Marvell S Ambivalence

Author : Takashi Yoshinaka
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843842651

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Marvell's Ambivalence by Takashi Yoshinaka Pdf

A fresh reading of Marvell's most important works, exploring the variety and complexity of his approaches to contemporary religious and political events. Andrew Marvell's celebrated poetic ambivalence to the philosophical, political and religious controversies of mid-seventeenth century England is the subject of this book, which includes major new historical readings of his most important lyrics and political verse, incorporating material from hitherto unpublished contemporary manuscripts. It places the poetic imagination of Marvell and his contemporaries - such as John Milton, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley, Margaret Cavendish, William Davenant, and Thomas Fairfax - into the context of the turbulent public events of the time; and demonstrates Marvell's hitherto unnoticed connection with the liberal, rational and sceptical thinkers associated with the Great Tew circle. It also argues that Marvell's "middle way" in theology is bound up with his ambivalence towards the Calvinist God. Takashi Yoshinaka took his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, and is Professor of English in the Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University.

Author : Niall Allsopp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605238

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Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution by Niall Allsopp Pdf

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly secular, artificial, and absolutist ways. Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 royalists who had sided with the King were left with a significant vacuum to fill. Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution charts the poetry of Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, John Dryden, William Davenant, Abraham Cowley, and Margaret Cavendish amongst others in this period. It examines the poets' close acquaintance with Thomas Hobbes, offering new readings of the reception and adaptation of Hobbes's ideas in contemporary poetry. A final chapter traces how the poets survived the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, showing how they continued to apply their ideas in the heroic drama of the 1660s. Poetry and Sovereigniy in the English Revolution builds on recent work in both literary criticism and the history of political thought to contextualize royalist poets within a distinctive strain of absolutism inflected by reason of state, neostoicism, scepticism, and anticlericalism. It demonstrates a vivid poetic effort to imagine the expanded state delivered by the English Revolution.

Author : Nicholas McDowell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191608506

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Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars by Nicholas McDowell Pdf

This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his 'ambivalent' allegiance in the late 1640s. Little is known about Marvell's associations in this period, when many of his best-known lyrics were composed. The London literary circle which formed in 1647 under the patronage of the wealthy royalist Thomas Stanley included 'Cavalier' friends of Marvell such as Richard Lovelace but also John Hall, a Parliamentarian propagandist inspired by reading Milton. Marvell is placed in the context of Stanley's impressive circle of friends and their efforts to develop English lyric capability in the absence of traditional court patronage. By recovering the cultural values that were shared by Marvell and the like-minded men with whom he moved in the literary circles of post-war London, we are more likely to find the reasons for their decisions about political allegiance. By focusing on a circle of friends and associates we can also get a sense of how they communicated with and influenced one another through their verse. There are innovative readings of Milton's sonnets and Lovelace's lyric verse, while new light is shed on the origins and audience not only of Marvell's early political poems, including the 'Horatian Ode', but lyrics such as 'To His Coy Mistress'.

Author : D.K. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317039334

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The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England by D.K. Smith Pdf

Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.

Author : Ann E. Berthoff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400872466

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Resolved Soul by Ann E. Berthoff Pdf

Intellectual power and subtlety are as important to a definition of Marvell's style as grace of feeling, says the author of this highly original study, which illuminates the philosophical character of the poetry by exploring the ways of Marvell's imagination. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Matthew C. Augustine,Giulio J. Pertile,Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192884725

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Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 by Matthew C. Augustine,Giulio J. Pertile,Steven N. Zwicker Pdf

Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, combining the best historical scholarship with a varied and ambitious programme of cognitive, affective, and aesthetic inquiry. The essays have been specially commissioned for the quatercentenary and include the work of a range of scholars from Britain and North America. Acknowledged masterpieces such as the 'Horatian Ode', 'The Garden', and 'Upon Appleton House' are here read in light of historical and material evidence that has emerged in recent decades. At the same time, the volume offers many fresh points of entry into Marvell's work, with particular attention to the poet's lyric economies, Marvell's engagement with popular print, and, not least, the polyglot and transnational dimensions of his writing. The quatercentenary also represents an important anniversary for Marvell studies, marking one hundred years since T. S. Eliot's appreciation of the poet inaugurated modern Marvell criticism. As Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 reassesses Marvell's writings it also reflects on the profession of English literature, taking stock of the discipline itself, where it has been and where it might be going as scholars continue to map the pleasures and challenges of reading and re-reading Andrew Marvell.

