Change is a powerful idea which inspires hope and fear excitement and dread. From the panta
rhei of Heraclitus to Darwinian evolutionary theory nobel laureate Bob Dylan's The times they
are a-changin' the Obama campaign slogan Change we can believe in and the current advertising
mantra 'change is good' it recurs as a challenge to the status quo. The present volume
contains essays on the topic of change in English language literature and culture. Some are
based on papers presented at the 2017 SAUTE conference which took place at the Université de
Neuchâtel while others have been specially written for this volume.
