A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremost interpreters of nineteenth-century England, The Disappearance of God confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. J. Hillis Miller surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God--among other factors the city, developments within Christianity, subjectivism, and the emergence of the modern historical sense--and shows how each writer's body of work reflects a sustained response to the experience of God's disappearance.
- ISBN10 0674211014
- ISBN13 9780674211018
- Publish Date 1 January 1963
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 391
- Language English