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1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 30)
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Edited by:
Kevin L. Cope
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With contributions by:
Flavio Gregori
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English
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2025
About this book
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.
The contributors to volume 30 join with Enlightenment thinkers in pulling, pushing, and stretching the elastic boundaries of human experience. Essays on comical apocalypticism, the evolution of satire, and the Asian periphery of English literature open a volume that offers two special features on extreme aspects of a modernizing world. The first probes the undiscovered world of last wills and testaments, while the second explores the soaring world of eighteenth-century birds. As always, 1650–1850 culminates in a bevy of book reviews critiquing the latest scholarship on long-established specialties, unusual subjects, and broad reevaluations of the period.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
ISSN: 1065-3112
The contributors to volume 30 join with Enlightenment thinkers in pulling, pushing, and stretching the elastic boundaries of human experience. Essays on comical apocalypticism, the evolution of satire, and the Asian periphery of English literature open a volume that offers two special features on extreme aspects of a modernizing world. The first probes the undiscovered world of last wills and testaments, while the second explores the soaring world of eighteenth-century birds. As always, 1650–1850 culminates in a bevy of book reviews critiquing the latest scholarship on long-established specialties, unusual subjects, and broad reevaluations of the period.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
ISSN: 1065-3112
Author / Editor information
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).
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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Contents
v - Essays
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Here Comes the Scriblerian Flood
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Satire in Dryden’s Discourse of Satire
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“European Yahoos”
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Introduction to the Special Feature
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“If My Said Dauters Shall Marry”
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Spanish Testaments, Wills, and Inventories
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Crafted Legacies
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“Tokens of My Love”
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A Reading of the Will
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Introduction to the Special Feature
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Canary
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Love Prey Eat
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Pinioned Porcelain
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Gabriel Glickman, Making the Imperial Nation: Colonization, Politics, and English Identity, 1660–1700. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. PP. vi + 405. 1 b- w image. Hardcover
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William Edinger, “Genial” Perception: Words worth, Coleridge, and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2022. PP. xiii+ 287. Hardcover.
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Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon, eds., British Literature and Technology, 1600–1830. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2023. PP. vi + 216. 8 color images, 6 b- w images. Paperback.
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David A. Brewer and Crystal B. Lake, eds., Studies in Eighteenth- Century Culture, Vol. 51. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. PP. ix + 291. 15 b- w images. Hardcover.
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Laura J. Rosenthal, Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. PP. xvii + 308. 16 b- w images. Hardcover.
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Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd, edited by Steve Newman and David McGuinness. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay. PP. xxiii + 601. 7 b-w images. Hardcover.
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Tonya M. Caldwell, ed., Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020. PP. viii + 240. 2 b- w images, 1 table. Paperback.
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Adam Budd, Circulating Enlightenment: The Career and Correspondence of Andrew Millar, 1725–1768. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. PP. cxliv + 506. 89 FIGURES. Hardcover.
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Greg Clingham, ed., The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. PP. xiv + 267. 10 images. Paperback
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John Hardman, Barnave: The Revolutionary Who Lost His Head for Marie- Antoinette. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 394. 24 images. Hardcover
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Denise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. PP. xviii + 378. 27 b- w images. Hardcover
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About the Editors
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About the Contributors
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9781684485697
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Keywords for this book
Restoration; Aesthetics; History of Ideas; Eighteenth-Century Birds; Three Hours after Marriage; John Arbuthnot; John Gay; Alexander Pope; Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope; Biblical Flood; Scriblerian; Martinus Scriblerus; Comical Apocalypticism; Apocalypticism; Satire; Wills and Testaments; Discourse of Satire; Etymology of Satire; John Dryden; Samuel Johnson; Anne Cotterill; East Asia; Daniel Defoe; Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Jonathan Swift; Gulliver’s Travels; Chi-ming Yang; Ming Empire; Qing Empire; Eighteenth-Century Westborough; Massachusetts; Inheritance; Early American Wills; Late eighteenth-century Spain; Material Culture; testamento; Spanish domestic space; artisanal trade; British and Irish artisans; Georgian Britain; The Woman of Colour; A Tale; epistolary novel; “if my Dauters Shall Marry”; Unmarried daughters; Diary of Rebecca Dickinson; Jeduthun Fay; Widower; notarios; dowry; Spanish wills; Felipe Nadal; Craftsmen; Dispossession; Bequests; Love token; Burman and Fennetaux; Act of the Jamaican Assembly; Tacky’s Revolt; Canaries; Pheasants; Augustus the Strong; inter-species communion; pansori; Canary breeding; Canary Islands; Comte de Buffon; Daines Barrington; Tim Birkhead; Hervieux de Chanteloup; Johann Matthaus Bechstein; Shim Sa-jeong; Hawks; Hou-Mei Sung; Joseon Dynasty; Golden Rider; Porcelain sculptures; Ceramic birds; Dresden; Meissen workmen; Johann Joachim Kaendler; Johann Jacob Kirchner; Menagerie
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
