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Growing academic interest and the republication of B.S. Johnson's major works have been reinforced by Coe's award-winning biography Like A Fiery Elephant (2004). With a preface by Coe, this collection, co-edited by two leading Johnson scholars, offers an annotated bibliography, a chronology and readings of the author and his work.

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286122

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Introduction

White Glyn; Tew Philip

3-13

Chronology

Tew Philip

14-23

The (w)hole affect

James David

27-37

Pentonville modernism

Bond Robert

38-50

The unfortunates

Mitchell Kaye

51-64

"From embryo to embryan"

Leigh Harris Richard

65-79

"the mind has fuses"

Watts Carol

80-91

In the net

Mengham Rod

95-103

Strange intercessions

Barrett Gerard

104-116

Institutional negotiations

Butler Valerie

117-131

B. S. Johnson's "introduction" to aren't you rather young to be writing your memoirs?

McGeough Jared

132-142

"An evacuee for ever"

Hubble Nick

143-157

Exemplary B. S.

Buchanan Bradley

161-174

B. S. Johnson's Albert Angelo and the consequences of London

Phillips Lawrence

175-188

"He would be working at the Welsh books"

Jones Nicholas

189-201

Otherness, post-coloniality and pedagogy in B. S. Johnson's Albert Angelo (1964) and See the old lady decently (1975)

Tew Philip

202-219

Annotated bibliography of Johnson studies

White Glyn

223-236