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COLCLOUGH, STEPHEN

Stephen is a Lecturer in the School of English at Bangor University. He teaches Victorian and twentieth-century literature and poetry of the Romantic period. Stephen has three areas of interest: readers and reading practices 1700-1900;  Victorian and early twentieth-century print culture, and the late Romantic period, especially the poetry of John Clare. He is also particularly interested in the expansion of British print culture during the period 1830-1920, working extensively on the archives of W.H. Smith & Son. As a result of this research, Stephen has written several articles and chapters on the new forms of text dissemination, such as railway bookstalls, commercial circulating libraries and advertising hoardings, that helped to produce the national print culture that we associate with the late Victorian period. Finally, he also works on the poetry of the John Clare and Letitia Landon in relation to the new forms of publication (such as gift books and annuals) that became popular during the late Romantic period. He is a co-editor for English and has published articles in numerous journals including Variants and Publishing History.

Between 2001-05, Stephen was an AHRC Research Fellow in Book History, Centre for Writing, Publishing and Printing History, in the Department of English, University of Reading. In 2001 he was also made an Associate Fellow of the Institute of English, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Selected Publications:
Reading Experience, 1700-1840: An Annotated Register of Sources for the History of Reading in the British Isles (Centre for Writing, Publishing and Printing History, 2000)
Consuming Texts: Readers and Reading Communities, 1695-1870 (Palgrave, 2007)

Contributed to:
John Clare: New Voices, New Approaches (contributor) (John Clare Society, 2000)
Printing Places: Locations of Book Production and Distribution Since 1500 (contributor) (British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2005)         
Owners, Annotators and the Signs of Reading (contributor) (British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2005)
The Blackwell Companion to the History of the Book (contributor) (Blackwell, 2007)
Publishing and the First World War (contributor) (Palgrave, 2007)
The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Ambition and Industry 1800-1880 (contributor) (University of Edinburgh Press, 2007)
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 6 (1830-1914) (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
The History of the Book in the West: 1800 - 1914 v. 4 (co-editor) (Ashgate, 2010)