EVENTEENTH- ENTURY EWS FALL - WINTER 2005 Vol. 63 Nos. 3&4 Including THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 53, Nos. 3&4 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS VOLUME 63, Nos. 3&4 FALL-WINTER, 2005 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: 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. $20.00 ($25.00) for one year; $35.00 ($45.00) for two years; $50.00 ($65.00) for three years. Checks or money orders are payable to Seventeenth-Century News. A current style sheet, announce- ments, previous volumes’ Tables of Contents, advertising rates, and other infor- mation 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 Jeffrey Walker, Oklahoma State University Michele Marrapodi, University of Palermo Patricia Garcia Ocañas, Our Lady of the Lake University E. Joe Johnson, Clayton State University EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Christopher E. Garrett, Texas A&M University Michael Mattair, Texas A&M University CONTENTS VOLUME 63, NOS. 3&4 ......................... FALL-WINTER, 2005 REVIEWS Jeanne Shami, John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit. Review by BYRON NELSON ...........................................................135 James William Johnson, A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Review by HAROLD LOVE ..............................................137 Erica Longfellow, Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England. Review by FRANCES M. MALPEZZI ...............................................141 Mary Jo Kietzman, The Self-Fashioning of an Early Modern Englishwoman: Mary Carleton’s Lives. Review by TIM REINKE-WILLIAMS ...........144 Marta Straznicky, Privacy, Playreading, and Women’s Closet Drama, 1550-1700. Review by NANCY M. BUNKER .....................................................146 K. J. P. Lowe, Nuns’ Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter- Reformation Italy. Review by THOMAS WORCESTER ......................150 Thomas Kranidas, Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal. Review by JAMES EGAN .................................................................................... 152 Susannah Brietz Monta, Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England. Review by LISSA BEAUCHAMP ....................................................... 158 Reid Barbour, Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England. Review by HOLLY FAITH NELSON ................................................ 161 Sharon Achinstein, Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England Review by P. G. STANWOOD .............................................................................. 164 John R. Roberts. John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1979-1995. Review by DONALD R. DICKSON ............................. 168 Hugh Amory, Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England. Review by WILLIAM J. SCHEICK ................... 169 Douglas Trevor, The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England. Review by THOMAS P. ANDERSON ............................................................. 171 Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. Review by BR. BENET EXTON, O.S.B. ................................................................ 175 Elio Christoph Brancaforte, Visions of Persia: Mapping the Travels of Adam Olearius. Review by JONATHAN BURTON .................................... 177 Richard Maber, Publishing in the Republic of Letters: The Ménage-Grævius- Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692. Review by LAURA CRUZ .......180 Lee Ward, The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America. Review by GEOFFREY M. VAUGHAN .......................................................... 183 Caroline Castiglione, Patrons and Adversaries: Nobles and Villagers in Italian Politics, 1640-1760. Review by R. BURR LITCHFIELD .................. 186 Diana Newton, The Making of the Jacobean Regime: James VI and I and the Government of England, 1603-1605. Review by CHARLES W. A. PRIOR 189 Frances Harris and Michael Hunter, eds. John Evelyn and His Milieu. Review by CHRISTOPHER BAKER ............................................................... 191 Milo Keynes, The Iconography of Sir Isaac Newton to 1800. Review by NICHOLAS H. CLULEE ..................................................................... 194 John Eliot,The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter. Review by WILLIAM J. SCHEICK ................... 196 Markku Peltonen, The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour. Review by BRETT F. PARKER .......................................... 198 Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer, eds., British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland. Review by B. R. SIEGFRIED .............................................. 200 Ruth E. Mayers. 1659: The Crisis of the Commonwealth. Review by JASON PEACEY ................................................................................ 203 Londa Schiebinger & Claudia Swan, eds. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce and Politics. Review by LUCIANO BOSCHIERO ............................... 206 Massimo Ossi, Divining the Oracle: Monteverdi’s Seconda Prattica. Review by STEVEN SAUNDERS ........................................................................ 209 Robert Kendrick, The Sounds of Milan, 1584 to 1650. Review by CHRISTINE GETZ 213 Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. with Peter C. Sutton, Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits. Review by LARRY SILVER ............................................... 215 John Michael Montias, Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam. Review by HUBERT MEEUS ......................................................................... 218 Lynette Hunter, The Letters of Dorothy Moore: The Intellectual Life of a Seventeenth-Century Woman. Review by ELLEN J. JENKINS .............211 NEO-LATIN NEWS ........................................................................ 224 NEWS .................................................................................................. 256 REVIEWS 135 Jeanne Shami. John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003. viii + 318 pp. $85.00. Review by BYRON NELSON, WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. The appearance of King James’s Directions for Preachers in 1622 undoubt- edly stirred up as much anxiety within the clerical community as the Book of Sports had created for Puritans and strict sabbatarians. In the Directions, James had grumbled about “ungrounded devines” who use the pulpit from which to address “unprofitable” and “daungerous doctrines,” and he warned against preaching on predestination or on matters of state. The specific dictates were hard to enforce, but the Directions clearly presented a vexing set of problems for preachers, and especially for John Donne, who had become dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1621. Jeanne Shami proposes to study the sermons of John Donne as an index of clerical conformity in her provocative new book, which helps enormously in the effort to locate Donne on the religious spectrum. Despite some recent efforts to make Donne an Arminian or an early Laudian, Shami keeps Donne within the Calvinist consensus of the pre-Laudian Church of England, but she makes it clear how difficult it was for him to remain a moderate within the church when the boundaries were shifting in the troubled final years of James’s reign, even before the seismic shifts under Charles and his new arch- bishop of Canterbury, Laud. Shami diligently places Donne’s sermons within the context of their time and argues that, like his clerical colleagues, Donne was “increasingly challenged by competing claims of conscience and author- ity” (18), especially after the issuance of the Directions, which forced irenical priests such as Donne to stress common values and to work harder at mod- eration and negotiation. The sermons from 1620-22 reveal Donne’s skill at responding with “dis- creet conformity” (75) to the controversies in the late Jacobean church. In Shami’s view, the sermons show “the integrity of Donne’s spirited religious imagination” (75) and confirm the wisdom of Donne’s “interpretive inclusivity” (79). She feels that Donne’s sympathies lay more with Archbishop Abbot and the Calvinist consensus which prevailed in the years immediately follow- ing the Synod of Dort than with the emerging anti-Calvinist bishops and clergy. This study of the sermons of the period exposes what Shami repeat- edly calls the “fault lines” of the Jacobean church. 136 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS The Directions were prompted by specific anxieties about James’s policies, such as the fear that James might himself relapse into his mother’s