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Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom

Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom is a collection of 12 original essays which Shears co-edited with Alan Rawes (Manchester). The book is split into three sections which respectively encourage readers to read ‘with’, ‘against’ and ‘beyond’ Bloom. Shears co-authored an introduction (≈8,000 words), which argues for the value of, Bloom’s role as an antagonist to many of the dominant trends in recent literary criticism, and authored a chapter titled ‘Continuity in the Self: Wordsworth, Byron, Bloom’ (≈8,000 words) exploring how Bloom’s theory helps us to understand why Wordsworth removed ‘Vaudracour and Julia’ from The Prelude.