Table of Contents 1. Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest): Why the Long Modernity 2. C.W.R.D. Moseley (University of Cambridge): Forging the Key of Remembrance: Books, Cultures and Memory 3. Madalina Nicolaescu (University of Bucharest): Mediating Between East and West in Nineteenth-Century Romanian Translations of Shakespeare 4. Stefan Herbrechter (Coventry University): Shakespeare – Early, Late or Posthumanist: The Case of Hamlet 5. Malgorzata Grzegorzewska (University of Warsaw): ‘Pictures like a summer’s cloud.’ The Phenomenology of the Visual in William Shakespeare’s Plays and on the Stage of the Contemporary Theatre 6. Petruta Naidut (University of Bucharest): Spectres of the Old World in the New 7. Christoph Ehland (University of Paderborn): The Laws of Piracy: Pirates as Messengers of Modernity in Thomas Heywood’s Fortune by Land and Sea 8. Herbert Grabes (University of Giessen): The Five Radical Modernizations of Long Modernity 9. Pat Rogers (University of South Florida): Modernity Then and Now 10. Francis O’Gorman (University of Manchester): An Alternative to Whig Modernity: An Analysis of Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century 11. Clifford Siskin (NYU): Literary History in the Long Modernity 12. Shobhana Battacharji (Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi): Modernity during the Long Romanticism: The Case of Byron 13. Jürgen Pieters (Ghent University): Literature and the Long Search for Modernity: The Counter-Histories of Antoine Compagnon and William Marx 14. Laurent Milesi (Cardiff University): Speeds of (Post)Modernity 15 Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick): Now, or to Tell the Truth, the Contemporary 16. Adrian Otoiu (University of Baia Mare): In the Wake of Finnegan? Wordplay in Malcolm Lowry and Flann O’Brien: Modernism as a Punceptual Dead End 17. Hans-Peter Söder (University of Munich): The Globe is Not Enough: In Defence of National Literature(s) 18. Linda Hutcheon (University of Toronto): Literature in the Long Modernity: Its Reception in the Digital Age 19. Alan Riach (University of Glasgow): Scottish Literature and Anglo-American Modernity: What Makes It New? 20. Eve Patten (Trinity College, Dublin): Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Making of a ‘National Reader’ 21. Isabel Oliveira Martins (The New University of Lisbon): Marianne Baillie’s View of Portugal or British Femaleness Abroad 22. Michael Hutcheon (University of Toronto): The Musical Modernism of Olivier Messiaen 23. Ludmila Volná (Charles University, Prague): Towards Indian Modernity and the Birth of Indian Writing in English: The Case of Rammohan Ray 24. Bogdan Stefanescu (University of Bucharest): Late (for) Modernity: Transition and the Traumatic Colonization of the Future of Postcommunist Cultures 25. Arleen Ionescu (University of Ploiesti): Hauntologies of Post-Joycean Modernity in Romanian Literature. Adrian Otoiu’s Coaja lucrurilor sau Dansând cu jupuita Notes on Contributors