1650-1850

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 prepared numerous essay collections, most recently Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment (Bucknell University Press). He is a frequent guest on radio and television programming concerning higher education policy and governance.  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 as an editor in the College of Engineering. She is the editor of Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment and author of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Bucknell University Press).

Exploratory and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, this annual escorts its readers into a truly global Enlightenment. Volume 29 includes essays on familiar topics such as Samuel Johnson and women’s education while it also showcases Sir Joseph Banks’s globetrotting and provides a vivaciously interdisciplinary special feature on the cultural implications of water. Capping it all off is a diverse bevy of robust, full-length book reviews.

Essays 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 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: Towards 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, Volume 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” About the Contributors