This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. "Barbara Johnson was a wonderful writer and an extraordinary engaging thinker. This collection makes easily available her most important essays, which get at central issues in structualism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, gender studies, and cultural studies, among other fields." - Jonathan Culler.