Visual parallels and influences are the focus of a number of essays in this general issue. Essays in this issue consider the Surrealism induced by the photos of Michael Ondaatje’s Coming through Slaughter, the analogous relation between Sergei Eisenstein’s montage and James Joyce’s Ulysses, and the picturesque in the art of William Gilpin and novels of Ann Radcliffe. Power and authority feature as themes for many of the other essays in this collection, including ones on Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Mario Vargas Llosa.