Alexander Pope in the reign of Queen Anne : reconsiderations of his early career

Author(s)

• Cousins, A. D.
• Derrin, Daniel

Bibliographic Information

Alexander Pope in the reign of Queen Anne : reconsiderations of his early career

edited by A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin

（Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature, 25）

Routledge, 2021

• : hbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn's landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope's writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne's rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.

Table of Contents

Introduction - A. D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin 1. Pope, Verrio and Hampton Court: The Stuart Monarch in The Rape of the Lock and Windsor-Forest - Pat Rogers 2. Sheep and Wolf: Pope, Philips and the Pastorals Revisited - Brean Hammond 3. Pope's Precocious Decade: Models of Literary History for the Age of Queen Anne - Philip Smallwood 4. 'Alexander, have a care': Anne Finch as Alexander Pope's Mentor - Claudia Thomas Kairoff 5. Hyperbolic Worlds: The Legacy of Edmund Waller in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock - Ivana Bicak 6. Pope and Chaucer: Reconstructing The House of Fame in the Reign of Queen Anne - A.D. Cousins 7. The Labours of the Passions in The Rape of the Lock - Kathryn Walls 8. Painting Deformed Portraits: Humour in Pope's Early Prose - Daniel Derrin 9. Renewing the Classics in the Age of Queen Anne: The Making of Pope's Iliad - Donald W. Nichol Conclusion - A. D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC05269078
• ISBN:
  • 9780367275532
• LCCN: 2020039895
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 204 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR3634
  • DC23 : 821/.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714
  • LCSH : Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : England -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 18th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA63719654