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. Topics in volume 29 include Samuel Johnson’s notions about the education of women and a refreshing account of Sir Joseph Banks’s globetrotting. A guest-edited, illustration-rich, interdisciplinary special feature explores the cultural implications of water. As always, 1650–1850 culminates in a bevy of full-length book reviews critiquing the latest scholarship on long-established specialties, unusual subjects, and broad reevaluations of the period.

Published by Bucknell University Press, distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Contributions by: Deborah Kennedy, Angelina Dulong, Mona Scheuermann, Paul Tankard, Christina Ionescu, Leigh D. Dillard, Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, Jeanne M. Britton, Timothy Erwin, Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Ileana Baird, Yanzhang Cui, Duane Coltharp, Thomas Hothem, John C. Traver, Christopher Trigg, Paul deGategno, Christopher Johnson, Courtney A. Hoffman, Elizabeth Kraft, John Knapp, Anthony W Lee, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Susan Spencer, Greg Clingham