Pope's Mythologies

This volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope's verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. The book enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope's verse.

List of Contributors

1. Introduction - A.D. Cousins


2. Locating Divinity in Pope's Windsor-Forest and The Rape of the Lock - Daniel Derrin


3. Hot Ice and Wondrous Strange Snow: Allegorical Mythology in Pope's Homer - Robert S. Miola


4. 'Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore': Pope's (Jacobite?) Eloisa to Abelard - Claudia Thomas Kairoff


5. Lud's Fam'd Gates: The Dunciad and the Mythical Origins of London - Pat Rogers


6. Remaking the World: An Essay on Man as Cosmopoiesis - Tom Jones


7. Beatus Ille: Pope and the Mythos of Retirement - Philip Smallwood


8. Pope's Myths of Cultural Heroism in the Epistles to Bathurst and to Burlington - A.D. Cousins

Index