| Cover photo: Yasuo Ishiguro by Nigel Parry, courtesy Faber and Faber | ||
| Contents | ||
| ESSE Board Members and National Correspondents | 1 | |
| Statement of Editorial Policy | Paul-Gabriel Boucé | 3 |
| The European Society for the Study of English | Piero Boitani | 5 |
| Secretary’s Notes | Robert Clark | 7 |
| ESSE Inaugural Conference | Robert Clark | 12 |
| ESSE and ERASMUS | Helmut Bonheim | 14 |
| English Studies in Czechoslovakia | Martin Husky | 16 |
| English Civilisation Studies in French Universities | Jean-Claude Sergeant | 19 |
| Helsinki Corpus of English Texts | Merja Kyto and Matti Rissanen | 22 |
| An Interview with Kasuo Ishiguro | Christopher Bigsby | 26 |
| Noticeboard | Back Cover | |