Elisha Cohn is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

• INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER ONE: First Person ; Charlotte Bronte's Suspended Animation ; CHAPTER TWO: Omniscience ; Unknowing George Eliot ; CHAPTER THREE: The Long Poem ; George Meredith's Sleep ; CHAPTER FOUR: From Novel to Poem ; Thomas Hardy's Ethical Turn ; CODA ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

In her original and fascinating new book, Still Life: Suspended development in the Victorian novel ... Elisha Cohn traces the afterlife of Romantic and Wordsworthian ideals of dreamy passiveness in the context of later nineteenth-century Bildungsromane ... Elisha Cohn's book might itself come to embody a form of criticism which attempts both to describe and enact a wise passiveness.

Elisha Cohn is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

• INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER ONE: First Person ; Charlotte Bronte's Suspended Animation ; CHAPTER TWO: Omniscience ; Unknowing George Eliot ; CHAPTER THREE: The Long Poem ; George Meredith's Sleep ; CHAPTER FOUR: From Novel to Poem ; Thomas Hardy's Ethical Turn ; CODA ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

In her original and fascinating new book, Still Life: Suspended development in the Victorian novel ... Elisha Cohn traces the afterlife of Romantic and Wordsworthian ideals of dreamy passiveness in the context of later nineteenth-century Bildungsromane ... Elisha Cohn's book might itself come to embody a form of criticism which attempts both to describe and enact a wise passiveness.

Elisha Cohn is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.

• INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER ONE: First Person ; Charlotte Bronte's Suspended Animation ; CHAPTER TWO: Omniscience ; Unknowing George Eliot ; CHAPTER THREE: The Long Poem ; George Meredith's Sleep ; CHAPTER FOUR: From Novel to Poem ; Thomas Hardy's Ethical Turn ; CODA ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

In her original and fascinating new book, Still Life: Suspended development in the Victorian novel ... Elisha Cohn traces the afterlife of Romantic and Wordsworthian ideals of dreamy passiveness in the context of later nineteenth-century Bildungsromane ... Elisha Cohn's book might itself come to embody a form of criticism which attempts both to describe and enact a wise passiveness.