Reviews

These are solid essays which make use of past scholarship, personal experience, and a few new literary approaches. . . . Essentially, the book offers a compendium of what competent and conscientious teachers might hope their students would absorb or master.--ChoiceI have already stolen from Donna Landry's hints for teaching The Rape of the Lock and Epistle to a Lady in conjunction with Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Ann Yearsley; from Brian McCrea on An Essay on Man and 'nature' in advertising; from Howard Weinbrot on putting the Arbuthnot back in Arbuthnot, both contextually and dialogically; and I am planning other larcenies.--Studies in English Literature