Author: Matthew Birchwood

Author J. A. Cuddon was a renowned academic, essayist, novelist, playwright, and travel writer. He died in March 1996. Editor M. A. R. Habib, Professor of English, Rutgers University, Camden. His books include the highly acclaimed A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present (Blackwell, 2005), Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History (2008), Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present: An Introduction (2011), and the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Vol. VI: the Nineteenth Century (ed., 2012). Associate Editors Matthew Birchwood, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, London Vedrana Velickovic, Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton Martin Dines, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, London Shanyn Fiske, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, Camden.