Cover: the "Irish Frankenstein" (Parnell) in Punch for 1982
(as it appears on the ESSE/Messenger Homepage)

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Editorial: Assessment Scandal in Britain 

ESSE Matters
Erasmus Meets Socrates: Sparks Fly 
A Journal Will Be Born 
------ Jean-Jacques Lecercle 
ESSE/3 in Glasgow 
A Gaelic/English Poem 
------ Aonghas MacNeachail 

The New Nobel Laureate 
------ Terence Brown 

Briefing 11: Monstrosity, Historicity and Frankenstein 
------ Saba Bahar 

Articles 
Climbing Down Pisgah: F.R.Leavis 
------ G.M. Hyde 
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: On the Role of Corpora in Linguistic Research
------ Stig Johansson 

Computer Corner
Hanging in the Net 
The Humanities in a Digital Age 
------ Kathryn Sutherland 
The Rationale of Hypertext
------ Jerome McGann 
Electronic Dictionaries 
------ Robert Clark 
"C'est un autre monde, là" 
------ Roy Flannagan 

Englishes in Europe
France is a Foreign Country 
------ Jean-Jacques Lecercle 
Functionalism or Critique: the Italian Case 
------ Franco Marenco 
PASE: The Polish Association for the Study of English 
------ Grazyna Bystydzienska & Henryk Kardela 
Shakespeare's Women and Polish Male Critics 
------ Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney 

Rejoinders
Shakespeare Wrote Plays 
------ Ian Robinson 
Error i'th[B]ill, sir, error i'th'bill 
------ Andrew Spong 
Plus ça change 
------ Arthur Clayborough 
Standard English? 
------ Gabrielle Stein & Randolph Quirk 

Reactions
You Say Tomäto: Thoughts on Intercultural Understanding at the Cologne Conference 
------ Richard Aczel 
Assessment: an Eastern Perspective 
------ Boika Sokolova 

Review
Reconstructing the Victorians 
------ Adam Piette 

Upcoming Conferences
ESSE/4 in Debrecen, September 1997 
Newspapers in English: a Round Table? 
------ Hans-Jürgen Diller & Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen 
Conference Announcements and Calls for Papers 

ESSE Board Members