OpenCulture: How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever.

“What, exactly, is going on here? Before this passage, Puschak explains, ‘the narrator is describing the thoughts and feelings of John Dashwood.’ But then, ‘something changes: it’s suddenly as if we’re inside John’s mind. And yet, the point of view doesn’t change: we’re still in the third person.’”

In my casual reading, I keep coming back to Austen frequently. More for me to learn with my own writing.