Richard Bradford

Literary Rivals (eBook, ePUB)

Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making. When they fall out with each other, they are able to kindle feuds and antagonisms as passionate and public as workers in any trade. Richard Bradford's highly entertaining book looks at some of the closest and most complex relationships in literary history, as well as examining their dramatic effects on literature itself. - WHO WAS THE OBJECT OF COLERIDGE'S INFATUATION THAT DROVE A W EDGE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND WORDSWORTH? - WHERE DID THACKERAY UTTER THE SINGLE SENTENCE THAT ENDED HIS TENTATIVE FRIENDSHIP WITH DICKENS? - WHY DID DIFFERING OPINIONS LEAD TO THE CESSATION OF LETTERS BETWEEN FORMER CONFIDANTS AMIS AND LARKIN? - HOW DID HEMINGWAY USE AND ABUSE STEIN'S ARTISTIC CIRCLE IN PARIS? - WHAT AMERICAN L ITERARY AMBITION SPAWNED BRUTAL COMPETITION BETWEEN CAPOTE AND V IDAL? From Tolstoy's deferred duelling and Dostoevsky's defamatory fiction, to J. C. Squire's qualms with modernism and Salman Rushdie's run-in with Islam, Literary Rivals is an enjoyable romp through the world of the fiercest writers' rivalries and the most bizarre literary stand-offs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Robson Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849548021
• Artikelnr.: 41511064

Autorenporträt

RICHARD BRADFORD has published twenty-five books on various aspects of literature and culture. His work on poetry and poetics has been praised as offering new, groundbreaking perspectives on the nature of verse. More recently, he has specialised in literary biographies of writers such as John Milton, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe and Martin Amis. Bradford has also published an assessment of the current state of the British novel. He has held academic posts at Oxford, the University of Wales and Trinity College, Dublin, and is currently Research Professor of English at the University of Ulster and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1 Britain v. America: An Introduction to Feuds, Bitterness and
Self-Glorification
Chapter 2 Wordsworth v. Coleridge
Chapter 3 Baleful Fictions
Chapter 4 Nabokov v. Wilson
Chapter 5 Richardson v. Fielding
Chapter 6 'Every Word She Writes Is A Lie'
Chapter 7 Thackeray v. Dickens
Chapter 8 'You Haf De Nobel Brize'
Chapter 9 Hemingway v. Stein, Toklas and Anderson
Chapter 10 The Two Cultures
Chapter 11 Biographers' Tales
Chapter 12 J. C. Squire v. Modernism
Chapter 13 The Duellists
Chapter 14 Rushdie v. Islam
Acknowledgements