Victorian subjects / J. Hillis Miller
1990, 1st edition. New York : Harvester/Wheatsheaf. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #407036
ISBN: 0745008208
Physical description; xii, 330 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The creation of the self in Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Orion" in "The wreck of the Deutschland" -- What the lonely child saw: Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist -- The theme of the disappearance of God in Victorian poetry -- Money in Our mutual friend -- Some implications of form in Victorian fiction -- Three problems of fictional form: first-person narration in David Copperfield and Huckleberry Finn -- The sources of Dickens' comic art: from American notes to Martin Chuzzlewit -- The fiction of realism: Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, and Cruikshank's illustrations -- Interpretation in Dickens' Bleak house -- Nature and the linguistic moment -- Béguin, Balzac, Trollope and the double double analogy -- Middlemarch, chapter 85 -- The ethics of reading: vast gaps and parting hours -- The truth will out: Anthony Trollope's Cousin Henry -- The values of obduracy in Trollope's Lady Anna -- Trollope's Thackeray -- Theology and logology in Victorian literature -- The two rhetorics: George Eliot's bestiary -- "Hieroglyphical truth" in Sartor resartus: Carlyle and the language of parable. Subjects; English literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature. English literature 19th century History and criticism. English poetry 19th century History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. Victorian Period. Victorian Literature. History. 19th Century.
Price: €18.95