Fame and Failure 1720–1800 The Unfulfilled Literary Life
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Rounce Adam
An unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame and failure through writers who failed to achieve it.
Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers, including Richard Savage, Anna Seward and Percival Stockdale, Rounce discusses the inefficacy of apparent literary success, the forms of vanity and folly often found in failed authorship, and the changing perception of literary reputation from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the emergence of Romanticism. The book opens up new ways of thinking about the nature of literary success and failure, given the post-Romantic idea of the doomed creative genius, and provides an alternative narrative to critical accounts of the famous and successful.
Introduction: motion without progress; 1. An author to be let; 2. The exemplary failure of Dr Dodd; 3. Anna Seward's cruel times; 4. Percival Stockdale's alternative literary history.
Adam Rounce is a Lecturer at the University of Nottingham. He has written on various seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers, including Dryden, Johnson, Pope, Akenside, Cowper, Warburton and Wilkes. He is also co-editor of two volumes for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift.
Date de parution : 10-2013
Ouvrage de 258 p.
15.7x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 07-2016
Ouvrage de 258 p.
15.3x23 cm
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