Digital Humanities Texts - Jane Austen, Persuasion (1817)

Austen's last published novel, which tells the love story of Anne Elliot and the handsome Captain Wentworth. Let's just put it this way: they wait a long, long time before getting together.

  1. In what ways, do you think, can we use digital technology to understand Austen's text better? 
  2. How does John F. Burrows's computational analysis of free indirect discourse style in Austen's work help us understand Austen's development as a writer?