Katie Kadue on Andrew Marvell ("The Garden")
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What a delight it was to talk to the brilliant Katie Kadue about Andrew Marvell's beautiful and perverse poem "The Garden [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44682/the-garden-56d223dec2ced]." Katie is the author of Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo101561291.html] (Chicago, 2021). She is currently a Fellow at the International Network for Comparative Humanities at Notre Dame and Princeton. She has published academic essays on Andrew Marvell [https://www.jstor.org/stable/90011227], Michel de Montaigne [https://www.academia.edu/36252441/Irritating_Montaigne], and misogyny and cliché in Renaissance lyric poetry [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/712403?journalCode=mp], and her writing has also appeared in venues such as n+1 [https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/suspended-hell/], Gawker [https://www.gawker.com/culture/what-is-a-woman], Los Angeles Review of Books [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/not-like-other-girls/], and Chronicle of Higher Education [https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-end-of-the-star-system]. Her piece on Marvell for the University of Chicago Press blog provides an excellent brief introduction to the poet we discuss in this episode—you can find it here [https://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2021/03/31/marvell-marvelled-in-celebration-of-andrew-marvells-400th-birthday.html]. Finally, make sure to follow Katie on Twitter [https://twitter.com/kukukadoo]. Please remember to follow, rate, and review the podcast if you like what you hear—and subscribe to my newsletter [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/] to stay up to date on our plans.
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