An analysis of the way that Alexander Pope and Daniel Defoe view women in their literature.
Both Alexander Pope and Daniel Defoe approached women differently but with equal passion in their literature. One might say of Pope too that on the whole his poetry suggests he has discovered a woman’s world the world of female portraiture and feminized mock-epic and feminine `Gothic` sensibility/*but not women. As early as the 1697 Essay upon Projects, Defoe had criticized conventional restrictions on women, calling there for the foundation of “An Academy for Women.”