Exploratory and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, this annual escorts its readers into a truly global Enlightenment. Volume 30 ventures to the outer limits of Enlightenment experience. Essays on topics such as comical apocalypticism and England’s Asian periphery lead into one special feature unearthing the buried culture of wills and testaments and another special feature soaring into the bird-filled eighteenth-century skies. Capping it all off is a diverse bevy of robust…mehr
Exploratory and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, this annual escorts its readers into a truly global Enlightenment. Volume 30 ventures to the outer limits of Enlightenment experience. Essays on topics such as comical apocalypticism and England’s Asian periphery lead into one special feature unearthing the buried culture of wills and testaments and another special feature soaring into the bird-filled eighteenth-century skies. Capping it all off is a diverse bevy of robust book reviews. Published by Bucknell University Press, distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. ISSN: 1065-3112
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).
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Essays Edited by Kevin L. Cope Here Comes the Scriblerian Flood: Apocalypse, Betrayal, and Mock-Redemption in Three Hours after Marriage Flavio Gregori Satire in Dryden’s Discourse of Satire Steven Minuk “European Yahoos”: England as East Asian Periphery in Defoe and Swift Andie Barrow
Special Feature Last Wills, Testaments, and Inventories of the Long Eighteenth-Century Edited by Pamela F. Phillips Introduction to the Special Feature Pamela F. Phillips “if my said Dauters Shall marry”: Probate Provisions for Single Women in Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Westborough, Massachusetts Ross W. Beales, Jr. Spanish Testaments, Wills, and Inventories: Bridging Heaven and Earth 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 About the Contributors
Essays Edited by Kevin L. Cope Here Comes the Scriblerian Flood: Apocalypse, Betrayal, and Mock-Redemption in Three Hours after Marriage Flavio Gregori Satire in Dryden’s Discourse of Satire Steven Minuk “European Yahoos”: England as East Asian Periphery in Defoe and Swift Andie Barrow
Special Feature Last Wills, Testaments, and Inventories of the Long Eighteenth-Century Edited by Pamela F. Phillips Introduction to the Special Feature Pamela F. Phillips “if my said Dauters Shall marry”: Probate Provisions for Single Women in Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Westborough, Massachusetts Ross W. Beales, Jr. Spanish Testaments, Wills, and Inventories: Bridging Heaven and Earth 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 About the Contributors
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