Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (IUP, 1998); Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay; Crusoe¿s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America; Who Killed Shakespeare? What¿s Happened to English since the Radical Sixties; and Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians.