Tiffany Tolliver: Assignment 3

When searching for information on Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, I searched two electronic databases, MLA International Bibliography and World Cat, using the Atlanta University Center’s Library website. First, I searched through WorldCat using various search parameters. I typed “Alexander Pope” initially, only to find a limited amount of information; the information I found did not fall into the specified years of 1993-2008. After the first attempt, I typed “Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock” and found the same type of outdated information. However, I made several other attempts, such as typing “poems of Alexander Pope”, “gender in the rape of the lock”, “gender and Alexander Pope”, and “sexuality in the Rape of the Lock”, to find information, and I found information on Pope and his poems, but it wasn’t necessarily relevant. After receiving rather relevant, out-dated information on WorldCat, I began to search for information on MLA International Bibliography. Within MLA, I began my search by typing in “Alexander Pope” and found a few interesting articles. I expanded my search by typing “Alexander Pope and The Rape of the Lock”. This particular search provided all the information that I needed for my search. I found information that sparked my interest; however, I feel that there is an ample amount of information available on MLA, but the problem arises when the information is not owned by the library.

The information provided within the bibliography is information I thought other students, as well as myself, would find helpful when researching for sources to use in the second essay. My bibliography consists of sources that are supportive of the main themes of Pope’s The Rape of the Lock: supernatural elements and feminism. These two themes sparked interest in me and my classmates in class that led me to provide sources for students to use if they chose to write their paper on Pope’s The Rape of the Lock. For example, if someone wanted to produce a psychoanalytic essay on Belinda or write about the meaning of 18^th century beauty using Belinda, there are several sources within my bibliography that would be very helpful and supportive of such an essay topic. Also, there were several titles with MLA that caught my attention, such “Belinda, Another Eve” and “Alexander Pope and the Disappearance of the Beautiful”, only to name a few. Additionally, if one wanted to find more information on Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, I would highly suggest that she begin her search MLA International Bibliography rather than WorldCat mainly because MLA International Bibliography provides more contemporary articles, WorldCat provides book citations. Additionally, I prefer MLA International Bibliography over WorldCat because MLA provides more contemporary articles that adhere to the dates specified by Dr. Niles as opposed to WorldCat which generates older book citations that will not comply with the specified dates of 1993-2008.

Agy, Diana Marie. “Belinda, Another Eve”. CLA Journal 46 (2002): 226-36. The AUC Library does not own this journal.

Drodge, Susan. “The Sexual Politics of the Eye: Women in Pope's Poetry”. Pg. 79- 85. Ed. Donald W. Nichol and Margaret Smith. Lumen. Edmonton: Academic, 1994. The AUC Library does not own this book article.

Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning. “Belinda's Coiffure in The Rape of the Lock”. English Language Notes 42 (2004): 40-42. This journal is owned by the AUC Library.

Erwin, Timothy. “Alexander Pope and the Disappearance of the Beautiful”. Pg. 88. Ed. Ann Hurley and Kate Greenspan. So Rich a Tapestry: The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP; 1995. This book is not owned by the AUC Library.

Goodman, Ralph. “A Jungian Feminist Approach to Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock”. Unisa English Studies: Journal of the Department of English 33 (1995): 26-30. This book is not owned by the AUC Library.

Harol, Corrinne. “Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary”. Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 45: 41-59. This journal is owned by the AUC Library.

Kim, Og-soo. “Pope's Consciousness of Society in The Rape of the Lock”. Milton Studies: The Journal of the Milton Studies in Korea 8 (1998): 47-74. The AUC Library does not own this journal.

Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth. “Women, China, and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies 29 (1995): 153-67. The AUC Library does not own this journal.

Landry, Donna. “Reading the Rape and To a Lady with Texts by Swift, Wortley Montagu, and Yearsley”. PG. 134-41 Ed. Wallace Jackson and Paul R. Yoder. Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry. New York: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1993. The AUC Library does not own this book article.

Markley, Robert. “Beyond Consensus: The Rape of the Lock and the Fate of Reading Eighteenth-Century Literature”. PG. 69-83. Ed. Wallace Jackson and Paul R. Yoder. Critical Essays on Alexander Pope. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993. The AUC Library does not own this book article.

Latimer, Bonnie. “Alchemies of Satire: A History of the Sylphs in The Rape of the Lock”. Review of English Studies: The Leading Journal of English Literature and the English Language 57 (2006): 684-700. An AUC Library password is required to view this article.

Sitter, John. “What the Sylphs Do: Studying The Rape of the Lock”. PG. 128-33. Ed. Wallace Jackson and Paul R. Yoder. Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry. New York: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1993. The AUC Library does not own this book article.

Staffel, Peter. “Recovering Thalestris: Intragender Conflict in The Rape of the Lock”. PG. 86- 104. Pope, Swift, and Women Writers. Newark: Associated UP, 1996. The AUC Library does not own this book article.

A Walls, Kathryn. The Unveiling of the Dressing Table in Pope's Rape of the Lock, I.121”. Notes and Queries 53 (2006): 196-97. An AUC Library is required to view this article.