Our sessions at Corpus Christi
March 18-20, 2010
“Marvell: Biographical and Intellectual Contexts”
- Nigel Smith (Princeton U), “Andrew Marvell Senior”
- Susan Clarke (Australian National U), “The Concept of Neo-Stoic Retirement in Royalist Polemic and Poetry, 1647-48”
- Nicholas von Maltzahn (U of Ottawa), “Marvell and the Regions”
“How to read Marvell’s ‘The Definition of Love’: three views”
- George Klawitter (St Edward’s U), “‘The Definition of Love’: Marvell’s Use of Donne”
- Joan Faust (Southern Louisiana U), “Defining the Indefinable: Marvell’s ‘The Definition of Love'”
- Timothy Raylor (Carleton C), “Marvell’s ‘The Definition of Love’: A definition of love”
“Marvell, his sources, and the challenges of editing”
- Alan Altimont (St Edward’s U), “Damon and the Deipnosophists: Andrew Marvell’s Reading of Athenaeus of Naucratis”
- Gabriella Gruder-Poni (Independent Scholar), “A Forest of Meanings in “Upon Appleton House””
- Matthew Augustine (Washington U. St Louis), “Green Thoughts: An Argument against the Miltonizing of Marvell Studies”
“Marvell, Milton, and Restoration Contexts”
- Alex Garganigo (Austin C), “Testing the Tests in The Rehearsal Transprosed”
- Jelena Marelj (Queen’s U), “Eco/Ego-Theological Holism: Environmental Ethics in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Marvell’s Pastoral Poetry”
- Sean McDowell (Seattle U), “Shadwell’s Shadow in Marvell’s “On Mr Milton’s Paradise Lost””
Plenary Speaker
Martin Dzelzainis, Professor of Early-Modern Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London: “Andrew Marvell and George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham.”