Title: Pope, Swift, and women writers /
Authors: Mell, Donald C., 1931-2019
Publisher: University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, Political and social views.; Pope, Alexander, Political and social views.; Swift, Jonathan, Characters Women.; Pope, Alexander, Characters Women.; English literature History and criticism; Women and literature Great Britain History; English literature Women authors History and criticism; Authorship Sex differences History; Verse satire, English History and criticism.; Women in literature
Abstract: The writings and satire of Pope and Swift have aroused intense hostilities in women readers and feminists, both in their own day and ours, for their allegedly unsympathetic treatment of women. They have been accused of indifference to the plight of eighteenth-century women in a patriarchal society and even of exhibiting sexist and misogynistic attitudes in the case of the eighteenth-century woman writer.
Contents: Mentored from the page : Mary Leapor's relationship with Alexander Pope / Caryn Chaden -- The poetic career of Judith Cowper : an exemplary failure? / Valerie Rumbold -- Geography and gender : Mary Chandler and Alexander Pope / Linda Veronika Troost -- Recovering Thalestris : intragender conflict in The rape of the lock / Peter Staffel -- Finch, Pope and Swift : the bond of displacement / Barbara McGovern -- The manl(e)y style : Delariviere Manley and Jonathan Swift / Melinda Alliker Rabb -- The shared worlds of Manley and Swift / Carole Fabricant --