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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Special Feature
• Worldmaking and Other Worlds: Restoration to Romantic / Edited by Elizabeth Sauer and Betty Joseph
• Foreword to the Special Feature
• Introduction to the Special Feature: Worlding and Deworlding Reimagined: A New Introduction / Betty Joseph and Elizabeth Sauer
• Other Worlds: Cartographies and Spatiotemporal Orders
• A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of Poverty / Brandie R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters

• "All the Kingdoms of the World": Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained / Daniel Vitkus
• Texts and Tectonists: Worldmaking and World-Cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian Frontier / Ana Schwartz
• Charlotte Smith's Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and Beyond / Daniel O'Quinn
• Worldmaking: Artifacts, Collections, and Material Culture
• The Tree and the World / Chris Barrett
• Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment Britain / Mita Choudhury

• Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British Mothers / Felicity Nussbaum
• A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-Wörlitz / Billie 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" Worldmaking / Su 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 Umbrella / Chi-ming Yang
• Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas Pringle / Jennifer L. Hargrave
• Book Reviews / Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
• Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age / Reviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards
• W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds. Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture / Reviewed by Andrew Black
• Michael Edson, ed. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry / Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee

• Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy / Reviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith
• Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds. Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century / Reviewed 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: 1780-1784 / Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650-1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650-1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of worldmaking and other worlds--on the Enlightenment zest for the discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds, envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around European gardens, over the high seas, across the American frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship.

• Special Feature
• Worldmaking and Other Worlds: Restoration to Romantic / Edited by Elizabeth Sauer and Betty Joseph
• Foreword to the Special Feature
• Introduction to the Special Feature: Worlding and Deworlding Reimagined: A New Introduction / Betty Joseph and Elizabeth Sauer
• Other Worlds: Cartographies and Spatiotemporal Orders
• A New Science for a New World: Margaret Cavendish on the Question of Poverty / Brandie R. Siegfried and Lisa Walters
• "All the Kingdoms of the World": Global Visions of Empire and War in Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained / Daniel Vitkus
• Texts and Tectonists: Worldmaking and World-Cleaving on the Anglo-Algonquian Frontier / Ana Schwartz
• Charlotte Smith's Littoral Zones: Worldmaking in the Elegiac Sonnets and Beyond / Daniel O'Quinn
• Worldmaking: Artifacts, Collections, and Material Culture
• The Tree and the World / Chris Barrett
• Imperial Cosmopolitanism and the Structure of Global-Domestic Space in Enlightenment Britain / Mita Choudhury
• Colonial Intimacies: Indian Ayahs, British Mothers / Felicity Nussbaum
• A World Affair: The South Sea Pavilion in the Garden Realm of Dessau-Wörlitz / Billie 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" Worldmaking / Su 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 Umbrella / Chi-ming Yang
• Speaking in Voices: The South African Poetry of Thomas Pringle / Jennifer L. Hargrave
• Book Reviews / Edited by Samara Anne Cahill
• Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen. The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age / Reviewed by Erica Johnson Edwards
• W. R. Owens, Stuart Sim, and David Walker, eds. Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture / Reviewed by Andrew Black
• Michael Edson, ed. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry / Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee
• Christiane Hertel. Siting China in Germany: Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie and Its Modern Legacy / Reviewed by Stephanie Howard-Smith
• Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, eds. Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century / Reviewed 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: 1780-1784 / Reviewed by Anthony W. Lee
• Peter J. Aschenbrenner and Colin Lee, eds. The Papers of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of Commons / Reviewed by Jacqy Sharpe
• Deborah Heller, ed. Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social Role / Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor
• Eileen Hunt Botting. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in Frankenstein / Reviewed by Samara Anne Cahill
• Lee Jackson. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment / Reviewed by James Hamby
• John M. Gingerich. Schubert's Beethoven Project / Reviewed by Seow-Chin Ong
• Edina Adam and Julian Brooks, with an essay by Matthew Hargraves. William Blake: Visionary / Reviewed by Linda L. Reesman
• Frances B. Singh. Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane Cumming / Reviewed by Daniel Livesay

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• ESSAYS
• "A Picture of My Mind, My Sentiments All Laid Open to Their View": Lady Chudleigh's Printed Verse, the Coterie Reader, and the Modern Editor / Djordjevic, Igor / Cope, Kevin L.
• Addison's Anglican Rationalism, Cato's Tragic Flaw, and Stoicism / Strawn, Morgan / Cope, Kevin L.
• Robert Harley and the Politics of Daniel Defoe's Review, 1710-1713 / Marshall, Ashley / Cope, Kevin L.
• "All for Duty": Dryden's Critical Agenda in All for Love / Byrne, Peter / Cope, Kevin L.
• William Congreve as Satirist / Gael, Patricia / Cope, Kevin L.
• Classical Example and Gospel Rhetoric in the Sermons of Independent Preacher Thomas Brooks / Berland, Kevin Joel / Cope, Kevin L.
• Expanding Identity through Imagination; or, How Thomas Tryon Becomes the Marginalized / Boone, N.S. / Cope, Kevin L.
• Johnson and China: Culture, Commerce, and the Dream of the Orient in Mid-Eighteenth- Century England / Clingham, Greg / Cope, Kevin L.
• Technofacts: Christopher Smart and the Curiosity Cabinet / Hall, William / Cope, Kevin L.
• Catesby's Eclecticism and the Origin of His Style / Seltzer, Alex / Cope, Kevin L.
• SPECIAL FEATURE
• Introduction to Special Feature / Stargard, William
• Portuguese Religious Architecture, Beliefs, and Practices in Northern European Travel Accounts, 1750s-1850s / Paulino, Maria Clara / Stargard, William
• Ascetic Cosmopolitanism: Imagining Religious Retreat in Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II and Letters Concerning the Love of God / Tann, Donovan / Stargard, William
• Convent and Crown: Redecorating Santa Chiara in Naples, 1741-1759 / Thomas, Robin L. / Stargard, William
• Book reviews / Czennia, Bärbel / Johnson, Christopher D. / Walsh, Jaquelyn W. / Brownley, Martine W. / Gardiner, Anne Barbeau / Festa, Lynn / Goldberg, Brian / Neidleman, Jason A. / Hait, Elizabeth A. / Mills, R.J.W. / Cope, Kevin L. / Reid, David A. / Degategno, Paul J. / Kincade, Kit / Moody, Ellen / Love, Meredith A.
• About the Contributors

