Jane Austen’s Writing Style and Voice

Professor John Mullan, editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Sense and Sensibility, discusses Jane Austen’s innovative use of free indirect speech.

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).

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I love to hear John Mullin talk to us about Jane Austen ❤

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I love this! This is what I've been telling people ... also professors who don't think much of Jane Austen and won't include her in the department's canon of mandatory reading.