Anniversary Essays on Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

Author： Don Nichol  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9781442669673

Subject： I1 World Literature

Language： ENG

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“Anniversary Essays on Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a worthy and timely tribute to a beloved and ever-intriguing poem. It really is a pleasure to read ten essays by ten interesting scholars on the same poem – every essay contributes something new and worthy to scholarship on The Rape of the Lock.”

Chapter

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes, Short Forms, and Abbreviations

Chronology: Alexander Pope and The Rape of the Lock

Introduction: The Rape of the Lock after Three Hundred Years

1 Courtliness, Courtship, and Court Cards: Fractals as a Compositional Device in The Rape of the Lock

2 Gallantry and The Rape of the Lock Reconsidered

3 Making the Perfect Woman: Female Automata from Pandora to Belinda

4 “Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul”: Female Spirituality and The Rape of the Lock

5 Catholic Society and Commercial Idolatry in The Rape of the Lock

6 “Hairs less in sight”: Pope, Biology, and Culture

7 Death and the Object: The Abuse of Things in The Rape of the Lock

8 It-Narratives, Thing Theory, and “trivial Things”: Sophie Gee’s The Scandal of the Season and The Rape of the Lock

9 Of Words and Things: Image, Page, Text, and The Rape of the Lock

10 From “Trivial Things” to “trivial things”: Pope, Lintot, and The Rape of the Lock

Contributors

Index

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