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Publication Date
5-12-2026
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. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, 1650–1850 invites readers into a truly global Enlightenment.
The contributors to volume 31 join with Enlightenment thinkers in charting the outposts of long eighteenth-century culture while discovering new features in seemingly familiar terrain. Essays explore outlandish but often observed activities such as medical quackery, Rosicrucian hermeticism, and the oral antics associated with the twisted “Malaprop” tradition. In happy contrast, the volume offers the second half of a sparkling special feature on the most familiar of all substances, water. Contributors lead us through an astounding assortment of aqueous topics, from the heritage of The Compleat Angler to the sanctified sprinklings of holy water. As always, 1650–1850 culminates in a bevy of full-length book reviews that robustly address the latest scholarship on long-established specialties, unusual subjects, and broad reevaluations of the period.
Keywords
John Moore, Quackery, Worm Doctor, Eighteenth century medicine, Roy Porter, Eighteenth century satire, Bold Challenge, Quakers, Tobias Smollett, Thomas Cumming, Complete History of England, Thomas Smollett Letter, John Samuel will, Martha Howard, A Trip to Bath, Mrs. Malaprop, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Eighteenth century hypotexts, The Rivals, Anna Jane Vardill, Eleanor Anne Porden, Freemasonry, “irregular Masons”, John Vardill, William Eden, Irish Independence, Illuminati, Water, Culture, London, Thames River, The Microcosm of London, Rudolph Ackerman, Sketches by Boz, Charles Dickens, Enlightenment, Thales of Miletus, Eighteenth century illustrations, New science, Great Geyser of Iceland, George Mackenzie, Antonio de Ulloa, Fossils, The flood of Noah, William Westall, Giovanni Battista Antonell, iIberian Peninsula, Philip II, Spanish Enlightenment, Iberian Navigation, Renaissance Spain, Antonelli’s proposal, War of the Spanish Succession, Longitude Act in 1714, Admiral Shovell, Michael Dahl, Grinling Gibbons, Owen McSwiny, Charles Lennox, Triton Fountain, The Association, The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton, Marjorie Swann, Piscator, Pierre Lombart, Charles Cotton, 18th century fishing, James Inskipp, Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, Bernard Picart, Early Modern Period, Spiritual uses of water, Jean Frederic Bernard, Religion, Religious ceremonies, Hydrolatry
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This collection copyright © 2026 by Bucknell University Press. Individual chapters copyright © 2026 in the names of their authors.
Language
eng
ISBN
9781684485895