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Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style
Jane Austen or The Secret of Style
Author: D. A. Miller
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 pe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691090757
ISBN-10: 0691090750
Publication Date: 8/11/2003
Pages: 136
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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