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'From Self to Shelf is a marvellously rich and various exploration of the interplay between biographical and aesthetic selves, ranging from the great self-inventions of the Romantic poets, through the complexities of revelation and impersonality that characterise twentieth century art, and down to the knowing dramas of reticence and display that distinguish the work of so many leading contemporaries. It includes essays in literary criticism, chapters in the history of painting and of music, biographical accounts, and studies in popular culture, as well as reflections by eminent practitioners. The editors have assembled an outstanding group of contributors, with names both new and familiar, to produce a volume at once absorbing and surprising, warmly alive to the human stories it tells while remaining theoretically up-to-date, and creating a book that is altogether as engaging and thought-provoking as the masterpieces it illuminates.'Seamus Perry.Fellow and Tutor in English, Balliol College, Oxford.

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'Dr. Bayley is a highly respected tutor of English Literature at Balliol College Oxford, and I believe that this collection, emeerging from a conference she organised this year, will offer a stimulating addition to interdisciplinary studies, especially in the field of the visual arts and twentieth-century modernist literature.'Dr. Susan JonesFellow and Tutor in English, Balliol College Oxford

'Dr. Bayley is a highly respected tutor of English Literature at Balliol College Oxford, and I believe that this collection, emeerging from a conference she organised this year, will offer a stimulating addition to interdisciplinary studies, especially in the field of the visual arts and twentieth-century modernist literature.' Dr. Susan Jones Fellow and Tutor in English, Balliol College Oxford

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Sally Bayley teaches Victorian, Modern, and American literature at Jesus College, Oxford. She haspublished essays on the poet Sylvia Plath and her book, co-edited with Kathleen Connors, Eye Rhymes:Sylvia Plath and the Art of the Visual will be published by Oxford Univerity Press in October 2007. William May is a lecturer at Bath Spa University. He specialises in British twentieth-century literature, and has published articles on Stevie Smith and Simon Armitage. He is currently working on a book-length studyof Stevie Smith.

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