First Published in 2002, Visual Words provides a unique and interdisciplinary evaluation of
the relationship between images and words in this period. Victorian England witnessed a …

I am interested in a model of literary interpretation responsive to the spatial and temporal
distances across which texts move. My approach is to use quantitative reading data to …

The idea of a historian demanded reconceptualization in late-Victorian era as historians
began to promote history as a “branch of science.” The meager institutional support for …

Building on recent work in book history which shows that analyses of the original periodical
context of much nineteenth-century writing can generate variant readings of “official” …

James Joyce was a keen reader, catholic in his tastes. As a young man in Trieste, he
needed “to ease his intellectual heart by occasional visits to a theatre or a bookshop”(Letters …

Don McKenzie's famous coinage of the phrase the'sociology of the text'in his 1985 Panizzi
Lectures seems, despite its varied reception, l to have a supplied a gap in the vocabulary …

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA Departamento de
Filología Inglesa II (Literatura de los Países de Page 1 UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE …

This thesis examines the powerful, partially-concealed discourse of British imperialism that
prevailed in the English children's annual and explores the implications of anglo-centric …

The layers of composition and revision underlying published works constitute a palimpsest,
the hidden layers of which illuminate the final product. I analyze the manuscript versions of …