Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom

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Introduction
Jonathon Shears and Alan Rawes
Reading With Bloom
1. Keats and his 'Composite Precursor[s]' in The Fall of Hyperion
Alan Rawes
2. The Decline of America: Bloom's Monumental Theory of History . Alistair Heys
3. 'Continuity in the self': Wordsworth, Byron, Bloom
Jonathon Shears
4. The Blooming of Hamlet
James Soderholm
Reading Against Bloom
5. The Limits of 'perfect solipsism': Bloom's Map and the
Origins of Shelley's Dejection
Sally West
6. Apophrades, Adonais and the Return of the Shelleys
Graham Allen
7. Towards a Feminist Revisionism of an Aesthetics of Mastery:
Harold Bloom, neo-Romanticism and the Critical Sublime
Mary Orr
8. Childe Roland's Literate Despair
Andrew M. Stauffer
Reading Beyond Bloom
9. Superscriptions of Bliss: Influence and Form in the Poetry of Lawrence
David Duff
10. How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading
Paul H. Fry
11. 'The strong dead return': The Transgressive Shades of Bloom's Daemon
Julian Wolfreys
12. The Impossibility of Reading: Bloom and the Yale School of Criticism
Arthur Bradley
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