Fiction and repetition : seven English novels / J. Hillis Miller

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Library copy with remaining marks. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Pages 21-52 missing. Physical description; vi, 250 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Two forms of repetition -- 2. Lord Jim : repetition as subversion of organic form -- 3. Wuthering Heights : repetition and the ""uncanny"" -- 4. Henry Esmond : repetition and irony -- 5. Tess of the d'Urbervilles : repetition as immanent design -- 6. The Well-beloved : the compulsion to stop repeating -- 7. Mrs. Dalloway : repetition as the raising of the dead -- 8. Between the acts : repetition as extrapolation. Subjects; Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941. Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928. Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863. Bront�, Emily 1818-1848. Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924. Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 History and criticism. Bront�, Emily 1818-1848. English fiction History and criticism. Repetition (Rhetoric). Fiction Technique. Repetition in literature. English fiction. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. English fiction 20th century History and criticism.