Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell
1st Edition
Published on 7. August 2018
272 pages
978-1-5261-1388-7 (ISBN)
Description
Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments. With an eye to the elusive and complicated Andrew Marvell as tutelary figure of the age, the contributors have provided nuanced and sophisticated readings of a range of seventeenth-century authors, often foregrounding the uncertainties and complexities with which these writers were faced as the remarkable events of these years moved swiftly around them. The essays make important contributions, both methodological and critical, to the field of early modern studies and include examinations of prominent seventeenth-century figures such as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden and Edmund Waller. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-1388-7 (9781526113887)
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Christopher D'Addario | Matthew C. Augustine
Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell
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08/2018
Manchester University Press
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Content
- Front matter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Rethinking texts and readers
- Impractical criticism: close reading and the contingencies of history
- 'Small portals': Marvell's Horatian Ode, print culture, and literary history
- Marvell discovers the public sphere
- Extraordinarily ordinary: Nehemiah Wallington's experimental method
- Part II: Rethinking context
- A sense of place: historicism, whither wilt?
- Understanding experience: subjectivity, sex, and suffering in early modern England
- Debating censorship: liberty and press control in the 1640s
- 'Armed winter, and inverted day': the politics of cold in Dryden and Purcell's King Arthur
- Part III: Rethinking literary histories
- The European Marvell
- Waller, Tasso, and Marvell's Last Instructions to a Painter
- Marvell's personal elegy? Rewriting Shakespeare in A Poem upon the Death of O. C.
- How John Dryden read his Milton: The State of Innocence reconsidered
- Part IV: Afterword
- On behalf of the Age of Andrew Marvell?
- Index
