Artistic license: three centuries of good writing and bad behavior
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TextPublication details: Chicago Ivan R. Dee 2004Description: 245pISBN: 1566635950Subject(s): Authors-English-Anecdotes | American-Authors-Anecdotes | Counduct of life | English literatureDDC classification: 820.9 Summary: Brooke Allen's sparkling new collection of essays considers the dysfunctional and apparently destructive nature of great talent. Ms. Allen shows how the incendiaries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were, in real terms, far more daring and more disturbing to the moral and ideological systems of their time than is the modern mutineer, who stages his rebellion within a social framework that condones—or at least pretends to condone—rebellion. She finds it surprising that so many writers held on to artistic rectitude in the face of all-but-insuperable personal failings. Her brief but pungent profiles help enrich our understanding of the writers' works.
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| 820.80353 NIN Nineteenth-century writings on homosexuality: a source book | 820.9 AES Aesthetics, beauty, mystics and romanticism in English literature | 820.9 ALE/H A history of English literature | 820.9 ALL/A Artistic license: three centuries of good writing and bad behavior | 820.9 AYE/M Modernism: a short introduction | 820.9 BIJ/T Twentieth century literary criticism | 820.9 BIJ/T Twentieth century literary criticism |
Brooke Allen's sparkling new collection of essays considers the dysfunctional and apparently destructive nature of great talent. Ms. Allen shows how the incendiaries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were, in real terms, far more daring and more disturbing to the moral and ideological systems of their time than is the modern mutineer, who stages his rebellion within a social framework that condones—or at least pretends to condone—rebellion. She finds it surprising that so many writers held on to artistic rectitude in the face of all-but-insuperable personal failings. Her brief but pungent profiles help enrich our understanding of the writers' works.
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