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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

Nine authors from prominent universities around the world show how the adventurous thinkers, artists, and adventurers of the eighteenth-century period placed adaptation at the center of the quest for a modern civilization. The book will appeal to cultural historians, historians of science, and those interested in literary metamorphoses.

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

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