Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts, ed. Orietta da Rold and Elaine Treharne

In a very brief introduction, Elaine Treharne writes: “The aim of this volume was never to be comprehensive in coverage, but rather to publish the work of scholars whose approaches to books, words and texts are engaging, innovative and always rigorous” (p. 1). Despite, or perhaps in line with this statement, the ten essays that follow encompass a wide-range of texts and material contexts but succeed in cumulatively demonstrating the lively state of contemporary textual scholarship.