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Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the
Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power,
identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and
provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings
are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles,
whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria
Edgeworth’s underappreciated works, or modern video-based Islamic
super-heroines energized by Mary Wollstonecraft’s irreverance.
The global impact of the local is celebrated in studies of the
personal pronoun in Samuel Johnson’s political writings and of
the outsize role of a difficult old codger in catalyzing the
literary career of Charlotte Smith. Headlining a volume that peers
into minute details in order to see the outer limits of
Enlightenment culture is a special feature on metaphor in
long-eighteenth-century poetry and criticism. Five
interdisciplinary essays investigate the deep Enlightenment origins
of a trope usually associated with the rise of Romanticism. Volume
26 culminates in a rich review section containing fourteen
responses to current books on Enlightenment religion, science,
literature, philosophy, political science, music, history, and art.
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. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by
Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.
Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness,
1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and
analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing,
thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent
authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat
elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a
comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the
first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its
pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions,
providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely
shattered boundaries. Volume 28 of this long-running journal is no
exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will
experience two blockbuster multi-author special features that
explore both the deep traditions and the new frontiers of early
modern studies: one that views adaptation and digitization through
the lens of “Sterneana,” the vast literary and cultural legacy
following on the writings of Laurence Sterne, a legacy that sweeps
from Hungarian renditions of the puckish novelist through the
Bloomsbury circle and on into cybernetics, and one that pays
tribute to legendary scholar Irwin Primer by probing the always
popular but also always challenging writings of that enigmatic
poet-philosopher, Bernard Mandeville. All that, plus the usual
cavalcade of full-length book reviews. ISSN: 1065-3112 Published by
Bucknell University Press, distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.
Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness,
1650-1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and
analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing,
thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent
authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat
elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650-1850 delivers a
comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the
first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its
pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions,
providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely
shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no
exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will
travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of
worldmaking and other worlds-on the Enlightenment zest for the
discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds,
envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays
in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers
through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around
European gardens, over the high seas, across the American
frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into
the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further
enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews
evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship.
Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in
eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping
strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the
phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes
seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to
denigrate religio-political opponents. A second tracks the
transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution
and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of
these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype
that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women
writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for
their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft,
Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the
“otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British
culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in
intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When
Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she
accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was
born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists
to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between
Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century,
a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of
intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In
eight case studies and a substantial introduction, the volume
examines relationships between individuals and institutions,
precursors to modern networks that engaged in forms of
intercultural exchange. Addressing the exchange of cultural
commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), cultural practices
and ideas, the roles of ambassadors and interlopers, and the
literary and artistic representation of networks, networkers, and
networking, contributors discuss the effects on people previously
separated by vast geographical and cultural distance. Rather than
idealizing networks as inherently superior to other forms of
organization, Oriental Networks also considers Enlightenment
expressions of resistance to networking that inform modern
skepticism toward the concept of the global network and its
politics. In doing so the volume contributes to the increasingly
global understanding of culture and communication. Published by
Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.
Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in
eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping
strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the
phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes
seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to
denigrate religio-political opponents. A second tracks the
transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution
and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of
these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype
that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women
writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for
their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft,
Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the
“otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British
culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in
intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When
Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she
accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was
born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists
to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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