This series, entitled « Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the English-speaking World », examines the theoretical and practical crossover between fields and disciplines, as well as their methods, concepts and analytical tools, concerning the evolution of English studies in France, where interdisciplinarity has grown increasingly prominent in academic discourse but has rarely itself been the object of inquiry.

Illustration and Intermedial Avenues

This volume contains nine original articles by artists and researchers who offer a variety of perspectives on illustration from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. This selection is the result of the research work carried out by Illustr4tio, a French interdisciplinary network devoted to expanding the field of Illustration Studies worldwide and to bringing together illustrators, printmakers, publishers, curators, collectors and academics who have a common interest in illustration. It offers a wide spectrum of stances and practices which highlight the intermedial dimension of the illustrative image. The topics under consideration range from the illustrator's and reader's investigation of and bodily involvement with a literary text to the aesthetic, commercial and technical constraints that shape the illustrator's work - as well as its reception - and define his or her object and status. The collection offers insight into a specific case of intermedial transaction and throws light on the dialogic relationship between text and image, writer or patron and artist, and more broadly between readers, texts and books.

Book Practices and Textual Itineraries is a series of peer-reviewed book-length publications devoted to the study of book history and textual scholarship. It traces evolutions in the production, transmission and reception of books and texts over time and across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. It likewise examines new practices that are developing in response to the acceleration of textual production and exchange provoked by electronic media, and considers their significance for the editing and interpretation of literary works. Published at the Université de Lorraine, with an international editorial advisory board, the series aims at facilitating dialogue on book history and textual scholarship between scholars from France, Europe and the English-speaking world.

Maxime Leroy