Amy Baker, “Caught in the Act of Greatness: Jane Austen’s Characterization of Elizabeth and Darcy by Sentence Structure in Pride and Prejudice”
Written by an undergraduate student, Amy Baker, this technical analysis of Pride and Prejudice appeared in the scholarly journal The Explicator. Baker notes that most critics have given “more attention” to the content of Austen’s novels than to her writing techniques. Here she identifies sentence structure and syntax patterns in Elizabeth and Darcy’s dialogue to demonstrate how Austen creates each character’s unique voice.