Introducing the History of the English Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032129693)

Seth Lerer is Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, where he has also served as Dean of Arts and Humanities. His publications include Chaucer and His Readers (1993), Error and the Academic Self (2002), Inventing English (revised edition, 2015), Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (2008), and Shakespeare's Lyric Stage (2018). He has published creative non-fiction in The American Scholar, The Yale Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and in his memoir, Prospero's Son (2013).