Michael Payne is John P. Crozer, Professor of English at Bucknell University. He is general editor for Blackwell of the Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory and author of Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida, and Kristeva (Blackwell Publishers, 1993), his sequals to which, Reading French Feminism and Reading knowledge, are forthcoming, as is his Renaissence Literature: An Anthology, in the Blackwell Anthologies series.