Artikel
Cut the caterwauling : women writers (not) in Pope's "Dunciads"
Verfasst von:
Rumbold, Valerie
in:
The review of English studies
Oxford [u.a.]:
2001
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524 - 539 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Rumbold, Valerie |
| In: | The review of English studies |
| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Women writers were becoming increasingly prominent in the literary marketplace decried in Pope's "Dunciads", yet the Dunciads have relatively little to say about them. This is particularly interesting in the light of Pope's last-minute decision to omit an episode developed in the manuscripts of Book II as a specific satire on women writers. The excision has the effect of consilidating an important aspect of the "Dunciads" mapping of gender; females among the human characters, minor divinites and personifications are imaged predominantly in terms of sexual and exremtatal (rather than literary) transgression, and the threat of female creativity is refocused away from women writers and onto Dulness herself, effectively marginalizing the importance of women's writing in comparison with traditional topics of anti-feminist satire | |
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