J. Hillis Miller

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J. Hillis Miller (born March 5, 1928) is an American literary critic who has been heavily influenced by—and who has heavily influenced—deconstruction.

1 Life
2 Career
3 Works
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Life

Joseph Hillis Miller was born in Newport News, Virginia. He is married and has three children.

[edit] Career

Having been educated at Oberlin College (B.A. summa cum laude 1948) and Harvard University (M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1952), he pursued a distinguished career in the Humanities. He is sometimes associated with the so-called Yale School of deconstruction.

Currently he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California Irvine.

[edit] Works

(1958) Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels
(1963) The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers
(1965) Poets of Reality: Six Twentieth-Century Writers
(1968) The Form of Victorian Fiction: Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy
(1970) Thomas Hardy, Distance and Desire
(1971) Charles Dickens and George Cruikshank
(1982) Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels
(1985) The Linguistic Moment: from Wordsworth to Stevens
(1985) The Lesson of Paul de Man
(1987) The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin
(1990) Versions of Pygmalion
(1990) Victorian Subjects
(1990) Tropes, Parables, Performatives: Essays on Twentieth Century Literature
(1991) Theory Now and Then
(1991) Hawthorne & History: Defacing It
(1992) Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines
(1992) Illustration
(1995) Topographies
(1998) Reading Narrative
(1999) Black Holes
(2001) Others
(2001) Speech Acts in Literature
(2002) On Literature
(2005) The J. Hillis Miller Reader
(2005) Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James