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Fame and Failure 1720-1800: The Unfulfilled Literary Life
Contributor(s): Rounce, Adam (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107624533     ISBN-13: 9781107624535
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $30.39  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 820.900
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.77 lbs) 258 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Rounce, Adam: - 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.
 
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