J. Hillis Miller is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of nineteenth and twentieth century English and American literature and in literary theory. The collection best documents Miller's intellectual life as a specialist in Victorian and Modern British and American literature, a Derridean deconstructionist, and a university educator. Some personal material, such as family papers, photographs, and awards, are also included.
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literary criticism, comparative literature, Victorian literature, Modern British literature, American literature, Derridean, deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, academic life, family papers, photographs, awards, Charles Dickens, novel, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Henry James, Wallace Stevens, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Joseph Conrad, Emmanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, manuscripts, typescript, drafts, articles, notes, journals, unpublished material, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, correspondence, scholarly associations, conferences, audio and video recordings, lectures, unprocessed material, teaching