Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise
Editorial Introduction
Academic articles
Philoclea’s Vows: Falling in Love, Protestant Neoplatonism, and the Structure of Romance in Sidney’s 1593 Arcadia
- Mr Bret van den Brink
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 7–16
'Come on. Come on. Move on.’: Linear Time as False Promise in African American Literature
- Ms Kennedy Marie Crowder
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 17–27
‘[D]o me right’: The Promise of Protection and State Action in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
- Luke Basil Louis Ow Zhi Heng
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 28–37
The Soundtrack to Revolution: Examining Rap as a Resistance Against the Black Man’s ‘Existential Deviation’ in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks
- Alexander Williams
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 37–45
The promissory Obligations of Ghosts in Scary Tales
- Sohini Chaudhuri
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 46–53
Saintly Promises: The Spiritual Bond Between God and Saints in the Old English Andreas and Guthlac A
- Bruce N. Xiao
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 55–70
Promise and Kairos: A Study of Queen Elizabeth I ’s Promise to Parliament
- Nabanita Chakraborty
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 71–79
Creative writing
Book reviews
The Potent Promise: Henry James and the Promise of Fiction
- Freddy Conway-Shaw
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 95–97
The Promise of Connection in Victoria MacKenzie’s Retelling of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
- Sarah Wallace
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 98–100
The Promise of Control: Food, Sex, and Jewish Faith in Melissa Broder’s Milk Fed
- Catherine Marcotte
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Promise • 101–102