Pope, Print, and Meaning
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 September 2001
- ISBN 9780198184973
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 243x164x20 mm
- Weight 554 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 halftones 0
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Short description:
Pope's fascination with print - with annotations, illustrations, parallel texts, title-pages, revisions - shapes this reading of his major texts and of his Works 1717 and 1735-6. The book offers fresh insights into Pope's self-presentation and his relation to his readers: he emerges as a figure marginalized socially, politically, and sexually, who gambles with his private life in confronting his opponents.
MoreLong description:
Throughout his life, Pope was fascinated by print. He loved its elements: dropped heads, italics, small capitals; fine paper and good ink; headpieces, tailpieces, initials, and plates. And he loved playing games with publication: anonymity, pseudonymity, false imprints, fake title-pages, advertisements, special editions, and variant texts.
This is the first study to take Pope's experiments in print as a guide to interpretation. Each chapter is devoted to a particular book or text and focuses on how Pope expresses meaning through print. The Rape of the Lock, Dunciad Variorum, Essay on Man, early imitations of Horace, and Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot are read through their illustrations, annotations, parallel texts, title-pages, and revisions. Independent chapters are devoted to Pope's Works of 1717 and 1735-6, discussing his self-presentation and his relation to his readers. He emerges from the study as a figure marginalized socially, politically, and sexually, an author who gambles with his private life in confronting his opponents.
McLaverty's book describes the ways in which Pope used the resources of print - typography, headpieces and tailpieces, title pages, annotations, illustrations - to control the reception of his work McLaverty shows how all Pope's means of publication shaped the meaning of his work for his contemporaries.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Short Titles
Introduction
The Rape of the Lock: From Miscellany Endpiece to Illustrated Independence
The Works of 1717: Building a Monument
The Dunciad Variorum: The Limits of Dialogue
An Essay on Man and Harte's Essay on Reason: Title-pages and Implied Authorship
The First and Second Satires of the Second Book of Horace: Parallel Texts
To Arbuthnot and Sober Advice: Revision, Sexuality, and the Public Sphere
The Works of 1735-6: Pope's Notes
Works Cited
Index
