ENGLISH

Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780674419179, 9780674419162
DOI
10.4159/harvard.9780674419179
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9180465 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2014
Pages
286\288
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 08:44:56

Description

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.

Similar books