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Marvell and Liberty is a collection of original essays by leading scholars which treats this major poet in an entirely new light. Uniquely, it gives equal attention to the full range of Marvell's writings. Marvell is a writer deeply implicated in the history of his time, and as the essays in this volume show, also exercised a potent political influence after his death. Marvell and Liberty constitutes a major reassessment of a figure who lived much of his life close to the epicentre of the revolutionary upheavals of the seventeenth century.
List of contents
Introduction; W.Chernaik & M.Dzelzainis Marvell and Secret History; A.Patterson Marvell's Ghost; N.von Maltzahn The Romantic Marvell; P.Hamilton The Alchemical Republic: A Reading of the Horatian Ode ; L.Abraham & M.Wilding Rude Heaps and Decent Order; D.M.Friedman 'As One Scap't Strangely from Captivity': Marvell and Existential Liberty; J.Creaser The Prospect of History: Marvell's Landscapes in Contemporary Criticism; J.Loxley 'Every Conqueror Creates a Muse': Conquest and Constitutions in Marvell and Waller; W.Chernaik The Libertine Abject: The 'Postures' of Last Instructions to a Painter ; J.G.Turner 'Why Transpose The Rehearsal ?'; N.H.Keeble Liberty Transpos'd: Andrew Marvell and Samuel Parker; J.Parkin The Rehearsal Transpos'd and the Earl of Castlemaine; M.Dzelzainis Interest, Honor, and Horatian Railery in the Service of Liberty: An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government ; M.L.Donnelly The Lost Rhetoric of Liberty: Marvell's Influence on Restoration Drama; S.J.Owen
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LYNDY ABRAHAM Research Fellow, School of English, University of New South Wales
JOHN CREASER Hildred Carlile Professor of English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London
M.L.DONNELLY Associate Professor of English, Kansas State University
DONALD M.FRIEDMAN Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley
PAUL HAMILTON Professor of English, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
N.H.KEEBLE Professor and Head of English Studies, University of Stirling
JAMES LOXLEY Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh
SUSAN OWEN Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sheffield
JON PARKIN Junior Research Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge
ANNABEL PATTERSON Karl Young Professor of English, Yale University
JAMES GRANTHAM TURNER Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
NICHOLAS VON MALTZAHN Professor of English, University of Ottawa
MICHAEL WILDING Chair in English and Australian Literature, University of Sydney
