Volume 35, Number 7 · April 28, 1988
History Turned Upside Down
By Christopher Hill
Criticism and Compliment: The politics of literature in the England of Charles I
by Kevin Sharpe
Cambridge University Press, 309 pp., $49.50
Feminist Milton
by Joseph Wittreich
Cornell University Press, 173 pp., $29.95
Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630–1890
by Keith W.F. Stavely
Cornell University Press, 294 pp., $29.95
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740
by Michael McKeon
Johns Hopkins University Press, 529 pp., $29.95
The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution
by Margaret C. Jacob
Knopf, 274 pp., $8.00 (paper)
Here are five books about seventeenth-century England that cut across several disciplines, linking history with literature, literature with economic and social history and with feminist studies, the novel and science with social and cultural history. Things are looking up.
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