Jane Austen 's style of Writing in sense and sensibility

1. TOPIC : Jane Austen’s style of Writing
in sense and sensibility.
Name : Utsavi Mori
Roll no: 33
Paper : 5 The Romantic Literature
Semester : 2nd
Submitted to : Department of English
M . K. Bhavnagar university.

2. INTRODUCTION
• Jane Austen an English novelist whose works
of romantic fiction, set among the landed
gentry, earned her a place as one of the most
widely read writers in English literature.
• Her realism, biting irony and social
commentary have gained her historical
importance among scholars and critics.

3. Jane Austen’s writing style
• Jane Austen’s distinctive literary style relies on
a combination of parody,
mockery ,irony, free indirect speech, and a
degree of realism.
• She uses parody and mockery for comic effect
and to critique the portrayal of women in 18th
-
century sentimental and gothic novels.

4. • Irony is on of Austen’s most characteristic and
most discussed literary techniques.
• Austen is most renowned for her
development of free indirect speech, a
technique pioneered by 18th
-century novelists
Henry Fielding and Frances Burney.

5. Con………….
• Austen’s is have little narrative or scenic
description-they contain much more dialogue,
whether spoken between characters, written
as free indirect speech, or represented
through letters.
• Austen’s novels have variously been described
as politically conservative and progressive.

6. Sense and Sensibility
• ‘Sense and Sensibility’ is a novel by Jane
Austen, and was her first published work
when it appeared in 1811 under the pen name
“A Lady”.
• Sense and sensibility have truly combined in
this novel.

7. con…..
• The novel follows the young ladies to their
new home, a not enough cottage on a distant
relative’s property, where they experience
love, romance and heartbreak.

8. • Claire Tomalin argues
that ‘Sense and
Sensibility’ has a
“wobble in its
approach,” which
developed because
Austen, in the course of
writing the novel,
regularly became less
certain about whether
sense or sensibility
should triumph.