An early interest in Thomas Hardy, his Romantic precursors, and his Victorian contemporaries led me later to consider Hardy’s influence on a later, Edwardian writer, D.H. Lawrence. Subsequent studies of Joseph Conrad gave me the opportunity to edit a critical edition of Heart of Darkness, which in turn led to the creation of an entire series of theory-smart critical editions published by Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press. Currently, I am combining my interests in critical theory and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature by writing a study of the way in which Romantic, Victorian, and early-modern writers use, bend, and break the evolving conventions governing quotation marks in order to create meanings that would otherwise be difficult to express.