Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style D.A. Miller
"Austen's subject is a marriage culture that is total, excepting no one from its dominion, and needing to be propagated always and everywhere as the condition of its being produced at all. Her project is to establish in this bloundless imperium, a kind of extra- territoriality. I call such extraterritoriality, or more precisely, the daring presumption of it: her style." -D. A. Miller