Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xiii

Abbreviations

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I: Rethinking texts and readers

pp 15-16

1 - Impractical criticism: close reading and the contingencies of history

pp 17-32

2 - ‘Small portals’: Marvell’s Horatian Ode, print culture, and literary history

pp 33-55

3 - Marvell discovers the public sphere

pp 56-74

4 - Extraordinarily ordinary: Nehemiah Wallington’s experimental method

pp 75-92

Part II: Rethinking context

pp 93-94

5 - A sense of place: historicism, whither wilt?

pp 95-112

6 - Understanding experience: subjectivity, sex, and suffering in early modern England

pp 113-130

7 - Debating censorship: liberty and press control in the 1640s

pp 131-148

8 - ‘Armed winter, and inverted day’: the politics of cold in Dryden and Purcell’s King Arthur

pp 149-166

Part III: Rethinking literary histories

pp 167-168

9 - The European Marvell

pp 169-188

10 - Waller, Tasso, and Marvell’s Last Instructions to a Painter

pp 189-205

11 - Marvell’s personal elegy? Rewriting Shakespeare in A Poem upon the Death of O. C.

pp 206-223

12 - Waller, Tasso, and Marvell’s Last Instructions to a Painter

pp 224-242

Part IV: Afterword

pp 243-244

On behalf of the Age of Andrew Marvell?

pp 245-250

Index

pp 251-255