Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Special Feature. Worldmaking and Other Worlds: Restoration to Romantic
4. Foreword to the Special Feature 1
5. Introduction to the Special Feature. Worlding and Deworlding Reimagined: A New Introduction 5
6. Other Worlds: Cartographies and Spatiotemporal Orders
7. A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of Poverty 19
8. “All the Kingdoms of the World”: Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained 37
9. Texts and Tectonists: Worldmaking and World-Cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian Frontier 55
10. Charlotte Smith’s Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and Beyond 70
11. Worldmaking: Artifacts, Collections, and Material Culture
12. The Tree and the World 89
13. Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment Britain 105
14. Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British Mothers 130
15. A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-Wörlitz 149
16. Worlding: Ecologies of Being and Othering
17. Indigeneity Overlooked: Indigenous Technologies and Criollo Worldmaking in Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690) 167
18. William Dampier’s “Sagacious” Worldmaking 182
19. “To Serve Them in the Other World”: Natural History, Worldmaking, and Funeral Song in Hans Sloane’s Voyage to . . . Jamaica (1707–1725) 197
20. Crusoe’s Goat Umbrella 214
21. Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas Pringle 238
22. Book Reviews
23. Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age 259
24. W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds. Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture 265
25. Michael Edson, ed. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry 269
26. Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy 274
27. Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds. Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century 277
28. 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: 1780–1784 280
29. Peter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds. The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of Commons 284
30. Deborah Heller, ed. Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social Role 287
31. Eileen Hunt Botting. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein 292
32. Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment 296
33. John M. Gingerich. Schubert’s Beethoven Project 300
34. Edina Adam and Julian Brooks, with an essay by Matthew Hargraves. William Blake: Visionary 304
35. Frances B. Singh. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming 308
36. About the Contributors 311