ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

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.

First published in 1994, 1650-1850 is currently in its 25th volume.

ISSN 1065-3112.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

KEVIN L. COPE is the Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature and Robert and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University, and author of three monographs, several edited collections, and hundreds of scholarly articles and reviews on enlightenment authors, issues, themes, and topics. He has also had a distinguished career as president of the LSU Faculty Senate.

REVIEWS

"Scholarly communities, especially those joined in eighteenth-century studies, can raise a shout (or glass) over the prospect of the annual 1650-1850’s future publication by Bucknell University Press. This will provide us with regular publication and broader distribution of the journal Kevin Cope has so impressively edited for over 20 years. With contributions from around the world, 1650-1850 has long been providing essays focused on fields as diverse as art and philosophy and others truly inter-disciplinary. It has carried many special issues on topics like 'Death and Dying in the Early Modern Era.' It has also distinguished itself by including lengthy essays and reviews. While 1650-1850 has always been an important annual for seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century studies, its temporal focus is all the more valuable now that so much exciting research is being produced."

— James E. May, editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer, Pennsylvania State University, Dubois

"For more than two decades, 1650-1850 has offered its readers an inspiring example of what a scholarly annual concentrating on interdisciplinary and international topics can be. The work of seasoned scholars appears alongside that of 'mid-career' scholars and newly-minted PhDs, creating a heady variety of approaches and subject matter in every volume. The articles, the reviews, the 'special features,' and even the occasional 'Editor’s Choice' on underappreciated books always advance knowledge in large and small ways. Equally important, each contribution is typically written with verve and allusive pluckiness. There has never been anything doctrinaire about 1650-1850, other than an energy to display compelling new work to its best advantage. That Bucknell University Press has committed itself to this exciting annual is a cause for celebration."

— J.T. Scanlan, co-editor, The Age of Johnson, Providence College

“A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our well wishes.”

— Michael McKeon, Rutgers University

"Scholarly communities, especially those joined in eighteenth-century studies, can raise a shout (or glass) over the prospect of the annual 1650-1850’s future publication by Bucknell University Press. This will provide us with regular publication and broader distribution of the journal Kevin Cope has so impressively edited for over 20 years. With contributions from around the world, 1650-1850 has long been providing essays focused on fields as diverse as art and philosophy and others truly inter-disciplinary. It has carried many special issues on topics like 'Death and Dying in the Early Modern Era.' It has also distinguished itself by including lengthy essays and reviews. While 1650-1850 has always been an important annual for seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century studies, its temporal focus is all the more valuable now that so much exciting research is being produced."

— James E. May, editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer, Pennsylvania State University, Dubois

"For more than two decades, 1650-1850 has offered its readers an inspiring example of what a scholarly annual concentrating on interdisciplinary and international topics can be. The work of seasoned scholars appears alongside that of 'mid-career' scholars and newly-minted PhDs, creating a heady variety of approaches and subject matter in every volume. The articles, the reviews, the 'special features,' and even the occasional 'Editor’s Choice' on underappreciated books always advance knowledge in large and small ways. Equally important, each contribution is typically written with verve and allusive pluckiness. There has never been anything doctrinaire about 1650-1850, other than an energy to display compelling new work to its best advantage. That Bucknell University Press has committed itself to this exciting annual is a cause for celebration."

— J.T. Scanlan, co-editor, The Age of Johnson, Providence College

“A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our well wishes.”

— Michael McKeon, Rutgers University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Edited by Kevin L. Cope

