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Literary rivals : feuds and antagonisms in the world of books / by Richard Bradford.

by Bradford, Richard, 1957-

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The Robson Press, 2014.

Literary quarrels -- History.

Literature -- History and criticism.

Authors -- Biography.

9781849546027 (hc.)

1849546029 (hc.)

xi, 316 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Britain v. America -- Wordsworth v. Coleridge -- Baleful fictions -- Nabokov v. Wilson -- Richardson v. Fielding -- "Every word she writes is a lie" -- Thackeray v. Dickens -- "You haf de Nobel Brize" -- Hemingway v. Stein, Toklas and Anderson -- The two cultures -- Biographers' tales -- J.C. Squire v. Modernism -- The duellists -- Rushdie v. Islam.

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. 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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