Pope New Contexts Author:David Fairer This collection of essays brings together exciting work from a new generation of British scholars and critics, and tests such a view by placing Pope's poetry in a series of revealing contexts-intellectual, religious, political, and gender-based-which provoke new interpretations of his work. The authors debate Pope's "Toryism" and "Jabonism," his... more » "feminized" or sexually ambivalent discourse, his relationship to strategies of politeness and decorum, "discordia concors," epic manliness, models of body/spirit and voice/spectacle, and offers to read him and his work in the company of the romantic writers and later women novelists. Contents: Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; J. A. Downie 1688: Pope and the Rhetoric of Jacobitism; Christine Gerrard Pope and the Patriots; Thomas Woodman "Wanting Nothing but the Laurel": Pope and the Idea of the Laureate Poet; Carolyn D. Williams Breaking Decorums: Belinda, Bays, and Epic Effeminacy; Steve Clark "Let Blood and Body bear the Fault": Pope and Misogyny; Susan Matthews "Matter too soft": Pope and the Women's Novel; Stephen Bygrave Missing Parts: Voice and Spectacle inàR "Eloisa to Abelard; Rebecca Ferguson "Intestine Wars": Body and Text in" "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" and "The Dunciad; John Whale Romantic Attacks: Pope and the Spirit of Language; David Fairer Pope, Blake, Heraclitus, and Oppositional Thinking; Nicholas Roe Pope, Politics, and Wordsworth's" "Prelude; Stephen Copley and David Fairer" "An Essay on Man" and the Polite Reader; Brean S. Hammond "Guard the Sure Barrier": Pope and the Partitioning of Culture; Notes on ContributorsàR« less