William Cook Miller

Biographic Data

ID3864595
NAMEWilliam Cook Miller
GIVEN NAMESWilliam Cook
FAMILY NAMEMiller
SIGNATUREMILLER W C
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX0

  • Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England by Rebecca Lemon

    Wayne C Miller, William Cook MillerARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2019

    Reviewed by: Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England by Rebecca Lemon William Cook Miller Rebecca Lemon. Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. xviii + 258 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-8122-4996-5). What if addiction were seen as a good thing? Rebecca Lemon's interesting and original study follows a hidden thread in the history of "addiction." In the early mo…

  • Enlivened Generalities

    Wayne C Miller, William Cook MillerARTICLENew Literary History2016

    Literary critics have long discussed linguistic doxa (understood as truisms, cliches, generalities) in a negative light, as impeding genuine communication and promoting false consciousness. This essay offers a more nuanced account of doxa. It connects the skeptical attitude toward truistic language to debates surrounding epiphanic experience in the long centuries of Reformation. Further, it argues that the liberal tradition of language theory has…