‘If I Had Known Him, I Would Have Loved Him’: Bloomsbury Appropriations of the Scriblerian Coterie

An appetite for ambivalence: Pope studies in the twenty‐first century

“…Nicole Eustace () shows the enduring significance but fluctuating signification of Pope for American colonists in the decades leading up to the war of independence. And a delightful book chapter by Abigail Williams and Peter Huhne () explains the great irony of Bloomsbury appropriations of Pope, the twentieth‐century celebration of him for exactly those qualities—his certainty of literary identity, his reassuring sociability—which were in fact most open to dispute. Such examinations of the poet's afterlives cannot, of course, be the whole story of the future of Pope studies, but they elegantly makes the case for his lasting literary relevance and the astounding richness of his ironies.…”