A commendable and convincing effort: the contributions are of generally high quality and cover many interesting aspects of the topic under examination. The project's agenda is ambitious, and a good balance between abstract theoretical argumentation and concrete historical analysis has been struck. The editors have done an excellent job in giving their book a coherent structure.

The volume is characterized by a clear structure. Above all, the editors deserve great praise: each essay is well edited, and the anthology has a theoretical basis with multimodality, which at the same time does not remain unquestioned.