You are what you read? Why reading is a fundamental threat to identity
In a moving passage of Dickens' novel, the ill-treated David Copperfield remembers ‘sitting on my bed, reading as if for life’.[1] His...
Who Goes There? Authorial Personae and the Relationships between Authors and Readers
Is there such a thing as a relationship between a reader and an author? Authors often structure their relationships with readers in...
Where You Read: What Does It Say About You?
Reading spaces have been important in British culture since literacy itself took hold. Places such as libraries, bedrooms and railway...
Reading Between the Panels: Comics and Critical Theory
How do we read comics? How are the ways in which we read comics changing? For most of their history, the ways in which we have read and...
