamara S. Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

Language: English
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 322
Illustrations
- Other: 2 images

eBook

Published: February 14, 2020
ISBN: 9781684481750