SOURCE: “Violence and Representation in Windsor-Forest,” in A Contradiction Still: Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope, Manchester University Press, 1998, pp. 67-85.
In the following essay, Knellwolf investigates the myth of artistic origins in Windsor-Forest in relation to contemporary conventional thought on femininity and aesthetics, highlighting the fundamental value of violent themes in art.
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