Cover design, and image and advertisement manipulation by Kristian Stotesbury, Mäntsälä, Finland.
Photographs: Front Cover (“Late Winter Blues”): photograph by John A Stotesbury; photograph p. 3 adapted from an image supplied by Fernando Galván; photographs p. 25 supplied by Macmillan; photographs pp. 42-43 supplied by Sofía Muñoz Valdivieso and Birmingham Central Library, UK; photograph p. 86 adapted from an image supplied by Liliana Pop.
Production assistant: Joao Paulo Moreira, Coimbra, Portugal.
ESSE MATTERS
The European Journal of English Studies (EJES), p. 1
POETRY
Kit Fryatt, Three Translations from the Essex Book, p. 16
ARTICLES
Patrice Larroque, Past Tense and Time Reference in Non-Standard English, p. 21
Jonathan Bate & Héloïse Sénéchal, Editing Shakespeare for the Twenty-First Century, p. 25
Bo Pettersson, The Real in the Unreal: Mimesis and Postmodern American Fiction, p. 33
Sofia Muñoz Valdivieso, The Abolition of the British Slave Trade, p. 41
Robert Philipson & Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Reviewing a Book and How It Relates to “Global” English: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, p. 50
POETRY
Stan Smith, “Wire”, p. 55
INTERVEW Lidia Vianu, Interviewing Peter Ackroyd, Part 2, p. 56
BOOK REVIEWSRegina Rudaityte, Loredana Frăţilă, Biljana Cubrović, Fabio L. Vericat, Biljana Radić-Bojanić, Johanna L. Wood, Anthony Barker, Jacob Thaisen, Gerald Porter, Ișil Baș, Joost de Bloois, Greg Matthews, Onno Kosters, Sue Vice, Mine Özyurt Kiliç, p. 61
CONFERENCE REPORTS, p. 86Liliana Pop, Heiko Stahl, Ellen Grünkemeier, Natașa Milivojević & Biljana Radić-Bojanić
CALLS FOR PAPERS AND ARTICLES, p. 93