Open Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves (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 and...
Anne-Lise François is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
"The dazzling analyses on display in Open Secrets are so original and far-reaching that, taken together, they constitute something like a new paradigm for literary study. Attentive to the unattended and the inconspicuously significant, Francois teases out the real dynamics in one resonant example after another, in the lyric and the novel. An altogether singular achievement that will be reckoned with for years to come." (Ian Balfour)
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