An annual volume of review essays and reviews of scholarly works in English and American language and literature, this work offers the scholarly community a forum exclusively for reviews. This volume includes, amongst many others, reviews and essays by: U.C. Knoepflmacher on the rise and fall and rehabilitation of Rudyard Kipling; by Arnold Preussner on Shakespeare, theory, and history; by Peter Shillingsburg on Stollinger's ""reading 'The Eve of St Agnes': The Multiples of Complex Literary Transaction""; by Catherine Paul on modernism; by Timothy L. Carens on the ironies of imperial identity; and by Richard Haslam on Seamus Deane's ""Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish writing Since 1790"".