Open SecretsOpen Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clves (1678), Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), and poems by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Thomas Hardy. The author argues that these works locate fulfillment not in narrative fruition, but in grace understood both as a simplicity of formal means and a freedom from work, in particular that of self concealment and self