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SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 41.1 (2001) 234-240



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Baker, David Weil. Divulging Utopia: Radical Humanism in Sixteenth-Century England. Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. x + 221. $35.00. ISBN 1-55849-198-8.

Boesky, Amy, and Mary Thomas Crane, eds. Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London: Associated Univ. Presses, 2000. Pp. 370. $49.50. ISBN 0-87413-691-1.

Brown, Richard Danson. "The New Poet": Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's "Complaints." Liverpool English Texts and Studies 32. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. x + 293. £32.00 cloth. ISBN 0-85323-803-0. £14.95 paper. ISBN 0-85323-813-8.

Brown, Sarah Annes. The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 246. $55.00. ISBN 0-312-22844-9.

Budra, Paul. "A Mirror for Magistrates" and the "de casibus" Tradition. The Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. xiv +119. $45.00 or £30.00. ISBN 0-8020-4717-3.

Bunting, Basil. Basil Bunting on Poetry. Ed. Peter Makin. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xlviii + 234. $42.00. ISBN 0-8018-6166-7.

Burke, Mary E., Jane Donawerth, Linda L. Dove, and Karen Nelson, eds. Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain. Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2000. Pp. xxx + 306. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-8156-2815-3.

Burnett, David. A Thinker for All Seasons: Sir Francis Bacon and His Significance Today. Durham UK: New Century Press, 2000. Pp. 143. £7.50 paper. ISBN 0-948545-07-0.

Catty, Jocelyn. Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech. Early Modern Literature in History. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 276. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-22181-9.

Cheney, Patrick, and Lauren Silberman, eds. Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2000. Pp. vii + 288. $39.95. ISBN 0-8131-2126-4.

Coleman, Patrick, Jayne Lewis, and Jill Kowalik, eds. Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 284. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-66146-3.

Daly, Peter M., and John Manning, eds. Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque Symbol Theory, 1500-1700. AMS Studies in the Emblem 14. New York: AMS Press, 1999. Pp. xxii + 298. $78.00. ISBN 0-404-63714-0.

Devereux, E. J., ed. A Bibliography of John Rastell. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xvi + 183. $65.00. ISBN 0-7735-1841-X.

DiPasquale, Theresa M. Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 338. $58.00. ISBN 0-8207-0309-5.

Dobranski, Stephen B. Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 245. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-64192-6.

Dolan, Frances E. Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 231. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-3629-X.

Edwards, Karen L. Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in "Paradise Lost." Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. Pp. xiv + 265. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-64359-7.

Eggert, Katherine. Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. x + 289. $45.00. ISBN 0-8122-3532-0.

Elizabeth I. Collected Works. Ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv + 446. $40.00 or £25.50. ISBN 0-226-50464-6.

Ferber, Michael. A Dictionary of Literary Symbols...

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