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Eventeenth- Entury EVENTEENTH- ENTURY EWS FALL - WINTER 2003 Vol. 61 Nos. 3&4 Including THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 51, Nos. 3&4 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS VOLUME 61, Nos. 3&4 FALL-WINTER, 2003 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 Concordia University, Wisconsin Oklahoma State University Texas A&M University SUBMISSIONS: Though primarily a review journal, SCN publishes shorter articles and scholarly notes (3000 words). Manuscripts should be submitted in duplicate (with the author’s name and institutional affiliation on the cover page only), accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. As a service to the scholarly community, SCN also publishes news items. SUBSCRIPTIONS, Domestic and International. $15.00 ($20.00) for one year; $28.00 ($37.00) for two years; $40.00 ($52.00) for three years. Checks or money orders are payable to Seventeenth-Century News. A current style sheet, announcements, previous volumes’ Tables of Contents, advertising rates, 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 EDITOR EMERITUS Harrison T. Meserole Texas A&M University ASSOCIATE EDITORS James Egan, University of Akron Gene Edward Veith, Concordia University, Wisconsin Jeffrey Walker, Oklahoma State University Michele Marrapodi, University of Palermo Patricia Garcia Ocañas, Our Lady of the Lake University EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Christopher E. Garrett, Texas A&M University Christopher L. Morrow, Texas A&M University Jae Young Park, Texas A&M University Larry A. Van Meter, Texas A&M University CONTENTS VOLUME 61, NOS. 3&4 FALL-WINTER, 2003 REVIEWS Philip West, Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans: Scripture Uses. Review by ALAN RUDRUM ........................................................... 189 Donald R. Dickson, ed., Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan’s Aqua Vitæ: Non Vitis Review by ALAN RUDRUM ........................................ 193 Abraham Cohen de Herrera, Gate of Heaven. Review by WILLIAM E. ENGEL ................................................... 197 Walter Stephens, Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Review by WILLIAM E. ENGEL ....................................... 202 Marsha Keith Schuchard, Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry & Stuart Culture. Review by D. R. DICKSON .... 206 Lisa M. Gordis. Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in New England. Review by IRA CLARK ................. 210 Richard Greaves. Glimpses of Glory: Bunyan and English Dissent. Review by U. MILO KAUFMANN .................................................. 214 Mary Floyd-Wilson, English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama. Review by JONATHAN BURTON ................................... 217 Katherine O’Donnell and Michael O’Rourke, eds., Love, Sex, Inti- macy, and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800. Review by GEORGE KLAWITTER ..................................................................................... 220 Marc Berley, ed., Reading the Renaissance: Ideas and Idioms from Shakespeare to Milton. Review by FRANCES MALPEZZI ......... 224 Andrew Barnaby and Lisa J. Schnell, Literate Experience: The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century English Writing. Review by HUGH WILSON ........................................................... 227 Douglas Anderson, Bradford’s Books: Of Plymouth Plantation and the Printed Word. Review by WILLIAM J. SCHEICK ................. 231 Daniel Patterson, ed., Taylor’s Gods Determinations and Prepara- tory Meditations. Review by WILLIAM J. SCHEICK ............... 236 Neil Forsyth, The Satanic Epic. Review by JAMES EGAN ......... 240 John Barnard and Donald F. McKenzie, eds., Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Review by RANDY ROBERTSON ............... 245 H. Neville Davies, ed., At Vacant Hours: Poems by Thomas St Nicholas and His Family. Review by A. H. DE QUEHEN ....................... 252 Mary Elizabeth Ailes, Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden. Review by LEE SATHER ............................................................... 255 A. Houston and S.Pincus, eds, A Nation Transformed: England After the Restoration. Review by CHARLES W. A. PRIOR .................... 258 T. Morton and N. Smith, eds., Radicalism in British Literary Culture: From Revolution to Revolution. Review by R. C. TAYLOR ........ 261 Michael Winship, Making Heretics: Militant Protestantism and Free Grace in Massachusetts. Review by KONSTANTIN DIERKS ...... 