David Bowie and Romanticism Errata

Errata page for David Bowie and Romanticism. If you see additional errors beyond those listed below, please email jamesrovira (at) gmail (dot) com. In the event of my death, please promote the book so much it goes into a second edition and then fix everything listed on this page. Paragraph numbers count full paragraphs only unless noted otherwise, so “par. 1” usually means first full paragraph on the page.

A note on the manuscript preparation process: I originally intended the publication of David Bowie and Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism (Routledge, 2023) to be separated by about a year, with the Bowie book coming out first. However, Palgrave was slow in moving the book into production and Routledge incredibly fast, so they wound up being released about three to four months apart. Women in Rock is listed as published in 2023, but it came out October 2022.

It seems that both Palgrave and Routledge use contractors in India for final manuscript preparation. These contractors vary in quality from book to book, and I had some issues with both of them. One Palgrave book that I reviewed (not this one) had over 100 errors — not different style preferences, or differences in UK vs. US usage, but errors — in the book, most of them comma related, some of them including a comma between a subject and its verb. I did not count the omission of a serial comma as that is a style preference (but if you delete it, you must think McDonald’s is a delicacy). My manuscript preparation team for both publishers were more competent than that, but Palgrave’s contractors displayed some second language errors in their initial correction of my first draft such as incorrect use of the definite article. I had to include links to grammar websites to explain some of my corrections.

The table below lists remaining errors caught after publication.

Error	Correction	Page No.	Comment
Chap. 2.	chapter 2.	8, par. 2
public image this way in a way	public image in a way	12, par. 2
many which have been	many of which have been	19, par. 1
anthropocene	Anthropocene	52, par. 1
a Romantic orientalist idea	a Romantic, orientalist idea	71, par. 1
Romanticism represented innovative	Not sure “represented” is the right verb here.	185, par. 1
emotional response have	emotional responses have	186, par. 1
career out on overturning	career on overturning	187, par. 2	Bottom of page.
one individual watches… they	any individuals watch	192, par. 1
game for Sarah	game requiring Sarah	193, par. 1
arise: An	arise: an	193, par. 1
lacked frame of	lacked a frame of	195, par. 1	Top of page.
glaring cases of	glaring cases of the	196, par. 2
departed from	departed from an	197, par. 1
underscored by [extra line break here]	deleted unwanted line break	227, par. 1	Annoying, incompetent work by typesetters.
There were five suites	Indent before “There”	236, par. 1
spray painted	spray-painted	248, par. 1	Top of page.
and it’s very likely	but it’s very likely	254n75
in his video, “Blackstar,”	in his video “Blackstar,”	275n56