1650-1850

Kevin L. Cope is a professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the founder and editor of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, the co-general editor of ECCB: The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, and the author or editor of dozens of books and articles.

"Scholarly communities, especially those joined in eighteenth-century studies, can raise a shout (or glass) over the prospect of the annual 1650-1850’s future publication by Bucknell University Press. This will provide us with regular publication and broader distribution of the journal Kevin Cope has so impressively edited for over 20 years. With contributions from around the world, 1650-1850 has long been providing essays focused on fields as diverse as art and philosophy and others truly inter-disciplinary. It has carried many special issues on topics like 'Death and Dying in the Early Modern Era.' It has also distinguished itself by including lengthy essays and reviews. While 1650-1850 has always been an important annual for seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century studies, its temporal focus is all the more valuable now that so much exciting research is being produced." - James E. May (editor, 18th-Century Intelligencer, Pennsylvania State University, Dubois) "For more than two decades, 1650-1850 has offered its readers an inspiring example of what a scholarly annual concentrating on interdisciplinary and international topics can be. The work of seasoned scholars appears alongside that of 'mid-career' scholars and newly-minted PhDs, creating a heady variety of approaches and subject matter in every volume.  The articles, the reviews, the 'special features,' and even the occasional 'Editor’s Choice' on underappreciated books always advance knowledge in large and small ways. Equally important, each contribution is typically written with verve and allusive pluckiness. There has never been anything doctrinaire about 1650-1850, other than an energy to display compelling new work to its best advantage. That Bucknell University Press has committed itself to this exciting annual is a cause for celebration."  - J.T. Scanlan (co-editor, The Age of Johnson, Providence College) “A good read and an intellectually responsible read, a worthwhile component of our literary public sphere that deserves our wellwishes.” - Michael McKeon (Rutgers University)

• “A Picture of My Mind, My Sentiments All Laid Open to Their View”: Lady Chudleigh’s Printed Verse, the Coterie Reader, and the Modern EditorIGOR DJORDJEVIC  Addison’s Anglican Rationalism, Cato’s Tragic Flaw, and StoicismMORGAN STRAWN   Robert Harley and the Politics of Daniel Defoe’s Review, 1710–1713ASHLEY MARSHALL  “All for Duty”: Dryden’s Critical Agenda in All for LovePETER BYRNE  William Congreve as SatiristPATRICIA GAEL  Classical Example and Gospel Rhetoric in the Sermons of In de pen dent  Preacher Thomas BrooksKEVIN JOEL BERLAND  Expanding Identity through Imagination; or, How Thomas Tryon  Becomes the MarginalizedN. S. BOONE  Johnson and China: Culture, Commerce, and the Dream of the Orient in  Mid- Eighteenth- Century EnglandGREG CLINGHAM   Technofacts: Christopher Smart and the Curiosity Cabinet WILLIAM HALL 243 Catesby’s Eclecticism and the Origin of His StyleALEX SELTZERSPECIAL FEATURE, EDITED BY WILLIAM STARGARD, PINE MANOR COLLEGE“SACRED SPACES AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURYSpecial feature introduction by William StargardMaria Clara Paulino, “Portuguese Religious Architecture, Beliefs and Practices in Northern European Travel Accounts (1750s–1850s)”Donovan Tann, Hesston College, “Ascetic Cosmopolitanism: Imagining Religious Retreat in Mary Astell’s Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II and Letters Concerning the Love of God”Robin L. Thomas, “Convent and Crown: Redecorating Santa Chiara in Naples 1741–59"