EVENTEENTH- ENTURY EWS SPRING - SUMMER 2010 Vol. 68 Nos. 1&2 Including THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 58, Nos. 1&2 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS VOLUME 68, Nos. 1&2 SPRING-SUMMER, 2010 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 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 Jacob Schornick, Texas A&M University CONTENTS VOLUME 68, NOS. 1&2 ............................... SPRING-SUMMER, 2010 John Considine, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage. Review by EUGENE D. HILL .................................................. 1 Jeanne Shami, ed., Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England. Review by P. G. STANWOOD .......... ............................ 3 Bernadette Andrea, Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature. Review by JYOTSNA G. SINGH .................................................................. 6 Philip J. Donnelly, Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant Tol- eration. Review by JOHN MULRYAN ............................................................ 9 Abraham Stoll, Milton and Monotheism. Review by LARRY R. ISITT ............. 12 Norma Landau, ed., Law, Crime and English Society, 1660-1830 Garthine Walker, Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England. Review by DONOVAN SHERMAN...............................................................16 John Bowes, Richard Brathwait: The First Lakeland Poet. Review by SIOBHÁN COLLINS ......................................................................................................... 21 Laurie Ellinghausen, Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667. Review by JULIE D. CAMPBELL .................................................................25 Tamara Harvey, Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700. Review by NANCY MOHRLOCK BUNKER ................................................ 28 Paul Hammond, The Making of Restoration Poetry. Review by MATTHEW SPENCER ........................................................................................................ 31 Wyman H. Herendeen, William Camden. A Life in Context. Review by JONA- THAN WRIGHT ............................................................................................. 34 Sheila McIntyre and Len Travers, ed., The Correspondence of John Cotton Junior. Review by WILLIAM SCHEIK ......................................................................37 Michael Armstrong-Roche, Cervantes’ Epic Novel: Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles. Review by IGNACIO LÓPEZ ALEMANY ..........39 Charles Fantazzi, A Companion to Juan Luis Vives. Review by ELIZABETH R. WRIGHT .......................................................................................................... 42 Timothy Wilks, ed., Prince Henry Revived. Image and Exemplarity in Early Modern England. Review by LESLEY B. CORMACK ...............................................46 Jacqueline Glomski, Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons: Court and Career in the Writings of Rudolf Agricola Junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox, Review by JAKUB BASISTA ...................................................49 Annabel Patterson, The Long Parliament of Charles II. Review by RICHARD C. TAYLOR ..........................................................................................................52 Bernadette Höfer, Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth Century French Literature. Review by BARBARA R. WOSHINSKY ........................................................ 55 Keith Thomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England. Re- view by CATHERINE PATTERSON .............................................................59 Anne L. Birberick, ed., Perfection. Studies in Early Modern France. Review by MI- CHAEL MEERE ..............................................................................................62 Hannah Dawson, Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy. Review by KARIN SUSAN FESTER ................................................................................65 Ann Jensen Adams, Public Faces and Private Identities in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Portraiture and the Production of Community. Review by LARRY SILVER ............................................................................................................69 Roget Freitas, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani. Review by R. BURR LITCHFIELD ..................................................72 Exhibition Review, with a Gallery of Selected Images. Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick. Review by MAUREEN E. MULVIHILL ................................................................................... 75 NEO-LATIN NEWS ................................................................................................ 90 REVIEWS 1 John Considine. Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv + 393 pp. $99.00. Review by EUGENE D. HILL, MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE. John Considine’s fine book tells an upbeat story of some learned but melancholy men: the lexicographers of sixteenth- and seven- teenth-century Europe. These erudite pioneers saw themselves as performing labors akin to those of Hercules, whom they repeatedly invoke in their prefaces and correspondence. But their typical frame of mind was well evoked in a Latin verse by Joseph Scaliger (aptly and elegantly rendered, as are numerous passages of Renaissance Latin, by Considine): If a harsh sentence from the judges awaits someone, once He has been condemned to afflictions and penalties, Let workhouses not fatigue him with raw material to be wrought Nor let mines of metal pain his stiffened hands: Let him make DICTIONARIES. Need I say more? This One labour has aspects of every punishment. (72) Himself a former editor specializing in etymology for the OED, Considine writes with informed sympathy of his protagonists (the Estiennes father and son, the Casaubons, and many other figures through Du Cange), his particular heroes being the elder Estienne and Du Cange. Of the former he reports: “It was Robert Estienne who first made a dictionary in which vast cultural heritage was analysed into the stories told by individual words, made readily retrievable by being sorted into an alphabetical macrostructure, and both introduced and coloured throughout by the story of the lexicographer’s personal heritage” (315). This book abounds in material one ought to have known. Here- with one example where many more could readily be provided. In a discussion of the obscure folk called the Batavi—lauded by Tacitus for their outstanding courage—Considine explains: A history was manufactured for them, supported by a forged inscription, . on a stone supposedly unearthed near Leiden—an appropriate location, since in 1575 Leiden was given the Latin name Lugdunum Batavorum (many neo-Latin place-names were, like this one, creations of the Renaissance rather than revivals of ancient no- menclature). This name appeared as the imprint of a great number 2 SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS of scholarly books, and told every consumer of Dutch scholarship about a Dutch heritage of independence. (151) Readers who find this passage, as this reviewer does, both in- structive and entertaining will be abundantly rewarded by this study. Younger scholars seeking theorized intellectual history will have to look elsewhere—names absent from the Index include Agamben, Derrida, Foucault, Nietzsche, Hegel and . Vico. What Considine has on offer is a rich report on neglected masters of lexicography, based on close acquaintance with abundant primary sources (mainly Latin but also vernacular). The story he tells is (as this review began by noting) a consistently upbeat one, and Considine may be found at times to inflect his sources in twentieth-century scholarship in ways that match his temperament rather than their intentions. This author’s key notion of heritage—familial, ethnic, national—he takes from David Lowenthal’s The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (1998), as is acknowledged in the Introduction (8). But that instructively entertaining volume paints a panoramic canvas of the historical enterprises discussed as bunkum (variously deception or self-deception, but bunkum throughout). Lowenthal’s is the opposite of a Whig history—it exhibits stasis not progress—and could not be more different in purport than Considine’s series of lexicographic triumphs.