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Texts and readers in the age of Marvell /

'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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: D'Addario, Christopher (Editor ), Augustine, Matthew C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 ArthurPart 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