Anne Waldron Neumann (essay date fall 1986)
SOURCE: Neumann, Anne Waldron. “Characterization and Comment in Pride and Prejudice: Free Indirect Discourse and ‘Double-voiced’ Verbs of Speaking, Thinking, and Feeling.” Style 20, no. 3 (fall 1986): 364-94.
[In the following essay, Neumann studies the speech and thought of Pride and Prejudice, calling attention to Austen's use of “double-voiced verbs,” or verbs that “conflate narration with reported discourse.”]
I. INTRODUCTION
Since so much of an Austen novel is...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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