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

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

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1041173555
ISBN13: 9781041173557
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 13 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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