MA, PhD (Cambridge)

Professor of Renaissance Literature and Thought

Contact Details:

• E: md240@leicester.ac.uk

• T: +44 (0)116 252 2628

Research Interests

My main field of research is renaissance literature and thought, including the following:  John Milton; Andrew Marvell; literature and politics; republicanism; rhetoric; satire; print culture; censorship; the history of truth telling; and liberty and libertinism. 

Much of my recent work has focused on Marvell, particularly an edition of Marvell's two-part prose satire The Rehearsal Transpros'd (1672, 1673) for Volume 1 of The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell (Yale University Press, 2003). I am now looking more broadly at the communicative interchange between speech, manuscript, and print in the early modern period. 

Current projects include a monograph, entitled The Flower in the Panther: Print and Censorship in England, 1662-1695 and an edition of Andrew Marvell's writings for 21st Century Oxford Authors (both OUP). 

Future editorial work includes Volume X: The Histories for the forthcoming OUP Complete Works of John Milton, ed. Tom Corns and Gordon Campbell. And I am General Editor (together with Dr Paul Seaward, Director, History of Parliament Trust) of the forthcoming OUP edition of The Works of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Other long term projects include a monograph, Hidden Powers, a study of cabinets and cabals in English literature, 1590-1690.

Projects

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Professor Dzelzainis would welcome postgraduate students (MA or PhD) with interests in any of the following areas of research outlined above, especially the following:

• John Milton;
• Andrew Marvell;
• Literature and politics;
• Republicanism;
• Print culture;
• Libertinism.

Teaching and Administration

Professor Dzelzainis will be Acting Director of Research in 2011. 

He teaches a wide range of modules:

Undergraduate

• EN1050 Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• EN2020 Renaissance Literature (convenor)
• EN2050 Literature 1660-1789
• EN3172 Libertine Literature

Masters

• EN7223 Editing and Textual Culture
• EN7225 Journeys, 1500-1700

Recent Publications

Edition

Ed. (with Annabel Patterson), The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell: Volume 1: 1672-1673 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003) pp. 438.

Chapters in books

'Milton, Foucault, and the New Historicism,' in Rethinking Historicism: New Essays on Early Modern History and Literature, ed. Ann Baines Coiro and Thomas Fulton (Cambridge University Press; forthcoming).

'1649', in The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, ed. Joad Raymond (Oxford University Press; in press).

'The Ciceronian theory of tyrannicide from Buchanan to Milton', in George Buchanan: Political Thought in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World, ed. Roger Mason and Caroline Erskine, St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History (Ashgate; in press).

'Milton and the regicide', in John Milton: Life, Writing, Reputation, ed. Paul Hammond and Blair Worden (Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2010), pp. 91-105.

"'What a do with the Kings and the statues is here": Milton, Marvell and John Sobieski', in Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters: Essays in Honour of Richard Maber, ed. Paul Scott (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010), pp. 17-32.

Articles in refereed journals

'Andrew Marvell and George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham' Explorations in Renaissance Culture (forthcoming 2011).

Full list of publications