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Anniversary essays on Alexander Pope's The rape of the lock /
"Alexander Pope's heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature. In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Rape of the Lock after three hundred years / J. Paul Hunter
- Courtliness, courtship, and court cards: fractals as a compositional device in The Rape of the Lock / Pat Rogers
- Gallantry and The Rape of the Lock reconsidered / Louise Curran
- Making the perfect woman: female automata from Pandora to Belinda / Glynis Ridley
- "Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul": female spirituality and The Rape of the Lock / Katherine M. Quinsey
- Catholic society and commercial idolatry in The Rape of the Lock / Nicholas Hudson
- "Hairs less in sight": Pope, biology, and culture / Raymond Stephanson
- Death and object: the abuse of things in The Rape of the Lock / Barbara M. Benedict
- It-narratives, thing theory, and "trivial Things": Sophie Gee's The Scandal of the Season and The Rape of the Lock / Kate Scarth
- Of words and things: image, page, text, and The Rape of the Lock / Allison Muri
- From "Trivial Things" to "trivial things": Pope, Lintot, and The Rape of the Lock / Donald W. Nichol.