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.
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Introduction, Christopher D’Addario and Matthew Augustine
I Models and Paradigms
1. ‚Historicism Wither Thou?, ‚ Christopher D’Addario, Gettysburg College
2. ‚Impractical Criticism, ‚ Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan
3. ‚Reading and Counting: Censorship in the 1640s, ‚ Randy Robertson, Susquehanna University
II Novel Encounters: New Contexts for Seventeenth-Century Literature
4. ‚The Endangered Child: Authority and Abuse in the Seventeenth-Century Schoolroom, ‚ Derek Hirst, Washington University in St. Louis
5. ‚Nehemiah Wallington , ‚ Kathleen Lynch, Folger Shakespeare Library
6. ‚Andrew Marvell and European Poetry, ‚ Nigel Smith, Princeton University
7. ‚Waller, Tasso, and Marvell’s Last Instructions, ‚ Timothy Raylor, Carleton College
8. ‚Demonic Cold: Dryden and Purcell’s King Arthur and English National Identity, ‚ Anne Cotteril, Missouri University of Science and Technology
III Strange Points and New: Revisionist Literary Histories
9. ‚Small Portals: Marvell’s Horatian Ode, Print Culture and Literary History, ‚ Joad Raymond, University of East Anglia
10. ‚How John Dryden Read His Milton, ‚ Matthew Augustin, University of St. Andrews
11. ‚Marvell Beyond Himself: From The Rehearsal Transpos’d to A Tale of A Tub, Michael Mc Keon, Rutgers University
12. ‚Afterward, ‚ Steven Zwicker, Washington University of St. Louis