Table of Contents

Christian GUTLEBEN and Susana ONEGA: Introduction
1. Catherine PESSO-MIQUEL: Clock-ridden Births: Creative Bastardy in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
2. Dietmar BOEHNKE: Double Refraction: Rewriting the Canon in Contemporary Scottish Literature
3. John A STOTESBURY: Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction
4. Kirsten STIRLING: Dr Jekyll and Mr Jackass: Fight Club as a Refraction of Hogg’s Justified Sinner and Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
5. Celestino DELEYTO ALCALÁ: Return to Austen: Film Heroines of the Nineties
6. Georges LETISSIER: Dickens and Post-Victorian Fiction
7. J. HILLIS MILLER: Parody as Revisionary Critique: Charles Palliser’s The Quincunx
8. Margarida ESTEVES PEREIRA: Refracting the Past in Praise of the Dead Poets in Possession: A Romance
9. Jean-Michel GANTEAU: Hearts Object: Jeanette Winterson and the Ethics of Absolutist Romance
10. Fernando GALVÁN: Between Othello and Equiano: Caryl Phillips’ Subversive Rewritings
11. Petra TOURNAY: Challenging Shakespeare: Strategies of Writing Back in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood
12. Nicole BOIREAU: To Hamlet and back with Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones (2001)
Notes on Contributors
Index