Description:Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism Thomas Doucherty--Descartes, Baudrillard, Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and France in the late seventeenth century.ILaodamia and the moaning of Mary John Barrell--changing critical responses to Wordsworth's "heroic version of masculinity." Melodrama as Avant-garde: enacting a new subjectivity Simon Shepherd--nineteenth-century English radicals and translations of French melodrama. The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora Vijay Mishra; Bisexuality, heterosexuality and wishful theory Jonathan Dollimore. Reviews, index. Holcroft IA Tale of Mystery,--a melo-drame and ICaleb Williams