Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-243) and index.
Contents:
"et in Arcadia homo": opera, gender, and sexual politics in the Dunciad / G.S. Rousseau -- Ideology and opportunism: the role of Handel in Pope's the Dunciad in four books / Valerie Rumbold -- "Trials of manhood": Cibber, the Dunciad, and the masculine self / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Pope's "Girl of the game": the prostitution of the author and the business of culture / Eric V. Chandler -- Not "the only trifler in the nation": Pope and the man of leisure in the Dunciad / Linda Zionkowski -- Dissecting the authorial body: Pope, Curll, and the portrait of a "hack writer" / Catherine Ingrassia -- "Consummatum est": Alexander Pope's 1743 Dunciad and mock-apocalypse / Thomas Jemielity -- "Writing nonsense": Pope, Rabelais, and the fair / Claudia N. Thomas.
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