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Below are some texts by conference participants relating to attention in literature, along with participants’ suggestions for texts by others. 

Among these are academic monographs, poetry collections, critical articles, and texts notable for their ability to bridge academic and non-academic audiences. 

• “A Policy of Procrastination”: The Attention and Distraction of the Business Girl in Fiction by Henry James and Dorothy Richardson, by Jessica Grey
• Missel-Child, by Helen Tookey
• City of Departures, by Helen Tookey
• Almost Drowning, Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life, Death, Rebirth, the Royal Academy, 26 January – 31 March 2019
• Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy, by Thomas Gould
• Contemporary Fictions of Attention, Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century, by Alice Bennett
• How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell
• The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World, by Laurence Scott
• The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside our Heads, by Tim Wu