Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830

Daniel Cook is a Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee, UK. He has published widely on eighteenth-century and Romantic-period literature, including a three-volume edition of The Lives of Jonathan Swift (2011) and (with Amy Culley) a collection of essays entitled Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre, and Authorship (2012).

"Daniel Cook offers the fullest treatment yet available of the earliest appearances of Chatterton's work in print. He gives a meticulous account of the earliest publication of work by Chatterton in magazines, and of the manner in which Chatterton's earliest editors presented his work ... ." (Richard Cronin, Romantic Review, Vol. 27 (1), February, 2016) '[An] elegantly scrupulous study... Cook's contribution to eighteenth-century and Romantic studies is to show how Chatterton's problematic status as an author figure is in fact a striking reflection of rapidly changing and competing attitudes towards literature, criticism, the English past, the vernacular canon, and, crucially, the construction of unified authorship... Cook has diligently examined the periodical press of the later eighteenth century and spins a sophisticated narrative out of its tangled web of opinions. This confident and eloquent book will be welcomed by those researching authorship, the history of editing, and the Romantic reception of earlier writers, while remaining at its heart a signal contribution to the study of Thomas Chatterton.' Nick Groom, The BARS Review

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Genius and Scholarship 2. Tyrwhitt's Rowley, or 'what the author wrote' 3. Miscellanies and the Moderns 4. The Rowley Controversy 5. 'Too proud for pity': The Sentimental Reader 6. 'Neglected Genius': The Romantic Canon Afterword Select Bibliography Index