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Fame and Failure 1720-1800
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107624535
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.02.2016
Seiten:
258
Autor:
Adam Rounce
Gewicht:
379 g
Format:
229x152x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
An unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame and failure through writers who failed to achieve it.
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.