Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller

ISBN-13: 9781474447980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 464 str.

WOLFREYS JULIAN

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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; Index.