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A comprehensive collection of original essays on the life and writings of poet and politician Andrew Marvell that offers a complete, one-stop guide to the literary, religious, and political complexities of his work.
List of contents
- Preface
- PART 1: MARVELL AND HIS TIMES
- 1: Nicholas von Maltzahn: Marvell, Writer and Politician, 1621-1678
- 2: Emma Wilson: Andrew Marvell and Education
- 3: Nicholas von Maltzahn: Marvell and Patronage
- 4: Ann Hughes: Marvell and the Interregnum
- 5: Paul Seaward: Marvell and Parliament
- 6: Edward Holberton: Marvell and Diplomacy
- 7: Charles Édouard Levillain: England's 'Natural Frontier': Andrew Marvell and the Low Countries
- 8: Philip Connell: Marvell and the Church
- 9: Johanna Harris and N. H. Keeble: Marvell and Nonconformity
- 10: Lynn Enterline: Marvell's Unfortunate Lovers
- 11: Martin Dzelzainis: Marvell and Science
- 12: Paul Davis: Marvell and Manuscript Culture
- 13: Matthew Augustine: Marvell and Print Culture
- 14: Katherine Acheson: Visualizing Marvell
- 15: Helen Wilcox: Marvell and Music
- 16: Sean McDowell: Urban Marvell
- 17: Edward Paleit: Marvell's Classical Similitudes
- 18: Martin Dzelzainis: 'A Greater Errour in Chronology': Issues of Dating in Marvell
- PART 2: READINGS
- 19: Nigel Smith: 'To His Coy Mistress': The Greek Anthology and the History of Poetry
- 20: Gordon Teskey: Greenland: Marvell's 'The Garden'
- 21: Leah S. Marcus: Marvell's 'Nymph Complaining' and the Erotics of Vitalism
- 22: Steven Zwicker and Derek Hirst: Marvell and Lyrics of Undifference
- 23: Greg Chaplin: Marvell and Elegy
- 24: Annabel Brett: The Post-Machiavellian Poetry of 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
- 25: Warren Chernaik: Harsh Remedies: Satire and Politics in 'Last Instructions to a Painter'
- 26: Estelle Haan: Marvell's Latin Poetry and the Art of Punning
- 27: Julianne Werlin: 'Upon Appleton House'
- 28: Johanna Harris: Andrew Marvell's Letters
- 29: Alex Garganigo: The Rehearsal Transpros'd and The Rehearsal Transpros'd: The Second Part
- 30: Martin Dzelzainis and Steph Coster: The Commissioning, Writing, and Printing of Mr. Smirke: A New Account
- 31: Kendra Packham: Marvell, Political Print, and Picturing the Catholic: An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government
- PART 3: MARVELL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
- 32: Tom Lockwood: Marvell and Jonson
- 33: James Loxley: Andrew Marvell and Cavalier Poetics
- 34: Nicholas McDowell: Marvell's French Spirit
- 35: Tim Raylor: Marvell and Waller
- 36: Victoria Silver: 'Mr. Bayes in Mr. Bayes': The Art of Personation in Hobbes, Parker, and Marvell
- 37: John Rogers: Ruin the Sacred Truths: Prophecy, Form, and Nonconformity in Marvell and Milton
- 38: Ashley Marshall and Robert D. Hume: Marvell and the Restoration Wits
- 39: Mark Goldie: Marvell and his Adversaries, 1672-78
- PART 4: MARVELL'S AFTERLIFE
- 40: Diane Purkiss: Bodleian Library MS Eng. Poet. d. 49
- 41: Annabel Patterson: Marvell the Patriot
- 42: Michael O'Neill: Marvell and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Wordsworth to Tennyson
- 43: Steven Matthews: Marvell in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
About the author
Martin Dzelzainis is Professor of Literature and Thought at the University of Leicester. Educated in Coventry and at both Cambridges, he taught at Royal Holloway, University of London for many years before moving to Leicester in 2010. He has held fellowships from Marsh's Library, the Huntington, and the Leverhulme Trust.
Edward Holberton is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate: Culture, Politics and Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2009), and several journal articles on Marvell. His research interests include ongoing work on Marvell's relationships with the diplomatic sphere, and a monograph project on literature, empire, and the Atlantic world during the period 1650-1750.
Summary
A comprehensive collection of original essays on the life and writings of poet and politician Andrew Marvell that offers a complete, one-stop guide to the literary, religious, and political complexities of his work.
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As we mark the four-hundredth birthday of our author on March 31, 2021, The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell comes at a perfect time to celebrate the authors and networks who have in recent decades brought Marvell to the forefront of early modern studies.
