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Title: Aaron Hill: The Muses-Projector, 1685-1750 by Christine Gerrard ISBN: 0-19-818388-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $74.00

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Summary: Hill of beans?
Comment: Often known for his prominent place in Pope's Dunciad, Aaron Hill's merit as an author has divided late seventeenth and early eighteenth century scholars for years. This book offers an insightful and thorough evaluation of a man who tried his hand at almost every literary genre. Gerrard's study offers a frank and nuanced approach to a panoply of political, religious, and literary intrigues. Theatre manager, serial publisher, poet--there are few aspects of London literary life unfamiliar to Hill. Gerrard views her subject through many different lenses-including his relationship with many of the rising women authors of the early eighteenth century.
Certainly Hill was never truly successful in the way that many of the authors of the period are now studied. He hides in the shadow of such competitors as Pope, Swift, and Defoe. His friendships with the complicated Richard Savage as well as Samuel Richardson are looked at in close detail. Certainly a student of book history should not pass by her work. Hill dabbles in every possible means of publishing in the early to mid eighteenth century. To understand major literary trends and figures such as Pope and Richardson, it is often enlightening to see them through the eyes of those who would be them. Hill is such a figure and Gerrard's thoughtful and insightful work helps us to do this.