1650-1850

1650–1850 combines fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy. Volume 27 expands around a landmark special feature on worlds and worldmaking—on the imagining of new, exotic, unexplored, ideal, and utopian worlds ranging from south sea islands to polar utopias to zones of intercultural encounter to the conjectural territories of interpretive cartography. Enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews.

SPECIAL FEATUREWorldmaking and Other Worlds: Restorationto RomanticEdited by Elizabeth Sauer and Betty Joseph Foreword to the Special FeatureIntroduction to the Special FeatureWorlding and Deworlding Reimagined:A New IntroductionBetty Joseph and Elizabeth Sauer OTHER WORLDS: CARTOGRAPHIES AND SPATIOTEMPORAL ORDERS A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of PovertyBrandi R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters “All the kingdoms of the world”: Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise RegainedDaniel Vitkus Texts and Tectonists: World-making and World-cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian FrontierAna Schwarz Charlotte Smith’s Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and BeyondDaniel O’Quinn WORLDMAKING: ARTIFACTS, COLLECTIONS, AND MATERIAL CULTURE The Tree and The WorldChris Barrett Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment BritainMita Choudhury Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British MothersFelicity Nussbaum A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-WörlitzBillie 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” WorldmakingSu 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 UmbrellaChi-ming Yang Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas PringleJennifer L. Hargrave BOOK REVIEWSEdited by Samara Anne Cahill Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World:  Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden AgeReviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds., Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist CultureReviewed by Andrew Black Michael Edson, ed., Annotation in Eighteenth-Century PoetryReviewed by Anthony W. Lee Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern LegacyReviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds., Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth CenturyReviewed 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: 1780-1784Reviewed by Anthony W. LeePeter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds. The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of CommonsReviewed by Jacqy Sharpe Deborah Heller, ed., Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social RoleReviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor Eileen Hunt Botting. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in FrankensteinReviewed by Samara Anne Cahill Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls, to the Seaside, to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass EntertainmentReviewed by James Hamby John M. Gingerich. Schubert’s Beethoven ProjectReviewed by Seow-Chin Ong Edina Adam and Julian Brooks with an essay by Matthew Hargraves. William Blake: VisionaryReviewed by Linda L. Reesman Frances B. Singh. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane CummingReviewed by Daniel Livesay Abut the Contributors