A stolen lock of hair ignites a mock-epic war among the fashionable belles and beaux of England.
Books mentioned in The Rape of the Lock (2)
Comte de Gabalis by Montfaucon de Villars: “The best account I know of them is in a French book call'd 'Le Comte de Gabalis', which both in its title and size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read it for one by mistake.”
The New Atalantis by Delarivier Manley: “As long as Atalantis shall be read,”
Books that mention The Rape of the Lock (6)
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope: “In poetry, she was familiar with names as late as Dryden, and had once been seduced into reading "The Rape of the Lock;" but she regarded Spenser as the purest type of her country's literature in this line.”
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: “There was a volume of Pope, with the Rape of the Lock in it, and another of the Tatler”
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova: ““Dear me,” Hedges murmured. “Pope and the alliterative. Sweet nymph. For argument.” ... “‘The Rape of the Lock,’” Hedges said politely. “Without a doubt.””