The Editors: Peter Brown and Michael Irwin are Professors in the School of English at the University of Kent. They have formerly collaborated as directors of a research project on literature and place.

• Contents: Peter Brown: Introduction – Michael Irwin: Maps of Fictional Space – Malcolm Andrews: The English Cottage as Cultural Critique and Associationist Paradigm – Murray Baumgarten: Urban Labyrinths: Dickens and the Pleasures of Place – David Blair: Scott, Cartography, and the Appropriation of Scottish Place – Sarah Fulford: Between Past and Future: The Place of Seamus Heaney – Stephen Bann: Proust, Ruskin, Stokes, and the Topographical Project – Martin Kane: A Fictional Place: Constructions and Reconstitutions of the GDR before and after German Unification – Stuart Hutchinson: ‘Past the School Book Depository, through Dealey Plaza and beneath the Triple Underpass’: Place in Don DeLillo’s Fiction – Robert L. Dorman: From the Middle of Nowhere to the Heartland: The Great Plains and American Regionalism – Rod Edmond: Writing Islands.