Alexander Pope and His Eighteenth-Century Women Readers
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press [1994], 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [2], 1-309, [5] pp. Black cloth with red lettering on the spine. Purple endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Pope. Thomas' examination of previously held theories that Pope's work was largely anti-woman. The author uses contemporary female essays, poetry, and letters sent to and influenced by Pope to fully examine the female reception of Pope's work in the eighteenth-century. This text illuminates the creativity and more often than not, rich intellectual life many women in Europe led during this time. A fascinating literary study of the reception of Pope's work during his own time. Fine / Fine. Item #000010605
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