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SCN 72 3&4 2014.Pdf (656.7Kb) EVENTEENTH- ENTURY EWS FALL - WINTER 2014 Vol. 72 Nos. 3&4 Including THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 62, Nos. 3&4 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS VOLUME 72, Nos. 3&4 FALL-WINTER, 2014 An official organ of the Milton Society of America and of the Milton Section of the Modern Language Association, SCN is published as a double issue two times each year with the support of the English Department at Texas A&M University. SUBMISSIONS: As a scholarly review journal, SCN publishes only commissioned reviews. As a service to the scholarly community, SCN also publishes news items. A current style sheet, previous volumes’ Tables of Contents, and other informa- tion all may be obtained via at www.english.tamu.edu/scn/. 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.english.tamu.edu/scn/ and journals.tdl.org/scn ISSN 0037-3028 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS EDITOR DONALD R. DICKSON Texas A&M University ASSOCIATE EDITORS Michele Marrapodi, University of Palermo Patricia Garcia, University of Texas E. Joe Johnson, Clayton State University EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Megan Pearson, Texas A&M University Morgan Wilson, Texas A&M University CONTENTS VOLUME 72, NOS. 3&4 ................................ FALL-WINTER, 2014 reviews Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly, eds., The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick. Review by james mardock and eric rasmussen ........................... 190 Siobhán Collins, Bodies, Politics and Transformations: John Donne’s Metempsychosis. Review by anne lake prescott .......................... 195 Nabil Matar, Henry Stubbe’s The Rise and Progress of Mahometanism. Review by jonathan burton ......................................................... 199 Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt, eds., Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions. Review by greg bentley ................................................................ 203 Nicky Hallett, The Senses in Religious Communities,1600 -1800: Early Modern “Convents of Pleasure.” Review by elena levy-navarro .................. 206 Susanne Woods, Milton and the Poetics of Freedom. Review by anna k. nardo .............................................................. 209 Barbara Wooding, John Lowin and the English Theatre, 1603-1647. Review by nancy m. bunker .......................................................... 211 Jessica Dyson, Staging Authority in Caroline England: Prerogative, Law and Order in Drama, 1625-1642. Review by elisa oh .......................... 215 Adrian Wilson, Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England. Review by karol kovalovich weaver ................ 219 William Kuskin, Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity. Review by thomas p. anderson .................................................... 221 Jacob Blevins, Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts and the Miltonic Memory. Review by adam swann ...................................... 225 Cristina Malcolmson, Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, Cavendish, and Swift. Review by karol kovalovich weaver .......... 228 Sir Thomas Herbert,Travels in Africa Persia, and Asia the Great. Ed. and Intro. John Anthony Butler. Review by m. g. aune ......................... 230 Axel Erdmann, Alberto Govi & Fabrizio Govi, eds. Ars Epistolica: Communication in Sixteenth Century Western Europe: Epistolaries, Letter-writing Manuals and Model Letter Books 1501-1600. Review donald r. dickson .... 233 Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie, eds., Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain. Review by robert landrum ................................. 235 John C. Appleby, Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime. Review by melinda s. zook ............................................ 238 Kevin Sharpe, Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714. Review by catherine patterson ................................ 241 Donna Merwick, Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time. Review by laura cruz ................................................................... 243 Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie, eds., Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain. Review by robert landrum ................................ 246 Micheál Ó Siochrú and Jane Ohlmeyer, eds., Ireland, 1641: Contexts and Reactions. Review by robert batchelor ........................................ 249 Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus’: Economic, Cultural, and National Life in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. Review by carol b. stevens .......................................................... 253 Gaby Mahlberg and Dirk Wiemann, eds., European Contexts for English Republicanism. Review by marc schwarz ..........................................255 Jeffrey Glover, Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604-1664. Review by william j. scheick .................................... 258 Andrew Casper, Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy. Review by livia stoenescu ............................................................ 259 John Mulryan, trans. and ed., Vincenzo Cartari’s Images of the Gods of the Ancients: The First Italian Mythography. Review by catherine gimelli martin ........................................... 264 David Cast, ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari. Review by maureen pelta, moore college of art and design .... 269 Evelyn Lord, The Great Plague: A People’s History. Review by larry bonds, mcmurry university .............................. 274 Neo-Latin News ................................................................................ 281 190 seventeenth-century news Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly, eds. The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Vol. 1: lxxv + 504 pp. + 20 illus. $135. Vol. 2: xix + 805 pp. + 22 illus. $135. Review by james mardock and eric rasmussen, university of nevada. A new Oxford edition of the complete poems of Robert Herrick is long overdue and quite welcome. Tom Cain and Ruth Connolly, two of Herrick’s foremost scholarly champions, have produced a handsome and, for the most part, quite usable one. Their critical apparatus, in the main, consists of astute arguments, but it is spread among the edition’s two volumes in such a way that it may present a bit of a hunt even for seasoned scholars. The commentary notes on the print poems in Volume 1 appear at the end of Volume 2, otherwise dedicated to the manuscript poems, but both the Hesperides colla- tions and the fine thirty-two-page essay on Hesperides’s printing and publishing history are tucked at the back of Volume 1 as appendices, potentially leaving a reader unfamiliar with that history baffled (for example) by the separate title page for His Noble Numbers in the text of the poems, as the relation between Hesperides and Noble Numbers is nowhere explained in the introduction. The detailed discussion of the printing of the 1648Hesperides quarto presents the specialist reader with much to admire: the editors make an enormous contribution to Herrick studies by identifying John Grismond as the printer of the first quarto (although their grand claim that the printer “has never been identified until now” [408] is technically not true since Connolly announced the identification several years ago in her Herrick entry in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature). We do quibble, however, with the following passage: Printing almost certainly began with B inner. This is strongly supported by the LLL [London Library] copy, in which B is the only sheet printed on the paper used most often for Hesperides, with the Durand grapes watermark. All subse- quent sheets in LLL are printed from the least common of the papers used, that with a fleur de lis mark, presumably substituted because the Durand paper had been used up (421) 191 seventeenth-century news If we understand this correctly, the observation that Durand paper with a grapes watermark appears frequently throughout all known copies of the quarto except for the London Library copy, in which only sheet B is printed on this paper, is used as evidence for the con- clusion that sheet B was therefore printed first, because the Durand paper must have been “used up” after sheet B was printed. But this makes no sense. If the supply of Durand was “used up,” how could it have been “used most often” for the subsequently printed sheets? A more likely scenario would be that whereas Grismond’s shop had a supply of Durand paper that was used for the bulk of the printing of Hesperides, a separate supply of fleur-de-lis paper may have been used exclusively for a handful of deluxe presentation copies; one can easily imagine that a sheet B printed on the more common Durand paper could have inadvertently been mixed with the fleur-de-lis sheets when the copy now owned by the London Library was gathered. This scenario, of course, provides no evidence that “printing almost certainly began with B inner.” Cain and Connolly’s introduction, as one might expect, culmi- nates in a brief but thoughtful history of the critical response and a justification for the rehabilitation of Herrick’s reputation after his celebrated sweetness ceased to recommend him to the critics of the early twentieth century. The greater part of the introduction consists of a biography of the author, painstakingly researched, clearly presented and informative, but betraying certain
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