1650-1850 by Cope, Kevin L.; Cahill, Samara Anne;

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Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain's literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth's underappreciated works, or modern video-based Islamic super-heroines energized by Mary Wollstonecraft's irreverance. The global impact of the local is celebrated in studies of the personal pronoun in Samuel Johnson's political writings and of the outsize role of a difficult old codger in catalyzing the literary career of Charlotte Smith. Headlining a volume that peers into minute details in order to see the outer limits of Enlightenment culture is a special feature on metaphor in long-eighteenth-century poetry and criticism. Five interdisciplinary essays investigate the deep Enlightenment origins of a trope usually associated with the rise of Romanticism. Volume 26 culminates in a rich review section containing fourteen responses to current books on Enlightenment religion, science, literature, philosophy, political science, music, history, and art.

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.

ISSN 1065-3112.

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

Table of Contents:

"ESSAYS
Edited by Kevin L. Cope

Prostitutes or Proselytes: Eighteenth-Century Female Enthusiasts
ROBIN RUNIA
Edmund Burke on Monarchy: Keystone and Trials of Strength
NORBERT COL
""These Kings of me"": The Provenance and Significance of an Allusion in Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny
MATTHEW M. DAVIS
Localizing Women? Mary Wollstonecraft, Burka Avenger, and the Adaptable Heroine
SAMARA ANNE CAHILL
The Woman, the Politician, and the Will: Charlotte Smith's Literary Assaults on John Robinson, ""The Lowest Rank of Human Degradation""
ANDREW CONNELL
In Quotes: Annotating Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
MELVYN NEW

SPECIAL FEATURE
Metaphor in the Poetry and Criticism of the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Mark A. Pedreira
Introduction to the Special Feature: Metaphor in the Poetry and Criticism of the Long Eighteenth Century
MARK A. PEDREIRA
Organizing Poetry in the Eighteenth Century: Anthologies and Metaphor
ADAM ROUNCE
Curvilinear Thinking in the Long Eighteenth Century
TAYLOR CORSE
Feeling Allegory: Affect, Metaphor, and Milton's Eighteenth-Century Reception
MICHAEL EDSON
The Worldliness of Edward Young and the Metaphorics of Georgian Patronage
JACOB SIDER JOST
Coleridge and Metaphor: Crossing Thresholds
LINDA L. REESMAN

BOOK REVIEWS
Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
Janet Aikins Yount, ed., Clarissa: The Twentieth-Century Response, 1900–1950, 2 vols.
Reviewed by SÖREN HAMMERSCHMIDT
O. M. Brack Jr. and Robert De Maria Jr., eds., The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Volume 20. Johnson on Demand: Reviews, Prefaces, and Ghost-Writings
Reviewed by GREG CLINGHAM
Anthony W. Lee, ed., Community and Solitude: New Essays on Johnson's Circle
Reviewed by JOHN J. BURKE
Anthony W. Lee, ed., New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON
Anthony W. Lee, ed., Samuel Johnson among the Modernists
Reviewed by JOHN SITTER
Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Reviewed by MALCOLM JACK
Samara Anne Cahill, Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Reviewed by ASHLEY BENDER
Teresa Barnard, ed., British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by GEFEN BAR-ON SANTOR
Trevor Ross, Writing in Public: Literature and the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Reviewed by MALCOLM JACK
Rivka Swenson, Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832
Reviewed by PAUL J. DeGATEGNO
Paul Corneilson, ed., Ballet Music from the Mannheim Court. Part V, Christian Cannabich. Les Fêtes du sérail, and Carol G. Marsh, ed., Angélique et Médor, ou Roland furieux
Reviewed by GLORIA EIVE
Margaret Jacob, The Secular Enlightenment
Reviewed by R. J. W. MILLS
Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 46
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON
Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 47
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER D. JOHNSON
About the Contributors"