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

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...

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Other Authors: Cousins, A. D., 1950- (Editor), Derrin, Daniel, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 25
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Online Access:Taylor & Francis
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Pope, Verrio and Hampton Court: The Stuart Monarch in the Rape of the Lock and Windsor-Forest
  • 2 Sheep and Wolf: Pope, Philips and the Pastorals Revisited
  • 3 Pope's Precocious Decade: Models of Literary History for the Age of Queen Anne
  • 4 'Alexander, Have a Care': Anne Finch as Alexander Pope's Mentor
  • 5 Hyperbolic Worlds: The Legacy of Edmund Waller in Alexander Pope's the Rape of the Lock
  • 6 Pope and Chaucer: Reconstructing the House of Fame in the Reign of Queen Anne
  • 7 The Labours of the Passions in the Rape of the Lock
  • 8 Painting Deformed Portraits: Humour in Pope's Early Prose
  • 9 Renewing the Classics in the Age of Queen Anne: The Making of Pope's Iliad
  • Conclusion
  • Index