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082			_a820.9 _bALL/A
100			_aAllen, Brooke
245	1	2	_aArtistic license: three centuries of good writing and bad behavior
260			_aChicago _bIvan R. Dee _c2004
300			_a245p.
520			_aBrooke 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.
650			_aAuthors-English-Anecdotes
650	0		_aAmerican-Authors-Anecdotes
650	0		_aCounduct of life
650	0		_aEnglish literature
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