Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. He has co-edited with Drew Milne Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader(1996). His numerous other books include Heathcliff and the Great Hunger(1995), The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), William Shakespeare (1986), Walter Benjamin (1981), Criticism and Ideology (1976), and Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976).