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EVENTEENTH- ENTURY EWS FALL - WINTER 2007 Vol. 65 Nos. 3&4 Including THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 55, Nos. 3&4 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS VOLUME 65, Nos. 3&4 FALL-WINTER, 2007 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 65, NOS. 3&4 ......................... FALL-WINTER, 2007 REVIEWS Harold Love, English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702. Review by MARGARET J.M. EZELL ............................................................................. 105 Anthony Adolph, Full of Soup and Gold: The Life of Henry Jermyn. Review by MAUREEN E. MULVIHILL ......................................................................... 107 Elizabeth Sauer, ed., Milton and the Climates of Reading: Essays by Balachandra Rajan. Review by JOHN MULRYAN ...................................................................... 113 Michael Lieb and Albert C. Labriola, eds., Milton in the Age of Fish: Essays on Authorship, Text, and Terrorism. Review by LARRY ISSIT .......................... 116 Angelica Duran, ed., A Concise Companion to Milton. Review by JAMES EGAN .............................................................................................. 124 Angelica Duran, The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution. Review by BOYD M. BERRY ....................................................................................... 127 Susannah B. Mintz, Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity. Review by SARA VAN DEN BERG ................................................................................ 130 Marsha Urban, Seventeenth-Century Mother’s Advice Books. Review by TIM REINKE-WILLIAMS .............................................................................. 133 Sophie Tomlinson, Women on Stage in Stuart Drama.Review by AYANNA THOMPSON ................................................................................ 135 Anne Cotterill, Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature. Review by MARK MCDAYTER ..................................................................................... 139 Elizabeth Sauer, ‘Paper-Contestations’ and Textual Communities in England, 1640- 1675. Review by JAMEELA LARES ............................................................ 141 Jonathan P. A. Sell, Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613. Review by M. G. AUNE ............................................................................. 144 Alison V. Scott, Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange and English Courtly Literature, 1580 – 1628. Review by THOMAS P. ANDERSON ................................... 147 Julie Campbell, Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe: A Cross-Cultural Approach. Review by LISSA BEAUCHAMP DESROCHES ............................ 150 Subha Mukherji, Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama. Review by NANCY M. BUNKER ................................................................................. 153 Curtis Perry, Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England. Review by JEROME S. DEES ....................................................................................... 156 Sharon Cadman Seelig, Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women’s Lives, 1600-1680. Review by JULIE D. CAMPBELL ..................... 161 The Poems of Robert Parry, ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Review by GREG BENTLEY ........................................................................................ 163 Alison Findlay, Playing Spaces in Early Modern Women’s Drama. Review by SARAH SCOTT ............................................................................................ 167 John N. King. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture. Review by JACOB BLEVINS ......................................................................................... 169 Steve Mentz, Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction. Review by ROBERT C. EVANS .................................................................. 172 Mark Fortier, The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England. Review by RICHARD C. TAYLOR ................................................................................ 174 Heather Wolfe, ed., The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. Review by NANDRA PERRY ....................................................................... 177 Julie Hirst, Jane Leade: Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic. Review by P. G. STANWOOD ..................................................................................... 180 Michael J. Colacurcio, Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans. Review by WILLIAM J. SCHEICK ............................................................................. 183 Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt and the Female Nude. Review by LARRY SILVER ............................................................................................ 185 Aileen Ribeiro. Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England. Review by ROZE HENTSCHELL ................................................................ 189 Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Pamela M. Jones, Franco Mormando, and Thomas W. Worcester, eds., Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800. Review by JEFFREY FONTANA ................................................................. 193 John G. Demaray, From Pilgrimage to History: The Renaissance and Global Historicism. Review by IRA CLARK ................................................................................ 196 John Coffey, John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England. Review by CHARLES W. A. PRIOR ........... 199 D. F. McKenzie and Maureen Bell, eds., A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Related to the London Book Trade. Review by RANDY ROBERTSON ......... 202 Conal Condren, Argument and Authority in Early Modern England: The Presupposition of Oaths and Offices. Review by PETER JOSEPHSON ............................... 204 Edward Vallance, Revolutionary England and the National Covenant: State Oaths, Protestantism, and the Political Nation. Review by ROBERT LANDRUM .... 208 David A. O’Hara. English Newsbooks and Irish Rebellion 1641-1649. Review by MICHAEL ROGERS ..................................................................................... 210 Teresa Feroli. Political Speaking Justified: Women Prophets and the English Revolution. Review by B.F. PARKER ............................................................................. 214 Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein, eds. English Radicalism, 1550-1850. Review by ROBERT MCJIMSEY .................................................................. 216 Paola Lanaro, ed. At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland. Review by R. BURR LITCHFIELD .................. 219 Cornelia Niekus Moore, Patterned Lives: The Lutheran Funeral Biography in Early Modern Germany. Review by AMY NELSON BURNETT ........................... 221 Kenneth G. Appold, Orthodoxie als Konsensbildung. Das theologische Disputationswesen an der Universität Wittenberg zwischen 1570 und 1710. Review by SUSAN R. BOETTCHER ............................................................................. 224 Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism. Review by GEOFF BAKER ....... 227 Gretchen Elizabeth Smith, The Performance of Male Nobility in Molière’s Comédies- Ballets: Staging the Courtier. Review by JAY M. SMITH .............................. 230 Charles Sorel,Description de l’île de Portraiture et de la ville des Portraits (1659). Ed. by Martine Debaisieux. Review by VOLKER SCHRÖDER ........................... 233 Catherine Marchal-Weyl, Le Tailleur et le fripier. Transformations des personnages de la comedia sur la scène française. Review by ROLAND RACEVSKIS .............. 235 Christophe Bourgeois, Théologies poétiques de l’âge baroque: La Muse chrétienne (1570- 1630). Review by LEONARD MARSH ........................................................ 239 Michael Moriarty, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II. Review by TODD JANKE ........................................................................................ 242 Claire Crignon-De Oliveira, De la mélancolie à l’enthousiasme. Robert Burton et Anthony Ashley Cooper, comte de Shaftesbury. Review BY ANGUS GOWLAND .........