English Past and Present

Contents: Ian Kirby: Preface - J. R. Hall: Supplementary Evidence and the Manuscript Text of Beowulf: A Survey of Sources - Manfred Malzahn: The Barnaby Googe Experiment: Readings and Misreadings - Richard A. McCabe: Plato, Poetic 'Praxis', and Renaissance Censorship - Mary Morrissey: Paul's Cross: Context, Occasion, Significance - James R. Siemon: Mark(et)ing Differences on the Early Modern Stage: Malta's Slave Market and London's Exchange - Ann Thompson/John O. Thompson: Standing for and Standing in for: Metonymy in Henry V - Vera Nünning: Voicing Criticism in Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women: Narrative Attempts at Claiming Authority - Christoph Bode: Constructions of Identity in Romanticism: The Case of William Wordsworth - Danuta Fjellestad: The Pictorial Turn in the Contemporary Novel - Sergio Perosa: Byron and Latin-Levantine Europe - Klaus Stierstorfer: Who Owns Britain? S. T. Coleridge and the National Trust - William Baker: Fresh Light on Christina Rossetti and George Herbert - Paul A. Bové: Historical Humanist, American Style - Val Cunningham: The Aw(e)ful Spread of Literary Theory - Jürgen Schlaeger: The Play and Place of Literary Theory - Mary Jane Edwards: Analyzing the Annotations: Theories and Practices of Explanatory Notes - John Leonard: Adam's Two Dreams: Keats on Milton - Jane Goldman: «The hush of the Mediterranean lipping the sand»: the libertarian and libidinal politics of Virginia Woolf's Mediterranean discourse - Christopher Innes: Staging the Mediterranean: Developing Views in English Drama - Harold Kaylor: Chaucer, His Boethius, and the Narrator of His Troilus - William V. Davis: «Begin, and cease, and then again begin»: Rereading Matthew Arnold's «Dover Beach».

Wolfgang Viereck, MAE, Chair of English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Bamberg from 1978 to 2006; now retired. President of several international associations, also of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) and member of a number of academies of sciences, including the Academia Europaea (London).