Table of Contents

ONE Secret Love 1 TWO No One Is Alone 31 THREE Broken Art 57 Afterimage 93 Notes 95

Promotional Information

In addition to being an essential book on Austen, this is the smartest, not to mention the most stylish, discussion of style there is. Miller approaches this forbiddingly elusive concept and beautifully captures its weirdness and its emotional complexity. This book has a heart, as well as an art, to go with its brains. -- Joseph Litvak, "Novel" D. A. Miller's exquisite, original, meditative, and provocative volume [is] written in a style that is like a collision between Austen herself and the more epigrammatic modes of Roland Barthes... Miller is continually provocative, but in an allusive, highly crafted-stylish-way: writing which is the product of deep immersion in Austen's fiction and its affect. -- Kate Flint, "Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900"

About the Author

D.A. Miller is John F. Hotchkis Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical, Bringing Out Roland Barthes, The Novel and the Police", and "Narrative and Its Discontents".

Reviews

"In addition to being an essential book on Austen, this is the smartest, not to mention the most stylish, discussion of style there is. Miller approaches this forbiddingly elusive concept and beautifully captures its weirdness and its emotional complexity. This book has a heart, as well as an art, to go with its brains."—Joseph Litvak, Novel

"D. A. Miller's exquisite, original, meditative, and provocative volume [is] written in a style that is like a collision between Austen herself and the more epigrammatic modes of Roland Barthes. . . . Miller is continually provocative, but in an allusive, highly crafted-stylish-way: writing which is the product of deep immersion in Austen's fiction and its affect."—Kate Flint, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900