Fame and Failure 1720–1800 Fame and Failure 1720–1800

Fame and Failure 1720–1800

The Unfulfilled Literary Life

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Publisher 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
3 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
451
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
1.2
MB

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