1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824984003321

Autore

Rogers Pat <1938->

Titolo

Pope and the destiny of the Stuarts [[electronic resource] ] : history, politics, and mythology in the age of Queen Anne / / Pat Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-383-04171-7

1-280-84395-0

0-19-151525-6

1-4294-6959-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Disciplina

821/.5

Soggetti

Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Mythology in literature

Monarchy in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-329) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Chronology 1700-1716; Introduction; 1. Setting; 2. Biography; 3. Politics; 4. The Queen; 5. Windsor; 6. The War and the Peace; 7. Classical and Renaissance Literature; 8. Later Literary Contexts; Conclusion: Death in Arcady; Sources; Index; Index of Passages in Pope's Poetry

Sommario/riassunto

A radical new look at the literary and political climate of England during the reign of Queen Anne, as revealed in the work of the greatest poet of the age, Alexander Pope. Rogers provides the fullest account to date of Windsor-Forest (1713), exploring its biographic, historic, and political contexts. - ;This radical new look at the literary and political climate of England during the reign of Queen Anne examines the work of the greatest poet of the age, Alexander Pope. Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts provides the fullest contextual account to date of Windsor-Forest (1713), widely seen as