Pope, Print, and Meaning

'McLaverty's book describes the ways in which Pope used the resources of print - typography, headpieces and tailpieces, title pages, annotations, illustrations - to control the reception of his work McLaverty shows how all Pope's means of publication shaped the meaning of his work for his contemporaries.' -John Mullan, Times Literary SupplementPope's fascination with print - with annotations, illustrations, parallel texts, title-pages, revisions - shapes this reading of his major texts and of his Works 1717 and 1735-6. The book offers fresh insights into Pope's self-presentation and his relation to his readers: he emerges as a figure marginalized socially, politically, and sexually, who gambles with his private life in confronting his opponents.