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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Marvell"”.
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Responsibility and Regeneration in the Poetry of Andrew Marvell
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A Commentary on the Lyric Poetry of Andrew Marvell
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The Garden Tradition and Dramatic Experience in Marvell and Milton
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"Baits for curious tasts" : the Gothic as a heuristic in the poetics of Andrew Marvell
… the leaders of mid-seventeenth century England, Marvell foreshadows certain Gothic literary conventions usually associated with eighteenth century prose. Attention is given to similarities between the contemporary logic of casuistry--the means by which individuals adopted their personal beliefs …
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The metaphor of perspective
… John Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis (1667) and Andrew Marvell’s The Last Instructions to a Painter (1667) in light of recent scholarship drawing on English and Dutch visual culture traditions. These poems were written in close temporal proximity, and both provide a highly politicised account of the …
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A New Man: Masculine Confusion and Struggle in the Works of Edith Wharton
… Selden in <i>The House of Mirth</i> and Ralph Marvell in <i>The Custom of the Country</i> display the same characteristics of fear, passion, and vulnerability as do many of her primary female figures. Wharton’s societal concerns do not merely extend to that of her own sex but to that of the …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… and politics; on borders and transgressions in Marvell; on Rochester and ventriloquy; and on Dryden's poetics of conversion and Jacobite nostalgia. Loosening the grip of political chronology on the historical study of literary practice in this way better allows us to discern the overlapping …
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Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England
… Edmund Spenser, James I, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, my study argues that the disruptive presence of queer desire plays an integral role in shaping the emerging, interrelated discourses of heterosexuality and nationalism in early modern culture. Looking at heterosexuality as …
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British personnel in the Dutch navy, 1642-1697
… others reported on the Dutch side. Pepys and Marvell primarily blamed their joining the enemy on the lure of superior Dutch payment. The thesis asks how many British there were really, how they came to be in Dutch service, and whether this involvement occurred, as indicated, at other times …
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Exit the King: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in the English Baroque
… taxonomize heavily brocaded stylistic moments in Marvell or Cowley. My analysis instead uses the concept of the Baroque to diagram this period’s unresolved secularizing pressures, not just in its margins but in texts at the heart of the traditional canon. These disparate works amount to a …
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Renouncing sex and the self: asceticism in early modern England
At first glance, it might seem that ascetic practices disappeared in England with the introduction of Protestantism. With the monasteries demolished, priests encouraged to marry, and the laity cautioned against superstitious practices of mortification, how can there be a cultural history of …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… study evaluates correspondences between Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House,” Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes the …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… study evaluates correspondences between Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House,” Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes the …
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
This dissertation project examines the influence of energy in its many forms on early modern English country house verse and epic, arguing for a novel reading approach — through the prisms of energy — to arrive at more expansive understandings of the historical period, its imaginative literature, …