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More Solid Learning
. Ed(S): Ingrassia, Catherine; Thomas, Claudia N.
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Hardback. Editor(s): Ingrassia, Catherine; Thomas, Claudia N. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
Until this book, there has not been a collection that focuses exclusively on Pope's satiric masterpiece. The seeming resistance to fully engage the poem belies its centrality within eighteenth-century culture. Like Gulliver's Travels or The Beggar's Opera, the poem's hybridity actually changes and imrpoves upon the forms it parodically controls. But unlike those texts, it proves difficult to teach, despite multiple points of entry. The essays in this volume attempt to teach the poem from a variety of perspectives and, in doing so, to illuminate its role as literary history, cultural artifact, and material object. They suggest the ways the ... Read more
Until this book, there has not been a collection that focuses exclusively on Pope's satiric masterpiece. The seeming resistance to fully engage the poem belies its centrality within eighteenth-century culture. Like Gulliver's Travels or The Beggar's Opera, the poem's hybridity actually changes and imrpoves upon the forms it parodically controls. But unlike those texts, it proves difficult to teach, despite multiple points of entry. The essays in this volume attempt to teach the poem from a variety of perspectives and, in doing so, to illuminate its role as literary history, cultural artifact, and material object. They suggest the ways the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481198
SKU
V9781611481198
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About . Ed(S): Ingrassia, Catherine; Thomas, Claudia N.
Catherine Ingrassia is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is the author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit. Claudia N. Thomas is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, and is the author of Alexander Pope and His Eighteenth-Century Women Readers.
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