Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and was formerly Associate Professor at the University of Tampere in Finland. He is the author of Telepathy and Literature (1991) and After Derrida (1995), and co-author (with Andrew Bennett) of Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel (1995) and An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (1995). He is Joint Editor of the Oxford Literary Review. General Editor: Professor Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London