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Marvell's Maps: Reading Empire through Microcosm at Nun Appleton.

The article informs that Andrew Marvell peruses Thomas Fairfax's library at Nun Appleton with books including Thomas Gage's "The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land", and Edward Norgate's "Miniatura." Topics include virtue of political withdrawal without unduly slighting the virtue of expan...

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Published in:Early Modern Literary Studies Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 1 - 22
Main Author: Normandin, Daniel
Format: Article
Published: Early Modern Literary Studies 2020
Subjects:
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671
Gage, Thomas, ca. 1603-1656
Norgate, Edward
Miniatura (Book)
Political change
Political participation
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Summary:The article informs that Andrew Marvell peruses Thomas Fairfax's library at Nun Appleton with books including Thomas Gage's "The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land", and Edward Norgate's "Miniatura." Topics include virtue of political withdrawal without unduly slighting the virtue of expansive political and military activity; and national expansion is transmuted into the techniques of poetic figuration.