Jane Austen was an English novelist in the late 18th and early 19th centuries known for her realistic novels about the landed gentry. Her writing style relied on parody, mockery, irony, and free indirect speech. In Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel in 1811, she explores the themes of sense and sensibility as the Dashwood sisters experience love, romance, and heartbreak after moving to a small cottage. Some critics argue the novel has an uncertain approach as Austen wavered on whether sense or sensibility should prevail in the story.

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.