The Rape of the Text

The Rape of the Text
Author: Harry M. Solomon
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780817306960

Solomon (English, Auburn U.) deconstructs the two centuries of criticism of Pope's long philosophical poem, which was loved by his contemporaries, and has been denigrated and trivialized by recent critics. He concludes that literary critics should not try to interpret philosophy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Book of God

The Book of God
Author: Colin Jager
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780812239799

"The Book of God manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism."—Orrin Wang, University of Maryland