Performing Gender in Augustan Criticism and Pope's To a Lady

Tom Jones

doi:10.1111/j.1754-0208.2009.00099.x

Performing Gender in Augustan Criticism and Pope's To a Lady

Tom Jones

School of English

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Abstract

This piece explores the performance of gender in literary criticism of the period 1660-1740 and in Pope's To A Lady. Arguing that the use of gendered terms in literary criticism is part of the performance of gender, the essay draws on Judith Butler's work. The essay traces the use of explicitly and implicitly gendered terms in literary criticism in order to suggest the gender value assigned to particular technical aspects of verse. The essay closes with a reading of To a Lady which argues that the poem explores the relationship between the ideas of female inconstancy and male artistic virtue.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-21
Number of pages	21
Journal	Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume	33
Issue number	1
Early online date	7 Apr 2009
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2009.00099.x
Publication status	Published - Mar 2010

Keywords

Alexander Pope
literary criticism and theory 1660-1740
gender
performance
To A Lady
poetic techniques

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