Author : John Watkins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300058837

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The Specter of Dido by John Watkins Pdf

This book dismantles the stereotype of Spenser as one who blurs earlier epic traditions. John Watkins's examinations of Spenser's major poetry reveal a poet keenly attuned to dissonances among his classical, medieval, and early modern sources. By bringing Virgil into an intertextual dialogue with Chaucer, Ariosto, and Tasso, and several Neo-Latin commentators, Spenser transformed the most patriarchal of genres into a vehicle for praising the Virgin Queen.

Author : Derek Hirst,Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521884174

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The Cambridge Companion to Andrew Marvell by Derek Hirst,Steven N. Zwicker Pdf

A set of specially commissioned essays forming a fresh understanding of the poet within his time and place.

Author : Geoffrey Herman Bantock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415689069

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Studies in the History of Educational Theory by Geoffrey Herman Bantock Pdf

Author : G H Bantock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136591273

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Studies in the History of Educational Theory Vol 1 (RLE Edu H) by G H Bantock Pdf

This book examines key theorists in depth in order to give some insight into cultural change as reflected in their curricular recommendations and in the interplay they reveal between the two fundamental educational concepts of ‘artifice’ and ‘nature’. The essays on the various theorists – Erasmus, Vives, Castiglione, Elyot, Montaigne, Bacon, Comenius, Locke and Rousseau can be read separately but the book also forms an integrated whole, with a continuity of themes explored from theorist to theorist. The book not only charts a historical development but also reveals much that may deepen our understanding of contemporary educational dilemmas.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 6140 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136589744

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Routledge Library Editions: Education Mini-Set H History of Education 24 vol set by Various Pdf

Mini-set H: History of Education re-issues 24 volumes which span a century of publishing:1900 - 1995. The volumes cover Education in Ancient Rome, Irish education in the 19th century, schools in Victorian Britain, changing patterns in higher education, secondary education in post-war Britain, education and the British colonial experience and the history of educational theory and reform.

Author : Martin Dzelzainis,Edward Holberton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191056000

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The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell by Martin Dzelzainis,Edward Holberton Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell is the most comprehensive and informative collection of essays ever assembled dealing with the life and writings of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell (1621-78). Like his friend and colleague John Milton, Marvell is now seen as a dominant figure in the literary landscape of the mid-seventeenth century, producing a stunning oeuvre of poetry and prose either side of the Restoration. In the 1640s and 1650s he was the author of hypercanonical lyrics like 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Garden' as well as three epoch-defining poems about Oliver Cromwell. After 1660 he virtually invented the verse genre of state satire as well as becoming the most influential prose satirist of the day—in the process forging a long-lived reputation as an incorruptible patriot. Although Marvell himself was an intensely private and self-contained character, whose literary, religious, and political commitments are notoriously difficult to discern, the interdisciplinary contributions by an array of experts in the fields of seventeenth-century literature, history, and politics gathered together in the Handbook constitute a decisive step forward in our understanding of him. They offer a fully-rounded account of his life and writings, individual readings of his key works, considerations of his relations with his major contemporaries, and surveys of his rich and varied afterlives. Informed by the wealth of editorial and biographical work on Marvell that has been produced in the last twenty years, the volume is both a conspectus of the state of the art in Marvell studies and the springboard for future research.

Author : U. Milo Kaufmann
Publisher : Victoria, B.C.: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015000587850

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Paradise in the Age of Milton by U. Milo Kaufmann Pdf

This book argues that in the portraying of paradise, the Age of Milton describes a shift from static pastoral enclaves to images of joyful career and idealized process. Felicity comes to be inseparable from openness and change.

Author : Jess Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134358366

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Writing, Geometry and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America by Jess Edwards Pdf

The early modern map has come to mark the threshold of modernity, cutting through the layered customs of Medieval parochialism with its clean, expansive geometries. Re-thinking the role played by mathematics and cartography in the English seventeenth century, this book argues that the cultural currency of mathematics was as unstable in the period as that of England's controversial enclosures and plantations. Reviewing evidence from a wide range of literary and scientific; courtly and pragmatic texts, Edwards suggests that its unstable currency rendered mathematics necessarily rhetorical: subject to constant re-negotiation. Yet he also finds a powerful flexibility in this weakness. Mathematized texts from masques to maps negotiated a contemporary ambivalence between Calvinist asceticism and humanist engagement. Their authors promoted themselves as artful guides between virtue and profit; the study and the marketplace. This multi-disciplinary work will be of interest to all disciplines affected by the recent 'spatial turn' in early modern cultural studies, and particularly to students and researchers in literature, history and geography.

Author : Allison P. Hobgood
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132362

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Beholding Disability in Renaissance England by Allison P. Hobgood Pdf

How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England