
It will be an exciting time at the Marvell Society’s sessions at this year’s South-Central Renaissance Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 3-5, 2011.
Paper topics will include “An Horation Ode,” “The Mower Against Gardens,” “Mr. Smirke,” “Appleton House.”
We will also have our much-anticipated panel discussion on “The Picture of Little T.C.” The Society will also be treated to talks by Steven Zwicker and Derek Hirst.
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The Chameleon
The Marvell Society congratulates our president Nigel Smith of Princeton University, whose newly-published biography of Andrew Marvell The Chameleon has already been praised as “staking a substantial claim to the coveted (if always provisional) title of the definitive biography” of Andrew Marvell (Nicholl).
For other accolades, see these reviews:
We look forward to seeing our fellow Marvellians in St. Louis March 3.
Works cited
Nicholl, Charles. “Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon by Nigel Smith.” Review. The Guardian 6 November 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010.
Upcoming sessions for the Spring 2011 conference in St. Louis
- Entry into Service
Steven Zwicker: “Secrecies and Disclosures”
Derek Hirst: “Entry into Service”
- “The Picture of Litte T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers”: A Panel Discussion
George Klawitter: “Little T.C.”: Just an Ekphrastic Poem or Another Political Commentary?
Joan Faust: “‘Carpe ante diem’: Marvell’s ‘The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers”
Timothy Raylor: “The Socio-Literary Context of Marvell’s ‘The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers'”
- Marvell in Yorkshire: Hull and Nunappleton
Nigel Smith: “Andrew Marvell and Hull Radicalism”
Julianne Werlin: “Marvell and the Art of Fortification”
Mira Assaf: “‘He Called Us Isrealites’? [sic.]: The Jewish Threat in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House'”
- New Angles on Marvell’s Lyric Strategies
Kevin Laam: “Andrew Marvell’s Ovidian Consolations”
Emma Wilson: “Looking for Logic in All the Wrong Places: A Quest for Andrew Marvell’s Use of Early Modern Logic in Poetry”
Laurent Curelly: “‘These weeping eyes, those seeing tears’: The Language of Tears in Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Poetry”
- Marvell in the Revolution: Heroes, Politicians, and Exiles
Christopher Orchard: “‘The Marvel of Peru’: ‘The Mower against Gardens,’ Horticultural Politics and the Legitimacy of the Republic in 1649-1650 England”
reg Miller: “Andrew Marvell, Lyric Vision, and the Heroic: ‘An Horation Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ and ‘On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost'”
Ineke Huysman: “A Man with a Mission: Richard Flecknoe in Service of Beatrix de Cusance, Duchess of Lorraine”
- Restoration Marvell
Sean McDowell: “Marvell in the ‘Tiring-room'”
Alex Garganigo: “Marvell as Miltonist”
Brett Hudson: “Competing Idioms: Andrew Marvell’s ‘On Milton’s Paradise Lost’ and the Restoration Reader”
Martin Dzelzainis: “‘The Sport of Bishop Hunting’: Marvell’s Anticlericalism”
Joan Faust, Executive Secretary, Andrew Marvell Society