Author and Printer in Victorian England

Author and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing methods; the texts were classic literary works by Victorian authors. What was at stake was textual control: who would decide how the text would read-author, compositor, printer's reader, or publisher?

In a unique fusion of literary history and printing history, Allan C. Dooley explores the interactions between individual authors and…