The Elements of Humour in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma - Nirupama Patel

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: A, , course: M.Phil, language: English, abstract: Among novelists Jane Austen ranks as a supreme mistress of comedy. She brought with her task of social comedy a singular combination of rare gifts - a wit and satire of wonderful delicacy, a mind of great penetration, a style absolutely pellucid and effortless. No novelist has ever been more thoroughly an artist both in her attitude towards her own work..