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Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword,
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 Miller
2. 'There were three men came out of the west': Experiencing the Rural or, the Ghosts of Community-a 'response' for J. Hillis Miller,
Julian Wolfreys
3. 'What consciousness grasps': 'silent knowing' and the Natural World in Hardy's poetry,
Monika Szuba
4. The Hills Have Eyes,
Eamonn Dunne II. Self and World
5. J. Hillis Miller's Hopkins: Poet of the Anthropocene,
Claire Colebrook
6. Walter Pater in the Wilderness,
Megan Becker-Leckrone
7. 'This world is now thy pilgrimage': William Michael Rossetti's Cognitive Maps of France and Italy,
Eleonora Sasso
8. Personal and Political Fainéance in George Gissing's
Vernanilda, Tom Ue
9.
Great Expectations: Narration, Cognition, Possibility,
Dianne F. Sadoff
III. Histories, Historicities
10. How Not to Historicize a Poem: On McGann's 'Light Brigade',
Henry Staten
11. Hellenising the Roman Past: Walter Pater's
Marius the Epicurean and Anthony Trollope's
Life of Cicero, Frederik Van Dam and Melanie Hacke
12. The Ghost in the Machinal: De-/Re-contextualising
Daniel Deronda, Deep Bisla
13. 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-Fairhurst
15. Critical Listening & Rhetorical Reading: performative utterance in George Eliot's
Felix Holt, Helen Groth
16. Repetition and / of / in Victorian Pleasures,
John Maynard
17. 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 Dam
19. 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
Summary
Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad.
