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Pope's War with the Dunces: Mapping the Public in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Ileana Baird
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781041173557
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 324
  • Original Price: GBP 155.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 649 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Modern / 18th Century

This book examines Alexander Pope's Dunciad, focusing on the role played by cultural periphery (what Pope called "dunces") in launching new fashions and ideological trends. In this way, Baird sheds new light on publicness as an emerging category at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Ileana Baird is Associate Professor of English at Zayed University, UAE. Her research interests focus on eighteenth-century British literature, visual and material culture, Orientalism, the global Enlightenment, and Digital Humanities. She is an author and editor of several publications, including Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture (Routledge, 2018). She holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Virginia, USA.

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