KYRIAKI HADJIAFXENDI is completing her PhD on George Eliot at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her published work includes articles on Nineteenth-century art, literature, philosophy and print culture. She is the co-editor of three special issues on the American culture industry of image-making for the European Journal of American Culture (2005). POLINA MACKAY has published work on Burroughs, punk literature and art and contemporary southern fiction. Her current project is a book on Burroughs's influence on women writers, artists and performers entitled William Burroughs, Wom

• 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