Pride and Prejudice | Literary Precedents
Influenced by the comedy of manners and the sentimental novel. Pride and Prejudice is unique in how it combines and extends these traditions to achieve what is almost a self-parodic use of the marriage plot. It goes beyond the didactic novels of the day as well because of its complex moral vision of an interdependent society in which the moral choices of one character can affect all. Numerous writers, many of them women, had been trying their hands at novels, and in a superficial way they can be said to have influenced Jane Austen. However, with her solid education in literature of...
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