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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