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The Satanic Epic by Neil Forsyth (Princeton University Press) (cloth) Neil Forsyth's The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat`Myth (1987) is a learned account of the transformations in the idea of an evil one in religious writings from the Sumerian to modern monotheisms, and particularly how it develops into the Christian notion of Satan, the fallen Lucifer. Forsyth's new book is a powerful and dense interpretation of Paradise Lost that pursues the implications of these earlier materials for Milton's representation of Satan, while also engaging closely with Milton's language and particularly his narrative forms. More

Literature and Dissent in Milton's England by Sharon Achinstein (Cambridge University Press) Neil Keeble's adventurous and now widely influential 1987 book, The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England (University of Georgia Press), sought to place nonconformist writing in the social, political, and, importantly, printing contexts of the Restoration and to recover for our view the interests and merits of writers who seemed marginal to the canon of polite, literary writing from the period. Sharon Achinstein's new book develops a more complicated map of the literary landscape of the 1660s through the 1680s. More

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