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EVENTEENTH- ENTURY EWS SPRING - SUMMER 2008 Vol. 66 Nos. 1&2 Including THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 56, Nos. 1&2 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS VOLUME 66, Nos. 1&2 SPRING-SUMMER, 2008 SCN, an official organ of the Milton Society of America and of the Milton Section of the Modern Language Association, is published as a double issue two times each year with the support of the English Departments of: University of Akron Oklahoma State University Texas A&M University SUBMISSIONS: As a scholarly review journal, SCN publishes only commis- sioned reviews. As a service to the scholarly community, SCN also publishes news items. A current style sheet, previous volumes’ Tables of Contents, and other information all may be obtained via our home page on the World Wide Web. Books for review and queries should be sent to: Prof. Donald R. Dickson English Department 4227 Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-4227 E-Mail: [email protected] WWW: http://www-english.tamu.edu/pubs/scn/ ISSN 0037-3028 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS EDITOR DONALD R. DICKSON Texas A&M University ASSOCIATE EDITORS James Egan, University of Akron Jeffrey Walker, Oklahoma State University Michele Marrapodi, University of Palermo Patricia Garcia, Our Lady of the Lake University E. Joe Johnson, Clayton State University EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Mark A. Houston, Texas A&M University Jacob A. Tootalian, Texas A&M University CONTENTS VOLUME 66, NOS. 1&2 SPRING-SUMMER, 2008 REVIEWS John Stubbs, John Donne: The Reformed Soul. ...................... Review by SEAN MCDOWELL ....................................................................... 1 Jonathan Burton, Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579- 1624. Review by NABIL MATAR ..................................................... 5 April G. Shelford, Transforming the Republic of Letters: Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life. Review by G. MATTHEW ADKINS .... 9 Alastair Hamilton, Maurits H. van den Boogert, and Bart Westerweel, eds., The Republic of Letters and the Levant............................................. Review by JONATHAN BURTON ................................................... 14 Thomas Festa, The End of Learning: Milton and Education. Review by JAMES EGAN .................................................................................... 16 Gavin Alexander, Writing After Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586-1640. Review by ROBERT E. STILLMAN .................. 19 Mary C. Fenton, Milton’s Places of Hope: Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with Land. Review by SARAH MOREMAN ........................... 22 Thomas H. Luxon, Single Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship. Review by W. SCOTT HOWARD ....................................................... 24 Regina Buccola and Lisa Hopkins, ed., Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama. Review by NANCY M. BUNKER ............................ 28 Murray Roston, Tradition and Subversion in Renaissance Literature: Studies in Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, & Donne. Review by SEAN MCDOWELL...31 Timothy Burbery, Milton the Dramatist. .................................................... Review by ANNA K. NARDO .......................................................... 34 John Mulryan and Steven Brown, ed. and trans., Natale Conti’s Mythologiae. Review by STELLA REVARD .......................................................... 36 Jacob Blevins, ed., Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays. Review by A. LEIGH DENEEF .......................................... 40 Linda Levy Peck, Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth- Century England. Review by ELENA LEVY-NAVARRO .................. 46 David Loewenstein and John Marshall, eds., Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture. Review by EUGENE D. HILL ..... 48 Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition. Review by ALLISON LEE PALMER .................................................................... 51 Su Fang Ng, Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century En- gland. Review by SHEILA T. CAVANAGH ....................................... 55 Jessie Ann Owens, ed. “Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires”: Music in Early Mod- ern England. Review by LAURA YOUENS ..................................... 57 Teresa A. Toulouse, The Captive’s Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England. ......................................... Review by WILLIAM J. SCHEICK ..................................................... 60 Grant Tapsell, The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681-85. Review by MOLLY MCCLAIN .......................................................................................... 62 Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, and Philippa Kelly, Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660........................ Review by Elisa Oh ........................................................................ 64 Elizabeth Teresa Howe, The Visionary Life of Madre Ana de San Agustín. Review by GRADY C. WRAY ........................................................... 67 Paul J. Smith and Karl A.E. Enenkel, Montaigne and the Low Countries (1580-1700). Review by ZAHI ZALLOUA ..................................... 70 Emma Gilby, Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature. Review by DAVID SEDLEY ................................................................................ 72 Jason McElligott, Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England. Review by ROBERT MCJIMSEY ....................................................... 76 R. Melvin Keiser and Rosemary Moore, eds., Knowing the Mystery of Life Within: Selected Writings of Isaac Penington in their Historical and Theological Context. Review by SUSANNA CALKINS ....................................... 78 Clifford Edmund Bosworth, An Intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark’s Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa, and Central Europe, 1609-21. Review by M. G. AUNE ................................................................... 81 Miles Ogborn, Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company. Review by TILLMAN W. NECHTMAN .................... 84 Jack Cunningham, James Ussher and John Bramhall: The Theology and Politics of Two Irish Ecclesiastics of the Seventeenth Century. ................................. Review by JOSEPH M. MCCARTHY ................................................ 87 Peter C. Mancall ed., The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624.......... Review by TY M. REESE ................................................................. 90 Anne Goldgar, Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age. Review by LAURA CRUZ ....................................................... 92 Catherine Armstrong., Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century: English Representations in Print and Manuscript. Review by GREG BENTLEY ........................................................... 95 NEO-LATIN NEWS ........................................................................ 98 NEWS .............................................................................................. 118 REVIEWS 1 John Stubbs. John Donne: The Reformed Soul. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007. 576 pp. $35.00. Review by SEAN MCDOWELL, SEATTLE UNIVERSITY. In John Donne scholarship, the nonfiction book one is most likely to find not just in libraries but also in chain bookstores across the English-speaking world is John Donne: The Reformed Soul, the new full-length biography of Donne’s life by English scholar John Stubbs. Published first in the U. K. in 2006 and subsequently by W. W. Norton in 2007, John Donne: The Reformed Soul was the recipient of the prestigious Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award in 2004 as a work-in-progress. It has received commendations from a host literary critics, poets, and writers, including Harold Bloom, Edward Hirsch, Peter Ackroyd, Andrew Motion, and Katherine Duncan-Jones and has garnered for twenty-nine-year-old Stubbs the kind of international fame that not many biographers of Renaissance writers enjoy. How many other biographers can boast of being a finalist in the annual book awards compe- tition sponsored by the Costa Coffee chain? The reasons for the popularity of Stubbs’ biography are easy to see. In his attempt to steer somewhere between what he considers the “pious” account of R. C. Bald’s John Donne: A Life (1970) and the “iconoclastic” account of John Carey’s John Donne: Life, Mind, and Art (1981), Stubbs creates a lively representation of Donne that is at once critical and sympathetic, the product of someone who is dedicated to conveying the complexities of Donne’s personality even while committing himself to the basic thesis that Donne was a “reformed soul” who moved away from the stridency of his family’s illicit Catholicism and toward a broader, less partisan view of human community. The book is well-written stylistically. Indeed, it frequently pos- sesses an almost novelistic energy, as when Stubbs characterizes the immediate aftermath of Donne’s arrest after his clandestine marriage to Ann More in 1602 came to light: “Donne felt his life flaking apart. All that he had spent almost ten years trying to avoid had suddenly come to pass. His struggle to convert outwardly–and inwardly–to the prevailing religious orthodoxy, his ordeals at Cadiz and in the Azores, his day-to-day t-crossing and i-dotting for the Lord Keeper, might all be traced to the simple fear of being confined and hurt, even dying, merely for the sake of who he was”