Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux ?
Correct answer: D. Jane Austen
- A. Maria Edgeworth
- B. Sir Walter Scott
- C. Thomas De Quincey
- D. Jane Austen
Explanation
Jane Austen developed a flexible narrative style that closely presents shifting thoughts, impressions, and self-deceptions, especially through free indirect discourse. Scott is chiefly associated with historical narrative, while Edgeworth's fiction is more didactic and De Quincey's is primarily autobiographical and essayistic.
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