Suzy Anger is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the editor of Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture, also from Cornell.

Anger examines Victorian contributions to the development of a secular hermeneutic tradition.... The result is a study that usefully combines specificity of analysis and broadness of range and makes a lucid case for the sophistication and significance of Victorian critical thought.(Choice) The book offers a brilliant and radical reevaluation of Victorian thought processes and will require students of Victorian culture and historians of literary theory to reformulate their ideas about what the Victorians knew and thought about interpretation in all areas of their lives.(Victorian Review) The intellectual courage of this book lies in its commitment to mapping out a broad sweep of the history of ideas while gesturing to the afterlives of nineteenth-century hermeneutics in twentieth-century literary theory. Above all this book invites its readers to engage in intellectual dialogue beyond the bounds of nineteenth-century British studies.(Victorian Studies)

• AcknowledgmentsAn Overview1. Victorian Scriptural Hermeneutics: History, Intention, and EvolutionIntertext I: Victorian Legal Interpretation2. Carlyle: Between Biblical Exegesis and Romantic HermeneuticsIntertext 2: Victorian Science and Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of Nature3. George Eliot's Hermeneutics of SympathyIntertext 3: Victorian Literary Criticism4. Subjectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Intention: Oscar Wilde and Literary HermeneuticsEpilogueNotesIndex

Suzy Anger is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the editor of Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture, also from Cornell.

Anger examines Victorian contributions to the development of a secular hermeneutic tradition.... The result is a study that usefully combines specificity of analysis and broadness of range and makes a lucid case for the sophistication and significance of Victorian critical thought.(Choice) The book offers a brilliant and radical reevaluation of Victorian thought processes and will require students of Victorian culture and historians of literary theory to reformulate their ideas about what the Victorians knew and thought about interpretation in all areas of their lives.(Victorian Review) The intellectual courage of this book lies in its commitment to mapping out a broad sweep of the history of ideas while gesturing to the afterlives of nineteenth-century hermeneutics in twentieth-century literary theory. Above all this book invites its readers to engage in intellectual dialogue beyond the bounds of nineteenth-century British studies.(Victorian Studies)

• AcknowledgmentsAn Overview1. Victorian Scriptural Hermeneutics: History, Intention, and EvolutionIntertext I: Victorian Legal Interpretation2. Carlyle: Between Biblical Exegesis and Romantic HermeneuticsIntertext 2: Victorian Science and Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of Nature3. George Eliot's Hermeneutics of SympathyIntertext 3: Victorian Literary Criticism4. Subjectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Intention: Oscar Wilde and Literary HermeneuticsEpilogueNotesIndex

Suzy Anger is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the editor of Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture, also from Cornell.

Anger examines Victorian contributions to the development of a secular hermeneutic tradition.... The result is a study that usefully combines specificity of analysis and broadness of range and makes a lucid case for the sophistication and significance of Victorian critical thought.(Choice) The book offers a brilliant and radical reevaluation of Victorian thought processes and will require students of Victorian culture and historians of literary theory to reformulate their ideas about what the Victorians knew and thought about interpretation in all areas of their lives.(Victorian Review) The intellectual courage of this book lies in its commitment to mapping out a broad sweep of the history of ideas while gesturing to the afterlives of nineteenth-century hermeneutics in twentieth-century literary theory. Above all this book invites its readers to engage in intellectual dialogue beyond the bounds of nineteenth-century British studies.(Victorian Studies)

• AcknowledgmentsAn Overview1. Victorian Scriptural Hermeneutics: History, Intention, and EvolutionIntertext I: Victorian Legal Interpretation2. Carlyle: Between Biblical Exegesis and Romantic HermeneuticsIntertext 2: Victorian Science and Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of Nature3. George Eliot's Hermeneutics of SympathyIntertext 3: Victorian Literary Criticism4. Subjectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Intention: Oscar Wilde and Literary HermeneuticsEpilogueNotesIndex