Andrew Marvell’s Letters
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Harris, Johanna. (2019). Andrew Marvell’s Letters. In The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell pp. 499-516 Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198736400.013.30
Authors | Harris, Johanna |
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Abstract | Marvell’s letters to friends reveal far more than the ‘gazetteering’ tones of his allegedly ‘colourless’ corporation letters. They are exceptional for their candidness, their intimations of Marvell’s religious and political sympathies, and their warmth. They are epistulae ad familiares, ‘letters to friends’, in the fullest Ciceronian sense of the term ‘familiar’, further demonstrating Marvell’s propensity for colourful adversarial exchange. They also function as a private rehearsal space for Marvell’s coded, politically charged wit. The primary focus of this essay is Marvell’s six extant letters to Sir Edward Harley, in the contexts of The Rehearsal Transpros’d (1672) and Mr. Smirke: Or, The Divine in Mode (1676). |
Keywords | Ciceronian; Sir Edward Harley; epistulae ad familiars; Bishop Herbert Croft; letters; Mr. Smirke; The Divine in Mode; Presbyterian; The Rehearsal Transpros’d |
Page range | 499-516 |
Year | 01 Jan 2019 |
Book title | The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
ISBN | 978-0-19-187364-5 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198736400.013.30 |
Web address (URL) | https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28332/chapter-abstract/215130372 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
14 Mar 2019 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 17 Jan 2024 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/9012q/andrew-marvell-s-letters
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