1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines-literature (both in English and other languages), 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-between the "hard" and the "humane" disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for "special features" that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors. First published in 1994, 1650-1850 is currently in its 24th volume.
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The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognised, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive inter-disciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extra-ordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate of Middle Europe and paying particular attention to the life and work of Carlo Michelstaedter, he deftly portrays the reciprocal implications of different discourses - philosophy, literature, sociology, music, and painting. His beautifully balanced and deeply informed study provides a new, wider, and more ambitious definition of expressionism and shows the significance of this movement in shaping the artistic and intellectual mood of the age. "1910" probes the recurrent themes and obsessions in the work of intellectuals as diverse as Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, Vasily Kandinsky, Georg Lukacs, Georg Simmel, Dino Campana, and Arnold Schoenberg. Together with Michelstaedter, who committed suicide in 1910 at the age of 23, these thinkers shared the essential concerns of expressionism: a sense of irresolvable conflict in human existence, the philosophical status of death, and a quest for the nature of human subjectivity. Expressionism, Harrison argues provocatively, was a last, desperate attempt by the intelligentsia to defend some of the most venerable assumptions of European culture. This ideological desperation, he claims, was more than a spiritual prelude to World War I: it was an unheeded, prophetic critique.
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In his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami created a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 Frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.

In his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami created a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.

• Introduction : Esthétique ou philosophie première ?
• Rencontres obliques
• La collision du siècle ?
• L'oeuvre d'art comme péripétie de la pensée
• Mort de l'art et destination de l'homme
• Ancien ou moderne
• Reconquérir Athènes depuis Alexandrie ?
• Aux sources de Diogène Laërce : une ou deux questions
• L'énigme des Grecs non poétiques
• Déduire le poème ?
• Le jeune Hegel et l'annus mirabilis de 1795
• De la pulsion de jeu à l'enfant cosmique
• Nietzsche, mode de double emploi
• Cantiques et colonnes
• Construire au coeur de l'archaïque ?
• Amphion et sa musique au XXe siècle
• L'espace du mythe dans l'oeuvre dite totale
• Conclusion : Jour et contre-jour
• Remarque bibliographique.

"Que la fin de l'art et celle de la philosophie s'entrelacent, la civilisation récente semble en donner l'image. Et pourtant, à creuser le 20e siècle dans sa singularité passionnante autant qu'effrayante, on apprend à reconfigurer les questions de l'oeuvre artistique et de la vérité discursive sous l'égide du problème clef qu'est le langage. Les présocratiques et la musique depuis Nietzsche ; la triade des nouveaux-venus au 18e siècle : esthétique, criticisme transcendantal et philosophie du langage ; les sciences humaines modernes face à l'art et le mythe ; enfin, les rapports entre l'espace poético-musical et l'architecture autour de l'oeuvre d'art dite totale, étrangement ressuscitée parmi nous : le projet de réunir ces thèmes permet d'accéder aux racines d'une Europe plus importante que celle des technocrates."--Page 4 of cover.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's Foreword; Reader's Note; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Bibliography; About the Author.

The A to Z of Aesthetics covers its history from Classical Greece to the present, including entries on non-western aesthetics. The book contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the main concepts, terminology, important persons (philosophers, critics, and artists), and the rules and criteria we apply in making judgments on art. By providing concise information on aesthetics, this dictionary is not only accessible to students, but it provides details and facts to specialists in the field.
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A stain is the evidence of something that was. It's a trace. A stain may be something quite ordinary: the ink stain on my index finger; the mark of your fingers on this book. A stain may also be embarrassing: lipstick on a cheek; sweat rings under the arms; a bloody discharge. A stain may be forensically incriminating. A stain may be kept for sentimental reasons. Moreover, every stain has its own particular texture. Texture denotes the consistency of a surface and the sensory, often tactile imprint that is left on it. The stain may be absorbed in the thing that supports it; then again, it may stay on the surface, something separate. Every stain is unique. In this essay the author deals with seven factors that make the stain into a powerful model for rethinking the visual: the stain as prototype and prefiguration, the stain as relic, the stain of Veronica, the stain as a psycho-energetic symptom, the stain as pars pro toto for the womb, the stain and le desir mimetique and finally the stain as an image paradigm of the residue.
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For Bataille, 'the absence of myth' had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had 'lost the secret of its cohesion', Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. The Absence of Myth is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. Clarifying Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and throwing revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with Andre Breton, The Absence of Myth shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be. Introduced and translated by Michael Richardson.
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