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Gross, David S. " 'The Conqu'ring Force of unresisted Steel': Pope and Power in The Rape of the Lock," NOR, 15 (Winter 1988), 23-30.
Regarding The Rape of the Lock from a Marxist perspective, Mr. Gross announces that he will concern himself with "how questions of power and desire, politics and culture are manifested and contemplated" in the poem. But in an unnecessary prolegomenon he reviews Marxist theory...