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Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style
D. A. Miller
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Description for Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style
Paperback. The Austen heroine must suppress her wit to become the one and not the other, to become, that is, a person fit to be tied in a conjugal knot. But for herself, Austen refuses personhood, with all its constraints and needs, and disappears into the sourceless anonymity of her style. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
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. For no Jane Austen could ever appear in Jane Austen. Amid happy wives and pathetic old maids, we see no successfully unmarried woman, and, despite the multitude of girls seeking to acquire "accomplishments," no artist either. What does appear ... Read more
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. For no Jane Austen could ever appear in Jane Austen. Amid happy wives and pathetic old maids, we see no successfully unmarried woman, and, despite the multitude of girls seeking to acquire "accomplishments," no artist either. What does appear ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691123875
SKU
V9780691123875
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About D. A. Miller
D.A. Miller is John F. Hotchkis Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical, Bringing Out Roland Barthes, The Novel and the Police", and "Narrative and Its Discontents".
Reviews for Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style
"In addition to being an essential book on Austen, this is the smartest, not to mention the most stylish, discussion of style there is. Miller approaches this forbiddingly elusive concept and beautifully captures its weirdness and its emotional complexity. This book has a heart, as well as an art, to go with its brains."—Joseph Litvak, Novel "D. A. Miller's exquisite, ... Read more