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

Herausgeber: Nichol, Don

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647961
• ISBN-10: 1442647965
• Artikelnr.: 42700398

Autorenporträt

Edited by Donald W. Nichol

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The Rape of the Lock After 300 Years (J. Paul Hunter)
1. Courtliness, Courtship, and Court Cards: Fractals as a Compositional
Device in The Rape of the Lock (Pat Rogers)
2. Gallantry and The Rape of the Lock Reconsidered (Louise Curran)
3. Making the Perfect Woman: Female Automata from Pandora to Belinda
(Glynis Ridley)
4. “Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul”: Female Spirituality
and The Rape of the Lock (Katherine M. Quinsey)
5. Catholic Society and Commercial Idolatry in The Rape of the Lock
(Nicholas Hudson)
6. “Hairs less in sight”: Pope, Biology, and Culture (Raymond Stephanson)
7. Death and the Object: The Abuse of Things in The Rape of the Lock
(Barbara M. Benedict)
8. It Narratives, Thing Theory, and “trivial Things”: Sophie Gee’s The
Scandal of the Season and The Rape of the Lock (Kate Scarth)
9. Of Words and Things: Image, Page, Text, and The Rape of the Lock
(Allison Muri)
10. From “Trivial Things” to “trivial things”: Pope, Lintot, and The Rape
of the Lock (Donald W. Nichol)