Contents:
‘‘Went to War with Rupert Brooke and Came Home with Siegfried Sassoon’’: The Poetic Fad of the First World War
by Argha Banerjee, University of Sussex
"The Uncle Tom's Cabin of Nativism:" Anti-Catholic Novels, Politics and Violence in the Antebellum United States
by O. R. Butler, University of Nottingham
Trends in Twentieth-Century American Literary Culture: Henry Roth’s “Gateways of Esteem”
by Alan Gibbs, University of Nottingham
The Unitary Self and Conflicting Voices in John Updike’s S
by Ceri Gorton, University of Nottingham
“English Parnassianism” and the Place of France in the English Canon
by Christopher Harris, University of Essex
A National Biography: Shakespeare and the DNB
by Mark Hollingsworth, University of Nottingham
‘An Ephemeral Oddity’?: The Beat Generation and American Culture
by Catherine Nash, University of Nottingham
The Renaissance Revival in English Literature
by Nina Riedler, the University of Duisburg-Essen
The Rise and Fall and Rise of William S. Burroughs
by Edward S. Robinson, University of Sheffield
Blurring the Boundaries: The Sexuality of Little Women
by Donna-Marie Tuck, University of Nottingham
Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897): a late-Victorian popular novel
by Minna Vuohelainen, Birkbeck, University of London
