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Publication Date
6-17-2025
Description
Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed to singular genius and universal improvement.
The contributors to volume 30 join with Enlightenment thinkers in pulling, pushing, and stretching the elastic boundaries of human experience. Essays on comical apocalypticism, the evolution of satire, and the Asian periphery of English literature open a volume that offers two special features on extreme aspects of a modernizing world. The first probes the undiscovered world of last wills and testaments, while the second explores the soaring world of eighteenth-century birds. As always, 1650–1850 culminates in a bevy of book reviews critiquing the latest scholarship on long-established specialties, unusual subjects, and broad reevaluations of the period.
Keywords
Restoration, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, Eighteenth-Century Birds, Three Hours after Marriage, John Arbuthnot, John Gay, Alexander Pope, Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope, Biblical Flood, Scriblerian, Martinus Scriblerus, Comical Apocalypticism, Apocalypticism, Satire, Wills and Testaments, Discourse of Satire, Etymology of Satire, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Anne Cotterill, East Asia, Daniel Defoe, Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Chi-ming Yang, Ming Empire, Qing Empire, Eighteenth-Century Westborough, Massachusetts, Inheritance, Early American Wills, Late eighteenth-century Spain, Material Culture, testamento, Spanish domestic space, artisanal trade, British and Irish artisans, Georgian Britain, The Woman of Colour, A Tale, epistolary novel, “if my Dauters Shall Marry”, Unmarried daughters, Diary of Rebecca Dickinson, Jeduthun Fay, Widower, notarios, dowry, Spanish wills, Felipe Nadal, Craftsmen, Dispossession, Bequests, Love token, Burman and Fennetaux, Act of the Jamaican Assembly, Tacky’s Revolt, Canaries, Pheasants, Augustus the Strong, inter-species communion, pansori, Canary breeding, Canary Islands, Comte de Buffon, Daines Barrington, Tim Birkhead, Hervieux de Chanteloup, Johann Matthaus Bechstein, Shim Sa-jeong, Hawks, Hou-Mei Sung, Joseon Dynasty, Golden Rider, Porcelain sculptures, Ceramic birds, Dresden, Meissen workmen, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Johann Jacob Kirchner, Menagerie
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© 2025 by Bucknell University Press Individual chapters copyright © 2025 in the names of their authors.
Language
eng
ISBN
9781684485680