The Boundaries of the Literary Archive

Dr Carrie Smith is a Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. Lisa Stead is a Lecturer in English and Film at the University of Exeter, UK.

Introduction, Lisa Stead; Part I Theorizing the Archive; Chapter 1 The Archaeology of the Manuscript: Towards Modern Palaeography, Wim Van Mierlo; Chapter 2 Allusion and Exogenesis: The Labouring Heart of Samuel Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said, Iain Bailey; Chapter 3 Original Order, Added Value? Archival Theory and the Douglas Coupland Fonds, Jennifer Douglas; Part II Reclamation and Representation; Chapter 4 Untrustworthy Reproductions and Doctored Archives: Undoing the Sins of a Victorian Biographer, Isabelle Cosgrave; Chapter 5 The Double Life of ‘The Ghost in the Garden Room’: Charles Dickens Edits Elizabeth Gaskell, Fran Baker; Chapter 6 Lost Property: John Galsworthy and the Search for ‘That Stuffed Shirt’, Simon Barker; Chapter 7 Poetry and Personality: The Private Papers and Public Image of Elizabeth Jennings, Jane Dowson; Part III Boundaries; Chapter 8 Illustration and Ekphrasis: The Working Drafts of Ted Hughes’s Cave Birds, Carrie Smith; Chapter 9 Letter Writing, Cinemagoing and Archive Ephemera, Lisa Stead; Part IV Working in the Archive; Chapter 10 To Reveal or Conceal: Privacy and Confidentiality in the Papers of Contemporary Authors, Sara S. Hodson; Chapter 11 Teaching the Material Archive at Smith College, Karen V. Kukil; Chapter 12 ‘What will survive of us are manuscripts’: Archives, Scholarship and Human Stories, Helen Taylor;