Women's Place in Pope's World

by Valerie Rumbold

Book Overview

How was Alexander Pope's personal experience of women transformed into poetry, and how in turn did he and his writing figure in the lives of the women he wrote about? How characteristic of his age was Pope's attitude towards women? What exactly was the role in his life of individual women such as his mother, Patty Blount and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? Valerie Rumbold's is the first full-length study of these important issues. Making use of previously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052136308X
• ISBN13: 9780521363082
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"