Sabine Volk-Birke and Julia Lippert (Halle-Wittenberg)
Preface

Section I: The Long Eighteenth Century

Therese Fischer-Seidel (Düsseldorf)
The Long Eighteenth Century: Introduction

Howard D. Weinbrot (Wisconsin, Madison)
"Root Out This Cursed Race": Defoe's Shortest Way With the
Dissenters and his Longer Way With Himself

Burkhard Niederhoff (Bochum)
From Honest, Downright Barbarity to the Art of Being Natural:

Primitivism in Restoration Comedy

Sabine Baltes (Chemnitz)
'Creators of Mirth and Whim': Popular Irish Dramatists on the
Eighteenth-Century English Stage

Laurenz Volkmann (Jena)
Back with a Vengeance: The Return of Bernard Mandeville

Christian Huck (London)
Calico Bill and the Calico Madams: Fashion, Print, and the Public

Ingrid-Charlotte Wolter (Düsseldorf)
Education to Individuality - Individual Educationalists:

Mary Wollstonecraft and Christian Gotthilf Salzmann

Michael Szczekalla (Greifswald)
Pleading for the Autonomy of Ethics - A Fresh Look at Free-thinking
in the Essays and Dialogues of Shaftesbury and Hume

Section II: Creative Writing

Ian Watson (Bremen) and Frank J. Kearful (Bonn)
Creative Writing: Past, Present, Future

Andrew Motion (London)
Where Do all the Creative Writing Graduates Go?

Rob Pope (Oxford)
Critical Reading into Creative Re-writing:

Textual Intervention in English Studies Now

Glenn Patterson (Belfast)
Can Writers Teach Writing?

Susanne Bach (Kassel)
"Punk-Tuition" for "Harry Krishner" - Creative Writing in Literature

Barbara Glindemann (Hamburg)
Self-Directed and Imaginative Learning in School Projects:

A Constructivist Didactics of Creative Writing

Section III: Politics and Literature

Jana Gohrisch (Hanover) and Merle Tönnies (Paderborn)
Introduction

Andrew James Johnston (Berlin)
Literary Politics in Debate: Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls and
Clanvowe's Book of Cupid

Annette Pankratz (Bochum)
Body Power: Sexual Politics in Late 17th Century Poetry

Dirk Wiemann (Tübingen)
Bodies in Collision: Hobbes, Milton and the Body Politic

Susanne Scholz (Frankfurt)
The Politics of Degeneration in Late Victorian Literature

Jens Martin Gurr (Duisburg-Essen)
The 'Native' Cites Back: Postcolonial Theory and the Politics
of Jim Jarmusch's Western Dead Man

Aleks Sierz (London)
"Political What-Do-Ya-Call-It": British Drama and Its Politics

Section IV: Postcolonial Aesthetics

Elleke Boehmer (London)
A Postcolonial Aesthetic: Aspiration or Anxiety?

Tobias Döring and Cordula Lemke (Munich)
The Postcolonial Sublime: Ossian's Scotland

Monika Fludernik (Freiburg)
Is There a Postcolonial Sublime?

Günter Leypoldt and Lars Eckstein (Tübingen)
T.S. Eliot and the Transcultural Sublime

Virginia Richter (Munich)
The Nowhere Man: Strangeness as Aesthetic Means in the Work
of V.S. Naipaul

Susanne Reichl (Vienna)
Reading Aesthetics as Politics in Postcolonial Literatures

Sissy Helff (Frankfurt)
Signs Taken For Truth: Orchestrating Transcultural Aesthetics
through Transcultural Unreliable Narration

Sigrun Meinig (Dresden)
Connecting Difference and Sameness: Empathy, Equality
and Post-Colonial Literatures

Section V: Standards and Norms

Friederike Klippel (Munich) and Joybrato Mukherjee (Giessen)
Standards and Norms in Language Description and Language Teaching:

An Introduction

Barbara Seidlhofer (Vienna)
English as a Lingua Franca and Communities of Practice

Claus Gnutzmann (Brunswick)
Teaching and Learning English in a Global Context:

Applied-Linguistic and Pedagogical Perspectives

Christiane Meierkord (Münster)
Standards and Norms in Interactions Across Second Language Englishes:

The Case of South Africa

Christian Mair (Freiburg) and Sandra Mollin (Heidelberg)
Getting at the Standards Behind the Standard Ideology:

What Corpora Can Tell Us About Linguistic Norms

Ute Römer (Hanover)
Learner Language and the Norms in Native Corpora and EFL Teaching
Materials: A Case Study of English Conditionals

Joybrato Mukherjee (Giessen)
Exploring and Annotating a Spoken English Learner Corpus:

A Work-in-Progress Report

Matthias Hutz (Freiburg)
Standards and Norms in Academic Writing:

A Cross-linguistic Comparison

Christiane Bongartz (Cologne)
Studying Classroom Language: Curricular Planning and Proficiency
Assessment in Young Foreign Language Learners

Section VI: Varia

Anne Schröder (Halle)
Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Productivity:

Evidence from English Verbal Morphology

Susanne Mühleisen (Bayreuth)
Of Lessees, Retirees and Beseechees: a Corpus-based Analysis of
the Productivity of a Heterogeneous Word-formation Pattern in English

Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (Potsdam)
Prosody, Construction Grammar and Language Change

Marco Schilk (Giessen)
Using WWW-derived Corpora in Research into Second-language
Varieties of English: Focus on Verb Complementation in Indian English

Patricia Plummer (Mainz)
Insatiable Desires: (Sub)Versions of Gender in William Beckford's
Vathek and Frances Sheridan's The History of Nourjahad

Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock)
Longing for Origins in Postmodern Times:

Absent Parents in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans (2000)
and Never Let Me Go (2005)

Dietmar Böhnke (Leipzig)
Brave New Scotland?
National Identity and Contemporary Scottish Fiction