1650-1850 : ideas, aesthetics, and inquiries in the Early Modern era / Kevin L. Cope, Samara Anne Cahill, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cope, Kevin Lee, editor.

Cahill, Samara Anne, editor.

Series:

1650-1850 ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special feature on playwright, critic, and literary theorist John Dennis. Edited by Claude Willan, the feature returns a major player in eighteenth-century literary culture to his proper role at the center of eighteenth-century politics, art, publishing, and dramaturgy. This celebration of John Dennis mingles with a full company of essays in the character of revealing case studies. Essays on a veritable world of topics—on Enlightenment philosophy in China; on riots as epitomes of Anglo-French relations; on domestic animals as observers; on gothic landscapes; and on prominent literati such as Jonathan Swift, Arthur Murphy, and Samuel Johnson—unveil eye-opening perspectives on a “long” century that prized diversity and that looked for transformative events anywhere, everywhere, all the time. Topping it all off is a full portfolio of reviews evaluating the best books on the literature, philosophy, and the arts of this abundant era. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ESSAYS

Harris beyond Hermes

The Courier de l’Europe, the Gordon Riots and Trials, and the Changing Face of Anglo-French Relations

Lapdogs/Lenses: Microscopy, Narrative, and The History of Pompey the Little

Deus sive Natura: The Monistic Link of Spinoza with China

Murphy and Johnson: Prolegomenon to a New Edition

SPECIAL FEATURE. The Achievements of John Dennis

Introduction to Special Feature

“A Separate Ministry”: Dennis, Drury Lane, and Opposition Politics

“Naked Majesty”: The Occasional Sublime and Miltonic Whig History of John Dennis, Poet

Anatomy of a Pan: John Dennis’s Annotated Copy of Blackmore’s Prince Arthur

My Enemy’s Enemy: Dennis, Pope, and Edmund Curll

Ovid Made English: Dennis’s Translation of The Passion of Byblis

BOOK REVIEWS

Catherine Ingrassia, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660–1789

Stephen Gaukroger, The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739–1841

Malcolm Jack, To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope

Nan Goodman, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination

Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment

Stewart Pollens, Stradivari

Paul Prescott, Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Jonathan I. Israel, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750–1790

Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, eds., Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays

Geordan Hammond, John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity

Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones, eds., George Whitefield: Life, Context, and Legacy

Felix Waldmann, ed., Further Letters of David Hume

Henry Hitchings, The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters, or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life

Ian Woodfield, Performing Operas for Mozart: Impresarios, Singers and Troupes

Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics

Susan Carlile, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind

Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens, introduction by Dominique Poulot, translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks

Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Brontës, Anniversary Edition

About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781684481736

1684481732

9781684481750

1684481759