Professor Toyota’s judicious selection of articles captures the exciting diversity of linguistic approaches which, over the past half-century and more, stylisticians have brought to bear on a wide range of English literary texts and on varieties of literary exceptionality. For all who are interested in literary stylistics—where it is going and where it has come from—this compilation is an immensely useful survey, generous and informative; it includes some classic articles by well-known academics alongside many harder-to-obtain pieces from emerging new talents.