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Harvard University Press

Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels

George Orwell once said of Dickens’ work: “It is not so much a series of books, it is more like a world.” In this book, J. Hillis Miller attempts to identify this “world,” to show how a single view of life pervades every novel that Dickens wrote, and to trace the development of this view throughout ..

Blackwell Pub

Hawthorne & History: Defacing It (Bucknell Lecture...

The author shows, through a close reading of Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil", how a text can offer unsolicited answers and reveal its linguistic ruses to close scrutiny and how such a reading can bear on contemporary debates about canon formation, the university curriculum and the place of l..

Routledge

On Literature (Thinking in Action)

Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature Why should we read literature How do we read literature These are some of the important questions J. Hill..

University of Illinois Press

The Disappearance of God: FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ...

A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremostinterpreters of nineteenth-century England, The Disappearance of God confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Brontë, Matthew Arnold, and Gerar..