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