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 edited a panoply of volumes on topics such as the imaginative representations of the sciences, the iconic status of George Washington, and miracle lore in the Enlightenment, among many others. He has edited 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era since 1992 and is a frequent guest on radio and television programming concerned with higher education management and policy. 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 in College Station as an editor in the TEES-Engineering Research Development office. She is the editor of the journal Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment and author of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Bucknell University Press), and has published over a dozen academic articles or book chapters. Cahill is a board member of the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her research interests include eighteenth-century English literature, religious rhetoric, intersectional romance, and multidisciplinary research development.  

Special Feature


Adaptation and Digitization in the Long Eighteenth

Century: Sterneana and Beyond

Edited by M-C. Newbould and Helen Williams


Introduction to the Special Feature: Fitting Things?

Adaptation, Eighteenth-Century Afterlives, and Digital Cultures

M-C. Newbould and Helen Williams

Linking Austen’s and Sterne’s Reception Journeys

Devoney Looser


Laurence Sterne and Women’s Writing: Elizabeth

Bonhôte, Jane Harvey, Jane Timbury, and Miss Street

Helen Williams

“Ye Gods Annihilate Both Space and Time”: Excerpt

Culture and the Digital Editing of Eighteenth-Century Correspondence

Jack Orchard


Taking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and the

Eighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)

Adam James Smith


“Gabriel Shandy Looks Me Deeply in the Eye”: Early

Sterne Adaptations and the Formation of the Novel in Hungary

Gabriella Hartvig


Three Mid-Eighteenth-Century Mash-Ups: Hybridity and

Conflicted Discourse in Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins and Its Early Imitations

Jakub Lipski


A Distributional Analysis of the Language of Sensibility

in the Sterne Corpus and ECCO

John Regan


“[It] Were Wisdome It Selfe, to Read All Authors, as

Anonymo’s”: Anonymity, Virtual Communities, and Sterneana

M-C. Newbould


Authorial Authority and the Mapping of An -Ana

Paul Goring


Special Feature


Irwin Primer and Bernard Mandeville

Edited by Sir Malcolm Jack


Introduction to the Special Feature: Irwin Primer and

Bernard Mandeville

Sir Malcolm Jack


“What Strange Contradictions Man Is Made Of!”

Rui Romao


“Self Still Is at the Bottom”: Mandeville and French Moralists

Béatrice Guion


The “System of Nature” and the French Reception of

The Fable of the Bees in the Eighteenth Century

Edmundo Balsemão-Pires


Mandeville on Happiness, Self-Esteem, and Hypochondria

Mauro Simonazzi


Book Reviews


Edited by Samara Anne Cahill

Cedric D. Reverand II, ed., Queen Anne and the Arts

Reviewed by John Knapp


Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki, eds., Johnson in Japan

Reviewed by John Stone


Kevin L. Cope, ed., Hemispheres and Stratospheres:

The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment

Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson


A. Joan Saab, Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See

Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson

Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in

Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 48

Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson


Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind, A Philosopher’s

Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism

Reviewed by Sir Malcolm Jack


Rory Muir, Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger

Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England

Reviewed by Paul J. de Gategno


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