Andrew Bennett is Professor of Literature at the University of Bristol, UK.

• General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Wolfgang Iser, Interaction between Text and Reader 2. Vincent B Leitch, Reader-Response Criticism 3. Patrocincio P Schweickart, Reading Ourselves, Towards A Feminist Theory of Reading 4. Mary Jacobus, An Unnecessary Maze of Sign Reading 5. Wai-Chee Dimock, Feminism, New Historicism and the Reader 6. Roger Chartier, Labourers and Voyagers, From the Text to the Reader 7. Michel De Certeau, Reading as Poaching 8. Wayne Koestenbaum, Wild's Hard Labour and the Birth of Gay Reading 9. .Shoshana Felman, Renewing the Practice of Reading or Freud's Unprecedented Lesson 10. Maurice Blanchot, Reading 11. Paul de Man, The Resistance to Theory 12. J. Hillis Miller, Reading Unreadability, de Man 13. Yves Bonnefoy, Lifting our Eyes from the Page Key Concepts Notes on Authors Further Reading Index