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Austen's novels can easily be situated within the 18th-century novel tradition. Austen, like the rest of her family, was a great novel reader. Her letters contain many allusions to contemporary fiction, often to such small details as to show that she was thoroughly familiar with what she read. Austen read and reread novels, even minor ones. [48]
The narrative style utilises free indirect speech—she was the first English novelist to do so extensively—through which she had the ability to present a character's thoughts directly to the reader and yet still retain narrative control. The style allows an author to vary discourse between the narrator's voice and values and those of the ...
This small character has her own being, both within the text and on her own – one that reflects much of the life that would be brought to Austen's later characters: her mischievousness, and even delinquency, [7] are especially typical of Austen's adolescent work, with extreme behavior and self-indulgence providing the prevailing tone. Thus ...
Free indirect discourse can be described as a "technique of presenting a character's voice partly mediated by the voice of the author". In the words of the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, "the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged". [1]
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Appearing in Volume the Third of Austen's early writing (begun in 1792), Catharine is itself generally dated to 1792–3. [2] However, a (substituted) reference to the Regency has been seen as linking it to the first regency crisis of 1788–9, [3] rather than being a later interpolation; while alternatively, because of thematic parallels in Austen's letters of 1795–6, The Bower has also ...
Austen mockingly imitates the style of textbook histories of English monarchs, while ridiculing historians' pretensions to objectivity. It was illustrated with coloured portraits by Austen's elder sister Cassandra, to whom the work is dedicated. The History of England, page 2. The second page of the History reads:
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