Educating the savages / Jerry Phillips -- "Four hundred years of silence" / Sally Keenan -- V. S. Naipaul and the postcolonial order / Dennis Walder -- The profit of language / Peter Hulme -- "Unsystematic fingers at the conditions of the times" / Neil Lazarus -- Late landings / Carolyn Masel -- Prisoners and spiders surrounded by signs / Patrick Fuery -- Politics and the individual in the modernist historical novel / Jonathan White -- Reading travel writing / Jim Philip