The Author's Effects engagingly insists that we attend to the presence and particularity of its examples, that we share Watson's fascination with the ability of each to "effect" the author it evokes.
Nicola J. Watson trained at Oxford and held posts at Oxford, Harvard, Northwestern, and Indiana Universities before taking up a position at the Open University. A specialist in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, her research focusses on authorial afterlives and the associated histories of literary tourism, literary commemoration, and the literary museum.