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The Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope
by Pollak, Ellen
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0226673456
- ISBN 13
- 9780226673455
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1985 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. xii, 239 pp, foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson, acknowledgments, I. Introduction; II. The Eighteenth-Century Myth of Passive Womanhood; III. The Rape of the Lock: A Reification of the Myth of Passive Womanhood; IV. Woman as Part and Counterpart in the "Epistle to a Lady"; V. Cadenus and Vanessa: "Who Neither Was Coquette nor Prude"; VI. the Difference in Swift; Epilogue: The Limits of Difference; notes, bibliography, index. First Edition, 1985. "The author's innovative study invites a restimation not only of the relative value of these two poets in the history of English literature but also the criteria by which critics have been accustomed to judge the social, moral, and aesthetic 'integrity of our literary artifacts, and will be of interest to 18th-century and feminist scholars, or, those interested in the history of women or the relationship between literature and ideology." from the jacket flap. Not Price Clipped. Pristine no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt borders and gilt lettering to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004517
- Title
- The Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope
- Author
- Pollak, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0226673456
- ISBN 13
- 9780226673455
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM WOMEN STUDIES ENGLISH POETRY WOMEN IN LITERATURE SEX ROLE IN LITERATURE 18TH-CENTURY POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- 8vo
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