Alexander Pope in the Making

Name: Alexander Pope in the Making
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198842316
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Autor: Hone, Joseph (Academic Track Fellow in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University)

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How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has ty...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Hone, Joseph (Academic Track Fellow in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University)

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2021

strony

240

EAN

9780198842316

ISBN

0198842317

Enbook ID

33061124

Wydawca

Oxford University Press

Waga

482

Wymiary

243 x 162 x 22

Pełny opis

How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to greatness and subsequent remoteness from lesser authors for granted. As a major poet he is treated as the successor of Milton and Dryden or the precursor of Wordsworth. Drawing on previously neglected texts and overlooked archival materials, Alexander Pope in the Making immerses the poet in his milieux, providing a substantial new account of Pope's early career, from the earliest traces of manuscript circulation to the publication of his collected Works and beyond. In this book, Joseph Hone illuminates classic poems such as An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and Windsor-Forest by setting them alongside lesser-known texts by Pope and his contempories, many of which have never received sustained critical attention before. Pope's earliest experiments in satire, panegyric, lyric, pastoral, and epic are all explored alongside his translations, publication strategies, and neglected editorial projects. By recovering values shared by Pope and the politically heterodox men and women whose works he read and with whom he collaborated, this book constructs powerful new interpretive frameworks for some of the eighteenth century's most celebrated poems. Alexander Pope in the Making mounts a comprehensive challenge to the 'Scriblerian' paradigm that has dominated scholarship for the past eighty years. It sheds fresh light on Pope's early career and reshapes our understanding of the ideological landscape of his era. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature, history, and politics.

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