Samuel Johnson and the Education of Women Deborah Kennedy
“I am Pamela, her own self!”: Moral and Psychosocial Development in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela Angelina Dulong
Joseph Banks in Tahiti: A Man for All Seasons Mona Scheuermann and Paul Tankard
Special Feature The Cultural Ramifications of Water in Early Modern Texts and Images (1650–1850) Edited by Christina Ionescu and Leigh G. Dillard
Introduction to the Special Feature: The Cultural Ramifications of Water in Early Modern Texts and Images (1650–1850) Christina Ionescu
Picturing Canals: Arteries of a Changing “Body Politic” in Eighteenth-Century France and England Catherine J. Lewis Theobald
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the Ordering of Nature, and the Logic of the Book Jeanne M. Britton
Austen’s Oceans: New Contexts for Persuasion Timothy Erwin
The Voyage aux Eaux des Pyrénées: Spas, Mineral Springs, and Health in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination Laurence Roussillon-Constanty
Dipping Your Toe in the Water: Turkish Baths, or the Fable of the Levant Ileana Baird
Bound by Water: Toward a Queer Philology of Liquid Homosexualities Yanzhang Cui

Book Reviews Edited by Samara Anne Cahill

Margaret Willes, In the Shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral: The Churchyard That Shaped London Reviewed by Duane Coltharp
Nicole Howard, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500–1750 Reviewed by Thomas Hothem
Alison Conway and David Alvarez, eds., Imagining Religious Toleration: A Literary History of an Idea, 1600–1830 Reviewed by John C. Traver
Evan Haefeli, ed., Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism Reviewed by Christopher Trigg
Penelope J. Corfield, The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain Reviewed by Paul J. deGategno
Catherine Ingrassia, Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750 Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson
Joan L. Richards, Generations of Reason: A Family’s Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England Reviewed by Courtney A. Hoffman
Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 49 Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson
Blair Hoxby, ed., Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe’s Age of Reason Reviewed by Elizabeth Kraft
Paul Davis, ed., Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays Reviewed by John Knapp
Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes, eds., A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell Reviewed by A. W. Lee
Malina Stefanovska, ed., Casanova in the Enlightenment: From the Margins to the Centre Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor
Kathryn Duncan, Jane Austen and the Buddha: Teachers of Enlightenment Reviewed by Susan Spencer

Review Essay
Greg Clingham, “Between Hierarchy and Hybridity: The East India Company and the Art of India”
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ESSAYS
Edited by Kevin L. Cope

“Harris beyond Hermes”
Jack Lynch

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

“Microscopy, Narrative, and The History of Pompey the Little”
Molly Marotta

Deus sive Natura:The Monistic Link of Spinoza with China
Yu Liu

“Murphy and Johnson: Prolegomenon to a New Edition”
Anthony W. Lee

SPECIAL FEATURE
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF JOHN DENNIS
Edited by Claude Willan

Introduction to the Special Feature
Claude Willan

“‘A Separate Ministry’: Dennis, Drury Lane, and Opposition Politics”
Daniel Gustafson

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

“Anatomy of a Pan: John Dennis's Annotated Copy of Blackmore’s Prince Arthur”
Philip S. Palmer

“My Enemy's Enemy: Dennis, Pope, and Edmund Curll”
Pat Rogers

“Ovid Made English: Dennis's Translation of The Passion of Byblis”
Sarah Stein

BOOK REVIEWS
Edited by Samara Anne Cahill

Catherine Ingrassia, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789
Reviewed by Suzanne L. Barnett

Stephen Gaukroger, The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739–1841
Reviewed by R. J. W. Mills

Malcolm Jack, To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope
Reviewed by Nigel Penn

Nan Goodman, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination
Reviewed by Christopher Trigg

Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer

Stewart Pollens, Stradivari (Musical Performance and Reception. General editors John Butt and Laurence Dreyfus)
Reviewed by Roy Bogas

Paul Prescott, Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor

Jonathan I. Israel, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790
Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer

Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, eds., Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays
Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor

Geordan Hammond, John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity
Reviewed by Isabel Rivers

Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones, eds., George Whitefield; Life, Context, and Legacy
Reviewed by Richard P. Heitzenrater

Felix Waldmann, ed., Further Letters of David Hume
Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer

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

Ian Woodfield, Performing Operas for Mozart: Impresarios, Singers and Troupes
Reviewed by Kate Brown

Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics
Reviewed by Jane R. Stevens

Susan Carlile, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind
Reviewed by Robin Runia

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
Reviewed by Paula Pinto

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