The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell

Martin Dzelzainis is Professor of Literature and Thought at the University of Leicester. Educated in Coventry and at both Cambridges, he taught at Royal Holloway, University of London for many years before moving to Leicester in 2010. He has held fellowships from Marsh's Library, the Huntington, and the Leverhulme Trust.Edward Holberton is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate: Culture, Politics and Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2009), and several journal articles on Marvell. His research interests include ongoing work on Marvell's relationships with the diplomatic sphere, and a monograph project on literature, empire, and the Atlantic world during the period 1650-1750.

• Preface PART 1: MARVELL AND HIS TIMES 1: Nicholas von Maltzahn: Marvell, Writer and Politician, 1621-1678 2: Emma Wilson: Andrew Marvell and Education 3: Nicholas von Maltzahn: Marvell and Patronage 4: Ann Hughes: Marvell and the Interregnum 5: Paul Seaward: Marvell and Parliament 6: Edward Holberton: Marvell and Diplomacy 7: Charles Édouard Levillain: England's 'Natural Frontier': Andrew Marvell and the Low Countries 8: Philip Connell: Marvell and the Church 9: Johanna Harris and N. H. Keeble: Marvell and Nonconformity 10: Lynn Enterline: Marvell's Unfortunate Lovers 11: Martin Dzelzainis: Marvell and Science 12: Paul Davis: Marvell and Manuscript Culture 13: Matthew Augustine: Marvell and Print Culture 14: Katherine Acheson: Visualizing Marvell 15: Helen Wilcox: Marvell and Music 16: Sean McDowell: Urban Marvell 17: Edward Paleit: Marvell's Classical Similitudes 18: Martin Dzelzainis: 'A Greater Errour in Chronology': Issues of Dating in Marvell PART 2: READINGS 19: Nigel Smith: 'To His Coy Mistress': The Greek Anthology and the History of Poetry 20: Gordon Teskey: Greenland: Marvell's 'The Garden' 21: Leah S. Marcus: Marvell's 'Nymph Complaining' and the Erotics of Vitalism 22: Steven Zwicker and Derek Hirst: Marvell and Lyrics of Undifference 23: Greg Chaplin: Marvell and Elegy 24: Annabel Brett: The Post-Machiavellian Poetry of 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland' 25: Warren Chernaik: Harsh Remedies: Satire and Politics in 'Last Instructions to a Painter' 26: Estelle Haan: Marvell's Latin Poetry and the Art of Punning 27: Julianne Werlin: 'Upon Appleton House' 28: Johanna Harris: Andrew Marvell's Letters 29: Alex Garganigo: The Rehearsal Transpros'd and The Rehearsal Transpros'd: The Second Part 30: Martin Dzelzainis and Steph Coster: The Commissioning, Writing, and Printing of Mr. Smirke: A New Account 31: Kendra Packham: Marvell, Political Print, and Picturing the Catholic: An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government PART 3: MARVELL AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 32: Tom Lockwood: Marvell and Jonson 33: James Loxley: Andrew Marvell and Cavalier Poetics 34: Nicholas McDowell: Marvell's French Spirit 35: Tim Raylor: Marvell and Waller 36: Victoria Silver: 'Mr. Bayes in Mr. Bayes': The Art of Personation in Hobbes, Parker, and Marvell 37: John Rogers: Ruin the Sacred Truths: Prophecy, Form, and Nonconformity in Marvell and Milton 38: Ashley Marshall and Robert D. Hume: Marvell and the Restoration Wits 39: Mark Goldie: Marvell and his Adversaries, 1672-78 PART 4: MARVELL'S AFTERLIFE 40: Diane Purkiss: Bodleian Library MS Eng. Poet. d. 49 41: Annabel Patterson: Marvell the Patriot 42: Michael O'Neill: Marvell and Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Wordsworth to Tennyson 43: Steven Matthews: Marvell in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

There is a unity of purpose, focus, and sometimes even methodology to this volume that one does not often find in a handbook. That unity allows the volume to stage important higher-order debates within Marvell studies, as well as suggest promising avenues for future research.