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  1. Fame and failure 1720-1800
    the unfulfilled literary life
    Author: Rounce, Adam
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    An author to be let -- The exemplary failure of Dr Dodd -- Anna Seward's cruel times -- Percival Stockdale's alternative literary history. Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas... more

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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. 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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  2. Fame and failure 1720-1800
    the unfulfilled literary life
    Author: Rounce, Adam
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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,... more

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    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 thin

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1107417589; 1107325129; 9781107417588; 9781107325128
    Subjects: Authorship; Failure (Psychology); Literature and society; Authors, English; Fame; English literature; Authors, English ; 18th century ; Psychology; Authorship ; Public opinion ; Great Britain ; History ; 18th century; English literature ; 18th century ; History and criticism; Failure (Psychology); Fame ; History ; 18th century; Literature and society ; England ; History ; 18th century; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references

    An author to be letThe exemplary failure of Dr Dodd -- Anna Seward's cruel times -- Percival Stockdale's alternative literary history.