RT Review
T1 [Rezension von: Southcombe, George, 1978-, The culture of dissent in restoration England]
JF A journal of church and state
VO 63
IS 1
SP 153
OP 155
A1 Dunan-Page, Anne
A2 Southcombe, George 1978-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1748512293
AB George Southcombe announces various intellectual debts in this volume. The book is structured around case studies: a method, as he reminds us, already employed by Christopher Hill in his Experience of Defeat: Milton and Some Contemporaries (1984). The title sounds a distant echo of N. H. Keeble’s The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England (1987), here qualified as “the best single volume on Restoration dissent” (p. 22), and Southcombe is largely inspired by the “religious turn in the historiography of the Restoration” of the 1990s (p. 3). Other “turns,” by comparison, seem to have been avoided. There are no...
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jcs/csaa097