Fame and Failure 17201800 - The Unfulfilled Literary Life

An unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame and failure through writers who failed to achieve it.

List of contents

Introduction: motion without progress; 1. An author to be let; 2. The exemplary failure of Dr Dodd; 3. Anna Seward's cruel times; 4. Percival Stockdale's alternative literary history.

About the author

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.

Summary

A colourful account of less canonical and unfulfilled eighteenth-century British writers that explores ideas of fame and failure. It discusses literary success and reputation, offering authoritative readings of significant writers who did not succeed in fulfilling their potential, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the emergence of Romanticism.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Rounce, Adam (University of Nottingham) Rounce, Rounce Adam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107042223
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04222-3
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers