Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior

by Brooke Allen

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566635950
• ISBN13: 9781566635950
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A critical evaluation of three centuries of good writing

Brooke Allen is a rising literary star whose prior look at 20th century writers received rave reviews; but ARTISTIC LICENSE requires no prior familiarity to stand alone as another excellent literary consideration. Allen's theme here is the dysfunctional, destructive nature of great talent: her survey of changing moral and ideological systems and the rebellion in writer's lives provides quite a lively and critical evaluation of three centuries of good writing and scandalous scholars.