A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticism Reading 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. Julian Wolfreys is the author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature…mehr
A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticism Reading 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. Julian Wolfreys is the author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory. He is most recently the author of Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture. He is working at present on a study of the fragment in Jacques Derrida and Virginia Woolf. Monika Szuba has published extensively on Scottish literature and is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh University Press). She is the co-editor with Julian Wolfreys of the Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Julian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in LIterature. He is author and editor of more than 40 books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature and literary theory. Most recently he has published Dickens's London and The Derrida Wordbook, both with Edinburgh University Press. He recently published his first novel, Silent Music. Monika Szuba is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdansk. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, she is also co-editor of The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (Palgrave Macmillan). In addition, she is a translator, particularly of poetry from English to Polish, and has translated the work of John Burnside, David Constantine, Michael Edwards, Kathleen Jamie, Alan Riach, and Julian Wolfreys, amongst others.
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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
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
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