Alexander Pope

Author(s)

• Brown, Laura

Bibliographic Information

Alexander Pope

Laura Brown

（Rereading literature / general editor, Terry Eagleton）

B. Blackwell, 1985

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [159]-174

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book asks us to rethink such a way of understanding Pope. Refusing to accept Pope's version of reality, Laura Brown reads his poems not for what they claim to say, but for what they rationalize away or fail to recognize.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface v Preface vii Introduction 1 1 Imperialism and Poetic Form: The Rape of the Lock (1712, 1714, 1717), Windsor-Forest (1713) 6 2 The 'New World' of Augustan Humanism: An Essay on Criticism (1711), An Essay on Man (1733-4) 46 3 The Ideology of Neo-classical Aesthetics: Epistles to Several Persons (1731-5) 94 4 The New Pastoral--Capitalism and Apocalypse: The Dunciad (1728, 1742, 1743) 128 Notes 159 Index 175

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA00997051
• ISBN:
  • 0631135022
  • 0631135030
• LCCN: 84020317
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 177 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR3634
  • DC19 : 821/.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00205109