The Miller: Novel & the Police (Cloth) - Hardcover

Miller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520062817 ISBN 13: 9780520062818

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

Through a series of readings in the work of the decisive triumvirate of Victorian fiction, Dickens, Trollope and Wilkie Collins, Miller investigates the novel as an oblique form of social control.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"With the appearance of D.A. Miller's remarkable book, the Victorian novel has its most dazzling critic in years. . . . Miller's subject is not so much the police in fiction as fiction and policing, narrative as a conservative function of the polis. Tracking diverse strategies of surveillance and incarceration into the confines of the fictional institution itself, Miller investigates Victorian novels as the often unconscious agent of a disciplinary culture. He thus reads fiction reading us, keeping a public in its private place. His mastery of an intricate, layered, and sinuous argument is stunning, the writing no less than superb. For all the book's overarching debt to Foucault, D.A. Miller 'do the police' in a voice all his own."--Garrett Stewart, author of "Death Sentences: Styles of Dying in British Fiction

About the Author:

D.A. Miller is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520062817
• ISBN 13: 9780520062818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 237