K: "Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen's Juvenilia": Shut Up in Prose: Gender and Genre in Austen's Juvenilia For, as Gaston Bachelard explains, the miniature "allows us to be world conscious at slight risk." While the creators of satirically conceived diminutive landscapes seem to see everything as small because they are themselves so grand, Austen's analogy for her art — her "little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory" — suggests a fragility that reminds us of the risk and instability outside the fictional space.

For, as Gaston Bachelard explains, the miniature "allows us to be world conscious at slight risk." While the creators of satirically conceived diminutive landscapes seem to see everything as small because they are themselves so grand, Austen's analogy for her art — her "little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory" — suggests a fragility that reminds us of the risk and instability outside the fictional space.

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