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Review of "The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell" by Brendan Prawdzik.
No full textMartin Dzelzainis and Edward Holberton, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxii + 822 pp. $150.00. Review by Brendan Prawdzik, Pennsylvania State University
Managing the Later Stuart Press, 1662–1696
No full textThe system of pre-publication censorship laid down in 1662 finally collapsed when the Printing Act expired in 1695. Yet even in the interim censorship rarely took the form of a direct confrontation between a writer and the state. In practice, the authorities simply lacked the means to police a regime of censorship of the kind now associated with the impersonal agency of the state. More representative of the way in which the Stuarts managed the press is the career of George Larkin (c.1642–1707), a printer, bookseller, and author overlooked in standard accounts of the London literary underground. This chapter provides a case study of Larkin against the background of these legislative developments.</p
The Works of Roger L'Estrange: An Annotated Bibliography
No full textApproached by editors from universities of Cambridge and Montpellier and commissioned to write bibliographical chapter in collection alongside major scholars in field, including Harold Love, Martin Dzelzainis, Nicholas von Maltzahn, Mark Goldie.http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager1788418&vid=UOA2_
Marvell, Nicolas Chorier, and the Earl of Rochester: State Satire and Pornography in the Dissenting Academies
No full textThis paper examines the reception of Marvellian state satire by the nonconformist community and, in particular, by Charles Morton’s dissenting academy at Newington Green during the early 1680s. These revelations surfaced during a bitter pamphlet controversy in the early years of the eighteenth century between Samuel Wesley senior (a former pupil at the academy, who had taken Anglican orders) and Samuel Palmer, a nonconformist divine. Wesley, it transpired, was familiar not only with the satires of Marvell (whom he wished to emulate), but with two highly influential pieces of early modern pornography: Nicolas Chorier’s 'Aloisaæ Sigeaæ Toletanæ Satyra Sotadica', and the burlesque drama, 'Sodom', sometimes attributed to the Earl of Rochester (though Wesley casts doubt upon this). The Wesley-Palmer exchange also illuminates the transmission and reproduction of these materials – importantly, in the case of the state satires, 'before' the Glorious Revolution made possible their print publication in the series of 'Poems on Affairs of State'. Unexpected as this configuration of texts is, it suggests that Marvellian state satire and pornography were, to borrow a phrase from Robert Darnton, the forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary England
Marvell's Latin Poetry and the Art of Punning
No full textThis chapter analyses Marvell’s linguistic ingenuity as exemplified by his Latin poetic corpus. Here, it is argued, a pseudo Lucretian sensitivity to the parallelism between the structure of Latin words and the structure of the world co-exists with a linguistic methodology that is essentially Marinesque. Close examination of the Latin poems as a whole assesses the nature and significance of etymological play, paronomasia, puns on juxtaposed Latin words, on place names, and on personal names. It is suggested that such devices demonstrate ways in which the neo-Latin poetic text can serve both as a linguistic microcosm of the literary contexts in which they are employed, and as a re-invention of the artifice, extravagant conceits, and baroque wit of Marinism. The result is a neo-Latin ‘echoing song’ that is both intra- and intertextual. Through bilingual punning and phonological wit Marvell plays with a classical language only to demonstrate its transformative potential. The chapter concludes by offering a new reading of Hortus in relation to the garden sections of Marino’s L’Adone, in which an extravagantly luscious setting confounds the senses and is mirrored linguistically by word-clusters and labyrinthine punning
The Ciceronian Theory of Tyrannicide from Buchanan to Milton
No full textIn The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates as well as in later 1650s writings, John Milton reinterpreted the reading of Cicero on the issue of tyrannicide such as had been first formulated by Buchanan. This enabled him to cast aside the theories of his Calvinist predecessors and to reaffirm the intrinsic liberty of man.Dans The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates mais aussi plusieurs œuvres publiées dans les années 1650, John Milton réinterprète la lecture des sources cicéroniennes sur le tyrannicide, telle qu’elle est diffusée depuis Buchanan. Ceci lui permet de faire table rase des théories de ses prédécesseurs calvinistes, pour réaffirmer la liberté de l’homme
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