The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521884179 ISBN 13: 9780521884174

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest lyric poets of England's seventeenth century and one of its leading political writers. 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.

About the Author:

Derek Hirst is William Eliot Smith Professor of History at Washington University, St Louis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521884179
• ISBN 13: 9780521884174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Hirst Derek, Zwicker Steven N.