Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.

Introduction, Christopher D'Addario and Matthew Augustine I Models and Paradigms 1. 'Historicism Wither Thou?,' Christopher D'Addario, Gettysburg College2. 'Impractical Criticism,' Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan3. 'Reading and Counting: Censorship in the 1640s,' Randy Robertson, Susquehanna University II Novel Encounters: New Contexts for Seventeenth-Century Literature 4. 'The Endangered Child: Authority and Abuse in the Seventeenth-Century Schoolroom,' Derek Hirst, Washington University in St. Louis5. 'Nehemiah Wallington ,' Kathleen Lynch, Folger Shakespeare Library6. 'Andrew Marvell and European Poetry,' Nigel Smith, Princeton University7. 'Waller, Tasso, and Marvell'sLast Instructions,' Timothy Raylor, Carleton College8. 'Demonic Cold: Dryden and Purcell'sKing Arthur and English National Identity,' Anne Cotteril, Missouri University of Science and Technology III Strange Points and New: Revisionist Literary Histories 9. 'Small Portals: Marvell'sHoratian Ode, Print Culture and Literary History,' Joad Raymond, University of East Anglia10. 'How John Dryden Read His Milton,' Matthew Augustin, University of St. Andrews11. 'Marvell Beyond Himself: FromThe Rehearsal Transpos'dtoA Tale of A Tub, Michael McKeon, Rutgers University 12. 'Afterward,' Steven Zwicker, Washington University of St. Louis