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A close examination of writers’ archival materials can enable us to reconstruct the creative composition process in a way that we cannot do in many artistic endeavors. Tracing the history of textual and genetic criticism on both sides of the Atlantic, Jonathan Bloom and Catherine Rovera chronicle the pioneering publications from the 1950s to the 1970s that established the study of literary genesis and revision as a compelling field in its own right. They argue that the empirical study of many writers’ preserved drafts, notes, correspondence and revisions gives us greater insight into their published work, even when the creative process extends beyond the stages that precede the first published text.
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Bloom, J., Rovera, C. (2020). Introduction: Archival Revelations. In: Bloom, J., Rovera, C. (eds) Genesis and Revision in Modern British and Irish Writers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50277-5_1
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