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This book offers a stimulating critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles expressed or implied in Pope’s poetry. Christa Knellwolf approaches Pope's stylistic complexity revealing it as an effect of his engagement with a historical situation in which the position of women was one of the most prominent sources of ideological conflict. She provides a detailed discussion of Pope’s poetic language and relates it to the wider context of publication in which male writers defended the masculine privilege of literary authorship against intellectual women. An attentive close-reading of the poetry reveals Pope's conflicting attitudes towards women and explains them as a product of his difficulties with a society that was experiencing rapid political and cultural change. His contradictory views of femininity are examined in contrast to his self-appointed role as an artist who exercised the prerogative of criticizing the taste of contemporary readers. Knellwolf shows him to be torn between mourning the loss of an old order and fighting for a place in the new social hierarchy. She identifies this conflict with contemporary struggles over the definition of identity and gender, and thus makes a strong case for the reappraisal of Pope’s poetry in the context of gender politics.
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Christa Knellwolf is Research Fellow in the English Department at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
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- PublisherManchester University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0719053331
- ISBN 13 9780719053337
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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Book Description 1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 245 pp.; 23 cm. Contents; Contradiction and the Epistle to a Lady -- Satires on women -- Women's character and the feminisation of culture -- Differences and discrepancies -- 'Character' and gender -- Incongruities and female intellect -- The figure of the poet -- Contradiction, the double standard and its critics -- Women's situation in the early-modern period -- Structural analysis of contradiction -- De Lauretis and the performance of contradiction -- Pope's rhetoric viewed in cultural perspective -- Violence and representation in Windsor-Forest -- Self-consciousness and the legitimation of art -- The space of Lodona -- The aesthetic transformation -- The role of the poet in An Essay on Criticism and the Epistle to Arbuthnot -- The social position of (the) wit -- Concepts of the body -- Gender and the absence of meaning -- The poet's voice -- Eloisa, the female philosopher -- Eloisa and the idea of the female tradition -- Eloisa's point of view -- Against a masculine aesthetics -- Female presence in The Rape of the Lock -- Stock figures and narrative displacement -- Pastoral and sexual ambiguity -- The role of Umbriel -- Irony and the fairies -- The emblem of music: emptiness and narcissistic echoes -- Voices and echoes -- Reflections and illusions in The Rape of the Lock -- Belinda's mirror-image -- The 'machines': the mechanics of the body -- Representations of light -- Narrative structure of the 'machinery' -- The meanings of 'lock' -- Implications of the mock-heroic -- The Dunciad: creativity and the question of gender -- Gender in The Dunciad. Subjects; Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 Characters Women. Criticism and interpretation. Political and social views. Feminism and literature England History 18th century. Sex role in literature. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 407185
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