Resemblance and Disgrace : : Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture / / Helen Deutsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Deutsch, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 p.) :; 14 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. The “Truest Copies” of a “Mean Original” -- 2. The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epic -- 3. Twickenham and the Landscape of True Character -- 4. Horace and the Art of SeIf - Collection -- Dis figured Truth and the Proper Name -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index