Vidyan Ravinthiran is Associate Professor of English Literature at Harvard and he is author of two award-winning books of verse. His first monograph, Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic (Bucknell UP, 2015) won both the University English Prize and the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. He has compiled editions of Indian poets and has published a range of both scholarly and journalistic articles on the cognitions of form in both poetry and prose, encompassing works from multiple time-periods and nations. He helps organize Ledbury Emerging Critics, a UK/US scheme for increasing racial diversity in review-culture.

To read prose for spontaneity is to imaginatively experience prose being spontaneously rewritten. Ravinthiran models this experience delightfully, in a range of texts whose delights have been kept from literary criticism far too long.

• 1: Introduction 2: William Hazlitt's Spontaneous Journalism 3: The Crisis Prose of Emerson and Whitman: Hinduism, Convulsive Forms, and Moonlight 4: "In some spontaneous way, so to speak": The Journal-Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins 5: Herman Melville's Heart and Billy Budd's Overflowing Soup 6: The Aesthetics of Outburst: D.H. Lawrence and Saul Bellow 7: Virginia Woolf, Marion Milner, Spontaneous Ordering Forces, and the Reclaiming of Gendered Passiveness 8: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, in the Meantime 9: Adil Jussawalla: The Journalist as Lyric Activist 10: Conclusion: Digital Spontaneity Today, and in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah

Vidyan Ravinthiran is Associate Professor of English Literature at Harvard and he is author of two award-winning books of verse. His first monograph, Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic (Bucknell UP, 2015) won both the University English Prize and the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. He has compiled editions of Indian poets and has published a range of both scholarly and journalistic articles on the cognitions of form in both poetry and prose, encompassing works from multiple time-periods and nations. He helps organize Ledbury Emerging Critics, a UK/US scheme for increasing racial diversity in review-culture.

To read prose for spontaneity is to imaginatively experience prose being spontaneously rewritten. Ravinthiran models this experience delightfully, in a range of texts whose delights have been kept from literary criticism far too long.

• 1: Introduction 2: William Hazlitt's Spontaneous Journalism 3: The Crisis Prose of Emerson and Whitman: Hinduism, Convulsive Forms, and Moonlight 4: "In some spontaneous way, so to speak": The Journal-Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins 5: Herman Melville's Heart and Billy Budd's Overflowing Soup 6: The Aesthetics of Outburst: D.H. Lawrence and Saul Bellow 7: Virginia Woolf, Marion Milner, Spontaneous Ordering Forces, and the Reclaiming of Gendered Passiveness 8: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, in the Meantime 9: Adil Jussawalla: The Journalist as Lyric Activist 10: Conclusion: Digital Spontaneity Today, and in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah

Vidyan Ravinthiran is Associate Professor of English Literature at Harvard and he is author of two award-winning books of verse. His first monograph, Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic (Bucknell UP, 2015) won both the University English Prize and the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. He has compiled editions of Indian poets and has published a range of both scholarly and journalistic articles on the cognitions of form in both poetry and prose, encompassing works from multiple time-periods and nations. He helps organize Ledbury Emerging Critics, a UK/US scheme for increasing racial diversity in review-culture.

To read prose for spontaneity is to imaginatively experience prose being spontaneously rewritten. Ravinthiran models this experience delightfully, in a range of texts whose delights have been kept from literary criticism far too long.

• 1: Introduction 2: William Hazlitt's Spontaneous Journalism 3: The Crisis Prose of Emerson and Whitman: Hinduism, Convulsive Forms, and Moonlight 4: "In some spontaneous way, so to speak": The Journal-Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins 5: Herman Melville's Heart and Billy Budd's Overflowing Soup 6: The Aesthetics of Outburst: D.H. Lawrence and Saul Bellow 7: Virginia Woolf, Marion Milner, Spontaneous Ordering Forces, and the Reclaiming of Gendered Passiveness 8: Reading Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, in the Meantime 9: Adil Jussawalla: The Journalist as Lyric Activist 10: Conclusion: Digital Spontaneity Today, and in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah