English Past and Present

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).

• 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».