Lady Caroline Lamb's seduction by Lord Byron's "Childe Harold" cost her both marriage and mental health; Laura Riding, claiming she was poetry incarnate, leapt from a fourth-storey building; Robert Graves, believing she was right, followed. Why do some writers compel their readers to sacrifice all on the strength of a few words? In attempting to answer this question, "Literary Seductions" examines tales of literary love affairs which went one step further - of readers who give up everything for writers and their work.
- ISBN10 1466875747
- ISBN13 9781466875746
- Publish Date 15 July 2014 (first published 4 October 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format eBook
- Language English