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Print, Polemics, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England - Writing and Society: Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain, 1590–1660. By Nigel Wheale. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xiv + 188. $95.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). - Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. By Frances E. Dolan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 231. $39.95 (cloth). - Political Passions: Gender, The Family and Political Argument in England, 1680–1714. By Rachel Weil. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 262. $79.95 (cloth). - The Age of Faction: Court Politics, 1660–1702. By Alan Marshall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp. vi + 234. $69.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2013

Kevin Sharpe
Kevin Sharpe*
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 244 - 254
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11 Note Dolan's important general observation: “A social order that depends on both heterosexuality and misogyny is a social order divided within itself” (Dolan, , Whores of Babylon, p. 131Google Scholar).

12 See too Weil, Rachel, “‘If I did say so, I lyed’: Elizabeth Cellier and the Construction of Credibility in the Popish Plot Crisis,” in Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England, ed. Amussen, Susan and Kishlansky, Mark (Manchester, 1995), pp. 189–212Google Scholar.

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19 Weil, Compare, Political Passions, “political life ran as much on credit … as did the economy” (p. 193)Google Scholar.

20 See Sharpe, K., Remapping Early Modern England: The Culture of Seventeenth Century Politics (Cambridge, 2000)Google Scholar. Weil observes that “political dilemmas could be better dealt with when recast as dramas” (Political Passions, p. 232).