This study explores the ways in which Dickens’s published work and his thousands of letters intersect, to shape and promote particular myths of the reading ex

The award-winning literary critic takes readers down the rabbit hole of Victorian cultural and intellectual influences on Lewis Carroll’s Alice books. In Alic

This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and technologies of communication – especially the penny post and the t

Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A “marvelous exploration” of Dickens’s life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels (Kirkus Review