Today's lecture was very inriguing as we delved deeper into the relationship between images and texts within Victorian literature. It was interesting to learn about the history and evolution of illustrations in relation to text, for example the transitions between steel-plate etching, wood engraving and photomechanical images. I found both the narratological theory and bitextual theory are quite interesting as they offers us more insight on complex the relationships between text and illustrations and the many different ways the images can portray the text. 

The timeline exercise was helpful and engaging in my opinion as it allowed us to briefly explore and learn about each publication which allows us to have a clear understanding of the content of the course from the get go. Having a page where you can quickly find important information about a specific work will definitely have it's benefits for this course. After looking through the timeline, I realized a lot of the works we will be focusing on in class are publications I have studied in the past, but this course gives me a new interesting perspective on them as we will be analyzing the illustrations and their relation to the text rather than simply analyzing the text itself. I'm excited to learn about these texts from different perspectives as I have personally always been interested in analyzing images and figuring out their meaning/relationship to the text.