The eighteenth-century mock-heroic poem

Abstract

Foreword List of abbreviations Introduction Part I. The Conventions of the Mock-Heroic Poem: 1. The presentation of contemporary reality 2. The disguise and suspension of reality 3. Imitation and parody of the epic 4. The mock-heroic poem as satire Part II. The History of the Mock-Heroic Poem: 5. Different types of mock-heroic poem and their pre-neoclassical models 6. Boileau's Le Lutrin and the first phase of the genre's development in England (c. 1681 - c. 1712) 7. Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712-14) 8. The Rape of the Lock and the heroi-comical poem (second phase, c. 1714 - c. 1742) 9. Pope's Dunciad (1728-43) 10. The decline and fall of the mock-heroic poem (third phase, c. 1742 - c. 1800) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index of authors and titles.

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