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Author:   Tim Sommer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032558295

ISBN 10:   1032558296
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Literature, Heritage, Archive Tim Sommer Part I: Historical Origins 1. “This Warm Scribe, My [Profitable] Hand”: Agency and the Acquisition of Literary Archives Christopher Fletcher 2. British Romantic Poetry and/as Cultural Heritage: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Robinson Tim Sommer 3. Women Writers and Publisher Archives: Jane Austen and Beyond Michelle Levy Part II: Institutional Collecting 4. The Collections Cycle of the Modernist Archive Market Amy Hildreth Chen 5. “Operation Manuscript”: A National Institutional Response to Collecting Contemporary Literary Heritage Jamie Andrews 6. Manuscript in the Writer’s House Museum Nicola J. Watson Part III: Authors and Archives 7. Archival Anxieties: On Memory and Forgetfulness Stephen Enniss 8. Archives as Texts and the Stories They Tell Jennifer Douglas 9. Writers’ Libraries and Vestigial Notes as Cultural Heritage: Minding the Gaps in the Material Record Dirk Van Hulle Part IV: Digital Archives, Digital Heritage 10. Capturing, Collaborating, and Curating: A Community-Led Approach to Contemporary Born-Digital Literary Archives Justine Mann 11. Invisible Touches: The Challenge of the Hidden Revolution in Bookmaking for Publishers’ Archives Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Index

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“This timely collection interrogates with a critical eye how we construct literary heritage and thinks about how such ideas might shape our future. Its importance lies in the essays’ combination of heritage, literary, and archival studies to deconstruct the institutions that have authored our cultural understanding of literary archives.” Carrie Smith, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, UK

Author Information

Tim Sommer is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, an Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Oxford. At the University of Heidelberg, he was principal investigator on the project “Modern Literary Manuscripts as Cultural Heritage: Valuation, Archivization, Digitization” (2020–2021). His research on literary authorship, cultural heritage, and archival institutions has appeared in Romanticism, Book History, the Journal of World Literature, and the Harvard Library Bulletin, among other venues. His monograph Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority: Literature, Print, Performance was published in 2021.

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