White Tears and Indian Slaves in Marvell’s “Mourning”

Greteman, Blaine

doi:10.16995/marv.8769

Marvell Studies

2022

DOI: 10.16995/marv.8769

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White Tears and Indian Slaves in Marvell’s “Mourning”

Blaine Greteman

Abstract: Previous criticism of Marvell’s “Mourning” has not only ignored the narrator’s invocation of “Indian slaves,” but has in most cases actually erased it. This essay explores the consequences of that erasure for our understanding of the poem and its place in the history of colonialism and race-making. 

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Marvell’s Issues: Race and the Curse of Ham

Lerner

2023

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Lerner

2023

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Hunting the Hunter: Fowling and Interpretive Entrapment in Upon Appleton House

Prawdzik¹

2022

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While 'Upon Appleton House' foregrounds the poet's actions and physical engagements with the estate, the poem itself us thoroughly woven from contemporary and classical intertexts.  As such, it presents as both immediate animation and as a work of intricate process.  This division enables much of the poem's play with semblance and deception, which repeatedly draws attention to the act of reading imaginatively.  To explore how the poem's textual duality bespeaks aesthetic process, this article closely examines two scenes of leisure that prove to enact the poet's hunting of the reader: as an angler and as a fowler using bird lime.  Aware of the poet's game and relentlessly pursuing his shifts, we uncover in form the unfolding of Marvell's body.

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White Tears and Indian Slaves in Marvell’s “Mourning”

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