Textual Practice 10.3 [Paperback]

Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism Thomas Doucherty --Descartes, Baudrillard, Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and France in the late seventeenth century.ILaodamia and the moaning of Mary John Barrell --changing critical responses to Wordsworth's heroic version of masculinity. Melodrama as Avant-garde: enacting a new subjectivity Simon Shepherd --nineteenth-century English radicals and translations of French melodrama. The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora Vijay Mishra; Bisexuality, heterosexuality and wishful theory Jonathan Dollimore. Reviews, index. Holcroft IA Tale of Mystery, --a melo-drame and ICaleb Williams