Essays in this general issue of Mosaic look at religious tolerance and religious transcendence in G.E. Lessing; puns on Stéphane Mallarmé’s name; metaphoric and literal portrayals of incest as a Romantic trope; forms of female alienation in Bertolt Brecht, Alexander Kluge, and Heinrich Böll; and narrative, history, and character in Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. Also in this issue are essays on D.H. Lawrence, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hjalmar Söderberg, Franz Kafka, Northrop Frye, Mark Twain, and the figure of Lucrece.