Anniversary Essays on Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' / / Don Nichol.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Nichol, Don ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Notes, Short Forms, and Abbreviations --; Chronology: Alexander Pope and The Rape of the Lock --; Introduction: The Rape of the Lock after Three Hundred Years --; Courtliness, Courtship, and Court Cards: Fractals as a Compositional Device in The Rape of the Lock --; 2 Gallantry and The Rape of the Lock Reconsidered --; 3 Making the Perfect Woman: Female Automata from Pandora to Belinda --; 4 "Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul": Female Spirituality and The Rape of the Lock --; 5 Catholic Society and Commercial Idolatry in The Rape of the Lock --; 6 "Hairs less in sight": Pope, Biology, and Culture --; 7 Death and the Object: The Abuse of Things in The Rape of the Lock --; 8 It-Narratives, Thing Theory, and "trivial Things": Sophie Gee's The Scandal of the Season and The Rape of the Lock --; 9 Of Words and Things: Image, Page, Text, and The Rape of the Lock --; 10 From "Trivial Things" to "trivial things": Pope, Lintot, and The Rape of the Lock --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442669673; 9783110606812
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442669673
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Don Nichol.

Alexander Pope's heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature. In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem. Their approaches reflect the vast range of interpretation of Pope's text, from discussions of religion, gender, and eighteenth-century biological science to an interview with Sophie Gee about her novelization of the poem in The Scandal of the Season. These stimulating analyses will be essential reading for students and teachers of The Rape of the Lock and a valuable resource for investigating eighteenth-century culture.