Following the pirate scourge of the early 18th century, many sea captains took to privateering as a means of making money. A form of nationally sponsored piracy, it reached its peak during the American Revolution, when the fledgling American navy had to rely on privateers to disrupt British shipping
Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760β1830
β Scribed by Daniel Cook (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 275
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Genius and Scholarship....Pages 13-34
Tyrwhittβs Rowley, or βwhat the author wroteβ....Pages 35-68
Miscellanies and the Moderns....Pages 69-92
The Rowley Controversy....Pages 93-128
βToo proud for pityβ: The Sentimental Reader....Pages 129-159
βNeglected Geniusβ: The Romantic Canon....Pages 160-196
Afterword....Pages 197-204
Back Matter....Pages 205-259
β¦ Subjects
British and Irish Literature; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Literary Theory; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
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