Alexander Pope and the disappearance of the beautiful

Author

Erwin, Timothy

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Eighteenth-century life. 1992, Num. 3, Vol. 16, 46-64, 9 ill.

ISSN

0098-2601

Abstract (en)

Considers the ideology of the aesthetic reflected in Pope's Rape of the Lock (1714). Argues that Pope practices an aesthetic of resistance to iconoclasm grounded in a linear theory of painting.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- United Kingdom
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
• Rape of the lock
• Poetry
• Aesthetics
• Great Britain
• 1700-1800
• Art theory
• Beauty (concept)
• Iconoclasm
• Painting

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Royaume-Uni
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
• Rape of the lock
• Poésie
• Esthétique
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1700-1800
• Théorie de l'art
• Beau, Le
• Iconoclasme
• Peinture

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19930701-00370828

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