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

By: Deborah Kennedy and Angelina Dulong and Mona Scheuermann and Paul Tankard and Christina Ionescu and Leigh D. Dillard and Catherine J. Theobald and Jeanne M. Britton and Timothy Erwin and Laurence Roussillon-Constanty and Ileana Baird and Yanzhang Cui and Duane Coltharp and Thomas Hothem and John C. Traver and Christopher Trigg and Paul DeGategno and Christopher Johnson and Courtney A. Hoffman and Elizabeth Kraft and John Knapp and Anthony W. Lee and Gefen Bar-On Santor and Susan Spencer and Greg Clingham

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Synopsis: 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.