Genesis and Revision in Modern British and Irish Writers

Jonathan Bloom is Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris-Dauphine, Paris Sciences & Lettres, France. He has published widely and his book The Art of Revision in the Short Stories of V. S. Pritchett and William Trevor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) received critical acclaim. He has been awarded three Harry Ransom Center Fellowships and is a member of the University of Montpellier III research group EMMA. Catherine Rovera is Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris-Dauphine and head of the James Joyce research team at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM, CNRS/ENS), Paris Sciences & Lettres, France. A specialist in genetic criticism and modernism, she is the author of a monograph titled Genèses d'une folie créole: Jean Rhys et Jane Eyre (Paris: Hermann, 2015).

• 1. Introduction: Archival Revelations, Jonathan Bloom and Catherine Rovera.- 2. Vision and Revision in the Manuscripts of William Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats, Wim Van Mierlo.- 3. The Unwritten Waste: Revisions in the Poetry and Memoir of A. S. J. Tessimond, James Bainbridge.- 4. Inspiration and Narrative in the Short Poem, Bernard O'Donoghue.- 5. The ‘Newness’ of Manuscripts, Daniel Ferrer.- 6. Unwriting The Waves, Christine Froula.- 7. The Writer's Hunger: Considering a Novel in Progress, Sonia Overall.- 8. To Cut a Long Story Short: The Production of Mary Lavin’s New Yorker Stories, Grainne Hurley.- 9. The Handmade Tale: The Paper Medium as the Place for Action, Claire Bustarret, translated by Jonathan Bloom.- 10. ‘No speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind’: Shaping the Spiritual through Writing and Typing in George MacDonald’s Lilith manuscripts, Christine Collière-Whiteside.- 11. Processing Modernism, Alexander Christie.