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Fame and Failure 1720-1800 : The Unfulfilled Literary Life

By Adam Rounce

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107421554, 9781107042223
LCC
PR441.R67 2013eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2237287 bytes)
Pages
260\260
Time added
2023-08-05 13:54:50
English -- 18th century -- Psychology. ; Fame -- HEnglish literature -- 18th century -- History and

Description

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.

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