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Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style

Af: D. A. Miller Engelsk Paperback

Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style

Af: D. A. Miller Engelsk Paperback
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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.


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 is a ghostly No One, a narrative voice unmarked by age, gender, marital status, all the particulars that make a person--and might make a person peculiar. 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. 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 sometimes inspires.

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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.


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 is a ghostly No One, a narrative voice unmarked by age, gender, marital status, all the particulars that make a person--and might make a person peculiar. 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. 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 sometimes inspires.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 128
ISBN-13: 9780691123875
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 069112387X
Kategori: Litteraturstudier: fra 1800 til 1900
Udg. Dato: 28 aug 2005
Længde: 8mm
Bredde: 128mm
Højde: 203mm
Forlag: Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato: 28 aug 2005
Forfatter(e): D. A. Miller
Forfatter(e) D. A. Miller

Kategori Litteraturstudier: fra 1800 til 1900

ISBN-13 9780691123875

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 128

Udgave

Længde 8mm

Bredde 128mm

Højde 203mm

Udg. Dato 28 aug 2005

Oplagsdato 28 aug 2005

Forlag Princeton University Press

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