Title The fame machine : book reviewing and eighteenth-century literary careers / Frank Donoghue

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996

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Description viii, 213 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Review Criticism and Reading: 1749-75 -- 2. "I wrote not to be fed but to be famous": Laurence Sterne -- 3. "He never gives us nothing that's low": Oliver Goldsmith -- 4. "It is better to be envied that despised": Tobias Smollett -- 5. "Our last expedient": Female Literary Careers Notes Bibliography: p197-207. - Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-207) and index Subject Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century. Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century. Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century. Authorship -- History -- 18th century. Book reviewing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Canon (Literature) Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Fame -- History -- 18th century. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. LC no. 95022803 ISBN 0804725632 (cloth : alk. paper)

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