RIP J. Hillis Miller

W. J. T. Mitchell on J. Hillis Miller and "the hospitality of criticism" at the @CriticalInquiry blog: https://t.co/aXKgqYgsTe

— Alan Thomas (@alnthomas) February 12, 2021

Miller was the first literary critic I encountered when I entered Johns Hopkins as a freshman in the Fall of 1965. He taught an introductory course on the modern British novel. For the most part I forget what we read. Yes, there was A Passage to India and The Secret Agent, but there had to have been other, no? No matter. Some years later, the Fall of 1969, I audited a graduate course on the Victorian novel. A few years after that I was kind enough to write a letter of recommendation for graduate school. 

Here's an open letter I addressed to him a year and a half or so ago: To J. Hillis Miller, 2019: On the State of Literary Criticism.