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This essay focuses on
naturalness and the grotesque,
on the classical and the carnivalesque,
on male and female, on life and text, on the major literary figure of the eighteenth
century, Alexander Pope and the Dunciad
- his comments on such writers as Charlotte Charke, Eliza Haywood, Susanna
Centlivre, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The primary
focus of this essay will be Pope's relation to the Grub Street women writers
attacked in the Dunciad.
