The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell

by Edited by Derek Hirst , Steven N. Zwicker

• ISBN13: 9780521711166
• ISBN10: 0521711169
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature examine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics and religion, and of the seventeenth-century publishing world in both manuscript and print. The essays, individually and collectively, address Marvell within his literary and cultural traditions and communities; his almost prescient sense of the economy and ecology of the country; his interest in visual arts and architecture; his opaque political and spiritual identities; his manners in controversy and polemic; the character of his erotic and transgressive imagination and his biography, still full of intriguing gaps.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Chronology	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The social modes of Marvell's poetry	p. 8
Marvell and the literary past	p. 26
Borders and transitions in Marvell's poetry	p. 46
Thinking of gender	p. 68
Marvell and the designs of art	p. 87
Andrew Marvell's citizenship	p. 102
The green Marvell	p. 122
A Cromwellian centre?	p. 140
The poet's religion	p. 158
Adversarial Marvell	p. 174
How to make a biography of Andrew Marvell	p. 194
Index	p. 220
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