Jonathon Shears is Lecturer in English at Keele University and Jen Harrison holds a PhD in Victorian and children's literature, and is currently a teacher of secondary school English.
'The essays in this collection negotiate the blocks and diversions that things create in our reading of literary texts, and come up with a variety of engaging results, sometimes suggesting new ways into nineteenth-century material culture, sometimes teasing at the practice of reading itself.' Review of English Studies