Contents Abbreviations: Journals, Series and Reference Works Publishers English Language Katarzyna Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge; Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, University of Leiden; Olga Fischer, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Wim van der Wurff, University of Leiden; Julie Coleman, University of Leicester; Carole Hough, University of Glasgow; Lieselotte Pust, Universitat Freiburg; Andrea Sand, Universitat Freiburg; Andreas H. Jucker, Justus-Liebig Universitat Giessen; Clara Calvo, University of Murcia Old English Literature Jill Frederick, Moorhead State University; Mary Swan, University of Leeds Middle English: Excluding Chaucer 203 Alan J. Fletcher, University College, Dublin; Elaine M. Treharne, University of Leicester; Greg Walker, University of Leicester Middle English: Chaucer Valerie Allen, University of Southern Florida; Margaret Connolly, University College, Cork The Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama after 1550 260 Ceri Sullivan, University of Wales, Bangor; Jennifer Richards, University of Newcastle Shakespeare Jill Barker, University of Luton; Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University; Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University; Mark Dooley, University of Teesside; Nick Cox, Manchester Metropolitan University; Susan Bruce, University of Keele; Ceri Sullivan, University of Wales, Bangor; Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University CONTENTS VII Renaissance Drama: Excluding Shakespeare Sarah Poynting, Linacre College, Oxford; Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University; Emma Smith, All Souls College, Oxford; Darryll Grantley, University of Kent at Canterbury; Julie Sanders, University of Keele The Earlier Seventeenth Century: Excluding Drama Suzanna Trill, University of Edinburgh 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 Steven Lynn, University of South Carolina; George Justice, Marquette University; Karen O’Brien, University of Wales, Cardiff; Paula R. Backscheider, Auburn University; Daniel J. Ennis, Aauburn University; Amy Muse, Auburn University; NancyNaugle, Auburn University The Nineteenth Century: Romantic Period 503 Adriana Craciun, Loyola University, Chicago; David Worrall, St Mary’s University College; Seamus Perry, University of Glasgow; Philip Martin, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education; Leonora Nattrass, Nottingham Trent University; Emma J. Clery, Sheffield Hallam University; Robert Miles, Sheffield Hallam University; Amy Muse, Auburn University The Nineteenth Century: Victorian Period Cynthia Patton, Mesa State College; 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 601 Julian Cowley, University of Luton; Michael Whitworth, University of Wales, Bangor; Richard Storer, Trinity and All Saints University CONTENTS xi College, Leeds; Fiona Becket, University of Leeds; Jago Morrison, Leeds Metropolitan University; Stuart Sillars, Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, Texas; David Herd, University of Kent at Canterbury; Peter Womack, University of East Anglia American Literature to 1900 Henry Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury; Kevin McCarron, Roehampton Institute, London; Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University American Literature: The Twentieth Century 712 Lionel Kelly, University of Reading; Pat Righelato, University of Reading; Henry Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury; Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University; Deborah Parsons, Birkbeck College, University of London; Steven Price, University of Wales, Bangor; Christine MacLeod, University of Reading, A Robert Lee, Nihon University; Peter Vernon, Université Frangois Rabelais, Tours XVII New Literatures in English 825 Femi Abodunrin, University of Malawi; Noel Rowe, University of Sydney, NSW; Jennifer Moore, University of Sydney, NSW; Susan Billingham, University of Nottingham; Paula Burnett, Brunel University College; Phillip Langran, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside; Carole Durix, University of Dijon XVIII Bibliography and Textual Criticism William Baker, Northern Illinois University; Kenneth Womack, Penn State Altoona College Indexes, compiled by Ann Dean I Critics II Authors and Subjects Treated