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To celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker combine the best historical scholarship with a varied and ambitious critical programme, as contributors map the enduring pleasures and challenges of reading and re-reading this shrewd and often brilliant writer.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1: MATTHEW C. AUGUSTINE, GIULIO J. PERTILE, STEVEN N. ZWICKER
: Introduction
- Part I: Andrew Marvell's Occasions
- 2: NICHOLAS MCDOWELL: The Conversion of Andrew Marvell: Religion, Poetics, Sexuality
- 3: JAMES LOXLEY: Hollowing after Cromwell in 'The First Anniversary'
- 4: STEVEN N. ZWICKER: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men': Andrew Marvell and the Problem of Panegyric
- 5: KATHLEEN LYNCH: 'Business Either of Truth or Eternity': Marvell's View from 1672
- 6: DAVID NORBROOK
: 'A Fleet of Worlds': Marvell, Globalisation, and Slavery
- Part II: Polyglot and Transnational Perspectives
- 7: VICTORIA MOUL: Marvell and Bilingual Verse Culture
- 8: NICHOLAS VON MALTZAHN: Marvell and the Abrupt Style,
- 9: ESTHER VAN RAAMSDONK: Maritime Mirrors: Marvell's Dutch Satires
- 10: GIULIO J. PERTILE
: Marvell and the Poetics of Creation
- Part III: Affect and Cognition
- 11: N. K. SUGIMURA: 'The World Excluding Round': Suspended Passions and Alienated Affects in Marvell's Lyric Poetry
- 12: DAVID CARROLL SIMON: Knowingness and Eros: Andrew Marvell's 'Last Instructions to a Painter'
- 13: TESSIE PRAKAS: 'Contained' and 'Unconstrained': Andrew Marvell and the Signs of Sound
- 14: GORDON TESKEY
: The River Overflows: Consciousness in 'Upon Appleton House'
- Part IV: Media, Mediation, Materialities
- 15: MARTIN DZELZAINIS: Marvell's Poetry in Motion
- 16: DIANE PURKISS: Touching Words: Marvell's Satires in Hand
- 17: JOANNA PICCIOTTO: Practising Flow in Marvell and Ashbery
- 18: MATTHEW C. AUGUSTINE
: Learning to Read with Marvell
- Part V: Conclusions
- 19: NIGEL SMITH
: Hold or Break: Andrew Marvell, Poetry, and Necessity
- Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Matthew C. Augustine teaches early modern literature at the University of St Andrews. A past president of the Andrew Marvell Society, his major publications include
Aesthetics of Contingency: Writing, Politics, and Culture in England, 1639-89 (2018) and
Andrew Marvell: A Literary Life (2021). With Steven Zwicker, he is co-editor of
Lord Rochester in the Restoration World (2015) and of the forthcoming
Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature.Giulio J. Pertile is Lecturer in early modern literature at the University of St. Andrews. His first book,
Feeling Faint: Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance was published by Northwestern University Press in 2019. His articles have appeared in English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare Quarterly, The Seventeenth Century and elsewhere. He is currently writing a new book on the poetics of Creation in the Renaissance, from Du Bartas and Tasso to Milton and Hutchinson.
Steven N. Zwicker teaches early modern literature at Washington University; he has published on Milton, Marvell, Rochester, and Dryden; written collaboratively with Matthew Augustine, Derek Hirst, and Kevin Sharpe; and, most recently, edited
John Dryden: Selected Works for the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series.
Zusammenfassung
To celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker combine the best historical scholarship with a varied and ambitious critical programme, as contributors map the enduring pleasures and challenges of reading and re-reading this shrewd and often brilliant writer.
Zusatztext
Reading this volume in its entirety certainly imparts a rich sense of the dialogue between texts and topics that takes places across chapters, helping exemplify precisely the value of approaching Marvell from a range of critical perspectives.
