Alexander Pope in the Making

Abstract

How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Drawing on previously neglected texts and overlooked archival materials, Alexander Pope in the Making provides a radical new account of the poet’s early career, from the earliest traces of manuscript circulation to the publication of his collected Works. Joseph Hone illuminates classic poems such as An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and Windsor-Forest by setting them alongside lesser-known texts by Pope and his contemporaries, many of which have never received sustained critical attention before. Pope’s earliest experiments in satire, panegyric, lyric, pastoral, and epic are all explored alongside his translations, publication strategies, and neglected editorial projects. By recovering cultural values shared by Pope and the politically heterodox men and women whose works he read and with whom he collaborated, Hone unearths powerful new interpretive possibilities for some of the eighteenth century’s most celebrated poems. Alexander Pope in the Making mounts a comprehensive challenge to the ‘Scriblerian’ paradigm that has dominated scholarship for the past eighty years. It sheds fresh light on Pope’s early career and reshapes our understanding of the ideological landscape of his era. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature, history, and politics.

Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century

“…293–309); the interpretative effects of first editions' paratexts, including their notes (Gillespie, 2015; Hopkins, 2017), maps (Hopkins, 2010, pp. 250–69) and title‐page illustrations (Bassino, 2021); case‐studies of particular characters, especially Achilles (Deutsch, 2019; Taylor, 2020); and the politics of the translation (Hone, 2021, pp. 72–6, 136–45).…”

“…Accounts of Statius (Gillespie, 2011, pp. 76–92; Hone, 2021, pp. 79–85) focus largely on the aesthetics and politics of Pope's translations from the Thebaid, but Susanna Braund (2015) includes William Lewis's 1767 Thebaid in her comparison between eighteenth‐ and twentieth‐century Statius translations.…”

Prospects for Digitalization of ASEAN Smart Cities Network Securitization: Case Studies Indonesia

“…Furthermore, in addition, the change in the direction of international relations in the digital arena: a) changes in the political, social, and economic environment in which diplomacy is carried out (e.g. the nature and distribution of power, new types of conflict, and the changing and interdependent nature of sovereignty in international relations); b) the emergence of new policy issues in foreign policy such as cybersecurity, data governance, e-commerce, and cybercrime, and; c) the use of digital tools in practice in international relations such as social media privacy, online conferencing, and big data analytics (Hone, 2021(Hone, ) (diplomacy.edu, 2021. Thus, these changes are both an opportunity and a challenge for the State in dealing with the threat of securitization in international relations.…”

The Role of Paradiplomacy and the Potential Proto-Diplomacy in the Unitary State

“…The state must collaborate with other actors including with local governments or susbstate. (Hone, 2021) The changes in traditional diplomacy played out by the state are very significant including the actors involved no longer especially in the Central Government. Currently, local governments, whether city or district governments, are already involved in foreign relations.…”