Women's Place in Pope's World
Edition: 1 edition
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780521026727
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Pope, Alexander, --1688-1744--Characters--Wom; Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744--Characters--Women; Social Science / Gender Studies; Gender Studies
First sentence: Although the few celebrated poems in which Pope sets women in the limelight provide the natural focus for any attempt to understand his attitude to the sex, it is important to remember that the vast bulk of his output is concerned only tangentially with issues of gender.