TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen, Brooke
TI  - Artistic license: three centuries of good writing and bad behavior
SN  - 1566635950
U1  - 820.9 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Ivan R. Dee
KW  - Authors-English-Anecdotes
KW  - American-Authors-Anecdotes
KW  - Counduct of life
KW  - English literature
N2  - 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
ER  -