"Colour'd Shadows" interprets nineteenth-century British women writers' works in connection with the material contexts of writing, printing, and publishing, and the book illustrates methods of "reading" the material book for what it reveals about the meanings of the literary work that it embodies.

From Song to Print is a study of the major cultural transition from oral forms of art and discourse to the commercial culture of print that happened during the Industrial Revolution. Through a discussion of ancient musical forms (classical, biblical, and early-modern poetry of song), this book explores the typographical simulation of music and oral poetry during the nineteenth century. Original and innovative, this work shows how the musical writings of Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Keats, evoke antique cultures and ancient settings while offering a critique of...