Table of Contents

Introduction; W.Chernaik & M.Dzelzainis Marvell and Secret History; A.Patterson Marvell's Ghost; N.von Maltzahn The Romantic Marvell; P.Hamilton The Alchemical Republic: A Reading of the Horatian Ode ; L.Abraham & M.Wilding Rude Heaps and Decent Order; D.M.Friedman 'As One Scap't Strangely from Captivity': Marvell and Existential Liberty; J.Creaser The Prospect of History: Marvell's Landscapes in Contemporary Criticism; J.Loxley 'Every Conqueror Creates a Muse': Conquest and Constitutions in Marvell and Waller; W.Chernaik The Libertine Abject: The 'Postures' of Last Instructions to a Painter ; J.G.Turner 'Why Transpose The Rehearsal ?'; N.H.Keeble Liberty Transpos'd: Andrew Marvell and Samuel Parker; J.Parkin The Rehearsal Transpos'd and the Earl of Castlemaine; M.Dzelzainis Interest, Honor, and Horatian Railery in the Service of Liberty: An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government ; M.L.Donnelly The Lost Rhetoric of Liberty: Marvell's Influence on Restoration Drama; S.J.Owen

Promotional Information

Chernaik's 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".Dzelzainis edited Milton's "Political Writings" for Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.

About the Author

LYNDY ABRAHAM Research Fellow, School of English, University of New South Wales JOHN CREASER Hildred Carlile Professor of English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London M.L.DONNELLY Associate Professor of English, Kansas State University DONALD M.FRIEDMAN Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley PAUL HAMILTON Professor of English, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London N.H.KEEBLE Professor and Head of English Studies, University of Stirling JAMES LOXLEY Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh SUSAN OWEN Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sheffield JON PARKIN Junior Research Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge ANNABEL PATTERSON Karl Young Professor of English, Yale University JAMES GRANTHAM TURNER Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley NICHOLAS VON MALTZAHN Professor of English, University of Ottawa MICHAEL WILDING Chair in English and Australian Literature, University of Sydney