Recent articles on The Rape of the Lock

Bates, Catherine. "Pope's Influence on Shakespeare?" Shakespeare Quarterly 42.1 (Spring 1991): 57-9.

Cook, Patrick. "Milton, Pope, and the Missionary Position: Yet Once More." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. 7.3 (July 1994) 133-6.

Crider, Richard. "Pope's The Rape of the Lock." Explicator 49.2 (Winter 1991) 80-2.

Dodson, Danita. "Environmental Concerns in Pope's The Rape of the Lock." Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 19.1 (Spring 1993) 11-21.

Doherty, Francis. "Rape of the Lock: Stretching the Limits of Allusion." Anglia: Zeitschrift fur Englishe Philologie 111.3-4 (1993) 355-72.

Erwin, Timothy. "Alexander Pope and the Disappearance of the Beautiful" Eighteenth-Century Life 16.3 (Nov. 1992) 46-64.

Fergusson, Rebecca. "'Quick as Her Eyes, and as Unfix'd as Those': Objectification and Seeing in Pope's Rape of the Lock." Critical Survey 4.2 (1992) 140-6.

Grove, Robin. "Pope's Shaping Powers." Critical Review 34 (1994) 22-32.

Landry, Donna. "Reading the Rape and to a Lady with Texts by Swift, Wortley Montagu, and Yearsley." pp. 134-41 in Jackson, Wallace and Paul Yoder (eds.) Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.

Markley, Robert. "Beyond Consensus: The Rape of the Lock and the Fate of Reading Eighteenth-Century Literature." pp. 69-83 in Jackson, Wallace and Paul Yoder (eds.) Critical Essays on Alexander Pope New York: G. K. Hall, 1993.

Payne, Deborah. "Pope and the War against Coquettes: Or, Feminism and The Rape of the Lock Reconsidered - yet Again." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 32.1 (Spring 1991) 3-24.

Phiddian, Robert. "A Name for Mock-Epic: Pope, Bakhtin, and Stylization." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 37 (1996) 136-55.

Richardson, J. A.. "A Punishment for Sylphs in The Rape of the Lock." Notes and Queries 39.4 (Dec. 1992) 467-8.

Sitter, John. "What the Sylphs Do: Studying The Rape of the Lock." pp. 128-33 in Jackson, Wallace and Paul Yoder (eds.) Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.

Terry, Richard. "'Tis a sort of...tickling': Pope's Rape and the Mock-Heroics of Gallantry" Eighteenth-Century Life 18.2 (May 1994) 59-74.

Versluys, Kristiaan. "The Rape of the Lock and The Waste Land: Versions of the Mock-Heroic." Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 20.1 (1990) 3-18.



The July (1996) issue of Vanity Fair contains "The Rape of the Frock" by Henry Porter, illustrated by Tim Sheaffer. "Where is the English bard to immortalize the travails of the Princess of Wales? With apologies to Pope, HENRY PORTER picks up his lute and enters the fray."



Please let me know of any recent (post-1990) articles on The Rape of the Lock not included in the above list. I hope to create a list of "classic" (i.e., pre-1990) articles of special interest to students of the poem--your suggestions would be deeply appreciated, and can be mailed to me using the e-mail address on the home page.

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