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The Year's Work in English Studies

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Published annually, The Year's Work in English Studies is a qualitative narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and on literatures written in English. The volume includes a detailed overview from Old English to contemporary critical works for a given year. It contains:

• critical notices of some 1100 books extensive coverage of English Language, American Literature, New Literatures in English and English Literature coverage of specialist periodicals (including volume numbers for journals and pagination of all articles cited) comprehensive indexing by critic, author and subject
• bibliographical endnotes for each chapter.

This is an essential volume for any scholar to use in order to keep up to date with the burgeoning world that is modern-day English criticism.

The Year's Work in English Studies is edited by Professor William Baker, Northern Illinois University, and Professor Kenneth Womack, Penn State Altoona.

Associate Editors: Kirstie Blair, University of Glasgow; James Dekker, Illinois Central College; Olga Fischer, University of Amsterdam ;Christoph Lindner, University of Aarhus; Theresa Saxon, University of Central Lancashire; Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Australia; Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University; Mary Swan, University of Leeds

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Current Issue: Volume 90

Covering work produced in 2009, published in October 2011, 1147 pages + lxxxi

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
General: Verena Haser, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg
History of English Linguistics: Anita Auer, University of Utrecht
Phonetics and Phonology: Bert Botma, University of Leiden
Morphology and Syntax: Marion Elenbaas, University of Leiden and Wim van der Wurff, Newcastle University
Semantics: Beata Gyuris, Hungarian Academy of Science
Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics: Julie Coleman, University of Leicester
Onomastics: Edward Callary, Northern Illinois University
Dialectology and Sociolinguistics: Lieselotte Anderwald, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel
New Englishes and Creolistics: Anne Schroder, Bielefeld University
Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis: Marcus Callies, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz
Stylistics: Rocio Montoro, University of Granada

EARLY MEDIEVAL
Philip Shaw, University of Leicester and Mary Swan, University of Leeds

LATER MEDIEVAL : EXCLUDING CHAUCER
General and Miscellaneous; Gower, Lydgate, Hoccleve: Juris Lidaka, West Virginia State College
Women's Writing; Middle Scots Poetry: Jennifer Brown, Marymount Manhattan College
Alliterative Verse and Lyrics: Carrie Griffin, University College Cork
The Gawain Poet; Piers Plowman: Michelle M. Sauer, University of North Dakota
Romance; Malory and Caxton: Raluca Radulescu, Bangor University
Drama: Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh

LATER MEDIEVAL: CHAUCER
Katharine W. Jager, University of Houston-Downtown and Jessica Barr, Eureka College

THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: EXCLUDING DRAMA AFTER 1550
Joan Fitzpatrick, Loughborough University

SHAKESPEARE
Editions and Textual Matters: Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter J Smith, Nottingham Trent University
Shakespeare on Screen: Elinor Parsons, De Montfort University
Criticism: General: Chris Butler, Sheffield Hallam University
Criticism: Comedies: Chloe Porter, Nottingham Trent University
Criticism: Problem plays: Daniel Cadman, Sheffield Hallam University
Criticism: Poetry: Richard Wood, Sheffield Hallam University
Criticism: Histories: Stephen Longstaffe, University of Cumbria
Criticism: Tragedies: Kate Wilkinson, Sheffield Hallam University
Criticism: Late Plays: Naomi McAreavey, University College Dublin

RENAISSANCE DRAMA EXCLUDING SHAKESPEARE
Editions and Textual Scholarship : Sarah Poynting, Warwick University
Theatre History: Eleanor Collins, De Montfort University
Criticism - General: Jessican Dyson, Lancaster University
Marlowe: Andrew Duxfield, Sheffield Hallam University
Jonson: Sam Thompson, St Anne's College, Oxford

THE EARLIER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: GENERAL AND PROSE
General: John R. Burton, University of Wales, Lampeter
Women's Wriring: Amritesh Singh, University of York

MILTON AND POETRY, 1603-1660
General: David Ainsworth, Univesrity of Alabama
Donne: Gregory Kneidel, University of Connecticut
Herbert: James Doelman, University of Western Ontario
Milton: Alvin Snider, University of Iowa

THE LATER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Drama: Helen Brooks, University of Kent
Dryden: James Ogden, Independent Scholar

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Prose and General: Eliza O'Brien, University of Glasgow
The Novel: Sandro Jung, University of Ghent
Poetry: David Shuttleton, University of Glasgow
Drama: Chrisy Dennis, University College Falmouth

LITERATURE 1780-1830 : THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
General: Orianne Smith, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Prose: Luke Wright, University of Virginia
The Novel: Felicity James, University of Leicester
Poetry: David Stewart, Northumbria University; Jason Whittaker, University College Falmouth and Christopher Machell, Northumbria University
Drama: Jeremy Davies, Queen Mary, University of London

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
Cultural Studies and Prose; The Novel: William Baker, Northern Illinois University
Poetry: Gregory Tate, University of Surry and Martin Dubois, Clare College, Cambridge
Drama: Alexis Easley, University of St Thomas
Periodicals and Publishing History: David Finkelstein, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

MODERN LITERATURE
Pre-1945 Fiction - British Fiction, 1900-1930: Andrew Radford, University of Glasgow
Pre-1945 Fiction - British Fiction, 1930-1945: Mary Grover, Sheffield Hallam University
Pre-1945 Fiction - Joyce: Sam Slote, Trinity College Dublin
Pre-1945 Fiction - D.H. Lawrence: Andrew Harrison, University of Nottingham
Pre-1945 Fiction - Virginia Woolf: Eric Sandberg, Miyazaki International College
Post-1945 Fiction: Nick Bentley, Keele University
Pre-1950 Drama: Rebecca D'Monte, University of the West of England
Post-1950 Drama: Graham Saunders, University of Reading
Pre-1950 Poetry: Matthew Creasy, University of Glasgow
Modern Irish Poetry: Maria Johnston, Trinity College Dublin

AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1900
General: Theresa Saxon, University of Cental Lancashire
American Literature to 1900: Michael Collins, University of Nottingham; Clare Elliott, Independent Scholar and Anne-Marie Ford, Independent Scholar

AMERICAN LITERATURE: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Poetry: James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University

NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Africa: Femi Abodunrin, Kwara State University and Tony Simoes Da Silva, University of Wollongong
Australia: Leigh Dale, University of Wollongong and Chirs Tiffin, University of Queensland
Canada: Sally Carpentier and Ian Whitehouse, Vancouver Island University
The Caribbean: Tabea Bergold and Mark Stein, Westfalische Wilhems Universitat, Elizabeth Hicks and Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong
India and Sr Lanka: Ira Raja, La Trobe University/University of Delhi and Mridula Nath Chakraborty, University of Western Sydney
New Zealand: Jane Stafford and Mark Williams, Victoria University, Wellington

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM
William Baker, Northern Illinois University