Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style

Name: Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style
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ISBN: 9780691123875

ISBN-10: 069112387X

ISBN-13: 9780691123875

Edition: 2003

Authors: D. A. Miller

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What is the world-historical importance of Jane Austen? An old maid writes with the detachment of a god. Here, the stigmatized condition of a spinster, there, a writer's unequalled display of absolute, impersonal authority. In between, the secret work of Austen's style: to keep at bay the social doom that would follow if she ever wrote as the person she is. Though often treasured for its universality, that style marks the specific impasse of a writer whose self-representation is impossible without the prospect of shame. D. A. Miller argues this case not only through the close reading that Austen's style always demands, but also through the close writing, the slavish imitation, that it…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 7.13" wide x 7.91" long x 0.33" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English




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