Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Myths of Europe, and Myths of Europe -- Europa/Europe: Myths and Muddles -- Electras and Hamlet -- Myths of Europe: Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid -- Myths of Masculinity: Adonis and Heracles -- St Nicholas, Icon of Mercantile Virtues: Transition and Continuity of a European Myth -- Re-writing a Myth: Dryden's Amphitryon and its Sources -- 'A Foundling at the Crossroads': Fielding, Tradition(s) and a 'Dantesque' Reading of Tom Jones -- Viewing the Moon: Between Myth and Astronomy in the Age of the Enlightenment -- George Eliot's Use of Scriptural Typology: Incarnation of Ideas -- Myth and the Folklore of the Sea in Conrad -- Some Differentiations within the Concepts of 'Myth' -- Places of Myth in Ireland -- Everlasting Peace and Medieval Europe: Romantic Myth-Making in Novalis's Europa -- British Women versus Indian Women: the Victorian Myth of European Superiority -- Frontier Myths: Travel Writing on Europe's Eastern Border -- West is Best: Britain and European Immigration during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Changing Perceptions of State Violence: Turkey's 'Westward' Development through Anglo-Saxon Eyes -- From Fascism to the Bomb: Marino Marini and the Undermining and Destruction of the Classical European Horseman -- New Order, New Borders: Post-Cold War Europe on the British Stage -- The Myth of the Etruscans in Travel Literature in English -- The Myth of the European Civil War -- Notes on Contributors.