J. A. Cuddon was a writer school teacher and academic. Best known for his Dictionary of
Literary Terms he also produced the large Dictionary of Sport and Games as well as several
novels plays and travel books. He also edited two anthologoies of supernatural fiction. He
died in 1996. M.A.R. Habib received his doctorate from the University of Oxford and is
Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of seven books including A
History Of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present (2005) and editor of the Cambridge
History of Literary Criticism Vol. VI (2013). He is currently writing a book entitled Hegel
and the Foundations of Modern Literary Theory .
