Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture

by Helen Deutsch

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674419162
• ISBN13: 9780674419162
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"