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.

"Once again, 1650-1850 offers readers exciting perspectives, not only on literature of the long eighteenth century but also—especially—on innovative ways of doing research. By expanding and modeling new methods, the authors featured in this double special issue stand to expand the ways we think about and do eighteenth-century studies."— Ashley Bender, assistant professor of English, Texas Woman's University

• Special FeatureAdaptation and Digitization in the Long EighteenthCentury: Sterneana and BeyondEdited by M-C. Newbould and Helen WilliamsIntroduction to the Special Feature: Fitting Things?Adaptation, Eighteenth-Century Afterlives, and Digital CulturesM-C. Newbould and Helen WilliamsLinking Austen's and Sterne's Reception JourneysDevoney LooserLaurence Sterne and Women's Writing: ElizabethBonhôte, Jane Harvey, Jane Timbury, and Miss StreetHelen Williams"Ye Gods Annihilate Both Space and Time": ExcerptCulture and the Digital Editing of Eighteenth-Century CorrespondenceJack OrchardTaking Tea with Joseph Addison: Virginia Woolf and theEighteenth Century in Orlando (1928)Adam James Smith"Gabriel Shandy Looks Me Deeply in the Eye": EarlySterne Adaptations and the Formation of the Novel in HungaryGabriella HartvigThree Mid-Eighteenth-Century Mash-Ups: Hybridity andConflicted Discourse in Robert Paltock's Peter Wilkins and Its Early ImitationsJakub LipskiA Distributional Analysis of the Language of Sensibilityin the Sterne Corpus and ECCOJohn Regan"[It] Were Wisdome It Selfe, to Read All Authors, asAnonymo's": Anonymity, Virtual Communities, and SterneanaM-C. NewbouldAuthorial Authority and the Mapping of An -AnaPaul GoringSpecial FeatureIrwin Primer and Bernard MandevilleEdited by Sir Malcolm JackIntroduction to the Special Feature: Irwin Primer andBernard MandevilleSir Malcolm Jack"What Strange Contradictions Man Is Made Of!"Rui Romao"Self Still Is at the Bottom": Mandeville and French MoralistsBéatrice GuionThe "System of Nature" and the French Reception ofThe Fable of the Bees in the Eighteenth CenturyEdmundo Balsemão-PiresMandeville on Happiness, Self-Esteem, and HypochondriaMauro SimonazziBook ReviewsEdited by Samara Anne CahillCedric D. Reverand II, ed., Queen Anne and the ArtsReviewed by John KnappKimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki, eds., Johnson in JapanReviewed by John StoneKevin L. Cope, ed., Hemispheres and Stratospheres:The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International EnlightenmentReviewed by Christopher D. JohnsonA. Joan Saab, Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We SeeReviewed by Christopher D. JohnsonEve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies inEighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 48Reviewed by Christopher D. JohnsonMargaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind, A Philosopher'sEconomist: Hume and the Rise of CapitalismReviewed by Sir Malcolm JackRory Muir, Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How YoungerSons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's EnglandReviewed by Paul J. de GategnoAbout the Contributors