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

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 scholars Chapters 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Trollope, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad Showcases a major new essay by J Hillis Miller, as well as a previously unpublished interview with Miller

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.