The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell

by Dzelzainis, Martin; Holberton, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780192855794
• ISBN10: 0192855794
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-01-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writings of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-78). Like his friend and colleague John Milton, Marvell is now seen as a dominant figure in the literary landscape of the mid-seventeenth century, producing a stunning oeuvre of poetry and prose either side of the Restoration. In the 1640s and 1650s he was the author of hypercanonical lyrics like 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Garden' as well as three epoch-defining poems about Oliver Cromwell. After 1660 he virtually invented the verse genre of state satire as well as becoming the most influential prose satirist of the day - in the process forging a long-lived reputation as an incorruptible patriot.

Although Marvell himself was an intensely private and self-contained character, whose literary, religious, and political commitments are notoriously difficult to discern, the interdisciplinary contributions by an array of experts in the fields of seventeenth-century literature, history, and politics gathered together in the Handbook constitute a decisive step forward in our understanding of him. They offer a fully-rounded account of his life and writings, individual readings of his key works, considerations of his relations with his major contemporaries, and surveys of his rich and varied afterlives. Informed by the wealth of editorial and biographical work on Marvell that has been produced in the last twenty years, the volume is both a conspectus of the state of the art in Marvell studies and the springboard for future research.

Author Biography

Martin Dzelzainis, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Thought, School of Art, University of Leicester,Edward Holberton, Lecturer, University of Bristol

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
PART 1: MARVELL AND HIS TIMES
1. Marvell, Writer and Politician, 1621-1678, Nicholas von Maltzahn
2. Andrew Marvell and Education, Emma Wilson
3. Marvell and Patronage, Nicholas von Maltzahn
4. Marvell and the Interregnum, Ann Hughes
5. Marvell and Parliament, Paul Seaward
6. Marvell and Diplomacy, Edward Holberton
7. England's 'Natural Frontier': Andrew Marvell and the Low Countries, Charles ?douard Levillain
8. Marvell and the Church, Philip Connell
9. Marvell and Nonconformity, Johanna Harris and N. H. Keeble
10. Marvell's Unfortunate Lovers, Lynn Enterline
11. Marvell and Science, Martin Dzelzainis
12. Marvell and Manuscript Culture, Paul Davis
13. Marvell and Print Culture, Matthew Augustine
14. Visualizing Marvell, Katherine Acheson
15. Marvell and Music, Helen Wilcox
16. Urban Marvell, Sean McDowell
17. Marvell's Classical Similitudes, Edward Paleit
18. 'A Greater Errour in Chronology': Issues of Dating in Marvell, Martin Dzelzainis
PART 2: READINGS
19. 'To His Coy Mistress': The Greek Anthology and the History of Poetry, Nigel Smith
20. Greenland: Marvell's 'The Garden', Gordon Teskey
21. Marvell's 'Nymph Complaining' and the Erotics of Vitalism, Leah S. Marcus
22. Marvell and Lyrics of Undifference, Steven Zwicker and Derek Hirst
23. Marvell and Elegy, Greg Chaplin
24. The Post-Machiavellian Poetry of 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland', Annabel Brett
25. Harsh Remedies: Satire and Politics in 'Last Instructions to a Painter', Warren Chernaik
26. Marvell's Latin Poetry and the Art of Punning, Estelle Haan
27. 'Upon Appleton House', Julianne Werlin
28. Andrew Marvell's Letters, Johanna Harris
29. The Rehearsal Transpros'd and The Rehearsal Transpros'd: The Second Part, Alex Garganigo
30. The Commissioning, Writing, and Printing of Mr. Smirke: A New Account, Martin Dzelzainis and Steph Coster
31. Marvell, Political Print, and Picturing the Catholic: An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Kendra Packham
PART 3: MARVELL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
32. Marvell and Jonson, Tom Lockwood
33. Andrew Marvell and Cavalier Poetics, James Loxley
34. Marvell's French Spirit, Nicholas McDowell
35. Marvell and Waller, Tim Raylor
36. 'Mr. Bayes in Mr. Bayes': The Art of Personation in Hobbes, Parker, and Marvell, Victoria Silver
37. Ruin the Sacred Truths: Prophecy, Form, and Nonconformity in Marvell and Milton, John Rogers
38. Marvell and the Restoration Wits, Ashley Marshall and Robert D. Hume
39. Marvell and his Adversaries, 1672-78, Mark Goldie
PART 4: MARVELL'S AFTERLIFE
40. Bodleian Library MS Eng. Poet. d. 49, Diane Purkiss
41. Marvell the Patriot, Annabel Patterson
42. Marvell and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Wordsworth to Tennyson, Michael O'Neill
43. Marvell in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Steven Matthews