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… of his time, like Eliza Haywood, for their very successes – implicitly assuming that they must cater to the lowest tastes possible in order to achieve such widespread appeal – on the other hand, he equally uses lack of success as an … a part of the literary world, and its economic affordances and demands did not always focus exclusively on questions of taste and aesthetics. His friend Swift, who had a much greater capacity for laughing at himself, consequently had fewer …
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