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Pope, Homer, and Manliness - Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning (Hardcover)
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Pope, Homer, and Manliness - Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Classical Learning (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Homer
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The author here reassesses the concept of 'masculinity', and argues
that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the
product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable
models. The argument is sustained by a close reading of the
problematic conflict between gendered values in eighteenth-century
classical learning. Pope's Homer ensured the continuation of the
tradition of using the Iliad and Odyssey to teach privileged boys
how to become more 'manly'. This book examines this pedagogy in its
socio-literary context, and concludes that Pope's Homer emerges as
a relic of the struggle to preserve masculine dignity from the
encroachments of feminine values in the text. This knowledge of
classical and early modern literature has rarely been brought to
bear on gender studies. First published in 1993, it remains a
valuable contribution to debates concerning the reception of the
Classical tradition.
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