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Author Rogers, Pat, 1938-

Title Pope and the destiny of the Stuarts : history, politics, and mythology in the age of Queen Anne / Pat Rogers
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 341 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index
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Subject Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Windsor-Forest
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Knowledge -- History
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Knowledge -- Mythology
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 fast
Subject Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Mythology in literature.
Monarchy in literature.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
History
Literature and history
Monarchy in literature
Mythology
Mythology in literature
Political and social views
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781429469593
1429469595
9780191515255
0191515256
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9781280843952