Fame and Failure 1720-1800

Fame and Failure 1720-1800
Author: Adam Rounce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013-10-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107042224

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

Aspects of Samuel Johnson

Aspects of Samuel Johnson
Author: Howard D. Weinbrot
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874138740

Howard D. Weinbrot's Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics collects earlier and new essays on Johnson's varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson's uses of the general and the particular as they relate to the reader's role in the creative process, his complex approach to the concept of literary genre, and his resolutely in-human view of skepticism.