Pope's Mythologies (eBook, ePUB)

Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment
Redaktion: Cousins, A. D.; Derrin, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope's verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. The book enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope's verse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000831382
• Artikelnr.: 67059849

Autorenporträt

A.D. Cousins is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia. He has published nineteen books, with two forthcoming, including monographs on Andrew Marvell, Thomas More, Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, mythologies of internal exile in Elizabethan non-dramatic verse, and religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is on the Editorial Board of Moreana (Edinburgh University), the international journal of More studies, as well as of the Australian journal Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (Monash University). He has been Visiting Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Renaissance Studies Center at the University of Massachusetts, Visiting Scholar at Princeton and at Penn State, and Library Fellow at the Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was also Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. He holds doctorates in both English literature and political theory. Daniel Derrin is an honorary research fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. Prior to research and teaching fellowships at Durham, he was the S. Ernest Sprott fellow for 2014-2015 (University of Melbourne), and Associate Investigator for the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (2013-2015). He is the author of Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne (2013), co-editor with A.D. Cousins of Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama (2018), and Alexander Pope in the Reign of Queen Anne (2021), and co-editor with Hannah Burrows of The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
1. Introduction - A.D. Cousins
2. Locating Divinity in Pope's Windsor-Forest and The Rape of the Lock
- Daniel Derrin
3. Hot Ice and Wondrous Strange Snow: Allegorical Mythology in Pope's
Homer - Robert S. Miola
4. 'Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore': Pope's (Jacobite?)
Eloisa to Abelard - Claudia Thomas Kairoff
5. Lud's Fam'd Gates: The Dunciad and the Mythical Origins of London -
Pat Rogers
6. Remaking the World: An Essay on Man as Cosmopoiesis - Tom Jones
7. Beatus Ille: Pope and the Mythos of Retirement - Philip Smallwood
8. Pope's Myths of Cultural Heroism in the Epistles to Bathurst and to
Burlington - A.D. Cousins
Index