Re-reading B. S. Johnson

GERARD BARRETT Director of Studies for English at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, UKROBERT BOND Scholar and writerBRADLEY BUCHANAN Assistant Professor of English at Sacramento State University, California, USAVALERIE BUTLER Independent scholarJONATHAN COE Novelist and biographer of B.S. JohnsonRICHARD LEIGH HARRIS Professional musicianNICK HUBBLE Research Fellow at the Centre for Suburban Studies, Kingston University, UKDAVID JAMES Lecturer in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature, University of Nottingham, UKNICHOLAS JONES Independent scholarJARED MCGEOUGH Doctoral Student, University of Western Ontario, CanadaROD MENGHAM Reader in Modern English Literature, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UKKAYE MITCHELL Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster, UKLAWRENCE PHILLIPS Senior Lecturer in English, School of Arts, University of Northampton, UKCAROL WATTS Lecturer in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Note on Primary Texts Prefatory Essay: B.S. Johnson and Academia; J.Coe Introduction: Re-Reading B.S. Johnson; G.White & P.Tew Chronology: Concerning Bryan Stanley Johnson; P.Tew PART ONE: RE-READING THE NOVELS The (w)hole affect: creative reading and typographic immersion in Albert Angelo ; D.James Pentonville modernism: fate and resentment in Albert Angelo ; R.Bond The Unfortunates : Hypertext, linearity and the act of reading; K.Mitchell 'From embryo to embryan': See the Old Lady Decently - a problematic birth?; R.L.Harris 'The mind has fuses': Detonating B.S. Johnson; C.Watts PART TWO: RE-READING THE AUTHOR In the net: B.S. Johnson, the biography and Trawl ; R.Mengham Strange intercessions: contraventions of the muse in the writings of B.S. Johnson; G.Barrett Institutional negotiations: B.S. Johnson and the BBC (1959-73); V.Butler B.S. Johnson's 'Introduction' to Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? : the memoir between life and literature; J.McGeough 'An evacuee for ever': B.S. Johnson versus ego psychology; N.Hubble PART THREE: RE-READING: NEW PERSPECTIVES Exemplary B.S: B.S. Johnson and the Toronto Research Group; B.Buchanan B.S.Johnson's Albert Angelo and the consequences of London; L.Phillips 'He would be working at the Welsh books': B.S. Johnson and the two literatures of Wales; N.Jones Otherness, post-coloniality and pedagogy in B.S. Johnson's Albert Angelo (1964) and See the Old Lady Decently (1975); P.Tew Annotated Bibliography of Johnson Studies Index