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On boredom and being saved: Postmodern malaise and emancipation in the novels of Zadie Smith	"So much for the Dixonary": The rejection of Johnsonian linguistic authority in "Vanity Fair" and "The Mill on the Floss"

An African in Paris...and New York and Rome: Bernard Dadie and the postcolonial travel narrative	Resetting the clock: Darwin's narrative and "The Return of the Native"

Comic aesthetics and the effect of realism in the novel	"The right twigs for an eagle's nest": Children in the writings of William Butler Yeats

Problems of professionalism in three novels of Kazuo Ishiguro	'up out of this': Metatextuality in Joyce's "Ulysses"

"I fall erroneous, there to wander": Decoding Milton's mazes in "Paradise Lost"	Matins, vespers, and the end of suffering

Words are weapons: Boast and anti-boast in the poetic feuds of "Beowulf", Alexander Pope, and twenty-first century battle rap	Milton's indeterminate theodicy: Will, grace, and cause in "Paradise Lost"

Reading nature: The georgic spirit of "Paradise Lost", early modern England, and twenty-first-century ecocriticism	Beneath the mask and spandex: Reviewing, revising, and re-appropriating the superhero myth in Alan Moore's "Watchmen"

A new kind of coming out: Queerness, conflict, and the postmodern bildungsroman	Aesthetics / religion / nationalism: Situating the soul of James Joyce

Monstrosity of the soul: Confession and terror in James Hogg and Edgar Allan Poe	Beyond the Limits of Language: Reading the Evolution of E.M. Forster's Prophets Through the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

"A Pretty-ish Bit of Wilderness" Female Binaries and the Picturesque in the Novels of Jane Austen	Women in the Heart of Darkness: Revision and Reprisal in Contemporary Euro-American Novels of Africa

'Welcome, O life!': Nietzschean Freedom in James Joyce's Fiction