Gavin Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of South Wales

'The Case of the Initial Letter is fundamentally an effort to redress ‘the failure of literary critics and cultural historians to accord the dual alphabet the attention that it deserves’. With all the authority that upper-casing can muster, this is a Good Book.'Amanda Lastoria, Simon Fraser University, SHARP News 'This study of Dickens’s career and his experiences with capital letters and reader reception extend superbly to the book’s conclusion, which addresses the rise of Modernism.'Textual Cultures

• 1 Introduction: The case of the initial letter2 Typographic leveling in an age of revolution3 The Land of Liberty4 Dombey - and Son – and Daughter5 People, things, and abstractions6 Print capitalism7 Freedom, Equality, Property and Bentham8 Writin’large9 PIP and D O C T O R M A R I G O L D10 Dickens, the suffragists and proto-modernismBibliographyIndex