Marvell and Liberty - Hardcover

Dzelzainis, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333725859 ISBN 13: 9780333725856

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

This collection of original essays by leading international scholars treats a major poet in an entirely new light. It is unique among publications on Marvell in giving equal attention to the full range of Marvell's writing, rather than concentrating on a very limited body of texts. A common factor linking all the essays in the volume is that they all concern themselves, in their varied ways, with the concept of liberty, a complex and controversial term in the seventeenth century.

Marvell is a writer deeply implicated in the history of his time, and his works register, in ways which are still definitive, many of the turning-points of the Interregnum and Restoration, as well as being decisive interventions in their own right, which helped to shape events. As the essays in this volume show, Marvell's writings also exercised a potent influence after his death. Marvell and Liberty constitutes a major reassessment of a figure who lived much of his life close to the epicentre of the revolutionary upheavals of the seventeenth century.

About this title

About the Author:

WARREN CHERNAIK is Visiting Professor of English, University of Southampton and Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for English Studies. His publications include The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller, The Poet's Time: Politics and Religion in the work of Andrew Marvell, and Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature.

MARTIN DZELZAINIS is Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. He edited Milton's Political Writings for Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought and was a major contributor to Milton and Republicanism.

Synopsis:

Marvell and Liberty is a collection of original essays by leading scholars which treats this major poet in an entirely new light. Uniquely, it gives equal attention to the full range of Marvell's writings. Marvell is a writer deeply implicated in the history of his time, and as the essays in this volume show, also exercised a potent political influence after his death. Marvell and Liberty constitutes a major reassessment of a figure who lived much of his life close to the epicentre of the revolutionary upheavals of the seventeenth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333725859
• ISBN 13: 9780333725856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 378
• Editor: Chernaik W.