Reading the Past Literature and History

Catherine Belsey chairs the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a relatively unknown member of the German Jewish middle-class intelligentsia in his lifetime but since his suicide his works have been among the most influential of the Marxist tradition of cultural criticism Michel de Certeau was director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, until his death in 1986 Robert Darnton is Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History at Princeton University Shoshana Felman is Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University Michel Foucault (1926-84) wrote histories and theoretical explorations which made him one of the most influential of French poststructuralists Stephen Greenblatt is Harry Levin Professor of Literature at Harvard University Keith Jenkins is Reader in History at Chichester Institute Leszek Kolakowski is a Polish-born philosopher whose most recent post, until his retirement in 1995, was as Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford Jurgen Pieters is completing a doctoral dissertation on the theoretical background of Stephen Greenblatt's New Historicism at the University of Ghent (Belgium) Tamsin Spargo is a Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University Carolyn Steedman is Professor and Chair of the Social History Centre at the University of Warwick Susan Willis is Associate Professor of English and Literature at Duke UniversitySpargo, Tamsin is the author of 'Reading the Past Literature and History' with ISBN 9780333771211 and ISBN 0333771214.