Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850) - Hardcover

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Kevin L. Cope is Adams Professor of English Literature and a member of the comparative literature faculty at Louisiana State University. The author of Criteria of Certainty (1990), of John Locke Revisited (1999), and of In and After the Beginning (2007), Cope has written scholarly essays on topics ranging from the early-modern fascination with miracles to colossalism in modern culture. He edits the annual journal1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era and served for over a decade as the general editor of ECCB: The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography. He has edited several volumes of essays, including Textual Studies and the Enlarged Eighteenth Century: Precision as Profusion (2012) and Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century (2015). A former member of the National Governing Council of the American Society for University Professors, Cope is regularly referenced in publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed and is a frequent guest on radio and television news and talk shows.