{"product_id":"those-who-write-for-immortality-h-j-jackson-9780300174793","title":"Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative inquiry into lasting literary fame, the gifted writers who have achieved it, and the gifted writers who have not\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. Or . . . might there be other reasons that account for an author's literary fate? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This original book takes a fresh look at our beliefs about literary fame by examining how it actually comes about. H. J. Jackson wrestles with entrenched notions about recognizing genius and the test of time by comparing the reputations of a dozen writers of the Romantic period--some famous, some forgotten. Why are we still reading Jane Austen but not Mary Brunton, when readers in their own day sometimes couldn't tell their works apart? Why Keats and not Barry Cornwall, who came from the same circle of writers and had the same mentor? Why not that mentor, Leigh Hunt, himself? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jackson offers new and unorthodox accounts of the coming-to-fame of some of Britain's most revered authors and compares their reputations and afterlives with those of their contemporary rivals. What she discovers about trends, champions, institutional power, and writers' conscious efforts to position themselves for posterity casts fresh light on the actual processes that lead to literary fame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. J. Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300174799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300174793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 5.80w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/26\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/04\/2015 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2015 pg. 71","brand":"H. J. Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46311012139263,"sku":"9780300174793","price":77.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4193bcd8-1e2b-4851-a65f-b27e45883716.jpg?v=1730887856","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/those-who-write-for-immortality-h-j-jackson-9780300174793","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}