Book reviews

The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism: A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence. By Ann Kibbey. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. xx + 203 pp. £25.00. Freedom and the English Revolution: Essays in History and Literature. Edited by R.C. Richardson and G.M. Ridden. Manchester: Manchester U.P. 1986. viii + 182 pp. £19.95. The Restoration Newspaper and its Development. By James Sutherland. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. 1986. x + 262 pp. £25.00. Boswell: The English Experiment 1785–1789. Edited by IRMA S. Lustig and Frederick A. Pottle. London: Heinemann. 1986. xxiv + 332 pp. £30.00. Matthew Arnold: Between Two Worlds. Edited by Robert Giddings. Critical Studies Series. London and Totowa, N. J., U.S.A.: Vision Press and Barnes and Noble. 1986. 207pp. £15.95. Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. By J. A. V. Chapple. Context and Commentary Series. London: Macmillan. 1986. xii + 192pp. £20.00 hb., £6.95 pb. Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England. Edited by Barbara Dennis and David Skilton. World and Word Series. London: Croom Helm. 1987. x + 223pp. £27.50 hb., £8.95 pb. Marxism and Literary History. By John Frow. Blackwell. 1986. xii + 275 pp. £19.50.