Pope’s Mythologies: Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature)
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- Synopsis
- This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope’s verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. Pope did not merely use classical (along with non-classical) mythology in his verse as a traditional, richly diverse medium through which to represent the diversity of private and civic life in his day, but he was an ambitious translator as well as refashioner of myth. It is a medium that he shapes anew and variously across all his major poems. This volume enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope’s verse. In doing so it illuminates how, in early eighteenth-century Britain, understandings of what myth is and what it does were taking new directions – not least in response to Baconian thought and its legacy.
- Copyright:
- 2023
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 164 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000831382
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781003202394, 9781032427768, 9781032064536
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 01/30/23
- Copyrighted By:
- selection and editorial matter, A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- A.D. Cousins
- Edited by:
- Daniel Derrin
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