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  • Chapter 8 - Jane Eyre’s Style

  • from Part II - Authors
  • Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    On Style in Victorian Fiction
    Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    06 January 2022, pp 130-149

  • Summary

    Responding to an early review that suggested Jane Eyre (1847) “bears no impress of being written at all,” this chapter shows that the novel’s rhetorical techniques are deployed to significant effect, not least in balancing effects of hurry and control, far more than the contemporary judgment allowed. The chapter delineates how Charlotte Brontë’s prose style differs from Jane Austen’s, a writer with whom she is often contrasted, in registering its heroine’s passion and peculiarity.

  • Chapter 16 - Kipling; and

  • from Part II - Authors
  • Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    On Style in Victorian Fiction
    Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    06 January 2022, pp 278-295

  • Summary

    This chapter shows that a lack of self-consciously literary excess in Kipling’s prose was sometimes mistaken for the absence of style. Yet there is a control in Kipling’s writing that a careful and sensitive reading can access. The chapter considers a particular habit of punctuation in Kipling: the use of a semicolon followed by a strictly superfluous ‘and’. This mark of punctuation advertises the writtenness of the prose and so signals the presence of a knowing narrator, whilst also raising questions about causation and consequence.