Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style -

D. A. Miller

Princeton University Press

2005

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780691123875

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.