MARIA-SABINA ALEXANDRU Lecturer in Contemporary British and American Studies, University of Bucharest, RomaniaMICHAEL BELL Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UKJOSEPH BROOKER Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKTERRY EAGLETON Professor of Cultural Theory, Department of English and American Studies, University of Manchester, UKDAVID PUNTER Professor of English, University of Bristol, UKTATIANA RAPATZIKOU Lecturer, Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GreeceVICTOR SAGE Professor of English, School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UKHELEN SMALL Fellow and University Lecturer in English Literature, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Authorship and its Contexts; K.Hadjiafxendi & P.Mackay PART I: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY MARKET-PLACE The Author, the Editor and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg; V.Sage 'George Eliot', the Literary Market-Place and Sympathy; K.Hadjiafxendi Liberal Editing in the Fortnightly Review and the Nineteenth Century; H.Small PART II: TWENTIETH -CENTURY MYTHOLOGIES OF AUTHORSHIP F.R. Leavis: The Writer, Language, History; M.Bell Mind that Crowd: Flann O'Brien's Authors; J.Brooker Authorship in the Writings and Films of William S. Burroughs; P.Mackay PART III: POSTMODERN CULTURE Postmodernism, Criticism and the Graphic Novel; D.Punter Authorial Identity in the Era of Electronic Technologies; T.Rapatzikou Towards a Politics of the Small Things: Arundhati Roy and the Decentralization of Authorship; M.Alexandru PART IV: AUTHORSHIP AND CRITICISM - The Decline of the Critic; T.Eagleton Further Reading Index