One of the great pleasures of Allison's book is that it not only offers persuasive readings of familiar texts, but suggests new ways of reading them that others will want to try. Rereading novels by Dickens and Eliot afterwards, I could not help but see their syntax with a new awareness and appreciation . . . the reductive reading Allison describes and demonstrates in this book greatly expands our critical understanding. Natalie M. Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Review of English Studies Reductive Reading is sure to appeal to scholars interested in theory after 'distant reading.' Kate Holterhoff, Collations Book Forum, V21 Collective Allison's book opens the door to some fascinating questions about contemporary critical practice. Sheila Liming, Collations Book Forum, V21 Collective A masterful integration of digital humanistic approaches and more traditional close-reading methods, Reductive Reading makes a compelling, persuasive case for the way that the style of Victorian literature shaped morality. Victorian Studies for the 21st Century Reductive Reading is a lucid, original, and persuasive study of the ways in which ethical ideas take shape in the form of the sentence, the turn from clause to clause, the rapid, vertiginous descent from one poetic line to the next, or the ironic turn of the speech tag. Anyone interested in ethics and style will find a wealth of new knowledge and exciting insights in its pages. Daniel Wright, University of Toronto, Victorian Studies
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