Inside Mr Shepherd
James Wood: In conversation with Jane Austen, 4 November 2004
Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation
by Bharat Tandon.
Anthem, 303 pp., £45, March 2003,1 84331 101 1 Show More
by Bharat Tandon.
Anthem, 303 pp., £45, March 2003,
Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style
by D.A. Miller.
Princeton, 108 pp., £12.95, September 2003,0 691 09075 0 Show More
by D.A. Miller.
Princeton, 108 pp., £12.95, September 2003,
“... novels somehow combine an ideal rationality and an ideal irrationality in a harmonious resolution? Bharat Tandon, though he does not quite put it in these terms, thinks they can. His subtle, learned book is an examination of the various ways Austen’s favoured characters learn to listen to each other, to speak to each other, and to speak to ... ”
