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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An unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame and failure through writers who failed to achieve it.

About the Author

Adam Rounce is a Lecturer at the University of Nottingham. He has written on various seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers, including Dryden, Johnson, Pope, Akenside, Cowper, Warburton and Wilkes. He is also co-editor of two volumes for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift.