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    Broadsides on the Thames: the social context of The rape of the lock, II, 47-52

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    https://doi.org/10.1515/angl.1986.1986.104.0
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    Author/Creator
    Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-
    Date
    1986
    Type of Work
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    3 pages
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    journal articles
    Department
    Towson University. Department of English
    Citation of Original Publication
    Hahn, H. George. "Broadsides on the Thames: The social context of The Rape of the Lock, II, 47-52
    Subjects
    Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Rape of the lock
    Allusions in literature
    Thames River (England)
    Abstract
    [From article]: As Reuben Brower has shown, allusion in Pope is a resource equivalent to metaphor and imagery in other poets1 1 R. A. Brower, Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford, 1959). . Yet it is not merely by literary allusion that Pope achieves comic effect in The Rape of the Lock, II, 47-52, the depiction of Belinda's water passage to Hampton Court. He creates a comic irony in these verses by a careful blend of a Watteau-like scene with heroically allusive overtones and a crude Hogarthian undertone given strength by its appeal to contemporary awareness of abusive language by travellers on the Thames. The dual ironic contexts of the heroic and the prosaic further heighten the poem's comic incongruity.


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    Towson University
    8000 York Road
    Towson, Maryland 21252

    Website:
    www.towson.edu

    Contact Info:
    azukowski@towson.edu
    410-704-5318
    http://libraries.towson.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.