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Article: The intimacy of re-reading Emma.(National Humanities Center: Emma Seminar)(Critical Essay)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
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- January 1, 2003
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THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER SUMMER LITERARY INSTITUTE enabled thirteen of us to have a fifteen-hour conversation about Jane Austen's Emma over five days--and this does not begin to account for the bits of chatter and all the thinking that spilled over the edges of our seminar. These repeated acts of reading and conversing with others who knew Austen well underscored for me the tremendously powerful concept of "intimacy" both as a form of social relation in the world of Emma and as a narrative strategy. If we take our cue from the OED, the claim of intimacy presumes a relationship in which things are known and freely exchanged, the kind of intercourse that two close ...
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