A Festschrift honouring J. Hillis Miller and his contribution to Victorian Studies and nineteenth-century criticism Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad. At the same time, the assembled group of internationally recognised scholars engages with Miller's work, influence and significance in the study of that era. The volume includes original work by Miller and interviews with him. Julian Wolfreys is the author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and literary theory. He is most recently the author of Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture. He is working at present on a study of the fragment in Jacques Derrida and Virginia Woolf. Monika Szuba has published extensively on Scottish literature and is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh University Press). She is the co-editor with Julian Wolfreys of the Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature.