Reading Victorian literature : essays in honour of J. Hillis Miller / edited by Julian Wolfreys and Monika Szuba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfreys, Julian, Author.

Contributor:

Wolfreys, Julian, 1958- editor.

Szuba, Monika, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticismProvides theoretically informed critical essays on nineteenth-century and Victorian literature, by major internationally recognized scholarsChapters provide detailed close readings of the work of J Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater, William Michael Rossetti, George Gissing, Charles Dickens, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with MillerReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller’s work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: There Can Be No Doubt – The Reading of J. Hillis Miller

I Singular Hardy

1. Varieties of Rural Experience: Country Communities in Virginia and Wessex

2. ‘There were three men came out of the west’: Experiencing the Rural or, the Ghosts of Community – a ‘Response’ for J. Hillis Miller

3. ‘What consciousness grasps’: ‘silent knowing’ and the Natural World in Hardy’s Poetry

4. The Hills Have Eyes

II Self and World

5. J. Hillis Miller’s Hopkins: Poet of the Anthropocene

6. Walter Pater in the Wilderness

7. ‘This world is now thy pilgrimage’: William Michael Rossetti’s Cognitive Maps of France and Italy

8. Personal and Political Fainéance in George Gissing’s Veranilda

9. Great Expectations: Narration, Cognition, Possibility

III Histories, Historicities

10. How Not to Historicise a Poem: On McGann’s ‘Light Brigade’

11. Hellenising the Roman Past: Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean and Anthony Trollope’s Life of Cicero

12. The Ghost in the Machinal: De-/Re-contextualising Daniel Deronda

13. J. Hillis Miller’s All Souls’ Day: Formalism and Historicism in Victorian and Modern Fiction Studies

IV Strange Pleasures

14. The Comedian as the Letter C: Wit in Martin Chuzzlewit

15. Dickens’s Theatre of Shame

16. Critical Listening and Rhetorical Reading: Performative Utterance in George Eliot’s Felix Holt

17. Repetition and/of/in Victorian Pleasures

18. Philanthropic Rot in Print Run for Profit: The Tu-Quoque- Time-Bomb in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

V Interviews

19. The Pleasure of That Obstinacy: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller

20. Toward an Appreciation of the Victorian Umwelt: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller

Afterword

Dickens in My Life

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474447997

1474447996

OCLC:

1312727007