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Alexander Pope by Laura Brown (1991, Trade Paperback)

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Alexander Pope, Paperback by Brown, Laura; Eagleton, Terry (EDT), ISBN 0631135030, ISBN-13 9780631135036, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.

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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-100631135030

ISBN-139780631135036

eBay Product ID (ePID)1180835

Product Key Features

Number of Pages188 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAlexander Pope

Publication Year1991

SubjectEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorLaura Brown

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN84-020317

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal821.5

Table Of ContentEditor'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

SynopsisThis 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., Pope's poetry has, for the most part, been taken on its own terms. Seen as a sophisticated commentary on the attitudes and values of Augustan England, it has been praised for its aesthetic complexity and its universal significance. 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. She sets out a new basis for defining the significance of his major works, arguing that they are bound up with the two key issues of the age: the interconnected developments of capitalism and imperialism. A close reading of Pope's poetry from Windsor-Forest to The Dunciad shows it to embody the conflicting impulses of early English mercantile capitalism; it is fascinated with the prizes of expansion, yet half aware of the violence that imperialism unleashes.

LC Classification NumberPR3634.B76 1985