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A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticism
Provides stheoretically 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Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph ConradShowcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with MillerReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens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
Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword, Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys
Introduction: There can be no doubt: the reading of J. Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys and Monika Szuba
I. Singular Hardy
1. Varieties of Rural Experience in Virginia and Wessex, J Hillis Miller2. 'There were three men came out of the west': Experiencing the Rural or, the Ghosts of Community—a 'response' for J. Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys3. 'What consciousness grasps': 'silent knowing' and the Natural World in Hardy's poetry, Monika Szuba4. The Hills Have Eyes, Eamonn Dunne
II. Self and World
5. J. Hillis Miller's Hopkins: Poet of the Anthropocene, Claire Colebrook6. Walter Pater in the Wilderness, Megan Becker-Leckrone7. 'This world is now thy pilgrimage': William Michael Rossetti's Cognitive Maps of France and Italy, Eleonora Sasso8. Personal and Political Fainéance in George Gissing's Vernanilda, Tom Ue9. Great Expectations: Narration, Cognition, Possibility, Dianne F. Sadoff
III. Histories, Historicities
10. How Not to Historicize a Poem: On McGann's 'Light Brigade', Henry Staten11. Hellenising the Roman Past: Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean and Anthony Trollope's Life of Cicero, Frederik Van Dam and Melanie Hacke12. The Ghost in the Machinal: De-/Re-contextualising Daniel Deronda, Deep Bisla13. J. Hillis Miller's All Souls' Day: Formalism and Historicism in Victorian and Modern Fiction Studies, Perry Meisel
IV. Strange Pleasures
14. The Comedian as the Letter C: Wit in Martin Chuzzlewit, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst15. Critical Listening & Rhetorical Reading: performative utterance in George Eliot's Felix Holt, Helen Groth16. Repetition and / of / in Victorian Pleasures, John Maynard17. Philanthropic Rot in Print Run for Profit: The Tu-Quoque-Time-Bomb in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Ortwin de Graef
IV. Interviews
18. The Pleasure of that Obstinacy: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller, Frederik Van Dam19. Toward an Appreciation of the Victorian Umwelt: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller, Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys
Afterword
Dickens in My Life, J. Hillis Miller
