About the Author

Janet Ruth Heller currently serves as president of the Michigan College English Association. In addition to Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, she has written an award-winning children's book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (2006), and the poetry books Traffic Stop (2011), Folk Concert: Changing Times (2012), and Exodus (2014). She recently published a middle-grade fiction chapter book, The Passover Surprise (2015).

Heller served as the editor of the literary anthology Primavera from 1974 to 1982 and is the author of numerous articles in Theatre Journal, The Eighteenth Century, Poetics, Shakespeare Bulletin, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Twentieth Century Literature, College English, and other journals. Her website is http: //www.janetruthheller.com/

Reviews

"Heller gives readers much to think about and provides suggestive surveys of 19th-century thinking on such topics as education, stage spectacle, and the dynamic role of the reader in transforming the written word into a mental experience. The concentrated chapters on Lamb and Hazlitt are notably fresh."--Choice

"Heller's Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama is a good read and an essential read, for specialists and generalists alike."--Charles Lamb Bulletin