Professor Woudhuysen masterfully bridges the study of Renaissance English literature with the history of the book. His scholarship illuminates the intricate relationship between the material forms texts take and their meanings, exploring aspects from manuscript collation to the evolution of punctuation in works from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf. He has a deep engagement with editing Renaissance drama and with digital humanities projects that make historical literary sources widely accessible. His keen interest in bibliography and paleography informs his significant contributions to reference works and his insightful lectures on the history of copying and facsimiles.
First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. His vignettes of life in British India give vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. Witty, wry, sometimes cynical, these tales withtheir brevity and concentration of effect are landmarks in the history of the short story as an art-form.