1650-1850

ABOUT THE 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, miracle lore in the Enlightenment, the profusion of information during the Enlightenment, and, most recently, the idea and the representation of distance during the Enlightenment. Cope is a frequent guest and commentator on radio and television programming concerned with higher education management and policy. ABOUT THE BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: Samara Anne Cahill served for ten years as a member of the faculty at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore before joining the faculty at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas. The author of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Bucknell, 2019), Cahill also co-edited Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century (Bucknell, 2015). One of the founders of the Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she edits the online journal Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment.

SPECIAL FEATURE
Worldmaking and Other Worlds: Restoration
to Romantic
Edited by Elizabeth Sauer and Betty Joseph
 
Foreword to the Special Feature
Introduction to the Special Feature
Worlding and Deworlding Reimagined:
A New Introduction
Betty Joseph and Elizabeth Sauer
 
OTHER WORLDS: CARTOGRAPHIES AND SPATIOTEMPORAL ORDERS
 
A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of Poverty
Brandi R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters
 
“All the kingdoms of the world”: Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Daniel Vitkus
 
Texts and Tectonists: World-making and World-cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian Frontier
Ana Schwarz
 
Charlotte Smith’s Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and Beyond
Daniel O’Quinn
 
WORLDMAKING: ARTIFACTS, COLLECTIONS, AND MATERIAL CULTURE
 
The Tree and The World
Chris Barrett
 
Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment Britain
Mita Choudhury
 
Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British Mothers
Felicity Nussbaum
 
A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-Wörlitz
Billie Lythberg
 
WORLDING: ECOLOGIES OF BEING AND OTHERING
 
Indigeneity Overlooked: Indigenous Technologies and Criollo Worldmaking in Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690)
Matthew Goldmark
 
William Dampier’s “Sagacious” Worldmaking
Su Fang Ng
 
“To serve them in the other world”: Natural History, Worldmaking, and Funeral Song in Hans Sloane's Voyage to…Jamaica (1707–1725)
David S. Mazella
 
Crusoe’s Goat Umbrella
Chi-ming Yang
 
Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas Pringle
Jennifer L. Hargrave
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
 
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World:  Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
Reviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards
 
W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds., Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture
Reviewed by Andrew Black
 
Michael Edson, ed., Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee
 
Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy
Reviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith
 
Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds., Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century
Reviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack
 
Thomas F. Bonnell, ed., The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: James Boswell’s Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 4: 1780-1784
Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee

Peter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds. The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of Commons
Reviewed by Jacqy Sharpe
 
Deborah Heller, ed., Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social Role
Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor
 
Eileen Hunt Botting. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein
Reviewed by Samara Anne Cahill
 
Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls, to the Seaside, to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
Reviewed by James Hamby
 
John M. Gingerich. Schubert’s Beethoven Project
Reviewed by Seow-Chin Ong
 
Edina Adam and Julian Brooks with an essay by Matthew Hargraves. William Blake: Visionary
Reviewed by Linda L. Reesman
 
Frances B. Singh. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming
Reviewed by Daniel Livesay
 
Abut the Contributors