Those Who Write for Immortality

“[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