Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "'Had we but world enough and time'; ''Tis the way of the world'; 'To see a world in a grain of sand'--what does 'world' imply in such contexts? In this inspired volume fourteen essayists explicate the 'worlding' of real and imagined spaces across an expanding universe of literary, cartographic, and commercial endeavor."--David Radcliffe "editor of the digital archive Lord Byron and His Times"