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Throughout The 1980s, Scholars Debated Alexander Pope's Attitude Toward Women By Applying Such Critical Methods As Marxist Or Deconstructionist Theories To His Texts. In This Book, Claudia N. Thomas Instead Adopts Reader-response Theory In Order To Present What She Regards As A More Accurate Analysis, Mindful Of The Historical Reception Of Pope's Various Works. Thomas Specifically Responds To Modern Allegations That Pope Was A Misogynist And A Literary Victimizer Of Women. If Pope Thought Women Inconsequential, She Argues, Why Did He Bother To Cultivate A Female Audience? Furthermore, How Did Eighteenth-century Women Readers Receive His Writings? Thomas Answers These Questions By Examining The Literary Responses To Pope Of His Eighteenth-century Women Readers: Their Prose Responses To Pope, Their Poems Addressed To Him Or Replying To His Poems, And Their Poems Strongly Influenced By Him.^ These Responses Not Only Clarify Pope's Works And Their Relation To Cultural History; They Also Advance Women's Literary History By Reconstructing The Female Experience Of Eighteenth-century Culture. A Surprising Amount Of Testimony Survives To Illuminate The Ways Eighteenth-century Women Read Pop

Author

Associate Professor Claudia Thomas B.A. M.A. Ph.D.

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809318865

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities