A contradiction still : representations of women in the poetry of Alexander Pope / Christa Knellwolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Christa Knellwolf.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744--Characters--Women.

Pope, Alexander.

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.

Feminism and literature--England--History--18th century.

Feminism and literature.

England.

History.

Women and literature--England--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

Femininity in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

This book offers a stimulating critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles expressed or implied in Pope's poetry. Christa Knellwolf approaches Pope's stylistic complexity revealing it as an effect of his engagement with a historical situation in which the position of women was one of the most prominent sources of ideological conflict. She provides a detailed discussion of Pope's poetic language and relates it to the wider context of publication in which male writers defended the masculine privilege of literary authorship against intellectual women. An attentive close-reading of the poetry reveals Pope's conflicting attitudes towards women and explains them as a product of his difficulties with a society that was experiencing rapid political and cultural change.

Notes:

Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis, University of Cardiff.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.

ISBN:

0719053331

OCLC:

39300105