Professor Chris Baldick (born 1954) is a British academic who teaches at

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. He has worked in the fields of literary criticism, literary theory, literary history and literary terminology. He was previously Senior Lecturer in English at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in

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.''British Book News'' (1987), p. 771. He is the son of Robert Baldick, a scholar of French literature and translator.

Selected publications

* ''The Decadence Reader'', ed. with Jane Desmarais. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. * * ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms'' * ''The Oxford English Literary History'', volume 10 (1910–1940): The Modern Movement * ''Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present'' * ''The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales'' (ed) * ''In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing'' * ''The Social Mission of English Criticism'' 1848-1932

References

1954 births Living people Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London Academics of Edge Hill University {{UK-academic-bio-stub