264 Matthew Glozier, The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution of 1688: The Lions of Judah. Review by EDWARD M. FURGOL .................................................................... 267 Toby Osborne, Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy. Review by MICHAEL R. LYNN ...................................................... 271 Gianvittorio Signorotto and Maria A. Visceglia, eds., Court and Poli- tics in Papal Rome.. Review by ERMINIA ARDISSINO ............. 274 Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, Court Culture in Dresden: From Renais- sance to Baroque. Review by MARIAN MATRICIAN .................. 278 Thomas Bürger, ed., Verzeichnis der gedruckten Briefe deutscher Autoren des 17. Jahrhunderts Review by SUSAN R. BOETTCHER ......... 282 Jana Matlová and Jirí Beneš, eds., Johann Valentin Andreae’s Theophilus. Review by DONALD R. DICKSON ........................... 284 Bryan Reynolds, Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England. Review by WILLIAM E. ENGEL .................................................. 286 Johann Anselm Steiger, ed., Johann Gerhard: Erkhlärung der Historien des Leidens vnnd Sterbens vnsers Herrn Christi Jesu nach den vier Evangelisten (1611). Review by SUSAN R. BOETTCHER ......... 289 Shankar Raman, Framing ‘India’: The Colonial Imaginary in Early Modern Culture. Review by NAGENDRA RAO .......................... 292 Matthew Wikander, Fangs of Malice: Hypocrisy, Sincerity, & Acting. Review by SARAH SCOTT ............................................................. 295 The Wisest Have Their Fools About Them. Review by NANCY BUNKER ........................................................ 297 Sidney L. Sondergard, Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers. Review by JANE LYTTON GOOCH .............................................. 300 Christina Luckyj, ‘A moving Rhetoricke’: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England. Review by ELISA OH .................................... 304 Marie le Jars de Gournay, Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works. Review by ALISA PLANT ................................................. 307 Andreini, La Mirtilla: A Pastoral. Review by NANCY BUNKER ......................................................... 310 Joyce Green MacDonald, Women and Race in Early Modern Texts. Review by LISA J. SCHNELL ......................................................... 313 Valerie Traub, The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern En- gland. Review by MARIO DIGANGI ............................................ 316 Linda C. Mitchell, Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battlefield in England. Review by MELISSA MOHR .................................... 321 Joan DeJean, The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France. Review by MELISSA MOHR .................. 325 Roger D. Sell, Literature as Communication: The Foundations of Medi- ating Criticism and Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Hu- manized. Review by ALAN RUDRUM .......................................... 329 William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. Review by LUCIANO BOSCHIERO ............................................... 333 Steve Sturdy, ed., Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1600-2000. Review by CELESTE CHAMBERLAND ................... 337 Christopher Baker, ed., Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution: A Bio- graphical Dictionary. Review by IRVING A. KELTER ................ 340 Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt, ed., Velázquez’s “Las Meninas.” Review by TANYA J. TIFFANY ...................................................... 342 NEO-LATIN NEWS .................................................................. 346 REVIEWS 189 Philip West. Henry Vaughan’s Silex Scintillans: Scripture Uses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii + 271 pp. $70.00. Review by ALAN RUDRUM, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY. Henry Vaughan’s verse is saturated in biblical reference, and it may seem odd that a book-length study has not appeared before now. Until 1976, Vaughan’s editors appeared to think that readers would catch such references for themselves. Even had that been true, to notice a reference does not dispose of questions of interpre- tation. Certainly, the appearance in 1985 of Chana Bloch’s Spell- ing the Word: George Herbert and the Bible might have suggested the need for a similar attack on Vaughan. How many, one wonders, have set out only to be repulsed by the dragon Difficulty? Two British dissertations to my knowledge were never completed, and probably
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