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The Rape Of The Text: Reading And Misreading Pope'S Essay On Man,New
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First published in 17331734, An Essay on Man, Alexander Popes bestknown philosophical poem, was highly praised by many of Popes European contemporaries, including Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Hume. The poem, divided into four Epistles, deals with the nature of man and his place in the universe, man as an individual, man in society, and man in pursuit of happiness.Voltaire called An Essay on Man the most beautiful, most useful, most sublime didactic poem in the English language, but what was formerly regarded as the pinnacle of 18thcentury poetry now languishes largely unread or misread as a quaint period piece. In contrast, Harold Bloom recently described the Essay as a poetic disaster of absurd theodicy. The Rape of the Text deconstructs the history of criticism for An Essay on Man to account for and to reverse over two hundred years of deformation and trivialization of Popes text by literary critics, philosophers, and historians of ideas. After showing why the commonplaces about the Essay inscribed in Pope scholarship are suspect because of the mutual and abiding hostility of logocentric and aesthetic traditions of misreading, Solomon rebuts the objections made to Popes philosophy in a series of chapters demonstrating more appropriate strategies for interpreting Popes persona, tone, methodology, argument, and figurality. Cumulatively the chapters characterize a discourse work of middlestate Academic Skepticism that Pope shared with his admirers.Although the characterization of Popes discourse world in The Rape of the Text has implications for Pope and for 18thcentury scholarship beyond the Essay on Man, it also has implications for reading all philosophical poetry. Solomon contends that criticism of the Essay on Man is only an extreme example of the deformation that occurs routinely when literary critics or philosopher interpret philosophical poetry, and in the final chapter he calls for a naturalization of philosophical poetry as a genre as the necessary remedy to our present willful blindness.
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