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Fame and Failure 1720-1800: The Unfulfilled Literary Life

Fame and Failure 1720-1800: The Unfulfilled Literary Life

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Adam Rounce
Cambridge University Press, 10/3/2013
EAN 9781107042223, ISBN10: 1107042224

Hardcover, 258 pages, 22.9 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

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.

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.