itself a scholarly model for how to investigate the complex forcefield in which all literary works live and move and have their being." Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
"A dazzling study of the work of Thomas Moore, more than meeting the considerable challenges laid down by this most stylish of authors while also raising new questions for the field at large." Claire Connolly, Professor of Modern English, University College Cork
"Justin Tonra's book asks us not just to look at the career of Thomas Moore again but also to view an entirely new Romantic-era author.
Write my Name is about 'Thomas Moore' but also about the many fugitive personae that emanated from him, pseudonymous - Thomas Little, Thomas Brown, Anacreon, Feramorz, narrator of
Lalla Rookh, even
'Tom Moore'
- and anonymous - the periodical reviewer who can be teased into attributed authorship by computational analysis. Where Moore has been well-served by Irish literary critics and those interested in the matter of word and music in the
Irish Melodies, Tonra moves the critical ground in an entirely new direction, offering sophisticated and always throughful readings in Romantic book history and the digital humanities while bringing them round to the contrasting distant and close reading of Moore and his contemporaries." Matthew Campbell, Professor of Modern Literature, University of York