Jane Austen's style : narrative economy and the novel's gowth /
Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally, this book traces Austen's keen interest in narrative form. Anne Toner pinpoints techniques that are fundam...
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Cambridge :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Austen and the economy of art
- Structure/ selection, connection, and the picturesque
- Language/ apophatic Austen (not saying things and saying so)
- Dialogue/ Austen's missing speakers and the case for free direct discourse
- Conclusion: Sanditon's shorthand.
