Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style (USED)

Description: Product Description : Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style What is the worldhistorical importance of Jane Austen An old maid writes with the detachment of a god Here the stigmatized condition of a spinster there a writers unequalled display of absolute impersonal authority In between the secret work of Austens style to keep at bay the social doom that would follow if she ever wrote as the person she isFor 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 personand 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 selfrepresentation is impossible without the prospect of shameDA Miller argues this case not only through the close reading that Austens style always demands but also through the close writing the slavish imitation that it sometimes inspires( it is an used product )

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