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The Literary Theories of Alexander Pope
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Pope's portraiture : a critical examination of portraiture in the poetry of Alexander Pope
… the author considers to be the chief concerns of Pope's verse portraits, and particularly attempts to trace the manifestations of these concerns in the formal, rather than argumentative or polemic, qualities of Pope's writing. The works selected have accordingly been primarily those in which the …
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"Ourselves to know" : the problem of evil in the poetry of Alexander Pope.
… of evil. In chapter one, I examine in Alexander Pope's personal letters how his reliance upon religious resignation, sovereignty, heavenly compensation, prayer, and biblical imagery reveal a theodician search. In chapter two, I show how together Eloisa to Abelard, the 1717 Rape of the …
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Alexander Pope and the Writing of Thought: Representations of Revision and Composition in Pope’s Works
This thesis examines Alexander Pope’s literary career through the lens of his own portrayals of revision and the composition process. I argue that Pope’s career-long interest in revision in its many forms — rewriting, rethinking, rewording, correcting, imitating, translating, editing, etc. — …
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Satire as Apologia: An Analysis of the Chief Modes of Rhetorical Proof Inthe Apologetic Satires of Alexander Pope
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The influence of Christianity in Pope's Moral Essays.
Alexander Pope's Moral Essays include the Epistle to Cobham, the Epistle to a Lady, the Epistle to Bathurst and the Epistle to Burlington. Simply put, this thesis focuses on Christianity as it appears in these poems. Christ does, of course, show Himself in different ways through the four poems. In …
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The artistic and literary career of Charles Jervas (c.1675-1739)
… with literary contemporaries (most importantly Alexander Pope) rather than his artistic practice or his own writings. Jervas’s literary achievements, most famously his new translation into English of Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1742) are critically reassessed. A detailed biography, exploration of …
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Cleaning Up the Junkyard: An Exploration in Developing an Online Course
… such as Samuel Johnson, Christopher Wren, and Alexander Pope, British culture saw vital advances in areas of criticism, architecture, and literature An online course will provide a strong foundation of research, exposure, and analysis, conducive to student's achieving an effective grasp of the …
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… for our understanding of writers such as Alexander Pope, Oliver Goldsmith, William Wordsworth, and Lord Byron.
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‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’
… gives rise to analyses of her letters to Alexander Pope and Antonio Conti which at least partially challenge conventional accounts of her friendship with each of these ‘Men of Letters’ and propose the subversive elements of her correspondence. I conclude with an examination of Montagu’s …
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A study of Edith Sitwell as a critic.
… in four volumes: Poetry and Criticism (1925), Alexander Pope (1930), Aspects of Modern Poetry (1934), and A Notebook on William Shakespeare (1948). In addition to these volumes, many essays appear in collections of her poetry, in volumes she edited, in works written by others, and in …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… of the “genius of the place,” formulated by Alexander Pope and the Royal Society botanist Richard Bradley. As exotic flora take root in a new market of gardening women in the midcentury, male writers, as Chapter 3 observes, use the rhetoric of the virtuoso to cast aspersions on women who …
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From Virtue to Sympathy: Perspectives in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature on the Disintegration of the Social Bond
… of the varying notions of sympathy in works by Alexander Pope, Jane Austen, Ann Yearsley, Joanna Baillie, Ann Bannerman, Dorothy Wordsworth, and William Wordsworth from 1730 to 1816 reveals a variety of ways in which an understanding of sympathy changes: from a fully integrated and immediate …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
… catalysed by the highly popular translation of Alexander Pope in 1715, Hector’s parting from Andromache came to be read as a scene of mutual sympathy and vulnerability, an interpretation which established the Trojan hero as a prototype for the modern “man of feeling.” The second chapter …
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Parts and Wholes in Long Non-narrative Poems of the Eighteenth Century
… (discussed in Chapter 1) and in the poetry of Alexander Pope (Chapter 2). Considered collectively, these may be understood to describe a ‘poetics of greatness’ whereby extensive verse is progressively abstracted from its traditional generic loci and becomes associated more broadly with …
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The Role of Richard Savage in Composing Pope's Dunciad
… all that is known of his relationship with Pope is that he contributed information to Pope's Dunciad Variorum (1729) and that Pope later contributed large sums to Savage's support. Pope was the driving force behind Savage's retirement to Wales, possibly alluded to in Johnson's London (1738), …