Alexander Pope / Edition 1

by Laura Brown

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631135036
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/08/1991
Series:	RE-Reading Literature Series
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.02(w) x 7.95(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Laura Brown is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. She is author of English Dramatic Form 1660-1760.

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