This is an annual volume containing review-essays of scholarly works in English and American language and literature. It offers a forum exclusively for reviews, a place to publish treaments that are both lengthy and exacting. This edition includes essays by Harvey Teres on Wallace Stevens; Burton Hatlen on Fromm's ""Academic Capitalism""; Paul Connolly on Virginia Woolf and postmodernism; Alan Richardson on fathers and daughters; J.E. Rivers on Nabokov; Susan Rosowski on American women writers; T.H. Howard-Hill on the editing of Shakespeare; Melvin J. Friedman on Styron's ""Nat Turner""; David Simpson on De Quincey; Peter Manning on Romantic ecology; Parama Roy on the fin de siecle; Stephen N. Brown on Pre-Romanticism; Cary M. Mazer on the making of Victorian drama; Kevin P. Van Anglen on Transcendentalist hermeneutics; James Claverty on Pope's 1728 ""Dunciad""; Lillian Nayder on women's Dilemmas; Glen Cavaliero on Samuel Butler; Ina Rae Hark on Tom Stoppard; F.S. Schwarzbach on death in Victorian Literature; Mollie Sandock on Jane Austen; Robert M. Myers on American Realism; Robert A. Colby on popular and middlebrow culture; and Daniel Borus on Brander Matthews and the politics of American literature.

Volume editor: James O. Hoge, James L.W. West, III