Reading Victorian Literature : : Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller / / Monika Szuba, Julian Wolfreys.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Wolfreys, Julian,; Szuba, Monika,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, James Eli,; Becker-Leckrone, Megan,; Bisla, Sundeep,; Colebrook, Claire,; Dam, Frederik Van,; Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert,; Dunne, Éamonn,; Graef, Ortwin De,; Groth, Helen,; Hacke, Melanie,; Maynard, John,; Meisel, Perry,; Miller, J. Hillis,; Sadoff, Dianne F.,; Sasso, Eleonora,; Staten, Henry,; Szuba, Monika,; Ue, Tom,; Wolfreys, Julian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

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Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with MillerReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens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.

Table of 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