Open secrets
Subtitle: the literature of uncounted experience
By: Anne-Lise François.
Series: Meridian : crossing aesthetics
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804752534; 9780804752893
Subjects: La Fayette, -- Madame de -- 1634-1693; Silence in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Passivity (Psychology) in literature; Sublime, The, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a theory of recessive action; title: L'aveu sans suite: Love's open secret in Lafayette's La Princesse de Cleves; title: Lying lightly: lyric inconsequence in Wordsworth, Dickinson and Hardy; title: Fanny's "labour of privacy" and the accommodation of virtue in Austen's Mansfield Park.