Kevin L. Cope

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Hemispheres and Stratospheres

The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture—a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Paper, Ink, and Achievement

Gabriel Hornstein and the Revival of Eighteenth-Century Scholarship

Bucknell University Press

AMS Press president Gabriel Hornstein stimulated the revival of “long” eighteenth-century studies, sponsoring countless publications while creating a global audience for an obscure specialty. Paper, Ink, and Achievement celebrates Hornstein through three sets of essays evaluating the influence of publishers on cultural legacies; the effect of book enthusiasts on literary canons; and favorite long-eighteenth-century literary modes. Paper, Ink, and Achievement commemorates a publishing magnate whose temperate energy propelled his favorite discipline in multitudinous new directions.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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A Clubbable Man

Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham

Edited by Anthony W. Lee
Bucknell University Press

Gathering essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in eighteenth-century studies, A Clubbable Man takes as its theme textual and social group formations, while simultaneously honoring the achievements of Greg Clingham. Rounding out the collection are tributes from former students and colleagues, including original poetry.
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Oriental Networks

Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century

Bucknell University Press

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century. Contributors discuss relationships between individuals and institutions as precursors to modern networks as they facilitated the exchange of cultural commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), practices, and ideas. Highlighting ambiguities and unexpected outcomes of networking, the volume adds historical perspective to our understanding of globalization.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines literature, philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 24)

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

The annual 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines literature, philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 26)

Bucknell University Press

1650–1850 combines fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy. Readers of Volume 26 will explore the response among British women writers to Islam, female religious enthusiasts, theories of monarchy, famous authors living in villages, and a special feature on metaphor in the Enlightenment. Enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Hemispheres and Stratospheres

The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment

Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press

Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture—a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 27)

Bucknell University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Oriental Networks

Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century

Bucknell University Press

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century. Contributors discuss relationships between individuals and institutions as precursors to modern networks as they facilitated the exchange of cultural commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), practices, and ideas. Highlighting ambiguities and unexpected outcomes of networking, the volume adds historical perspective to our understanding of globalization.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 28)

Bucknell University Press

1650–1850 combines fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy. Packed with essays by prominent as well as upcoming scholars, volume 28 delivers two innovative special features: one venturing around the delightfully futuristic world of adaptation and digitization, with special emphasis on the legacy of Laurence Sterne, and one probing the elusively entertaining, energetically enigmatic legacy of philosopher-poet Bernard Mandeville. Enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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1650-1850

Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29)

Bucknell University Press

Exploratory and energetically analytical, 16501850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all nations and language traditions, this annual escorts its readers into a truly global Enlightenment. Volume 29 includes essays on familiar topics such as Samuel Johnson and women’s education while it also showcases Sir Joseph Banks’s globetrotting and provides a vivaciously interdisciplinary special feature on the cultural implications of water. Capping it all off is a diverse bevy of robust, full-length book reviews.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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