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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. CopeJohn Moore and Quackery 3 Pat Rogers and Allison MuriBetween the Sheets: Documenting Tom Cumming, Johnson's "Fighting Quaker" 23Duncan Samuel and Robert G. WalkerMrs. Malaprop's Forgotten Foremothers, from Stage to Page and Back 37Anaclara CastroRosicrucian Confusion and Masonic Machinations in the Conservative Writings of Eleanor Anne Porden and Anna Jane Vardill 64 Marsha Keith Schuchard SPECIAL FEATUREThe Cultural Ramifications of Water in Early Modern Texts and Images (1650–1850), Part IIEdited by Leigh G. Dillard and Christina IonescuIntroduction to the Special Feature 93Leigh G. DillardWhen Talent Meets Torrent: Illustrating, Explaining, and Enhancing Extreme Aqueous Environments 105Kevin L. CopeThe Memory of Failure: Giovanni Battista Antonelli's Waterways Project for Philip II and Canalmania in the Spanish Enlightenment 125Daniel Crespo-DelgadoLife, Death, and Water: Visual Commemorations of Admiral Shovell 150Anne Betty Weinshenker"The Contemplative Man's Recreation": Illustration and the Human Element in The Compleat Angler 172Leigh G. DillardReligious Agencies of Water: Hydolatry in Picart and Bernard's Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737) 197Steff Nellis BOOK REVIEWSEdited by Samara Anne CahillDavid A. Brewer and Crystal B. Lake, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 52 225Reviewed by Christopher D. JohnsonCatherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley, eds., The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities 231Reviewed by Samara Anne CahillAlexis Chema and Betty A. Schellenberg, eds., The Manuscript Book in the Long Eighteenth Century, a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 48, No. 1 238Reviewed by Kandice Sharren Melvyn New and Anthony W. Lee, eds., Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century Literature 241Reviewed by Donald W. NicholRobin L. Thomas, Palaces of Reason: Royal Residences of Bourbon Naples 245Reviewed by William StargardJohn Callanan, Man-Devil The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe 248Reviewed by Malcolm JackConference Review: Bernard Mandeville in the University of Porto, May 2024 251Reviewed by Malcolm JackPenelope Aubin, The Life of Madam de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, ed. David A. Brewer 252Reviewed by Heather Heckman-McKennaMohammad Sakhnini, British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751–1795: Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement 256Reviewed by R. J. W. MillsCai Tinglan, Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar's Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam, trans. and introduced by Kathlene Baldanza and Zhao Lu 259Reviewed by Susan SpencerGeorge Eliot, Middlemarch: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Ronjaunee Chatterjee 264Reviewed by A. W. Lee Review EssayPoets and Prophets from Blake to Marx 271A. W. LeeAbout the Editors 295About the Contributors 297