Articles in this issue

• Robinson Crusoe¹⁾,"The Other" and the Poetics of Surprise
  David Fishelov, 14.1-3:1-18.

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• "Alice was not surprised": (Un)Surprises in Lewis Carroll's Alice-Books
  Angelika Zirker, 14.1-3:19-37.

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• Textual, Contextual and Critical Surprises in "Désirée's Baby"²⁾
  Teresa Gibert, 14.1-3:38-67.

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• Textual Surprise in Pauline Smith's "The Sinner"
  Myrtle Hooper, 14.1-3:68-86.

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• "These things astonish me beyond words": Wordplay in William Carlos Williams's Poetry
  Margit Peterfy, 14.1-3:87-108.

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• Tender Is What Night? Surprises in the Growth of Fitzgerald's Fourth Novel
  William Harmon, 14.1-3:109-18.

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• The Mystery of Vladimir Nabokov's Sources: Some New Ideas on Lolita's Intertextual Links
  Alexander M. Luxemburg, 14.1-3:119-34.

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• John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure: An Aesthetics of Textual Surprise³⁾
  Maik Goth, 14.1-3:135-61.

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• Emerson's Allusive Art: A Transcendental Angel in Miltonic Myrtle Beds
  Frances M. Malpezzi, 14.1-3:162-72.

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• Some Remarks on "Parody, Paradox and Play in The Importance of Being Earnest"
  Christopher S. Nassaar, 14.1-3:173-76.

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• Another Response to "'Across the pale parabola of Joy': Wodehouse Parodist."
  Laura Mooneyham White, 14.1-3:177-82.

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• In Search of a City: Civilization, Humanism and English Gothic in A Handful of Dust
  Martin Stannard, 14.1-3:183-204.

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• A Question of Influence and Experience: A Response to Edward Lobb
  John Howard Wilson, 14.1-3:205-12.

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