Open secrets
Subtitle: the literature of uncounted experience
By: Anne-Lise François.
Series: Meridian : crossing aesthetics; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
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. 269-282) and index.
Table of contents: value: Toward a theory of recessive action; value: L'aveu sans suite: Love's open secret in Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves; value: Lying lightly: lyric inconsequence in Wordsworth, Dickinson and Hardy; value: Fanny's "labour of privacy" and the accommodation of virtue in Austen's Mansfield Park.