| Description |
254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-243) and index. |
| Contents |
"et in Arcadia homo" : opera, gender, and sexual politics in the Dunciad / G. S. Rousseau -- Ideology and opportunism : the role of Handel in Pope's the Dunciad in four books / Valerie Rumbold -- "Trials of manhood" : Cibber, the Dunciad, and the masculine self / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Pope's "Girl of the game" : the prostitution of the author and the business of culture / Eric V. Chandler -- Not "the only trifler in the nation" : Pope and the man of leisure in the Dunciad / Linda Zionkowski -- Dissecting the authorial body : Pope, Curll, and the portrait of a "hack writer" / Catherine Ingrassia -- "Consummatum est" : Alexander Pope's 1743 Dunciad and mock-apocalypse / Thomas Jemielity -- "Writing nonsense" : Pope, Rabelais, and the fair / Claudia N. Thomas. |
| Subject |
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Dunciad.
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Verse satire, English -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Ingrassia, Catherine.
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Thomas, Claudia N., 1951-
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| ISBN |
0838754430 (alk. paper) |
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