TY - BOOK AU - Deutsch,Helen TI - Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture SN - 9780674419162 AV - PR3634 .D48 1996 U1 - 821.5 21 PY - 2013///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Abnormalities, Human, in literature KW - Englische Literatur KW - Health in literature KW - Health KW - Imitation in literature KW - Literature and society KW - England KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Monsters in literature KW - Verse satire, English KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory KW - Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century KW - Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Criticism and interpretation KW - Verse satire, English -- History and criticism KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction --; 1. The “Truest Copies” of a “Mean Original” --; 2. The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epic --; 3. Twickenham and the Landscape of True Character --; 4. Horace and the Art of SeIf - Collection --; Dis figured Truth and the Proper Name --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - Like the miniatures of which Pope was so fond, the book is at once particular in its focus and wide-ranging in its conceptual scope. While drawing on recent feminist, historicist, and materialist criticism of Pope, as well as current theoretical work on the body, it also attends closely to the local ambiguities of the poet's texts and cultural milieu, details often lost to critical view. The result is a revitalized--and broadened--reading of Pope, and of our understanding of the processes of authorship. By focusing on the process by which ideas of authority and authenticity took shape at specific moments in Pope's career, Resemblance and Disgrace calls into question distinctions between theoretical abstractions and material details, between literary originality and critical derivation, following Pope's own example of rewriting intellectual boundaries as creative opportunities UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674419179 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674419179 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674419179.jpg ER -