Locating divinity in Pope's Windsor-forest and The rape of the lock / Daniel Derrin -- Hot ice and wondrous strange snow : allegorical mythology in Pope's Homer / Robert S. Miola -- 'Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore' : Pope's (Jacobite?) Eloisa to Abelard / Claudia Thomas Kairoff -- Lud's fam'd gates : The Dunciad and the mythical origins of London / Pat Rogers -- Remaking the world : an essay on man as cosmopoiesis / Tom Jones -- Beatus Ille : Pope and the mythos of retirement / Philip Smallwood -- Pope's myths of cultural heroism in the epistles to Bathurst and to Burlington / A.D. Cousins.
Summary:
"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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature
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