"So Potent and Stimulative": Jane Austen's Reading

In the long subordinate clause, he places us in that far-away room, furnishing it with feminine paraphernalia, slowing down the sentence by marking small phrases off with commas, so that we too begin to nod, until he can finish the sentence with a decisive triplet that puts her in her little place....

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Published in:Persuasions : the Jane Austen journal (Print version) 2024-01 (46), p.39-52
Main Author: d, Susan Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Fiction
Novels
Politics
Religion
Religious literature
Self control
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