Libraries, Literatures, and Archives

Sas Mays is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Critical Theory in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, London. His overall research concerns mediations of cultural memory through technological and archival forms, from the textual to the visual, and the analogue to the digital.

Introduction: Unpacking the Library Sas Mays 1. Index Geoffrey Bennington 2. ‘Under a heap of dust they buried lye, Within a vault of some small Library’: Margaret Cavendish and the Gendered Space of the Seventeenth-Century Library Emily Bowles 3. Outside the Archive: the Image of the Library in Hitchcock Tom Cohen 4. Reading in the Library of Catastrophe: W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn Richard Crownshaw 5. Agendas and Aesthetics in the Transformations of the Codex in Early Modern England Elizabeth Evenden 6. Magical Values in Recent Romances of the Archive Suzanne Keen 7. Classifying Fictions: Libraries and Information Sciences and the Practice of Complete Reading Michelle Kelly 8. Autobiobibliographies: for Lovers of Libraries Martin McQuillan 9. ‘That library of uncatalogued pleasure’: Queerness, Desire & the Archive in Contemporary Gay Fiction Kaye Mitchell 10. Cataloguing Architecture: the Library of the Architect Andrew Peckham 11. Reading Folk Archive: on the Utopian Dimension of the Artists’ Book Dan Smith 12. The Archive and the Library in V.Y. Mudimbe’s The Rift Wendy W. Walters 13. Digital Libraries and Fantasies of Totality Andrew White 14. The Archive, the Event, and the Impression Simon Morgan Wortham