Alexander Pope and the disappearance of the beautiful
Editors
Ann Hurley and Kate Greenspan
Document Type
Chapter
Publication Date
1995
Publication Title
So Rich a Tapestry: The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Publisher Location
Lewisburg, PA
First page number:
85
Last page number:
115
Abstract
Considers the ideology of the aesthetic reflected in Pope's Rape of the Lock (1714). Argues that Pope practices an aesthetic of resistance to iconoclasm grounded in a linear theory of painting
Keywords
Aesthetics; Art theory; Beauty (concept); Great Britain; Iconoclasm; Painting; Poetry; Pope; Alexander; 1688-1744; Rape of the lock; 1700-1800; 1714
Disciplines
Aesthetics | Literature in English, British Isles | Other Classics
Language
English
Permissions
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Repository Citation
Erwin, T.
(1995).
Alexander Pope and the disappearance of the beautiful. In Ann Hurley and Kate Greenspan,
So Rich a Tapestry: The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies
85-115.
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/english_fac_articles/11
Comments
Also published in the Eighteenth-Century Life Vol 16(3) in November 1992 pages 46-64.