Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory

Michael Payne is Professor of English Emeritus at Bucknell University, USA. He is general editor for The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory (with Harold Scheizer, 12 vols., 1990–1995); author of Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva (1993) and Reading Knowledge:  An Introduction to Barthes, Foucault, and Althusser (1997); and editor of Renaissance Literature: An Anthology (with John Hunter, 2003), and The Greenblatt Reader (with Stephen Greenblatt, 2005) all published by Wiley-Blackwell. Jessica Rae Barbera is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of specialization include Cultural and Critical Theory, British Modernism, Psychoanalysis, Literatures of Medicine and Science, Graphic Narratives, Illness Narratives, and Memoir.  She is the recipient of the 2009−2010 Andrew Mellon Fellowship, and is currently at work on her dissertation, The Medicalization of Pain: The Human in the 20th Century.

"Such reservations apart, there is much of value here and students of literature, cultural studies, philosophy, and related studies will find this a useful resource." ( Reference Reviews , 2012)

• List of Contributors viPreface to the First Edition (1996) xPreface to the Second Edition (2010) xiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1A–Z entries 12Bibliography 742Index 808