NOTES:

  1. William Kurtz Wimsatt, “Charles Jervas, c. 1714-1715,” The Portraits of Alexander Pope (New Haven: Yale UP, 1965) 22. 

  2. William Kurtz Wimsatt, “Louis Francois Roubiliac, 1738-1741,” The Portraits of Alexander Pope (New Haven: Yale UP, 1965) 265.

  3. Maynard Mack, “Success and Its Rewards,” Alexander Pope: A Life (New York: W.W. Norton in association with Yale UP, 1985) 353. 

  4. Carolyn A. Barros and Johanna M. Smith, eds., Life-Writings by British Women, 1660-1850 : An Anthology (Boston: Northeastern UP, 2000) 129.

  5. Eliza Haywood, The Injur'd Husband: or, The Mistaken Resentment and Lasselia: or, The Self-Abandon'd, ed. Jerry C. Beasley (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999) frontispiece. 

  6. F.P. Lock, Susanna Centlivre (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979) frontispiece.

  7. Angeline Goreau, “War Between the Sexes: Independence and Desire,” Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn (New York: Dial Press, 1980) facing page 180.

  8. Barbara McGovern, Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989) title page illustration.

  9. Maynard Mack, “High Life,” Alexander Pope: A Life (New York: W.W. Norton in association with Yale UP, 1985) 294. 

  10. Catherine Ingrassia, “Pope, Gender, and the Commerce of Culture,” Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998) 42. 

  11. Ibid. 41. 

  12. William Kurtz Wimsatt, “William Kent and the Countess of Burlington, 1725-1735,” The Portraits of Alexander Pope (New Haven: Yale UP, 1965) 124. 

  13. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, trans. Helene Iswolsky (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984) 41. 

  14. Richard Steele, “Salutary Effects of the ‘Tatler,’” The Tatler, ed. Lewis Gibbs (London: Dent, 1953) 160. 

  15. William Kurtz Wimsatt, “Jonathan Richardson, 1733-1742,” The Portraits of Alexander Pope (New Haven: Yale UP, 1965) 170. 

  16. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, trans. Helene Iswolsky (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984) 24. 

  17. Philip Thomson, The Grotesque (London: Methuen, 1972) 13. 

  18. Catherine Ingrassia, Pope, “Gender, and the Commerce of Culture,” Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998) 45. 

  19. William Kurtz Wimsatt, “Jacques Antoine Dassier, 1741,” The Portraits of Alexander Pope (New Haven: Yale UP, 1965) 271. 

  20. Helen Deutsch, “The ‘Truest Copies’ of a ‘Mean Original,’ Resemblance & Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1996) 26. 

  21. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, trans. Helene Iswolsky (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984) 317. 

  22. James Sambrook, “Pope and the Visual Arts,” Alexander Pope, ed. Peter Dixon (London: G. Bell, 1972) between pages 170 and 171. 

  23. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, trans. Helene Iswolsky (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984) 25-26. 

  24. Mary Russo, The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity (New York: Routledge, 1995) 29. 

  25. William Kurtz Wimsatt, “William Kent and the Countess of Burlington, 1725-1735,” The Portraits of Alexander Pope (New Haven: Yale UP, 1965) 124. 

  26. Alexander Pope, The Dunciad in Four Books, ed. Valerie Rumbold (New York: Longman, 1999) Book I, ll. 67-72. Subsequent references to this book will be made in the text. 

  27. Catherine Ingrassia, “Pope, Gender, and the Commerce of Culture,” Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998) 46. 

  28. Ibid. 50. 

  29. Samuel Johnson, “Pope,” Works of Samuel Johnson (Talboys and Wheeler, 1825) 734. 

  30. John Butt, Pope’s Poetical Manuscripts (London: British Academy, 1955) plate I.