In the Footsteps of Queen Victoria. Wege zum Viktorianischen Zeitalter. Ed. Christa Jansohn (Studien zur englischen Literatur, 15).

Proceedings from conferences, lecture series or seminars can look awkward in print. Tumbled together, often pell-mell, from hurriedly revised papers on a diffusely expansive subject, hard to harmonize for editors and difficult to arrange in a meaningful order in the pages of a volume which frequently is only held together thanks to the bookbinder’s trusty services, the result can be as useless to scholars, who, as indices are usually impossible on a tight editorial budget, have to rummage huge amounts of disorderly text for some nuggets of information, as it is mind-boggling to the adventurous student who has been led to a foray into specialist studies by an electronic search tool or bibliography.

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