John Lennard

John Lennard was Professor of British and American Literature at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, and now teaches in Cambridge, UK. He wrote 'punctuation' in the Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, 4th edition (1998), theorized it in Mar(k)ing the Text (2000), and gave it a chapter in The Poetry Handbook (1995, 2005). He has also published on Faulkner, Nabokov, Paul Scott, Tolkien, 'genre' fiction, and Mock-Death in Shakespeare's Plays (2016).