| ESSE Matters | ||
| President’s Column: Conference Papers | Helmut Bonheim | 2 |
| The ESSE Seminar System: Another View | Holger Klein | 6 |
| History of English | ||
| Historical Linguistics in English Studies | Nikolaus Ritt | 7 |
| On Writing a History of English: Variation & Change | Matti Rissanen | 9 |
| On Writing a History of English: The ‘Local’ & the ‘Global’ | Dieter Kastovsky | 13 |
| On Editing Anthologies | ||
| Anthologies in Europe | Thomas Healy | 16 |
| An Anthology of African American Literature | Nelly Y. McKay | 20 |
| Articles, poems, and an interview | ||
| The ‘Feminine’: A Critical Angle for Poetics | Claire Joubert | 24 |
| Teach Yourself Lesbian and Gay Studies | Gregory Woods | 29 |
| Four Poems | Gregory Woods | 35 |
| An Interview with Thomas Kinsella | Donatella Abbate Badin | 38 |
| Four Poems | Thomas Kinsella | 41 |
| Revaluations | ||
| V. I. Lenin | Jean-Jacques Lecercle | 44 |
| Reviews | ||
| New Books on British Journalism | Hans-Jürgen Diller | 47 |
| Publishing in Brief | Robert Clark & Martin A. Kayman | 50 |
| Computing | ||
| Computer Corner | Adam Piette | 53 |
| Humanities Computing: Text to Hypertext | Susan Schreibman | 55 |
| Rejoinders | ||
| On trying to be Crystal-clear: a response to Phillipson | David Crystal | 59 |
| Response | Robert Phillipson | 65 |
| ‘Time and Time Again’: A Response to Dieter Wolff on CALL | Alain Cazade | 67 |
| Centres, Projects & Queries | 71 | |
| Reports | ||
| Scenes of Writing: A Conference on Print Culture | Robert Miles | 76 |
| Inaugural Conference of EFACI | Catherine Maignant & Hedwig Schwall | 77 |
| Race and Religion in Contemporary Theatre | Klaus Peter Müller | 78 |
| Organising a Conference: AEDEAN | Aida Díaz Bild | 79 |
| ESSE5-2000 Conference Programme | 80 | |
| Pre-Registration Form | 96 | |
| Listings | ||
| Conference announcements | 97 | |
| Journals | 104 | |
| Board Members | 108 |