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Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England
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Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane
Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker
224 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-965537-3
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Hardback
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14 June 2012
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- A new model of interdisciplinary study
- Explores how the narratives suggested in Marvell's writings can be used to reconstruct and reintegrate the ways in which he imagined himself
- Demonstrates how sensitive literary analysis and scrupulous archival study can reinforce and enrich one another
- A wholly innovative reading of Marvell's most dramatic and least understood lyric, 'The unfortunate Lover'
- Suggests unexpected ways in which political crisis can precipitate art
Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The book situates these writings and this writer within the patronage networks and political upheavals of mid seventeenth-century England. Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker track Marvell's negotiations among personalities and events; explores his idealizations, attachments, and subversions, and speculate on the meaning of the narratives that he told of himself within his writings — what they call his 'imagined life'. Hirst and Zwicker draw the figure of an imagined life from
the repeated traces Marvell left of lyric yearning and satiric anger, and suggest how these were rooted both in the body and in the imagination.
The book sheds new light on some of Marvell's most familiar poems — 'Upon Appleton House', 'The Garden',' To His Coy Mistress', and 'Horatian Ode' — but at its centre is an extended reading of Marvell's 'The unfortunate Lover', his least familiar and surely most mysterious lyric, and his most sustained narrative of the self. By attending to the lyric, the polemical, and the parliamentary careers together, this book offers a reading, for the first time, of Marvell and his writings as an interpretable whole.Readership: Students and scholars of
early modern literature and history; readers of seventeenth-century poetry; those interested in studies of memory, trauma, and the body.
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Derek Hirst, William Eliot Smith Professor of History, Washington University, St Louis, and Steven N. Zwicker, Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, Washington University, St Louis Derek Hirst studied and held his first academic position at Cambridge before moving to Washington University in St Louis in 1975. He has taught (often in tandem with Steven Zwicker) and researched there, and on occasion chaired its History Department, ever since.
Steven Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities at Washington University, and a member of its English Department since 1969; he has held visiting appointments at Doshisha University in Kyoto and at the California Institute of Technology. Over the years, and often together with Derek Hirst, he has taught the literature and cultural history of early modern England.
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"Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane is a fascinating book ... Hirst and Zwicker, long-established and highly respected historical and literary scholars of the seventeenth century, have become Freudians, and they apply the language and assumptions of psychoanalysis ... with impressive tenacity to the life and works of Marvell." - Nicholas McDowell, Andrew Marvell Society Newsletter
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chronology: Events Towards a Life
Introduction: Towards an Interpretable Whole
1: Work of Service
2: The Toils of Patriarchy
3: Wounds of Desire
4: Secrecies and Disclosures
5: Into the World
Conclusion
Appendix: Chronology and the Lyric Career of Andrew Marvell
Bibliography
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