During the years 1660-1900 cultural production achieved unprecedented heterogeneity throughout Britain, its colonial possessions, and Western Europe. The goal of this interdisciplinary workshop will be to interrogate the tensions between this diversified production and the unifying narrative of modernity often imposed on this two-hundred-and-forty-year span. The workshop welcomes participants and presenters from any and all fields. Although students of English, American, and Western European literatures have traditionally formed the core of our attendance, we enthusiastically invite scholars from other areas of inquiry as well: students of non-Western cultural production, art history, philosophy, the history of science, and the social sciences. This workshop discusses precirculated papers.