Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1731 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Austen Between the Halves
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The idea
Austen wrote in the Romantic years and her manner belongs to the earlier taste: balanced, ironic, socially observant. Unit ten worked her opening for free indirect discourse. A writer's date and a writer's manner need not agree, which is a caution about period reasoning.
In practice
Romantic dates, earlier manner.
Where people slip
Date and manner can disagree.
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