Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience

by Anne-Lise François

Book Overview

Open Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cl ves (1678), Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), and poems by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Thomas Hardy. The author argues that these works locate fulfillment not in narrative fruition, but in grace understood both as a simplicity of formal means and a freedom from work, in particular that of self-concealment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804752893
• ISBN13: 9780804752893
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"