NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

RAMAN SELDEN had completed most of the editorial work on this volume
by the time of his sadly early death. He had fulfilled, with characteristic
efficiency and good judgement, his brief to commission a first-rate team
of contributors, to help work their chapters into the form of a systematic
history, and to write an introduction. Professor Selden was the founder and
first Director (1984-5) of the Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies at
the University of Durham, and author of English Verse Satire, igo-i 765
(1978), Criticism and Objectivity (1984), A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Lit-
erary Theory (1985), John Dry den: Absalom and Achitophel (1986), and Practising
Theory and Reading Literature (1989). His other publications included The
Theory of Criticism from Plato to the Present: A Reader (1988) and (co-edited
with Harold Brooks) The Poems ofJohn Oldham (1987). From Durham he
became Professor of English at Lancaster University and latterly held the
same post at Sunderland Polytechnic (now the University of Sunderland).

PETER STEINER is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the

University of Pennsylvania. His works include Russian Formalism: A
Metapoetics (1984). He has also edited (with John Burbank) selected
essays by Mukafovsky, The Word and Verbal Art (1977) and The Prague
School: Selected Writings, 1929-1946 (1982).

LUBOMlR DOLEZEL is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative

Literature at the University of Toronto. He was educated at Charles
University and received his PhD from the Czechoslovak Academy of
Sciences in Prague. His book publications include Narrative Modes in Czech
Literature (1973), Occidental Poetics: Tradition and Progress (1990), and Possible
Worlds and Literary Fictions (forthcoming).

DEREK ATTRIDGE is Professor of English at Rutgers University and is

author of The Rhythms of English Poetry (1982), Peculiar Language (1988),
and Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (1995). He has also edited (with
Daniel Ferrer) Post-Structuralist Joyce (1985), (with Geoff Bennington
and Robert Young) Post-Structuralism and the Question of History (1987),
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (1990), and Jacques Derrida's Acts
of Literature (1992).
STEPHEN BANN is Professor of Modern Cultural Studies at the University
of Kent, where he also directs the Centre for Modern Cultural Studies.

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