Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Rethinking texts and readers; Impractical criticism: close reading and the contingencies of history; 'Small portals': Marvell's Horatian Ode, print culture, and literary history; Marvell discovers the public sphere; Extraordinarily ordinary: Nehemiah Wallington's experimental method; Part II: Rethinking context; A sense of place: historicism, whither wilt?; Understanding experience: subjectivity, sex, and suffering in early modern England; Debating censorship: liberty and press control in the 1640s; 'Armed winter, and inverted day': the politics of cold in Dryden and Purcell's King Arthur. Part III: Rethinking literary histories; The European Marvell; Waller, Tasso, and Marvell's Last Instructions to a Painter; Marvell's personal elegy? Rewriting Shakespeare in A Poem upon the Death of O. C.; How John Dryden read his Milton: The State of Innocence reconsidered; Part IV: Afterword; On behalf of the Age of Andrew Marvell?; Index.
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