UID:
almahu_9947415158402882
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 249 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781107325128 (ebook)
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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An author to be let -- The exemplary failure of Dr Dodd -- Anna Seward's cruel times -- Percival Stockdale's alternative literary history.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107042223
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107325128
URL:
Volltext
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