Those Who Write for Immortality

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"[A] revelatory and delightful study . . . Jackson's study should renew interest in the Romantic period and its writers-the famous and forgotten alike."?Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly * "Jackson commands a lifetime of reading in a fluid, ceaselessly compelling history of the literary afterlife, of how over the centuries, our concepts of a writer's immortality have morphed, mutated, double-backed."-William Giraldi, The New Republic -- William Giraldi * The New Republic * "Those Who Write for Immortality is therefore a special book, a delightfully readable and reliable witness for a subject that sometimes seems out of fashion, as ideas of posterity appear either pointless or impossible, in literature or elsewhere."-The American Scholar * The American Scholar * "A thoughtful, elegant, and subtly humorous exploration of the specific circumstances that enable literary reputations to flourish over the long term."-Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker -- Joshua Rothman * The New Yorker * "[A] fascinating new study of literary reputation . . . [a] meticulously researched, elegantly written and wonderfully subtle account of the reputational fortunes, over time, of a select group of Romantic period writers."-The Literary Review of Canada * The Literary Review of Canada * "[A] spirited and always enlightening meditation on literary fame."-Carlin Romano, The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Carlin Romano * The Chronicle of Higher Education * "[A] lively and immensely knowledgeable book."-Richard Holmes, The New York Review of Books -- Richard Holmes * The New York Review of Books * "Samuel Daniel, a poet attuned to literary immortality, dreamed of "one good reader". Jackson is just such a reader. Her book is full of good criticism."-Hal Jensen, TLS -- Hal Jensen * TLS *