UID:
edocfu_9958352159202883
Format:
1 online resource(xiii,273p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. : Harvard University Press, 1996. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780674419179
Content:
By restoring the poet's image to view against the cultural background that branded it as monstrous, Deutsch recasts Pope's literary career as a form of monstrous embodiment--a stamping of his own image on fragments of the cultural past.
Content:
Like the miniatures of which Pope was so fond, the book is at once particular in its focus and wide-ranging in its conceptual scope. While drawing on recent feminist, historicist, and materialist criticism of Pope, as well as current theoretical work on the body, it also attends closely to the local ambiguities of the poet's texts and cultural milieu, details often lost to critical view. The result is a revitalized--and broadened--reading of Pope, and of our understanding of the processes of authorship. By focusing on the process by which ideas of authority and authenticity took shape at specific moments in Pope's career, Resemblance and Disgrace calls into question distinctions between theoretical abstractions and material details, between literary originality and critical derivation, following Pope's own example of rewriting intellectual boundaries as creative opportunities.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Introduction --
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1. The "Truest Copies" of a "Mean Original" --
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2. The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epic --
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3. Twickenham and the Landscape of True Character --
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4. Horace and the Art of SeIf - Collection --
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Dis figured Truth and the Proper Name --
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Abbreviations --
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Notes --
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Index.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674419162
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/harvard.9780674419179
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674419179
