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, RutgersUniversity, Camden. His books include the highly acclaimed AHistory of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present(Blackwell, 2005), Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: AHistory (2008), Literary Criticism from Plato to thePresent: An Introduction (2011), and the Cambridge Historyof Literary Criticism: Vol. VI: the Nineteenth Century (ed.,2012). Associate Editors Matthew Birchwood, Senior Lecturer in English Literature atKingston University, London Vedrana Velickovic, Lecturer in English Literature at theUniversity of Brighton Martin Dines, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at KingstonUniversity, London Shanyn Fiske, Associate Professor of English at RutgersUniversity, Camden.