Table of Contents

• Main Thesis

• A Boy is Born
• England of the Restoration
• Lavish Voluptuousness
• Finding Pieces of the Puzzle
• Régime de vivre
• Tracing a Life
• Once Upon a Time...
• A Man of Two Worlds
• The Satiric Pen
• Society Strikes Back
• Rochester the King of Smut
• Rochester the Moralizing Satirist
• Rochester the Social Dissenter
• Rochester the Christian Hero
• Puritans, Gossips and Bacchanalians

Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault On the Author

• The Poet and the Man
• The Author Is Dead!
• Roland Barthes
• Roland Barthes Part II
• Roland Barthes Part III
• Michel Foucault
• Michel Foucault Part II
• Michel Foucault Part III
• Michel Foucault Part IV
• Foucault's Author Function
• Michel Foucault Part VI

Critiquing Barthes and Foucault

• Foucauldian Rochester; or The Dissemination of Text
• Rochester Complicates Barthes and Foucault
• What Is Text?
• A Pathway Out of the Bog
• All the World’s a Stage
• Rochester’s Obsession With the Role of the Poet
• Obsession Part II
• Obsession Part III
• Obsession Part IV
• The Misadventures of Dr. Bendo
• Back to Barthes and Foucault
• Critique of Roland Barthes
• Critique of Michel Foucault

The End

• Yes, This Is Finally the End
• Links
• Bibliography