ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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 edited a panoply of volumes on topics such as the imaginative representations of the sciences, the iconic status of George Washington, and miracle lore in the Enlightenment, among many others. He has edited 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era since 1992 and is a frequent guest on radio and television programming concerned with higher education management and policy.

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 Texas A&M University in College Station as an editor in the TEES-Engineering Research Development office. She is the editor of the journal Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment and author of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Bucknell University Press), and has published over a dozen academic articles or book chapters. Cahill is a board member of the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her research interests include eighteenth-century English literature, religious rhetoric, intersectional romance, and multidisciplinary research development.

REVIEWS

“Once again, 1650-1850 offers readers exciting perspectives, not only on literature of the long eighteenth century but also—especially—on innovative ways of doing research. By expanding and modeling new methods, the authors featured in this double special issue stand to expand the ways we think about and do eighteenth-century studies.”— Ashley Bender, assistant professor of English, Texas Woman’s University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Special Feature

Adaptation and Digitization in the Long Eighteenth
Century: Sterneana and Beyond
Edited by M-C. Newbould and Helen Williams

Introduction to the Special Feature: Fitting Things?
Adaptation, Eighteenth-Century Afterlives, and Digital Cultures
M-C. Newbould and Helen Williams

Linking Austen’s and Sterne’s Reception Journeys
Devoney Looser

Laurence Sterne and Women’s Writing: Elizabeth
Bonhôte, Jane Harvey, Jane Timbury, and Miss Street
Helen Williams

“Ye Gods Annihilate Both Space and Time”: Excerpt
Culture and the Digital Editing of Eighteenth-Century Correspondence
Jack Orchard

Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the
Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)
Adam James Smith

“Gabriel Shandy Looks Me Deeply in the Eye”: Early
Sterne Adaptations and the Formation of the Novel in Hungary
Gabriella Hartvig

Three Mid-Eighteenth-Century Mash-Ups: Hybridity and
Conflicted Discourse in Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins and Its Early Imitations
Jakub Lipski

A Distributional Analysis of the Language of Sensibility
in the Sterne Corpus and ECCO
John Regan

“[It] Were Wisdome It Selfe, to Read All Authors, as
Anonymo’s”: Anonymity, Virtual Communities, and Sterneana
M-C. Newbould

Authorial Authority and the Mapping of An -Ana
Paul Goring

Special Feature

Irwin Primer and Bernard Mandeville
Edited by Sir Malcolm Jack

Introduction to the Special Feature: Irwin Primer and
Bernard Mandeville
Sir Malcolm Jack

“What Strange Contradictions Man Is Made Of!”
Rui Romao

“Self Still Is at the Bottom”: Mandeville and French Moralists
Béatrice Guion

The “System of Nature” and the French Reception of
The Fable of the Bees in the Eighteenth Century
Edmundo Balsemão-Pires

Mandeville on Happiness, Self-Esteem, and Hypochondria
Mauro Simonazzi

Book Reviews

Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
Cedric D. Reverand II, ed., Queen Anne and the Arts
Reviewed by John Knapp

Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki, eds., Johnson in Japan
Reviewed by John Stone

Kevin L. Cope, ed., Hemispheres and Stratospheres:
The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment
Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson

A. Joan Saab, Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See
Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson

Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 48
Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson

Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind, A Philosopher’s
Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
Reviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack

Rory Muir, Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger
Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England
Reviewed by Paul J. de Gategno

About the Contributors