37.3594, Books: Jane Austen and the Invention of Free Indirect Speech: Shimazaki (2025)

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Subject: 37.3594, Books: Jane Austen and the Invention of Free Indirect Speech: Shimazaki (2025)

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Date: 02-Nov-2026
From: Peter Lang Group [marketing at peterlang.com]
Subject: Jane Austen and the Invention of Free Indirect Speech: Shimazaki (2025)


Title: Jane Austen and the Invention of Free Indirect Speech
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Peter Lang AG
           http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1524212

Author(s): Hatsuyo Shimazaki

Abstract:

This book reveals a new dimension of Jane Austen’s writing. While her
pioneering use of Free Indirect Discourse to present interiority and
create irony has long been acknowledged, the range of effects
generated by her use of Free Indirect Speech has remained
unrecognised. This book provides an accessible introduction to both
stylistic approaches and charts the historical emergence of the latter
technique in a range of eighteenth-century genres, taking into account
changing typographical conventions for presenting speech.
The author uses close textual analysis to demonstrate the remarkably
diverse ways in which Free Indirect Speech enriched Jane Austen’s
fiction. The narrator’s ‘mimicry’ of the verbal tics of her characters
is just the starting point. Sections on effects such as Formal
Politeness and Condensed Conversation offer an expanded conceptual
vocabulary for analysing the nuanced variety of speech presentation in
her novels. The culmination of the study is a detailed examination of
Emma as a case study for investigating the use of Free Indirect Speech
as part of an overall narrative strategy.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)


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