Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xv
5. Acknowledgments xxxiii
6. Notes, Short Forms, and Abbreviations xxxv
7. Chronology: Alexander Pope and The Rape of the Lock xxxvii
8. Introduction: The Rape of the Lock after Three Hundred Years 1
9. Courtliness, Courtship, and Court Cards: Fractals as a Compositional Device in The Rape of the Lock 10
10. 2 Gallantry and The Rape of the Lock Reconsidered 31
11. 3 Making the Perfect Woman: Female Automata from Pandora to Belinda 53
12. 4 “Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul”: Female Spirituality and The Rape of the Lock 70
13. 5 Catholic Society and Commercial Idolatry in The Rape of the Lock 94
14. 6 “Hairs less in sight”: Pope, Biology, and Culture 113
15. 7 Death and the Object: The Abuse of Things in The Rape of the Lock 131
16. 8 It-Narratives, Thing Theory, and “trivial Things”: Sophie Gee’s The Scandal of the Season and The Rape of the Lock 150
17. 9 Of Words and Things: Image, Page, Text, and The Rape of the Lock 167
18. 10 From “Trivial Things” to “trivial things”: Pope, Lintot, and The Rape of the Lock 218
19. Contributors 249
20. Index 253