Table of Contents

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

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GERARD BARRETT Director of Studies for English at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, UK ROBERT BOND Scholar and writer BRADLEY BUCHANAN Assistant Professor of English at Sacramento State University, California, USA VALERIE BUTLER Independent scholar JONATHAN COE Novelist and biographer of B.S. Johnson RICHARD LEIGH HARRIS Professional musician NICK HUBBLE Research Fellow at the Centre for Suburban Studies, Kingston University, UK DAVID JAMES Lecturer in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature, University of Nottingham, UK NICHOLAS JONES Independent scholar JARED MCGEOUGH Doctoral Student, University of Western Ontario, Canada ROD MENGHAM Reader in Modern English Literature, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK KAYE MITCHELL Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster, UK LAWRENCE PHILLIPS Senior Lecturer in English, School of Arts, University of Northampton, UK CAROL WATTS Lecturer in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

About the Author

PHILIP TEW is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK. He publishes widely on contemporary British fiction and critical theory, and co-edits a series on Contemporary Fiction for Palgrave Macmillan. Other works include B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading (2001), The Contemporary British Novel (2004) and Jim Crace (2006). GLYN WHITE is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford, UK. He has published articles on Alasdair Gray, Christine Brooke-Rose and B. S. Johnson, and a monograph entitled Reading