A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

Author

J. A. Cuddon was a renowned academic, essayist, novelist, playright, and travel writer.  He died in March 1996.

Edited by

M. A. R. Habib, Professor of English, Rutgers University. 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

Dr Matthew Birchwood is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at  Kingston University, London

Dr Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, London

Dr Shanyn Fiske is  Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University (Camden, NJ)

Dr Vedrana Velickovic is Lecturer in English Literature at the  University of Brighton

Preface to the Fifth Edition by M. A. R. Habib vi

Preface to the Fourth Edition by C. E. Preston viii

Preface to the Third Edition by J. A. Cuddon x

Acknowledgements xvi

List of Abbreviations xvii

A-Z of Entries 1-784

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