Edward Barlow says goodbye
Tom Shippey, 4 August 1994
Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England
by Ilana KrausmanBen-Amos.
Yale, 335 pp., £25, April 1994,0 300 05597 8 Show More
by Ilana KrausmanBen-Amos.
Yale, 335 pp., £25, April 1994,
“... the delicate task of historical reconstruction. Yet the question keeps on being raised, partly by Ilana Ben-Amos’s habit of coming to a conclusion which looks, from its prominence in the argument, as if it is meant to be emphatic, but which by itself seems hardly worth saying. ‘Young people appear then to have been more promiscuous... than married ... ”