Jane Austen’s Writing Style and Voice | Prof. John Mullan

Professor John Mullan, the 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 a 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).