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KEVIN L. COPE is the Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature and Robert and Rita Wetta Adams Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University, and author of three monographs, several edited collections, and hundreds of scholarly articles and reviews on enlightenment authors, issues, themes, and topics. He has also had a distinguished career as president of the LSU Faculty Senate.

Edited by Kevin L. Cope

Samuel Johnson and the Education of Women Deborah Kennedy
“I am Pamela, her own self!”: Moral and Psychosocial Development in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela Angelina Dulong
Joseph Banks in Tahiti: A Man for All Seasons Mona Scheuermann and Paul Tankard
Special Feature The Cultural Ramifications of Water in Early Modern Texts and Images (1650–1850) Edited by Christina Ionescu and Leigh G. Dillard
Introduction to the Special Feature: The Cultural Ramifications of Water in Early Modern Texts and Images (1650–1850) Christina Ionescu
Picturing Canals: Arteries of a Changing “Body Politic” in Eighteenth-Century France and England Catherine J. Lewis Theobald
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the Ordering of Nature, and the Logic of the Book Jeanne M. Britton
Austen’s Oceans: New Contexts for Persuasion Timothy Erwin
The Voyage aux Eaux des Pyrénées: Spas, Mineral Springs, and Health in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination Laurence Roussillon-Constanty
Dipping Your Toe in the Water: Turkish Baths, or the Fable of the Levant Ileana Baird
Bound by Water: Toward a Queer Philology of Liquid Homosexualities Yanzhang Cui

Book Reviews Edited by Samara Anne Cahill

Margaret Willes, In the Shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral: The Churchyard That Shaped London Reviewed by Duane Coltharp
Nicole Howard, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500–1750 Reviewed by Thomas Hothem
Alison Conway and David Alvarez, eds., Imagining Religious Toleration: A Literary History of an Idea, 1600–1830 Reviewed by John C. Traver
Evan Haefeli, ed., Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism Reviewed by Christopher Trigg
Penelope J. Corfield, The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain Reviewed by Paul J. deGategno
Catherine Ingrassia, Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750 Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson
Joan L. Richards, Generations of Reason: A Family’s Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England Reviewed by Courtney A. Hoffman
Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 49 Reviewed by Christopher D. Johnson
Blair Hoxby, ed., Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe’s Age of Reason Reviewed by Elizabeth Kraft
Paul Davis, ed., Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays Reviewed by John Knapp
Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes, eds., A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell Reviewed by A. W. Lee
Malina Stefanovska, ed., Casanova in the Enlightenment: From the Margins to the Centre Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor
Kathryn Duncan, Jane Austen and the Buddha: Teachers of Enlightenment Reviewed by Susan Spencer

Review Essay
Greg Clingham, “Between Hierarchy and Hybridity: The East India Company and the Art of India”
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ESSAYS
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
 
“Harris beyond Hermes”
Jack Lynch
 
“The Courier de l’Europe, The Gordon Riots and Trials, and the Changing Face of Anglo-French Relations”
Howard Weinbrot
 
“Microscopy, Narrative, and The History of Pompey the Little”
Molly Marotta
 
Deus sive Natura:The Monistic Link of Spinoza with China
Yu Liu
 
“Murphy and Johnson: Prolegomenon to a New Edition”
Anthony W. Lee
 
 
SPECIAL FEATURE
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF JOHN DENNIS
            Edited by Claude Willan
 
Introduction to the Special Feature
Claude Willan
 
“‘A Separate Ministry’: Dennis, Drury Lane, and Opposition Politics”
Daniel Gustafson
 
“’Naked Majesty’:  The Occasional Sublime and Miltonic Whig History of John Dennis, Poet”
James Horowitz
 
“Anatomy of a Pan: John Dennis's Annotated Copy of Blackmore’s Prince Arthur”
Philip S. Palmer
 
“My Enemy's Enemy: Dennis, Pope, and Edmund Curll”
Pat Rogers
 
“Ovid Made English: Dennis's Translation of The Passion of Byblis”
Sarah Stein
 
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Edited by Samara Anne Cahill

Catherine Ingrassia, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789
Reviewed by Suzanne L. Barnett
 
Stephen Gaukroger, The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739–1841
Reviewed by R. J. W. Mills
 
Malcolm Jack, To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope
Reviewed by Nigel Penn
 
Nan Goodman, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination
Reviewed by Christopher Trigg
 
Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer
 
Stewart Pollens, Stradivari (Musical Performance and Reception. General editors John Butt and Laurence Dreyfus)
Reviewed by Roy Bogas
 
Paul Prescott, Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor
 
Jonathan I. Israel, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790
Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer
 
Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, eds., Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays
Reviewed by Gefen Bar-On Santor
 
Geordan Hammond, John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity
Reviewed by Isabel Rivers
 
Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones, eds., George Whitefield; Life, Context, and Legacy
Reviewed by Richard P. Heitzenrater
 
Felix Waldmann, ed., Further Letters of David Hume
Reviewed by Mark G. Spencer
 
Henry Hitchings, The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life
Reviewed by Malcolm Jack
 
Ian Woodfield, Performing Operas for Mozart: Impresarios, Singers and Troupes
Reviewed by Kate Brown
 
Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics
Reviewed by Jane R. Stevens
 
Susan Carlile, Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind
Reviewed by Robin Runia
 
Antoine Quatremère de Quincy, Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens, introduction by Dominique Poulot, translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks
Reviewed by Paula Pinto
 
Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Anniversary Edition
Reviewed by Tamara Wagner