The Dunciad (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Mock-heroic
- Time of Work: Eighteenth century
- Genres: Poetry, Mock-heroic poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Literature, Writing, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Criticism, Gods or goddesses, Heroes or heroism, Princes or princesses, Underworld or Hades
- Locales: London, England, Underworld
Places Discussed
*London. Capital and largest city of Great Britain. With a population of nearly seven hundred thousand people in the eighteenth century, London is the setting of the final campaign of “The War of the Dunces,” which culminates in the obliteration of high cultural standards. At the core of its East End is the old walled section, known as “the City,” center for the lower and middle classes, business, the trades, markets, counting houses, the Royal (stock) Exchange, jails, shanties, butcheries, shipping, coal wharves, and tanning factories. The East End was...
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