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A colourful account of less canonical and unfulfilled eighteenth-century British writers that explores ideas of fame and failure. It discusses literary success and reputation, offering authoritative readings of significant writers who did not succeed in fulfilling their potential, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the emergence of Romanticism.

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Introduction: motion without progress; 1. An author to be let; 2. The exemplary failure of Dr Dodd; 3. Anna Seward's cruel times; 4. Percival Stockdale's alternative literary history.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/10/2013
      ISBN13: 9781107042223, 978-1107042223
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      Book Synopsis
      A colourful account of less canonical and unfulfilled eighteenth-century British writers that explores ideas of fame and failure. It discusses literary success and reputation, offering authoritative readings of significant writers who did not succeed in fulfilling their potential, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the emergence of Romanticism.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: motion without progress; 1. An author to be let; 2. The exemplary failure of Dr Dodd; 3. Anna Seward's cruel times; 4. Percival Stockdale's alternative literary history.

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