Since its launch in 1987 Textual Practice has been Britain's principal international journal of radical literary studies, continually pressing theory into new engagements.

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

This acclaimed triannual serial explores the interaction of texts with language, politics, gender and history. Vol. 11.2 brings together some of TP's most pressing concerns-- contents include:

Sad Hearts and Supermarkets; Some Ethnic Gays are Coming Home--or, the trouble with interraciality; Wittig's Monsters: stretching the lesbian reader; Defying the Female: the Irish constitutional text as phallocentric manifesto; Buried and (p)Raised: Joseph Brodsky, William Peter and the Anglo-Irish Union; Tropes and Topazes: the colonialist tropology of the Tropics in John Holmes's Art of Rhetoric and Grammarian's Astronomy; The being of language: the literary theory of Maurice Blanchot; Title, text, meaning; All You Need is Love (dah dahdah dahdah): a response to Margreta de Grazia, Peter Stallybrass, Graham Holderness, Bryan Loughrey and Andrew Murphy.