Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400

Matthew C. Augustine teaches early modern literature at the University of St Andrews. A past president of the Andrew Marvell Society, his major publications include Aesthetics of Contingency: Writing, Politics, and Culture in England, 1639-89 (2018) and Andrew Marvell: A Literary Life (2021). With Steven Zwicker, he is co-editor of Lord Rochester in the Restoration World (2015) and of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature.Giulio J. Pertile is Lecturer in early modern literature at the University of St. Andrews. His first book, Feeling Faint: Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance was published by Northwestern University Press in 2019. His articles have appeared in English Literary Renaissance, Shakespeare Quarterly, The Seventeenth Century and elsewhere. He is currently writing a new book on the poetics of Creation in the Renaissance, from Du Bartas and Tasso to Milton and Hutchinson.Steven N. Zwicker teaches early modern literature at Washington University; he has published on Milton, Marvell, Rochester, and Dryden; written collaboratively with Matthew Augustine, Derek Hirst, and Kevin Sharpe; and, most recently, edited John Dryden: Selected Works for the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements 1: MATTHEW C. AUGUSTINE, GIULIO J. PERTILE, STEVEN N. ZWICKER: IntroductionPart I: Andrew Marvell's Occasions2: NICHOLAS MCDOWELL: The Conversion of Andrew Marvell: Religion, Poetics, Sexuality3: JAMES LOXLEY: Hollowing after Cromwell in 'The First Anniversary'4: STEVEN N. ZWICKER: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men': Andrew Marvell and the Problem of Panegyric5: KATHLEEN LYNCH: 'Business Either of Truth or Eternity': Marvell's View from 16726: DAVID NORBROOK: 'A Fleet of Worlds': Marvell, Globalisation, and SlaveryPart II: Polyglot and Transnational Perspectives7: VICTORIA MOUL: Marvell and Bilingual Verse Culture8: NICHOLAS VON MALTZAHN: Marvell and the Abrupt Style,9: ESTHER VAN RAAMSDONK: Maritime Mirrors: Marvell's Dutch Satires10: GIULIO J. PERTILE: Marvell and the Poetics of CreationPart III: Affect and Cognition11: N. K. SUGIMURA: 'The World Excluding Round': Suspended Passions and Alienated Affects in Marvell's Lyric Poetry12: DAVID CARROLL SIMON: Knowingness and Eros: Andrew Marvell's 'Last Instructions to a Painter'13: TESSIE PRAKAS: 'Contained' and 'Unconstrained': Andrew Marvell and the Signs of Sound14: GORDON TESKEY: The River Overflows: Consciousness in 'Upon Appleton House'Part IV: Media, Mediation, Materialities15: MARTIN DZELZAINIS: Marvell's Poetry in Motion16: DIANE PURKISS: Touching Words: Marvell's Satires in Hand17: JOANNA PICCIOTTO: Practising Flow in Marvell and Ashbery18: MATTHEW C. AUGUSTINE: Learning to Read with MarvellPart V: Conclusions19: NIGEL SMITH: Hold or Break: Andrew Marvell, Poetry, and NecessityIndex

Reading this volume in its entirety certainly imparts a rich sense of the dialogue between texts and topics that takes places across chapters, helping exemplify precisely the value of approaching Marvell from a range of critical perspectives.