1650-1850

Kevin L. Cope is the Adams Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The author of Criteria of Certainty, John Locke Revisited, and In and After the Beginning, Cope has prepared numerous essay collections, most recently Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment (Bucknell University Press). Cope is a frequent guest on radio and television programming concerning higher education policy and governance.Samara Anne Cahill taught literature, rhetoric, and grant writing at Blinn College, Nanyang Technological University, and the University of Notre Dame before joining the University of North Texas as a grant manager. She is the editor of Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment and author of Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Bucknell University Press).

• EssaysEdited by Kevin L. CopeHere Comes the Scriblerian Flood: Apocalypse, Betrayal, and Mock-Redemption in Three Hours after MarriageFlavio GregoriSatire in Dryden’s Discourse of SatireSteven Minuk“European Yahoos”: England as East Asian Periphery in Defoe and SwiftAndie Barrow Special FeatureLast Wills, Testaments, and Inventories of the Long Eighteenth CenturyEdited by Pamela F. PhillipsIntroduction to the Special FeaturePamela F. Phillips“If My Said Dauters Shall Marry”: Probate Provisions for Single Women in Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Westborough, MassachusettsRoss W. Beales, Jr.Spanish Testaments, Wills, and Inventories: Bridging Heaven and EarthYvonne FuentesCrafted Legacies: Artisans’ Wills in Georgian Britain and IrelandMelanie Hayes“Tokens of My Love”: Money, Memory, and Dispossession in Eighteenth-Century EnglandStephanie KoscakA Reading of the Will: (Non)willingness in The Woman of Colour, A TaleCorey Risinger Special FeatureA Humans’-Eye View of BirdsEdited by Susan SpencerIntroduction to the Special FeatureSusan SpencerThirteen Ways of Looking at a CanaryLynn FestaLove Prey Eat: Appreciating Pheasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturyYouenhee KhoPinioned Porcelain: Augustus the Strong and His Meissen MenagerieSusan Spencer Book ReviewsEdited by Samara Anne CahillGabriel Glickman, Making the Imperial Nation: Colonization, Politics, and English Identity, 1660-1700Reviewed by Duane ColtharpWilliam Edinger, “Genial” Perception: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth CenturyReviewed by Christopher D. JohnsonKristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon, eds., British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830Reviewed by Courtney HoffmanDavid A. Brewer and Crystal B. Lake, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 51 Reviewed by Christopher D. JohnsonLaura J. Rosenthal, Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and BeyondReviewed by Ashley BenderSteve Newman and David McGuinness, eds., The Gentle Shepherd by Allan RamsayReviewed by Donald W. NicholTonya M. Caldwell, ed., Writing Lives in the Eighteenth CenturyReviewed by A. W. LeeAdam Budd, Circulating Enlightenment: The Career and Correspondence of Andrew Millar, 1725-1768Reviewed by Donald W. NicholClingham, Greg, ed., The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel JohnsonReviewed by Christopher VilmarJohn Hardman, Barnave: The Revolutionary Who Lost His Head for Marie-AntoinetteReviewed by Michael J. MulryanDenise Gigante, Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in AmericaReviewed by Victoria Barnett-WoodsAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors