ABSTRACT
This final chapter in Part I does not mention Austen. Instead, it examines The Peregrine, a modern masterpiece of descriptive writing, by J.A. Baker. In so doing, it extends the practices of description derived from Austen into a context less organized by social proprieties, where our sense of human community is at greater risk. This chapter returns to how the book began: to our seeing and to how our descriptions are and should be involved in perception.
