How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900; The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel

Andrew H. Miller is associate professor of English at Indiana University and coeditor of Victorian Studies. He recently finished one book, The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, and began another, tentatively titled On Not Being Someone Else. His essay “Perfectly Helpless” appeared in the March 2002 issue of MLQ.