Pope, Print, and Meaning

Pope's fascination with print - with annotations, illustrations, parallel texts, title-pages, revisions - shapes this reading of his major texts and of his Works 1717 and 1735-6. The book offers fresh insights into Pope's self-presentation and his relation to his readers: he emerges as a figure marginalized socially, politically, and sexually, who gambles with his private life in confronting his opponents.