Contents Abbreviations: Journals, Series, and Reference Works Publishers English Language Katarzyna Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge; Julie Coleman, University of Leicester; Nicola J. Woods, University of Sussex; Olga Fischer, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Wim van der Wurff, Ryksuniversiteit Leiden; Carole Hough, University of Glasgow; Andreas H. Jucker, Justus-Liebig Universitat Giessen; Clara Calvo, University of Murcia Old English Literature Elaine M. Treharne, University of Leicester Middle English: Excluding Chaucer Greg Walker, University of Leicester; David J. Salter, University of Leicester; Alan J. Fletcher, University College, Dublin Middle English: Chaucer Valerie Allen, University of Southern Florida; Margaret Connolly, University College, Cork The Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama after 1550 Ceri Sullivan, University of Wales, Bangor; Stephanie J. Wright, University of Sunderland Shak Jill Barker, University of Luton; Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University; Pauline Kiernan, University of Reading; Susan Bruce, University of Keele; Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University Renaissance Drama: Excluding Shakespeare Sarah Poynting, Linacre College, Oxford; Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University; Emma Smith, All Souls College, Oxford; Darryl! Grantley, University of Kent at Canterbury; Julie Sanders, University of Keele CONTENTS The Earlier Seventeenth Century: Excluding Drama Melanie Osborne, University of Durham Milton Joad Raymond, University of Aberdeen The Later Seventeenth Century Stuart Gillespie, University of Glasgow; Marion Lomax, St Mary’s University College; James Ogden, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Roger Pooley, University of Keele The Eighteenth Century Stephen Copley, University of York; Emma Major, University of York; Karen O’Brien, University of Wales, Cardiff; George Justice, Marquette University The Nineteenth Century: Romantic Period Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow; David Worrall, St Mary’s University College; Peter J. Kitson, University of Wales, Bangor; Robert Miles, Sheffield Hallam University; E. J. Clery, Sheffield Hallam University The Nineteenth Century: Victorian Period Inga Bryden, King Alfred’s College, Winchester; William Baker, Northern Illinois University; Kenneth Womack, Penn State Altoona College; Jude V. Nixon, Baylor University; Victor Emeljanow, University of Newcastle, NSW The Twentieth Century Julian Cowley, University of Luton; Macdonald Daly, University of Nottingham; Richard Storer, Trinity and All Saints University College, Leeds; Fiona Becket, Staffordshire University; Jago Morrison, Leeds Metropolitan University; Stuart Sillars, Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, Texas; David Herd, University of Kent; Peter Womack, University of East Anglia American Literature to 1900 Henry Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury; Kevin McCarron, Roehampton Institute, London; Janet Beer, Roehampton Institute, London CONTENTS XVI American Literature: The Twentieth Century Lionel Kelly, University of Reading; Pat Righelato, University of Reading; Henry Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury; Deborah Parsons, Birkbeck College, University of London; Steven Price, University of Wales, Bangor; Christine MacLeod, University of Reading New Literatures in English Femi Abodunrin, Universitat Bayreuth; Brian Kiernan, University of Sydney, NSW; Helen Hewson, University of Sydney, NSW; Eva-Marie Krdller, University of British Columbia; Paula Burnett, Brunel University College; Phillip Langran, University of Humberside; Carole Durix, University of Dijon Bibliography and Textual Criticism William Baker, Northern Illinois University; Kenneth Womack, Penn State Altoona College. Indexes, by Ann Dean I Critics II Authors and Subjects Treated